Mainframe Modernization SME/ Secret Clearance

Role Overview

A career in IBM Consulting involves working with leading companies across industries to help them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. You will collaborate with clients worldwide, leveraging IBM’s technology and Red Hat’s tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate technologies or design patterns and oversee their implementation from concept to working product.
• Hands-on technical delivery of mainframe modernization engagements including legacy code analysis, cloud-native microservices architecture, database migration, batch processing migration, Kubernetes deployment, and CI/CD automation.
• Independently analyze legacy COBOL/JCL/VSAM systems, design and implement modern Java/Spring Boot replacements, build and manage relational database schemas, deploy to cloud Kubernetes environments, and troubleshoot end-to-end across the full modernization stack.
• Support marketing activities for related offerings.
• Aid in technical write-ups for proposal responses.
• Participate in weekly and monthly team meetings.
• Other similar professional duties as assigned.

Support Delivery

• Support delivery of mainframe modernization engagements.

Education and Experience

• Preferred Education: Bachelor's Degree Required.
• Technical and Professional Expertise:
  • Methods, tools, and techniques expertise related to mainframe modernization.
  • Ability to read, analyze, and decompose production COBOL programs, JCL jobs, VSAM datasets, copybooks (COPY/COPYLIB), and embedded SQL.
  • Experience with containerization (Docker/Podman), container orchestration (Kubernetes), object storage (S3/MinIO), message brokers (Kafka), caching (Redis), API gateways, monitoring and observability (Prometheus/Grafana), distributed tracing (Jaeger), workflow orchestration (Airflow), and identity management (Keycloak/OAuth2).
  • Experience with AI coding assistants (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent) to accelerate mainframe modernization tasks including legacy code analysis, schema reconciliation, test generation, and bulk code migration.
  • Experience with government mortgage-backed securities or similar federal financial systems (3+ years).
  • Knowledge of financial industry file formats and electronic payment processing (2+ years).
  • Frontend development (React/TypeScript) for admin dashboards or terminal emulators (2+ years).
  • Experience with API mocking frameworks for service virtualization during migration.
  • Experience with FedRAMP/FISMA compliance requirements for government cloud deployments.