Ensono

Mainframe Modernization Architect

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Base Salary

$156k - $210k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with sales and consulting teams to create pursuit, solution, and sales strategies for large global clients.
  • Conduct client discovery and assessment workshops with consulting, operations, and product teams.
  • Develop and document technical and business solutions for transformation, modernization, migration, and re-platforming initiatives.
  • Lead solution development sessions and present technical solutions and business cases to varied audiences.
  • Engage executives and senior technology leaders to build support for complex solutions.
  • Provide trusted-advisor consultation and recommendations based on technology expertise and prior experience.
  • Partner with Product Management on product enhancements and technology roadmap changes.
  • Create solutions that improve stability and innovation across clients’ current and future-state environments.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering or computer sciences.
  • 20+ years of experience as an architect or equivalent in hosting and network environments, preferably with a service provider.
  • More than 12 years of experience as a modernization or migration architect leading legacy system upgrades with minimal business disruption.
  • Hands-on experience with mainframe application migration and legacy modernization projects.
  • 15+ years of strong expertise across the mainframe technology stack, including COBOL, Natural, Adabas, Easytrieve, Db2, IMS, JCL, CICS, VSAM, RACF, z/OS, PL/I, and Assembler.
  • Experience managing multi-phase, multi-dimensional, and multi-resource projects through the full project lifecycle.
  • Expertise in data migration and converting legacy data structures to modern database platforms.
  • Experience evaluating legacy mainframe applications and developing comprehensive modernization plans.
  • Development experience with modern Java and C# frameworks for scalable enterprise applications.
  • Extensive experience using Python for scripting, automation, data analysis, and scalable backend systems.
  • Understanding of AWS, Azure, and hybrid solutions.
  • Ability to apply artificial intelligence, intelligent automation, advanced analytics, and machine learning to legacy modernization and data migration.
  • Knowledge of hosting technologies including compute, storage, backup, network, security, disaster recovery, DevOps, and IT governance.
  • Understanding of sales processes for large and complex opportunities.
  • Experience with technical documentation and strong organizational, interpersonal, communication, presentation, teamwork, and problem-solving skills.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Microsoft Visio.

Benefits

  • Unlimited paid days off.
  • Three health plan options and eligibility for dental, vision, short- and long-term disability, life, AD&D, and flexible spending account coverage.
  • 401(k) with company match.
  • Family Forming Benefit, including fertility coverage and adoption or surrogacy reimbursement.
  • Paid childbearing and paternal leave.
  • Education reimbursement, student loan assistance, or 529 college funding.
  • Sabbatical leave, wellness program, and flexible work schedule.
  • Remote work from home or from Ensono offices is generally available when client-site work is not required.

Tech Stack

AWSAzureC#COBOLIBM DB2JavaPython

Categories

Solutions Engineering
Ensono

About Ensono

1,001-5,000 employees

Ensono provides managed services and consulting for enterprises running mission-critical workloads across mainframe, private, and public clouds. It supports application modernization, cloud migrations, and ongoing operations in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud through recurring service contracts and advisory projects. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Downers Grove, Illinois, the company operates globally and is privately held.

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