Rocket Software · 2 days ago
Mainframe Modernization Solution Architect
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$143K/yr - $186K/yr
4+ years expRocket Software is a company dedicated to supporting its customers' Digital Transformation journeys, and they are seeking a highly skilled Mainframe Modernization Solutions Architect. This role involves analyzing, designing, and implementing solutions for mainframe legacy environments, while providing architectural guidance and leading customer engagements.
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Responsibilities
Helping Customers and Systems Integrators to design scalable, high availability application solutions built on the Rocket Enterprise Portfolio/Enterprise Server solution
Working as a technical leader alongside customer business, development and infrastructure teams
Create Conduct proof of concept technology analysis and pilots
Conduct customer presentations and internal presentations/trainings to peer groups
Enable and align consulting partners with Rocket Enterprise Portfolio (Enterprise Server/Enterprise Developer/Enterprise Analyzer) mainframe modernization approach and methodology
Provide the architectural guidance and recommendations necessary to promote successful Customer engagements worldwide
Technical content composition and delivery: blogs, whitepapers, technical presentations at major conferences
Qualification
Required
Advanced Technical Degree in Computer Science or related field
At least 4 to 10 years of experience leading customers with mainframe and legacy modernization initiatives
Experience leading customers with mainframe and legacy modernization initiatives
Knowledge of major Cloud Provider infrastructure and technologies, such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Cloud Foundry, Docker / Kubernetes
Experience with analyzing on-premises mainframe environment applications and process to formulate plans for modernizing workloads that achieve Customer's desired business outcomes
Relevant Business and IT Architecture Certifications such as, AWS Solution Architect Professional, Microsoft AZURE Solution Architect, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), etc
Fluent in written and verbal English
Prior Experience in leading Customer migrations from Mainframe to Rocket Enterprise Server platform Technical Experience in at least one of these areas:
Infrastructure Modernization
Experience with tools and methodologies used to migrate mainframe workloads via hardware/middleware emulation, automated code conversion, and re-platforming
Experience with COBOL modernization and porting application code across platforms
Hands-on technical experience with mainframe, non-x86 legacy systems and with technologies such as COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2 for z/OS, IMS DB/DC, Assembler, PL/I, REXX, flat/sequential files, GDGs, and VSAM
Must have an analytical mind set to analyze test result and facilitate defect resolution
Experience design/architecting distributed and Cloud environments (target environments) – including OpenShift, Kubernetes, and Containers
Application Modernization
Strong analysis skills with solid concepts in Architecture and Design. Should have joined projects to refactor complex business applications
Knowledge of Cloud Computing, Containers, Microservices, and Serverless technology
Experience with Business Rules-extraction from COBOL/PL1
Experience architecting high availability, resilient, fault tolerant systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal/vertical scaling
Knowledge of Webservices, Microservices, APIs and exposing Application components to alternate platforms
Process Modernization
Complete understanding of software development lifecycle including DevOps toolchains
Experience configuring automation pipelines in GitHub, Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins or similar tools
Familiarity with agile engineering practices like Test Automation, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), DevOps, and Test Data Management, etc
Experience with implementing and operating DevOps and Agile tools/platforms across some part of the development lifecycle
Ability and interest in travel to our customers around the world, as needed
Commitment to Rocket Core values of empathy, humanity, trust and love
Benefits
Unlimited Vacation Time as well as paid holidays and sick time
Health and Wellness coverage options for Rocketeers and dependents
Life and disability coverage
Fidelity 401(k) and Roth Retirement Savings with matching contributions
Monthly student debt benefit program
Tuition Reimbursement and Certificate Reimbursement Program opportunities
Leadership and skills training opportunities
Company
Rocket Software
As a global technology leader, Rocket Software is the partner of choice for organizations transforming their IT from core systems to the cloud.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown2012-02-02Acquired
Leadership Team
Gary Gregory
Chief Technology Officer
Joe Devlin
Chief Technology Officer, VP, and Distinguished Engineer
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