Mainframe Modernization Solution Architect

We are looking for a highly skilled Mainframe Modernization Solution Architect to design, architect and implement solutions that support our Customers Digital Transformation. In this hands-on role, you will be responsible for solving complex technical issues, establishing patterns and practices, and setting standards for modernization of mainframe legacy environment., * Helping Customer 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 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 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.

Do you have experience in Test automation?, The ideal candidate will possess deep technical skill in at least one of the following focus areas, * 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, Cloud Foundry, Docker / Kubernetes .
• Experience with analysing on-premises mainframe environment applications and process to formulate plans for modernizing workloads that achieve Customer's desired business outcomes.
• Relev ant 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. Other EMEA languages helpful.
• Ability and interest in travel to our customers around the world, as needed.
• 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, Assembler, PL/I, Rexx, flat/sequential files, GDGs, and VSAM .
• Must have an analytical mind set to analyse 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 Toolchain.
• 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 .
• Commitment to Rocket Core values of empathy, humanity, trust and love