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# Migration Architect - Mainframe to Google Cloud Platform - Practicing Solution Architect

- **Company:** Capgemini
- **Location:** Nashville, TN, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $82,082.0 - $193,440.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Computing Platforms, BigQuery, Customer Information Control System (CICS), Cloud Computing, Cloud Storage, COBOL (Programming Language), Data Migration, Data Systems, IBM DB2, Job Control Language (JCL), Network Layer, Mainframes, Performance Tuning, Software Engineering, Strategies of Testing, Virtual Storage Access Methods, Google Cloud, Enterprise Software Applications, Virtual Agents
- **Published:** July 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/3dcc4e68-6b57-40b0-a13b-0bd762e4b2c3

## About the Role

The Capgemini team offers extensive career opportunities and provides mentoring and coaching for teammates. This role is an experienced professional with a strong background in software development., 12+ years in enterprise application and platform architecture.
6+ years of hands on experience in mainframe modernization or large scale legacy transformations.
Proven experience leading mainframe to cloud migration programs for large enterprises.
Architect parallel-testing strategies using Google Cloud Dual Run to replicate live traffic and ensure functional equivalence.
Utilize Cloud Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, and GKE to support the Dual Run ecosystem and data telemetry.
Build decoupled, event-driven integration layers and manage hybrid connectivity between legacy data systems and modern APIs.
Lead assessment and discovery of legacy mainframe environments COBOL / PL I, CICS / IMS, DB2, VSAM, JCL, batch workloads
Design end to end Google Cloud Platform architecture covering application, data, integration, security, and network layers.
Define landing zone architecture
Ensure architectures meet enterprise security, compliance, and regulatory expectations.

## Description

Lead enterprise mainframe modernization initiatives by designing resilient target architectures on Google Cloud Platform.
Serve as a strategic advisor to VP-level client stakeholders to drive high-stakes modernization conversations.
Guide executive steering committees, build consensus, and demystify complex legacy-to-cloud transformation roadmaps.
Champion automation and Agentic AI workflows to streamline the migration lifecycle and optimize project delivery.
The Hands On Migration Architect Mainframe to Google Cloud Platform is a deeply technical role responsible for designing, building, migrating, and troubleshooting large scale mainframe workloads as they are modernized and moved to Google Cloud Platform
Strong hands on expertise across mainframe systems, cloud infrastructure, application modernization, data migration, and automation, with the architect actively participating in POCs, migration builds, performance tuning, cutover execution, and production stabilization.


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