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# Mainframe -Solution Architect Modernization

- **Company:** 3AmigosIT LLC
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Customer Information Control System (CICS), COBOL (Programming Language), IBM DB2, Job Control Language (JCL), Pl/i, Virtual Storage Access Methods, Cloud Migration
- **Published:** August 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/db90c7bc-1dd3-49fb-90c7-a24376773b44

## About the Role

1. Strong experience in mainframe architecture and application pattern/component identification - PL/1, COBOL, CICS, IMS/DB2, JCL
 2. Proven expertise in application sizing, complexity scoring, and business/technical health assessment for large mainframe portfolios
 3. Demonstrated skill in APR/TIME analysis and R-lane disposition methodology
 4. Strong track record in target-state architecture and wave-based roadmap design for legacy-to-cloud modernization
Responsibilities:

 1. Drives application segregation, pattern identification, and complexity/health assessment

## Description

* Technologies involved (COBOL, PL/1, JCL, CICS, DB2, IMS, VSAM, etc.)
 * Business domain (Claims, Policy Administration, Underwriting, Billing, etc.)
 * Modernization approach
 * Target architecture
 * Business outcomes


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