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# Solution Architect - Mainframe

- **Company:** e-IT Professionals Corp.
- **Location:** Woodlawn, MD, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Batch Processing, Customer Information Control System (CICS), Cloud Computing, COBOL (Programming Language), Databases, Data Structures, IBM DB2, Job Control Language (JCL), Mainframes, Cloud Services, Software Engineering, SQL Stored Procedures, Systems Integration, Virtual Storage Access Methods, Web Applications, Z/OS, Transaction Processing (Computing), Enterprise Software Applications, Spring-boot, Event Driven Architecture, Containerization, Restful APIs, Code Restructuring, Legacy Systems, Microservices
- **Published:** September 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/d66b0f5d-77bb-433d-ad94-3032ab3ac662

## About the Role

· 10+ years of experience in enterprise application architecture, software engineering, or systems modernization.

· 7+ years of hands-on experience with mainframe technologies and COBOL-based applications.

· Strong experience with COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, batch processing, and z/OS environments.

· Demonstrated experience architecting or leading the modernization of large, mission-critical legacy systems.

· Strong understanding of mainframe application dependencies, transaction processing, scheduling, data structures, and system integrations.

· Experience developing modernization strategies using rehosting, replatforming, refactoring, rewriting, and hybrid migration approaches.

· Experience designing modern applications using Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, microservices, and event-driven architecture.

· Experience integrating mainframe applications with distributed, web-based, or cloud-native systems.

## Description

· Lead the architecture and technical strategy for modernizing large-scale mainframe and COBOL applications.

· Assess existing application portfolios, including COBOL programs, batch processes, databases, integrations, dependencies, and business rules.

· Develop current-state and future-state architecture models, modernization roadmaps, and phased implementation plans.

· Recommend the appropriate modernization approach for each system, including rehosting, replatforming, refactoring, rewriting, or retiring applications.

· Design solutions that transition legacy functionality to modern platforms using Java, APIs, microservices, cloud services, and containerized environments.

· Identify and document business rules embedded within COBOL applications, JCL, stored procedures, and batch-processing workflows.


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