Senior Mainframe Modernisation Consultant - AWS

UltraTalent; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

UltraTalent is seeking two Senior Delivery Consultants to join its AWS-focused Professional Services practice. These roles demand deep mainframe expertise paired with cloud migration know-how, delivering complex mainframe-to-cloud modernisation programs for enterprise clients.

The consultants will assess estates, design strategies, and lead hands-on migrations while advising architects and stakeholders. AI-assisted transformation experience is a plus.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of mainframe experience (z/OS, COBOL, PL/I, JCL, CICS, IMS, DB2, VSAM).
• 3+ years AWS or equivalent cloud experience, ideally across migration and modernisation.
• Experience with AWS Mainframe Modernization, DMS, SCT, Step Functions and/or Lambda.
• Mainframe modernisation across replatforming, cloud-native refactoring or automated code transformation.
• Experience migrating DB2, IMS or VSAM to cloud-native databases (RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB).
• Strong customer-facing consulting capability across complex enterprise transformation programs.
• Exposure to AI-assisted code analysis, transformation or Generative AI tools would be highly regarded.

Responsibilities

• Assess existing mainframe estates, application portfolios and dependencies.
• Design modernisation strategies across re-platforming, refactoring and re-engineering.
• Lead hands-on implementation and migration activities.
• Advise customer architects, engineering teams and senior stakeholders.
• Support workload prioritisation, migration waves and cutover risk.
• Apply AI-assisted and Generative AI approaches to legacy code transformation.
• Create reusable modernisation playbooks, frameworks and reference architectures.

Skills

Mainframe experience

AWS/cloud experience

AI-assisted tools

Customer-facing consulting

Migration & modernization

Tools

z/OS

COBOL

JCL

CICS

IMS

DB2

VSAM

AWS Mainframe Modernization

DMS

SCT

Step Functions

Lambda

RDS

Aurora

DynamoDB

Job description

UltraTalent is seeking two Senior Delivery Consultants to join its AWS-focused Professional Services practice. These roles demand deep mainframe expertise paired with cloud migration know-how, delivering complex mainframe-to-cloud modernisation programs for enterprise clients.

The consultants will assess estates, design strategies, and lead hands-on migrations while advising architects and stakeholders. AI-assisted transformation experience is a plus.