Associate Director Application Architecture

Avanade; São Paulo; Presencial; BRL 300 000 - 550 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Meal or food allowance

Health and dental insurance

Certifications and training

Life insurance

Private pension

Company profit sharing

Wellhub

Daycare assistance

Career mentoring

Birthday Off on birthday

Resumo da oferta

Avanade is seeking a senior Legacy Modernization Enterprise Architect to drive the architecture strategy for transforming legacy systems into cloud-native platforms. The role involves leading modernization workshops, guiding stakeholders, and delivering scalable, compliant solutions across Azure, AWS, and GCP.

You will mentor solution architects and collaborate with delivery, sales, and partners to shape proposals and ensure successful execution in complex environments.

Qualificações

• Strong communication to explain complex tech to stakeholders.
• 3+ years programming in C#/.NET or Java/Python.
• Knowledge of mainframe tech and migration patterns.
• Familiar with DevOps tools and cloud platforms.

Responsabilidades

• Lead mainframe modernization strategy workshops with C‑level stakeholders.
• Advise on modernization of legacy environments and migrations.
• Define technical and functional solution deliveries and sign-offs.
• Collaborate with delivery, sales and partners to shape proposals.
• Mentor solution architects and delivery teams.
• Develop future-state architecture using hybrid and cloud-native patterns.
• Enforce architectural standards across programs.

Conhecimentos

C# / .Net

ASP.NET

PowerShell

Java

Python

COBOL

Assembler

JCL

Azure DevOps

Maven

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes / AKS

Azure / AWS / GCP

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

Mainframe knowledge

Communication skills

Formação académica

None specified

Ferramentas

MS Visual Studio

IntelliJ

Descrição da oferta de emprego

The Legacy Modernization Enterprise Architect is a senior technical leader responsible for defining and governing the architecture strategy for transforming legacy systems—such as mainframes and monolithic applications—into modern, scalable, and cloud-native platforms. This role ensures that modernization initiatives align with business objectives, compliance requirements, and enterprise architecture principles while minimizing risk and disrupt

Benefits

• Meal or food allowance;
• Multibenefits Card up to Senior Consultant level;
• Health and dental insurance;
• Certifications and training;
• Life insurance;
• Private pension;
• Avababy: pregnancy support and kit for new Avanade parents;
• Company profit sharing;
• Wellhub;
• Daycare assistance;
• Career Advisor - Career mentoring;
• Birthday Off policy on your birthday;
• Wellness sessions;
• For managerial or higher positions - Company vehicle, parking, and fuel allowance.

Responsabilities

• Engage in C-Level Mainframe Modernization Strategy Workshops
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, influencing decisions and driving digital transformation initiatives.
• Be the lead source of knowledge on mainframe technologies and migrations, both mainframe infrastructure and software as well as mainframe integration based.
• Validate Solution approach for Mainframe Modernization projects, own deliverability of the technical and functional solution, ensuring correctness and achieve sign off
• Collaborate with delivery, sales, and partner teams to shape proposals and ensure successful execution.
• Support in initial phases of project delivery
• Provide technical leadership to delivery teams and mentor solution architects.
• Architectural Strategy & Roadmap for Mainframe Modernization
• Lead assessments of legacy environments (e.g., UNISYS OS2200, IBM z/OS, VSAM) and define modernization strategies (refactor, replatform, replace).
• Develop future-state architecture leveraging hybrid and cloud-native patterns (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Establish modernization frameworks and enforce architectural standards across programs

Qualifications

Skills and Experience

• Strong verbal and written communication skills and demonstrated excellence in communicating and presenting complex information to technical and non-technical stakeholders, both verbally and in written form.
• 3+ years programming experience in either C# / .Net using MS Visual Studio, ASP.NET, and PowerShell or Java using IntelliJ or similar IDE and Python.
• Ideally also knowledge of legacy programming languages too, for example, COBOL, Assembler, JCL, etc.
• Familiar with and willingness to learn further:
• DevOps and build tools, for example, Azure DevOps, Maven, Jenkins etc.
• Containers such as Docker, Kubernetes / AKS.
• Windows Server/AD, VM’s, Azure or AWS Cloud.
• SQL Server or PostgreSQL, or other open databases.
• Ideally knowledge of mainframe infrastructure and operations.
• Ideally experience in maintaining large enterprise applications in a legacy mainframe environment or alternatively have worked previously in legacy migration/modernization projects.