Mainframe Architect - Hybrid

HCL Technologies Limited; São Paulo; Presencial; BRL 220 000 - 360 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

HCL Technologies Limited seeks an Enterprise Mainframe Architect to lead end-to-end technical architecture for critical mainframe solutions, translating business needs into scalable, secure designs. You will guide cross-functional teams through modernization, API exposure, and operational readiness, ensuring performance, resilience and governance across COBOL, CICS, DB2 and z/OS environments.

This role demands strong communication with stakeholders and a hands-on leadership style to drive

Qualificações

• Experience leading mainframe architecture and modernization programs.
• Ability to translate functional requirements into scalable designs.
• Strong understanding of security, performance and reliability in mainframe environments.

Responsabilidades

• Own architecture for complex mainframe applications, APIs, and modernization initiatives.
• Define patterns, interfaces and governance across platforms.
• Lead architecture reviews, risk assessments and PoC evaluations.
• Ensure observability, security and reliability of mainframe solutions.
• Collaborate with engineering, QA, DevOps and security teams.

Conhecimentos

COBOL

JCL

CICS

VSAM

DB2

z/OS

Descrição da oferta de emprego

HCLTech is a global technology company, spread across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. We work with clients across all major verticals, providing industry solutions for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology and Services, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, and Public Services. We re powered by our people a global, diverse, multi-generational talent - representing 161 nationalities whose unique spark, perspective and boundless passion drive our culture of proactive value creation and problem-solving.

Role Purpose:

Provide end-to-end technical leadership for enterprise solutions on the mainframe platform: translating business and non-functional requirements into scalable, secure and resilient architectures, and guiding engineering teams through implementation, modernization and operational readiness.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own high-level and detailed architecture for complex mainframe applications, APIs, integrations and modernization initiatives.
• Convert functional and non-functional requirements into blueprints, component designs, interface contracts and implementation guidance.
• Select appropriate architecture patterns and assess trade-offs across scalability, performance, security, cost and maintainability.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise standards, approved platforms, reusable patterns and target-state roadmaps.
• Technical Leadership & Governance
• Give hands-on architectural direction to development, QA, DevOps, security and support teams.
• Set coding, API, integration, logging, configuration, testing and deployment standards.
• Run architecture reviews, design walkthroughs, technical risk assessments and PoC evaluations.
• Security, Reliability & Performance
• Embed secure-by-design across identity, authorization, secrets, data protection and interface security.
• Define resiliency patterns — retry, timeout, failover, HA and DR — plus performance and capacity targets.
• Ensure observability through structured logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards and alerting.
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Facilitate technical discovery with business, product, security, infrastructure and vendor stakeholders.
• Communicate complex decisions clearly to engineering and leadership audiences.
• Maintain architecture artifacts, decision records, risk logs and technical roadmaps.
• Design, develop and support COBOL/CICS/DB2 batch and online components within agreed standards.
• Optimize batch windows, DB2 access paths and resource consumption to protect service levels.
• Support mainframe modernization, API exposure and integration with distributed and cloud platforms.

Required Technical Competencies:

• COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2 and z/OS utilities; batch and online program design and optimization.
• Design & Architecture Mainframe application architecture, modularization, API enablement and modernization/coexistence patterns.
• Data & Integration DB2 and VSAM data design, SQL tuning, file handling, data conversion, integrity and reconciliation.
• Platform & DevOps z/OS operations, scheduling, change management, environment promotion and mainframe-to-distributed integration.
• Quality & Operations Unit and regression testing, batch cycle validation, performance and MIPS optimization, defect RCA.