Azure Cloud Solutions Architect: Mainframe Modernization Lead

JPS Tech Solutions Pvt Ltd; Harrisburg (Dauphin County); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Job summary

JPS Tech Solutions Pvt Ltd is seeking an experienced Solutions Architect to lead architecture, design, and documentation of a custom software solution. You will guide the transition from a FACS mainframe (COBOL, IDMS) to an Azure cloud-based system and ensure alignment with enterprise standards.

You will collaborate with product owners, architects, and analysts to shape the architecture, define roadmaps, and deliver scalable, secure solutions for current and future business needs.

Qualifications

• Proven strategic planning experience supporting large, complex enterprise systems.
• Experience working across multiple technologies, platforms, and processing environments, including on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Ability to identify complex technical and business problems and develop architectural strategies that address current and future requirements.
• Demonstrated architectural experience across multiple technical disciplines, including storage, networking, compute, voice, video, artificial intelligence, and application development.
• Ability to translate business needs and future-state capabilities into solution architecture requirements.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Experience building core platforms using common architectural patterns and reusable components to support a broad range of customer-facing solutions.
• Experience with industry-standard modeling languages and notations, such as ArchiMate and BPMN 2.0.
• Experience with enterprise architecture tools, such as Bizzdesign, for solution architecture modeling.
• Experience using Lucidchart or similar tools to collaboratively diagram, visualize, and communicate complex information.
• Experience delivering solutions in iterative Agile product environments.
• Working knowledge of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
• Demonstrated ability to build trust, encourage innovation, and mentor team members.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the transition strategy from the FACS mainframe system (COBOL, IDMS) to a custom Azure Cloud-based solution.
• Support architecture planning across user experience, authoring, information, application, mobility, analytics, and other capabilities within an Azure tenant.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, the Product Architect, and Business Analysts to understand and document current-state and future-state business drivers, capabilities, and processes.
• Define and communicate technology possibilities, architectural options, and recommendations to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Evaluate technologies, platforms, and vendor offerings to deliver business value and meet project objectives.
• Develop and extend the Architecture Runway to support delivery milestones and the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) release.
• Drive technology maturity, readiness, and alignment with IT investments.
• Collaborate with application, platform, and service owners, Vendor Management, Regulatory, Security, Compliance, and State and Federal partners.
• Work with IT leaders to define approaches to data integration, infrastructure, technical debt, and operational readiness.
• Introduce reusable design components and architectural patterns and recommend their appropriate application.
• Create and maintain standardized solution architecture artifacts to support collaboration, analysis, and decision-making.
• Document architecture decisions and contribute to strategies, policies, standards, and guidelines aligned with business objectives and enterprise architecture.
• Collaborate with Product, Data, and Security Architects on product roadmaps, data models, and security reference architecture.
• Lead and present during Architecture Review Board checkpoints.
• Provide architectural guidance and consultation for proof-of-concept initiatives.

Tools

ArchiMate

BPMN 2.0

Bizzdesign

Lucidchart

Azure Cloud

Job description

JPS Tech Solutions Pvt Ltd is seeking an experienced Solutions Architect to lead architecture, design, and documentation of a custom software solution. You will guide the transition from a FACS mainframe (COBOL, IDMS) to an Azure cloud-based system and ensure alignment with enterprise standards.

You will collaborate with product owners, architects, and analysts to shape the architecture, define roadmaps, and deliver scalable, secure solutions for current and future business needs.