Mainframe Architect

Artifintech; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGIES LLC in New Jersey is seeking a senior specialist to lead mainframe modernization. You will assess COBOL/JCL/DB2/VSAM workloads, define rehost/replatform/refactor strategies, and design roadmaps for migration to cloud or distributed platforms.

You will drive risk mitigation, create rollback plans, and ensure security, performance, and disaster recovery readiness while collaborating with architects and cloud teams for GCP-based modernization.

Qualifications

• Strong background in legacy mainframe development and modernization
• Experience with interfacing systems and ongoing projects
• Hands-on modernization and migration strategy experience

Responsibilities

• Conduct discovery and assess mainframe workloads and current environments
• Define modernization strategies: Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Retire, Replace
• Develop migration roadmaps, risk mitigation, and rollback plans
• Design target-state architecture for rehosted apps on cloud or distributed platforms
• Ensure security, performance, HA, and DR requirements
• Create blueprints for migration patterns and integration with modern systems
• Collaborate with cloud teams to support GCP-based modernization
• Support batch jobs, monitoring, and production control

Skills

COBOL

CICS

JCL

VSAM

Easytrieve

IDEALDatacom

RPG

ASM

MQ

Tools

MQ

Job description

• Conduct discovery and assessment of existing mainframe workloads (COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, IMS, CICS).
• Define modernization strategies: Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Retire, Replace.
• Develop migration roadmaps, risk mitigation, and rollback plans.
• Design target-state architecture for rehosted applications on cloud or distributed platforms.
• Ensure compliance with security, performance, high availability, and disaster recovery requirements.
• Create detailed blueprints for migration patterns and integration with modern systems.
• Design ETL processes for migrating mainframe data (Datacom) to SQL Server.
• Act as SME for modernization initiatives and provide technical leadership to engineering teams.
• Communicate architecture and strategy to stakeholders and executives.
• Participate in code migration and data transformation efforts as part of rehosting.
• Collaborate with architects and cloud teams to support GCP-based modernization.
• Support batch job execution, console monitoring, and production control.
• Provide critical inputs and guidance during migration.

Required Experience

• Strong background in application development using legacy technologies such as COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, Easytrieve, IDEALDatacom, RPG, ASM, MQ (experience in some or all of these technologies).
• Understanding of interfacing systems and ongoing projects.
• Hands-on experience in modernization and migration strategies.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGIES LLC is an equal opportunity employer inclusive of female, minority, disability and veterans, (M/F/D/V). Hiring, promotion, transfer, compensation, benefits, discipline, termination and all other employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, national origin, citizenship/immigration status, veteran status or any other protected status. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGIES LLC will not make any posting or employment decision that does not comply with applicable laws relating to labor and employment, equal opportunity, employment eligibility requirements or related matters. Nor will ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGIES LLC require in a posting or otherwise U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent residency in the U.S. as a condition of employment except as necessary to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or federal, state, or local government contract.