Mainframe Architect

Robotics Technologies LLC; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading robotics firm in Jersey City is seeking an experienced professional for modernization initiatives involving legacy mainframe workloads. The role entails defining strategies such as rehosting, refactoring, and developing migration roadmaps. Candidates are expected to have a strong background in COBOL and related technologies. This opportunity offers a dynamic environment, where you will take on crucial technical leadership and collaboration with stakeholders, ensuring successful migrations to modern platforms.

Qualifications

• Strong background in COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, and related legacy technologies.
• Understanding of interfacing systems and ongoing projects.
• Experience with migration and modernization processes.

Responsibilities

• Conduct discovery and assessment of legacy workloads.
• Define and implement modernization strategies.
• Design target-state architecture for rehosted applications.

Skills

Application development using legacy technologies

Hands-on experience in modernization strategies

Communication with stakeholders

Tools

SQL Server

GCP

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.

ROBOTICS 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. ROBOTICS 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 ROBOTICS 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.