Mainframe JCL Migration Engineer — Azure Automation

New Era Technology; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

New Era Technology in Houston is seeking a JCL Mainframe Migration Engineer to analyze, transform, and migrate legacy batch workloads (JCL-based) to modern target platforms such as Azure, distributed systems, or cloud-native architectures.

This role is central to mainframe modernization and rehosting projects, ensuring functional equivalence, performance stability, and minimal disruption during transitions from IBM z/OS to modern environments.

Qualifications

• Experience with mainframe batch jobs, JCL, GDG and PDS.
• Automation scripting with PowerShell and Azure.
• Migration projects from mainframe to cloud preferred.
• Strong collaboration and communication in cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Analyze Control-M and/or Atomic schedule on mainframe
• Perform maintenance/troubleshooting/investigation of JCL jobs on mainframe including spool and SMF
• Analyze CICS environment for loaded programs and its configuration
• Work with ISPF, GDG, PSD and MFT for migration investigation
• Support conversion mainframe batch jobs (JCL) to PowerShell scripts for Azure.
• Help configure and automate nightly, weekly, and monthly batch jobs in Azure.
• Optimize batch job performance (concurrency, multi-threading, thread safety).
• Discover and document business requirements for batch jobs.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to clarify technical and operational expectations.
• Develop and maintain PowerShell modules, including code signing and security practices.
• Participate in daily standups, sprint planning, and troubleshooting sessions.
• Work with cross-functional teams (front-end, back-end, database, mainframe experts).

Skills

Mainframe JCL

Mainframe CICS

PowerShell scripting

Azure knowledge

Concurrency & multi-threading

Agile methodologies

Communication

Tools

Control-M

CA IDEAL

ISPF

GDG

PDS

C#/.NET

SQL Server

Azure Storage

Job description

New Era Technology in Houston is seeking a JCL Mainframe Migration Engineer to analyze, transform, and migrate legacy batch workloads (JCL-based) to modern target platforms such as Azure, distributed systems, or cloud-native architectures.

This role is central to mainframe modernization and rehosting projects, ensuring functional equivalence, performance stability, and minimal disruption during transitions from IBM z/OS to modern environments.