Project Architect – BMC Digital Business Automation (Control-M)

BMC Software; United States; Hybrid; USD 132,975 - 221,625; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Variable pay plan

Country-specific benefits

Job summary

BMC Software is seeking a Project Architect to lead the design and delivery of enterprise-grade Control-M solutions (Distributed, z/OS, and SaaS) across complex environments. You will drive end-to-end architecture, migration strategies, and governance, partnering with Sales, Services, and customers to ensure scalable, aligned outcomes.

The role focuses on guiding delivery teams, creating repeatable blueprints, and establishing best practices to enable successful migrations with minimal risk.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of experience in enterprise workload automation, infrastructure engineering, and solution architecture.
• Strong expertise in BMC Control M Distributed and Control M SaaS (design, deployment, fine-tuning, and operations)
• Deep hands-on experience with enterprise mainframe environments, including z/OS, Sysplex architectures, workload automation, JCL, tape management, output management, and batch processing operations.
• Proven experience leading migration and conversion projects from enterprise schedulers
• Strong understanding of enterprise IT environments across distributed systems (Linux/Windows) and cloud platforms
• Experience designing integrated, scalable, and high-availability solutions
• Excellent communication, negotiation and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and design of Control-M Distributed, Control-M for z/OS, and Control-M SaaS solutions in complex enterprise environments.
• Define and execute migration and conversion strategies from legacy scheduling, workload automation, and output management platforms (e.g., CA7, AutoSys, IBM Workload Scheduler, Tidal, Redwood, CA 1, and CA View/Deliver) to the Control-M platform.
• Build and maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs), automated pre-processors, and repeatable execution paths to facilitate concurrent migrations.
• Conduct customer discovery sessions and define solution scope, architecture, and implementation approach
• Review and validate Statements of Work (SOW) to ensure technical feasibility and delivery alignment
• Provide technical leadership throughout delivery, ensuring solutions align with architecture and best practices
• Act as an escalation point for complex technical issues and at-risk projects
• Design integration between Control-M and enterprise applications, databases, and third-party systems
• Develop and contribute to architecture documentation, migration plans, and best practice frameworks
• Provide architectural governance across multiple concurrent customer engagements, ensuring consistency, quality, repeatability, and risk management.
• Mentor consultants and support team development through technical leadership and coaching
• Collaborate with Sales, Customer Success, Product, Support, and BMC AI teams to ensure aligned customer outcomes
• Present technical strategies, migration approaches, risks, and recommendations to executive stakeholders and customer leadership team

Skills

Workload automation

Solution architecture

Control-M Distributed

Control-M SaaS

Mainframe z/OS

JCL

Cloud platforms

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Description and Requirements

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CA-PF

Hybrid

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About The Role

The Project Architect is a senior technical leader responsible for designing and delivering enterprise-grade BMC Control M Distributed, Control M for z/OS (Mainframe), and Control M SaaS solutions. This role drives the end-to-end solution architecture, hybrid migration strategy, and technical governance across the full project lifecycle.

The Architect partners with Sales, Professional Services, and customer stakeholders to ensure solutions are scalable, aligned to business requirements, and successfully implemented. This role also provides guidance to delivery teams and serves as a subject matter expert for workload automation solutions.

Additionally, this role serves as the leader responsible for developing automation, AI-enabled solutions, repeatable migration/conversion blueprints, and governance practices that improve scalability, consistency, and delivery efficiency across multiple simultaneous migration programs.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and design of Control M Distributed, Control M for z/OS (Mainframe), and Control M SaaS solutions in complex enterprise environments
• Define and execute migration and conversion strategies from legacy scheduling, workload automation, and output management platforms (e.g., CA7, AutoSys, IBM Workload Scheduler, Tidal, Redwood, CA 1, and CA View/Deliver) to the Control-M platform.
• Build and maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs), automated pre-processors, and repeatable execution paths to facilitate concurrent migrations.
• Conduct customer discovery sessions and define solution scope, architecture, and implementation approach
• Review and validate Statements of Work (SOW) to ensure technical feasibility and delivery alignment
• Provide technical leadership throughout delivery, ensuring solutions align with architecture and best practices
• Act as an escalation point for complex technical issues and at-risk projects
• Design integration between Control-M and enterprise applications, databases, and third-party systems
• Develop and contribute to architecture documentation, migration plans, and best practice frameworks
• Provide architectural governance across multiple concurrent customer engagements, ensuring consistency, quality, repeatability, and risk management.
• Mentor consultants and support team development through technical leadership and coaching
• Collaborate with Sales, Customer Success, Product, Support, and BMC AI teams to ensure aligned customer outcomes
• Present technical strategies, migration approaches, risks, and recommendations to executive stakeholders and customer leadership team

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
• 10+ years of experience in enterprise workload automation, infrastructure engineering, and solution architecture
• Strong expertise in BMC Control M Distributed and Control M SaaS (design, deployment, fine-tuning, and operations)
• Deep hands‑on experience with enterprise mainframe environments, including z/OS, Sysplex architectures, workload automation, JCL, tape management, output management, and batch processing operations.
• Proven experience leading migration and conversion projects from enterprise schedulers
• Strong understanding of enterprise IT environments across distributed systems (Linux/Windows) and cloud platforms
• Experience designing integrated, scalable, and high-availability solutions
• Excellent communication, negotiation and stakeholder management skills

Our commitment to you!

BMC’s culture is built around its people. We have 6000+ brilliant minds working together across the globe. You won’t be known just by your employee number, but for your true authentic self. BMC lets you be YOU!

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BMC Software maintains a strict policy of not requesting any form of payment in exchange for employment opportunities, upholding a fair and ethical hiring process.

The annual base salary range represents the low and high end of the BMC salary range for this position. Actual salaries depend on a wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training, licensure, and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

• Other rewards may include a variable plan and country specific benefits.

At BMC, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at /near the top of the range. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $132,975 - $221,625