Senior Project Architect – Control-M Automation & Migration (Hybrid)

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

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.