Senior Solution Architect - Mainframe Modernization Remote

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc.; Fairfax (VA); Remote; USD 172,000 - 232,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Paid time off

Full-flex work weeks

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. is seeking a SME Solution Architect to drive architecture across mission-critical financial applications.

You’ll analyze client processes, provide technical leadership, and guide transitions from IBM mainframes to cloud-enabled architectures. You will partner with financial agents and multiple teams to design, map workflows, and deliver PoCs, ensuring security and compliance while advancing modernization roadmaps.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of related experience in enterprise application architecture and systems design.
• Experience applying tools to design cloud-based solutions involving complex applications, databases, and interfaces.
• Proven modernization strategies for hybrid environments that combine mainframes with modern apps.

Responsibilities

• Become a trusted Subject Matter Expert by reviewing client mainframe and mid-range architectures to understand current state processes.
• Propose future state business processes and architectural solutions with industry best practices.
• Lead the implementation of modern technical solutions with client’s financial agent, enhancing user experience through mapping tools and architectural analysis methods.
• Collaborate with client’s financial agent to develop efficient business workstreams and provide detailed design drawings and PoCs.
• Communicate requirements to oversight and development teams that will draft agile stories for design decisions.
• Work with partner orgs and multiple dev teams to ensure technical workflows align with federal financial, security, and compliance needs.
• Map business workflows using tools like Microsoft Visio and similar.
• Develop strategies for migrating legacy COBOL/JCL/CICS/DB2/VSAM to modern server and cloud environments.
• Provide architecture-level recommendations for integration, performance optimization, and data migrations.
• Create and maintain architecture diagrams and roadmaps for data migration efforts.
• Lead development teams in applying modern design patterns, cloud-native principles, and DevSecOps practices.
• Support testing, validation, and deployment across environments.

Skills

Applications Architecture

Business Analysis

Systems Design

Technical Architecture

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science/ Information Systems

Tools

Mainframe technologies

Java

Spring Boot

RESTful APIs

PostgreSQL

Tomcat/WebLogic

Linux

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. is seeking a SME Solution Architect to drive architecture across mission-critical financial applications.

You’ll analyze client processes, provide technical leadership, and guide transitions from IBM mainframes to cloud-enabled architectures. You will partner with financial agents and multiple teams to design, map workflows, and deliver PoCs, ensuring security and compliance while advancing modernization roadmaps.