Associate Director Application Architecture
The Legacy Modernization Enterprise Architect is a senior technical leader responsible for defining and governing the architecture strategy for transforming legacy systems—such as mainframes and monolithic applications—into modern, scalable, and cloud-native platforms. This role ensures that modernization initiatives align with business objectives, compliance requirements, and enterprise architecture principles while minimizing risk and disrupt
Responsabilities:
Engage in C-Level Mainframe Modernization Strategy Workshops
Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, influencing decisions and driving digital transformation initiatives.
Be the lead source of knowledge on mainframe technologies and migrations, both mainframe infrastructure and software as well as mainframe integration based.
Validate Solution approach for Mainframe Modernization projects, own deliverability of the technical and functional solution, ensuring correctness and achieve sign off
Collaborate with delivery, sales, and partner teams to shape proposals and ensure successful execution.
Support in initial phases of project delivery
Provide technical leadership to delivery teams and mentor solution architects.
Architectural Strategy & Roadmap for Mainframe Modernization
Lead assessments of legacy environments (e.g., UNISYS OS2200, IBM z/OS, VSAM) and define modernization strategies (refactor, replatform, replace).
Develop future-state architecture leveraging hybrid and cloud-native patterns (Azure, AWS, GCP).
Establish modernization frameworks and enforce architectural standards across programs
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Skills and Experience
Strong verbal and written communication skills and demonstrated excellence in communicating and presenting complex information to technical and non-technical stakeholders, both verbally and in written form.
3+ years programming experience in either C# / .Net using MS Visual Studio, ASP.NET, and PowerShell or Java using IntelliJ or similar IDE and Python.
Ideally also knowledge of legacy programming languages too, for example, COBOL, Assembler, JCL, etc.
Familiar with and willingness to learn further:
DevOps and build tools, for example, Azure DevOps, Maven, Jenkins etc.
Containers such as Docker, Kubernetes / AKS.
Windows Server/AD, VM’s, Azure or AWS Cloud.
SQL Server or PostgreSQL, or other open databases.
Ideally knowledge of mainframe infrastructure and operations.
Ideally experience in maintaining large enterprise applications in a legacy mainframe environment or alternatively have worked previously in legacy migration/modernization projects.
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