Application Architecture

Overview

Client-facing Solution Architect focused on mainframe application modernization and enterprise transformation for IBM Z and other legacy estates.

What you'll do

• Lead client discovery sessions, modernization assessments, and technical due diligence.
• Facilitate workshops, design sessions, and architecture reviews with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Assess application portfolios to identify modernization opportunities, dependencies, risks, and migration complexity.
• Define target-state architectures, modernization strategies, and delivery roadmaps aligned to business objectives.
• Create architecture deliverables such as assessment reports, dependency maps, migration plans, and testing strategies.
• Provide architecture governance, design reviews, implementation oversight, and solution assurance.
• Support pre-sales deliverables including proposal development, SOWs, RFP responses, and solution estimation.

What you'll need

• 10+ years of experience in application architecture, software engineering, enterprise modernization, or technical consulting.
• Proven architecture leadership experience in large-scale mainframe modernization, migration, or transformation programs.
• Proven track record in a client-facing advisory or pre-sales architecture role.
• Hands-on experience with IBM Z and related legacy technologies including COBOL, PL/I, JCL, CICS, IMS, DB2, VSAM, MQ, and batch processing.
• Experience defining modernization strategies across Modernize On, Integrate With, and Move Off initiatives.
• Ability to analyze application dependencies and define modernization scope and architecture recommendations.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills to translate business objectives into architecture and modernization plans.

Details

• Location (as listed): Manyatha, Bangalore, India.