Mainframe Developer w​/AWS

Senior Mainframe Migration Engineer

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Mainframe Migration Engineer to join our team dedicated to the final phase of modernizing client’s legacy applications. The successful candidate will play a critical role in migrating the remaining 10-15% of our core data and COBOL applications from a mainframe environment to the AWS cloud. This is a senior-level position that requires significant hands-on expertise in mainframe technologies and a strong understanding of modern cloud infrastructure.

• Lead the migration of legacy COBOL and DB2 applications to AWS cloud services.
• Ensure data sets and data structures meet Pitech architecture standards during the migration process.
• Write and integrate data into the DSVDS (analytic database).
• Collaborate with the Data Modernization team (Deloitte) who handles data pipelines.
• Retire legacy system components, including stored procedures, service requests, tables, and batch jobs/files, once migration is complete.
• Act as a dedicated individual contributor focused on both modernization (approx. 70% initially) and retirement tasks.

• Mainframe Technologies: COBOL, DB2, SQL
• Job Control:
  Strong experience with JCL (Job Control Language)
• Mainframe Tools:
  Control-M, Endevor, BFC, Smart TS

• Experience with core AWS services, including:
• S3
• Lambda
• Aurora (for DB2 migration)
• DynamoDB
• Glue

Requiring 8+ years of relevant experience. Experience in mainframe development and migration are highly preferred due to the seniority required for managing complex migration and retirement tasks. A background in supporting and developing mainframe applications, with a shift toward data modernization.