Senior Mainframe Modernization Solutions Engineer

Job Description Summary

Our Enterprise Suite Professional Services Team is looking for a highly skilled Mainframe Modernization Senior Consultant to provide technical support and/or leadership in the creation and delivery of technology solutions designed to support our Customers’ Digital Transformation.

• Infrastructure modernization projects
• Application modernization projects
• Process modernization projects

The candidate will also be able to deploy fit for purpose workload in a Hybrid Cloud infrastructure, evolve from monolithic application to Cloud‑Native API Microservices, and embrace an enterprise‑wide Dev Ops discipline to deliver application faster.

• Provide services to customers
• Works on complex project scope with minimal direction from with Customer/SI nominated representatives to accomplish assigned tasks.
• Contributes to design for specific deliverables and assists in the deployment Rocket products.
• Contribute to implement new solutions under the direction of Delivery Architects.
• Uses and contributes to technical forums within the Rocket Enterprise Suite environment.
• Applies own subject matter knowledge to solve a variety of common technical issues.
• Exercises independent judgment within defined practices and procedures to determine appropriate action.
• Communicates project status and risks to project technical lead and PM.
• Use technical experience to give customer sound technical advice.
• Determine if change is a product defect or enhancement before communicating to customer.
• Participates as part of a team and maintains good relationships with team members and customers.

• 5-7 years of relevant technical experience
• Excellent communication / customer service skills / confident telephone manner
• Proactive and able to work under pressure
• Experience in complex IT project implementations, customizations and or maintenance
• Must have an analytical mind set to analyze test result and facilitate defect resolution
• Organized and methodical, dealing with numerous tasks.
• Fluent in written and verbal English.

Must have Rocket Enterprise Server and Enterprise Developer experience.

• IBM Enterprise COBOL or PLI programming experience
• System level experience of IBM CICS; IMS and JCL
• Relational databases, such as IBM DB2/UDB, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server;
  PostgreSQL
• Windows operating system
• Linux/UNIX operating system
• Knowledge of major Cloud Provider infrastructure and technologies, such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Cloud Foundry, Docker / Kubernetes

• Experience with tools and methodologies used to migrate mainframe workloads via hardware/middleware emulation, automated code conversion, and re-platforming.
• Experience with COBOL modernization and porting application code across platforms.
• Familiarity with agile engineering practices like Test Automation, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Dev Ops, and Test Data Management, etc.
• Experience developing, deploying, and tuning data modernization solution for mainframe such as IMS/DB, IDMS, ADABAS and VSAM data migration.
• Experience with implementing and operating Dev Ops and Agile tools/platforms across some part of the development lifecycle.
• Experience configuring automation pipelines in Git Hub, Azure Dev Ops, AWS Code Pipeline, Jenkins or similar tools.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
• Rocket COBOL based products – Enterprise Developer, Visual COBOL, Enterprise Server, Server Express, Net Express
• Rocket Enterprise Analyzer
• Any additional mainframe language or environment, such as REXX;
  Assembler;
  Natural;
  Adabas; etc.
• Relevant Business and IT Architecture Certifications such as, AWS Solution Architect Professional, Microsoft AZURE Solution Architect, Google Cloud Certification;
  Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe); etc.
• Proficient in another EU language

Annual salary range for this position is between $ - $ gross before taxes.

• Unlimited Vacation Time as well as paid holidays and sick time
• Health and Wellness coverage options for Rocketeers and dependents
• Life and…