Solution Architect – Mainframe

Role: Solution Architect

Location: Woodlawn, MD (Onsite)

·     Lead the architecture and technical strategy for modernizing large-scale mainframe and COBOL applications.

·     Assess existing application portfolios, including COBOL programs, batch processes, databases, integrations, dependencies, and business rules.

·     Develop current-state and future-state architecture models, modernization roadmaps, and phased implementation plans.

·     Recommend the appropriate modernization approach for each system, including rehosting, replatforming, refactoring, rewriting, or retiring applications.

·     Design solutions that transition legacy functionality to modern platforms using Java, APIs, microservices, cloud services, and containerized environments.

·     Identify and document business rules embedded within COBOL applications, JCL, stored procedures, and batch-processing workflows.

Required Qualifications

·     10+ years of experience in enterprise application architecture, software engineering, or systems modernization.

·     7+ years of hands-on experience with mainframe technologies and COBOL-based applications.

·     Strong experience with COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, batch processing, and z/OS environments.

·     Demonstrated experience architecting or leading the modernization of large, mission-critical legacy systems.

·     Strong understanding of mainframe application dependencies, transaction processing, scheduling, data structures, and system integrations.

·     Experience developing modernization strategies using rehosting, replatforming, refactoring, rewriting, and hybrid migration approaches.

·     Experience designing modern applications using Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, microservices, and event-driven architecture.

·     Experience integrating mainframe applications with distributed, web-based, or cloud-native systems.