Key Requirements:
Senior Leader with Telecom OSS infrastructure experience, including leadership of large, cross-functional modernization programs. Deep technical expertise in TIRKS circuit provisioning lifecycles.
Strong IBM Mainframe skills (zOS, JCL, IMS, VSAM, CICS).
Hands-on modern architecture experience (APIs, microservices, AWSAzure).
Master of SQL, data modeling, and enterprise ETL migration tools.
Proven mainframe modernization experience led or architected at least one largescale legacy modernization program using a tiered disposition model (retire, re-host, replatform, AI-assisted refactor, replace-with-COTS).
Familiarity with real-time API enablement patterns (zOS Connect, CICS Transaction Gateway, MQ-based requestreply) and data replication CDC approaches (e.g., Debezium, Db2) is strongly preferred.
Applied Gen-AI tooling for modernization hands-on experience using generative AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Amazon Q Developer CodeWhisperer, Claude, or equivalent) for legacy code comprehension, COBOLJCL analysis and autodocumentation, test-case generation, and AI-assisted refactoring.
Must be able to define where AI accelerates delivery and where human-in-the-loop (HITL) review and validation are mandatory.
Skills Mandatory Skill Level
Telecom OSS Infrastructure Yes 3
Strong IBM Mainframe Yes 3
Modern architecture experience Yes 4
mainframe modernization API enablement patterns (zOS Connect, CICS Transaction Gateway, MQ Yes 3
TIRKS and adjacent modules such as SWITCH, FACS, WFA, and SOAC Yes 3
Telcordia interfaces Yes 3
Gen AI (AWS Sagemaker, Azure ML, Azure Data Factory, Google Cloud Platform AI Platform Git, Docker, CICD)
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