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.
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