Senior Mainframe Modernization Solution Architect

**Senior Mainframe Modernization Solution Architect
**About Micro Focus

Micro Focus is one of the world’s largest enterprise software providers, delivering the mission-critical software that keeps the digital world running. We combine pragmatism, discipline, and customer-centric innovation to deliver trusted, proven solutions that customers need to succeed in today’s rapidly evolving marketplace. That is high tech without the drama.

**Job Description**:
Our AMC (Application Modernization and Connectivity) division is looking for a highly skilled Mainframe Modernization Solution Architect to design, architect and implement solutions that support our Customers Digital Transformation. In this hands-on role, you will be responsible for solving complex technical issues, establishing patterns and practices, and setting standards for modernization of mainframe legacy environment

**Infrastructure modernization**
**Application modernization**
**Process modernization**

Deploy fit for purpose workload in a Hybrid Cloud infrastructure

Main Responsibilities
Working as a technical leader alongside customer business, development and infrastructure teams.
- Create proof of concept technology analysis and pilots.
- Conduct customer presentations and internal presentations/trainings to peer groups.
- Enable and align consulting partners with Micro Focus mainframe modernization approach and methodology.
- Provide the architectural guidance and recommendations necessary to promote successful Customer engagements worldwide.
- Technical content composition and delivery: blogs, whitepapers, technical presentations at major conferences.

Knowledge and Skills

Common for all position
- Experience leading customers with mainframe and legacy modernization initiatives.
- Knowledge of major Cloud Provider infrastructure and technologies, such as AWS, Azure, Cloud Foundry, Docker / KubernetesFor Infrastructure Modernization Solution Architect:

- Experience with tools and methodologies used to migrate mainframe workloads via hardware/middleware emulation, automated code conversion, and re-platforming.
Hands-on technical experience with mainframe, non-x86 legacy systems and with technologies such as COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2 for z/OS, Assembler, PL/I, Rexx, flat/sequential files, GDGs, and VSAM.
- Must have an analytical mind set to analyse test result and facilitate defect resolution
- Experience in designing/architecting distributed and Cloud environments (target environments) - including OpenShift, Kubernetes, and Containers

For Application Modernization Solution Architect:

Knowledge of Cloud Computing, Containers, Microservices, and Serverless technology.
- Experience with Business Rules-extraction from COBOL/PL1
- Experience architecting high availability, resilient, fault tolerant systems that utilize load
balancing, horizontal/vertical scaling
- Knowledge of Webservices, APIs and exposing Application components to alternate platforms

For Process Modernization Solution Architect:

- Complete understanding of software development lifecycle including DevOps Toolchain.
- Experience configuring automation pipelines in GitHub, Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins or similar tools
- Familiarity with agile engineering practices like Test Automation, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), DevOps, and Test Data Management, etc.
- Experience with implementing and operating DevOps and Agile tools/platforms across some part of the development lifecycle

Other Preferred Skills
- Relevant Business and IT Architecture Certifications such as, AWS Solution Architect Professional, Microsoft AZURE Solution Architect, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) etc.
- Knowledge of one of more of the Micro Focus AMC products
- Fluent in written and verbal English. Other EMEA languages preferred

**Job Travel**:
Micro Focus consultants work with enterprise Customers locally, internationally and potentially worldwide. As such, you will be required to travel to client locations as needed.

**Job**:
Sales**Micro Focus is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Prospective employees will receive consideration without discrimination because of race, colour, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information, citizenship or any other legally protected status