Lead Consultant:Mainframe SME
Responsibilities
- Understand the existing mainframe applications and its ecosystem and provide inputs in the form of Functional Requirements
- Analyse the data stores and provide as data requirement
- Involved in planning and execution of mainframe migration efforts from assessment, discovery, planning, testing to the migration delivery, and modernization phases
- Coming up with test strategy for parallel testing
- Being hands on and making REST APIs available for data migration and testing efforts
- Developing REST APIs for data migration and testing efforts
- Develop interfaces to web based applications interacting using MQs, XMLs, FTPs
- Collaborate with leads and products developers to plan and execute work
- Manage relationships with different stakeholders across geographies
Experience
- 10+ years of hands-on technical experience with mainframe technologies such as COBOL, JCL, CICS, Eztrieve, DB2 for z/OS, Assembler, IMS-DB/DC, PL/I, Java, Rexx, GDGs, and VSAM
- Exposure to version control tools like Endevor, ChangeMan
- Hands on experience in developing batch and online programs
- Experience in building applications that interact with web based applications using connectors and adaptors
- Experience with tools and methodologies used to migrate mainframe workloads via hardware/middleware emulation, automated code conversion, and replatforming
- Experience with analyzing mainframe applications and data stores to formulate plans for modernizing workloads that achieve customer’s desired business outcomes
- Experience being a technical lead executing phase wise mainframe migration efforts from conception to delivery
- Current hands-on implementation experience required
Other preferred qualities -
- Organised and attention to detail.
- Empathetic and considerate around cultural differences and nuances.
- Good communication skills.
- Be inquisitive and open to learn.
- Strong project management and project coordination skills
- Able to work across the business and establish cross-functional relationships.
- Flexible, with an ability to execute well in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
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