Job Description: Senior Mainframe & DB2 Migration Data Engineer (8–10 Years Experience) Job Title
Senior Mainframe & DB2 Migration Data Engineer
Experience
8–10 Years
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Senior Mainframe & DB2 Migration Data Engineer with 8–10 years of expertise in mainframe data engineering, legacy modernization, and cloud data platforms. The ideal candidate will play a key role in a large-scale enterprise modernization initiative, migrating legacy applications and data from COBOL, EasyTreive, JCL, DFSORT, DB2, VSAM, and GDG environments to a modern Databricks platform.
The role requires deep expertise in analyzing mainframe data structures, designing scalable data pipelines, performing EBCDIC data conversion, implementing business-rule transformations, and ensuring seamless migration with minimal business disruption. The successful candidate will collaborate with architects, application teams, business analysts, and QA teams to deliver high-quality migration outcomes through structured delivery waves.
Project Overview
The modernization program includes:




Three IM application areas running on COBOL / DB2 / VSAM / GDG
Source data consisting of:
GDG files
Fixed-width flat files
DB2 databases
Migration of:
COBOL logic
EasyTrieve
JCL orchestration
Copybook schemas
Business rules
Validation processes
Execution through structured migration waves.
Success will be measured by:
Output parity with legacy systems
SLA compliance
Accurate mainframe data conversion
Validated business-rule equivalence
High-performance and reliable data pipelines on Databricks
Key Responsibilities Mainframe Data Migration
Analyze COBOL programs, DB2 databases, VSAM datasets, GDG files, JCL workflows, and copybook definitions to understand legacy processing and data dependencies.
Design and implement migration strategies for mainframe data assets into up-to-date cloud-based data platforms.
Develop automated ingestion processes for GDG, VSAM, DB2, and fixed-width flat files.
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