HIRING | SENIOR IBM i / AS400 SPECIALIST – CORE MODERNIZATION

Location: Remote / Offshore – India

Experience: 12+ Years

Budget: ₹1.8–2.0 LPM

Employment: Contract / Project-Based

Shift: US Shift | Minimum 4 Hours Overlap

ROLE OVERVIEW

We are looking for a Senior IBM i / AS400 Specialist with strong hands-on expertise in COBOL, DB2 for i, SQL, and Python on IBM i. You will work as the offshore execution arm of the Onshore IBM i Lead, focusing on legacy system analysis, COBOL reverse engineering, business logic discovery, system dependencies, documentation, test environments, and test-data preparation.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Analyze DB2 for i schemas, files, tables, relationships & data structures

- Reverse engineer complex COBOL applications and business rules
- Trace Policy, Transaction & Line-of-Business processing flows
- Analyze batch jobs, job queues, scheduling & dependencies
- Review SQL queries, database access patterns & performance
- Document actual system behavior and technical/functional flows




- Configure/manage IBM i/AS400 QA/UAT environments
- Generate and validate realistic test data
- Support QA/UAT environment and data readiness
- Collaborate with Onshore IBM i SME/Lead and modernization teams

MANDATORY SKILLS

12+ years IBM i / AS400 experience Strong COBOL on IBM i/AS400

Python on IBM i – Mandatory

Solid DB2 for i & SQL

Legacy application reverse engineering

Batch processing, job queues & scheduling

AS400 test environment & test-data management

Excellent spoken/written English & communication

Not a Cloud, DevOps, Kubernetes, or generic backend role.

EXPECTATIONS

30 Days: Understand architecture, COBOL programs, DB2 schema & begin documentation. 60 Days: Independently own system analysis, test environments & datasets.

90 Days: Own assigned modules end-to-end and deliver validated modernization-ready documentation.

📌 SENIOR IBM i /SPECIALIST – CORE MODERNIZATION (India)
🏢 Vrinda International
📍 India