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Job Title: Mainframe Architect

Position: Architect

Experience: 10-12 Years

Category: Software Development/ Engineering

Shift: General

Main location: Hyderabad

Employment Type: Full Time

Education Qualification: Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field or higher with minimum 10 years of relevant experience.

Position Description

We are looking for a Mainframe Solution Architect to design end-to-end technical solutions for complex business requirements across Mainframe and modern technology platforms. The role will provide technical and architectural leadership across the solution lifecycle, from requirements and design through implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.

The Solution Architect will work closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts, architects, business stakeholders, and delivery teams to understand business objectives and translate them into scalable and sustainable technical solutions. The role will focus on Mainframe application architecture, modernization, integration, APIs, distributed systems, cloud and hybrid technologies, automation, and DevOps practices.

The role will also involve evaluating existing Mainframe applications and recommending appropriate modernization, re-engineering, migration, or integration approaches while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, security, performance, scalability, reliability, and development standards.

Your future duties and responsibilities

- Develop, maintain, and enhance Mainframe applications while providing appropriate architectural and technical guidance.
- Perform impact analysis and guide code modifications across Mainframe applications and dependent systems.
- Design and execute, or provide guidance for, unit and integration testing.
- Analyze production incidents and provide technical direction for resolution.
- Support batch and online processing systems from an architectural and technical perspective.
- Collaborate with distributed teams, architects, Product Owners, Business Analysts, and business stakeholders.
- Design end-to-end technical solutions for complex business requirements across Mainframe and modern technology platforms.
- Lead solution architecture and technical design activities, including application architecture, integration patterns, interfaces, data flows, and technology decisions.
- Work closely with stakeholders to understand business objectives and translate them into scalable technical solutions.




- Evaluate existing Mainframe applications and recommend modernization, re-engineering, migration, or integration approaches based on business and technical requirements.
- Define integration strategies between Mainframe applications, APIs, distributed systems, cloud platforms, and other enterprise applications.
- Assess technical feasibility, dependencies, risks, constraints, and effort associated with proposed solutions and provide recommendations to stakeholders.
- Lead architecture and solution review sessions and communicate technical options, trade-offs, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ensure proposed solutions align with enterprise architecture, security, performance, scalability, reliability, and development standards.
- Provide technical leadership throughout the solution lifecycle, from requirements and design through implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
- Partner with Product Owners and delivery teams to break down complex requirements into technical components, identify dependencies, and support delivery planning.
- Guide development teams on solution implementation and resolve complex technical issues and design challenges.
- Review and provide technical approval for solution designs, application changes, integration designs, and complex code implementations.
- Drive technical decisions across multiple applications or modules and ensure consistency of design across dependent systems.
- Lead Mainframe modernization and transformation initiatives, including the adoption of APIs, cloud/hybrid technologies, automation, and DevOps practices.
- Identify opportunities to simplify application architecture, reduce technical debt, improve performance, and increase maintainability.
- Mentor senior developers and technical leads and provide guidance on architecture, design patterns, Mainframe technologies, and engineering practices.
- Create and maintain architecture documentation, solution design documents, integration specifications, technical diagrams, and key architectural decisions.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, security, data, cloud, integration, and other technology teams to ensure successful implementation of end-to-end solutions.
- Participate in modernization initiatives and assist with migration and integration with modern technologies.
- Implement automation and DevOps practices where applicable.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role

Must-Have Skills

- Strong experience with COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, and CICS.
- Strong working knowledge of REXX.
- Experience with Endevor/Changeman and File-Aid.
- Solid knowledge of IBM Mainframe utilities.
- Strong understanding of Mainframe batch and online processing systems.




- Experience in Mainframe application architecture and technical solution design.
- Experience designing end-to-end technical solutions for complex business requirements.
- Strong understanding of application architecture, integration patterns, interfaces, and data flows.
- Experience performing impact analysis, technical feasibility assessment, dependency analysis, and risk assessment.
- Experience defining integration strategies across Mainframe applications, APIs, distributed systems, and enterprise applications.
- Experience providing technical leadership throughout the solution lifecycle.
- Experience working with distributed teams, architects, Product Owners, Business Analysts, and business stakeholders.
- Strong experience in solution design, architecture reviews, technical documentation, and technical decision-making.

Good-to-Have Skills
- Experience with Mainframe modernization and transformation initiatives.
- Exposure to APIs and hybrid architecture.
- Experience integrating Mainframe applications with distributed or modern applications.
- Exposure to cloud and hybrid technologies.
- Exposure to DevOps, automation, and CI/CD practices.
- Experience with migration and integration with modern technologies.
- Experience identifying opportunities to simplify application architecture, reduce technical debt, improve performance, and increase maintainability.
- Experience mentoring senior developers and technical leads on architecture, design patterns, Mainframe technologies, and engineering practices.

CGI is an equal opportunity employer. In addition, CGI is committed to providing accommodation for people with disabilities in accordance with provincial legislation. Please let us know if you require reasonable accommodation due to a disability during any aspect of the recruitment process and we will work with you to address your needs. Together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action.

Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

That same commitment to fairness extends to how we use technology. To support our recruitment team, AI tools may be used to help assess applications though they never replace human judgement. All hiring decisions remain entirely in the hands of our recruitment professionals.

Come join our team—one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.

📌 Senior lead Mainframe/ Solution Architect 10-12 Yrs (Hyderabad)
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