About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Senior Associate – Mainframe Modernization with strong hands-on expertise in IBM Mainframe technologies and proven experience leading complex modernization initiatives.
The role will be responsible for providing technical leadership, solution design, modernization strategy, and delivery guidance for large-scale Mainframe applications involving COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, and related technologies.
The ideal candidate will have a robust understanding of legacy Mainframe applications and the ability to translate complex business and technical requirements into modern, scalable target solutions. The candidate will work closely with architects, engineering teams, business stakeholders, and client teams to define modernization approaches, resolve technical challenges, and ensure successful delivery.

Key Responsibilities
• Lead technical delivery and modernization activities for large-scale Mainframe applications and systems.
• Analyze complex Mainframe applications involving COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, IMS,



and associated interfaces to understand application architecture, business logic, data flows, dependencies, and integration points.
• Define and recommend appropriate modernization strategies such as rehost, refactor, replatform, rearchitect, or rebuild, based on application complexity, business requirements, cost, risk, and technical feasibility.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership to Mainframe and distributed technology teams throughout the modernization lifecycle.
• Define target-state application architecture and modernization patterns for batch, online/transactional, database, and integration workloads.
• Lead technical analysis and decomposition of large COBOL applications into services, APIs, batch processes, or other modern application components where appropriate.
• Provide technical guidance for modernization of Mainframe DB2, batch processing, CICS transactions, files, interfaces, and dependent applicat

📌 Senior Associate – Mainframe Modernization (Bengaluru)
🏢 Innova ESI
📍 Bengaluru