Job Title: Lead Solution Architect – Financial Services & Mainframe Modernization
Location: Remote
Long Term Contract

About Us
We are an ambitious, quick-growing startup built to tackle one of the most complex challenges in fintech: helping financial institutions break free from legacy infrastructure. Our core product transforms and migrates complex data and workloads from legacy mainframe systems to high-performance, up-to-date cloud architectures. We are looking for a founding Lead Solution Architect to design our target technology landscape, drive customer migrations, and guide our product team in building scalable modernization tools.

Role Overview
As our Lead Solution Architect, you will own the end-to-end technical strategy for migrating high-volume, mission-critical financial data from legacy mainframes (COBOL, DB2, VSAM, EBCDIC formats) to modern cloud environments (AWS/Azure/GCP, relational/NoSQL databases, and event-driven architectures).
You will bridge the gap between deep mainframe concepts and modern cloud-native systems,



serving as both a client-facing architect and an internal product key contributor.

Key Responsibilities
• Architecture & Strategy: Design resilient, scalable cloud architectures for complex mainframe data conversion and real-time/batch migration pipelines in compliance with banking regulations (SOC2, PCI-DSS, GDPR).
• Data Transformation & Ingestion: Architect high-throughput Change Data Capture (CDC) and ETL/ELT pipelines capable of parsing legacy mainframes, schema mapping, data validation, and automated reconciliation.
• Client Engagement: Lead technical discovery sessions with financial services clients, assess legacy mainframe landscapes, and define cloud migration roadmaps.
• Product Collaboration: Translate client migration pain points into automated features for our core migration engine, partnering closely with engineering and product leaders.
• Data Integrity & Governance: Design automated reconciliation, auditability, and dat

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