Role: Mainframe Architect / Lead

Location:
Bangalore / Gurgaon / Noida / Pune / Hyderabad

Experience:
12+ Years Immediate Joiners Only

Key responsibilities
• Assess the current mainframe non-production estate: regions, dependencies, batch, test data, and build/deploy processes.
• Identify where shared regions and manual processes cause waiting, contention and late testing.
• Assess the current mainframe toolchain, licences and skills, and confirm what is realistically available.
• Help define the target state for mainframe environments, deciding what must stay shared and what can be automated, isolated or virtualised.
• Shape the mainframe approach to CI/CD, source control (Endevor/Git, including running both during transition), automated testing, test data and service virtualisation.
• Contribute to the performance and batch testing strategy at representative volumes, including month-end and year-end runs.
• Define the mainframe boundary for the PoV and work hands-on with engineers to deliver a thin implementation, linking the pipeline to existing build/deploy and automating test data reset.
• Turn findings into practical recommendations for the next phase’s roadmap. Required experience
• Deep IBM z/OS application engineering background: COBOL, JCL, CICS, Db2,



with working knowledge of MQ and VSAM
• Mainframe build, deploy and release lifecycle, ideally including Endevor
• Batch processing, scheduling and performance analysis
• Mainframe test environments and test data management
• Practical experience applying CI/CD and DevOps to mainframe
• Experience working across mainframe and digital/cloud engineering teams Desirable
• Git-based mainframe development (Endevor Bridge for Git, IBM Dependency Based Build)
• IBM Wazi / Wazi Deploy, zUnit / Test Accelerator for Z, ZD&T;
• IBM Z Virtual Test Platform or other mainframe service virtualisation
• BMC AMI or IBM Optim for test data; Strobe/APA for performance profiling
• Financial services or banking experience The person we’re looking for
• A former hands-on mainframe engineer who has moved into an architecture or lead role.
• Has enough technical depth to work directly with engineers, and can also present clearly to senior stakeholders.
• Applies contemporary engineering practices to the mainframe in a practical way rather than defaulting to "move off the mainframe." Can turn technical observations into a target state, a roadmap and a PoV that can actually be delivered

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