[Hiring] Mainframe Modernization Architect @DMS Vision

Role Description

Senior Leader with Telecom OSS infrastructure experience, including leadership of large, cross-functional modernization programs.

• Deep technical expertise in TIRKS circuit provisioning lifecycles.
• Strong IBM Mainframe skills (z/OS, JCL, IMS, VSAM, CICS).
• Hands-on modern architecture experience (APIs, microservices, AWS/Azure).
• Master of SQL, data modeling, and enterprise ETL migration tools.
• Proven mainframe modernization experience — led or architected at least one large-scale legacy modernization program using a tiered disposition model (retire, re-host, replatform, AI-assisted refactor, replace-with-COTS).
• Familiarity with real-time API enablement patterns (z/OS Connect, CICS Transaction Gateway, MQ-based request/reply) and data replication / CDC approaches (e.g., Debezium, Db2) is strongly preferred.
• Applied Gen-AI tooling for modernization — hands-on experience using generative AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Amazon Q Developer / CodeWhisperer, Claude, or equivalent) for legacy code comprehension, COBOL/JCL analysis and autodocumentation, test-case generation, and AI-assisted refactoring.
• Must be able to define where AI accelerates delivery and where human-in-the-loop (HITL) review and validation are mandatory.

Qualifications

• Telecom OSS Infrastructure - Mandatory Skill Level: 3
• Strong IBM Mainframe - Mandatory Skill Level: 3
• Modern architecture experience - Mandatory Skill Level: 4
• Mainframe modernization – API enablement patterns (z/OS Connect, CICS Transaction Gateway, MQ) - Mandatory Skill Level: 3
• TIRKS and adjacent modules such as SWITCH, FACS, WFA, and SOAC - Mandatory Skill Level: 3
• Telcordia interfaces - Mandatory Skill Level: 3
• Gen AI (AWS Sagemaker, Azure ML, Azure Data Factory, GCP AI Platform, Git, Docker, CI/CD)

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