{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"74f1175b20929b49a06f5cd7","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/74f1175b20929b49a06f5cd7","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/74f1175b20929b49a06f5cd7","title":"Senior Application Modernization & Migration Architect","description":"ECS is seeking a Senior Application Modernization & Migration Architect to work remotely.\nThe Senior Application Modernization & Migration Engineer leads enterprise initiatives to transform legacy COBOL, PL/I, CICS, DB2, IMS, VSAM, and JCL-based applications to modern distributed or cloud-ready platforms -based mainframe applications into modern, cloud-native or cloud-enabled solutions using AI where applicable. This role combines expertise in legacy technologies, cloud engineering, AI-assisted software development, and automation to accelerate modernization while reducing risk, cost, and delivery timelines.\nThe role serves both strategic leadership and hands-on technical guidance throughout all phases of modernization, partnering with enterprise architects, engineering teams, cloud platform teams, mainframe application owners, DevSecOps, Testing teams, and business stakeholders to deliver end-to-end migration strategies that reduce technical debt, improve agility, and ensure business continuity.\nCore Responsibilities\nModernization Strategy & Technical Leadership:\nLead end-to-end application modernization and cloud migration initiatives.\nAssess legacy application portfolios, dependencies, and infrastructure to define target-state architectures.\nLeverage AI and automation to accelerate code analysis, dependency discovery, code transformation, documentation, testing, and migration activities.\nDefine and drive migration strategies (e.g., rehost, replatform, refactor, rearchitect, replace).\nDesign cloud-native and on-prem, cloud-ready solutions using microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, containers, and serverless technologies.\nBuild and implement automated CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and testing frameworks to support modernization efforts.\nModernize batch processing, transaction processing, and data integration while ensuring business continuity and ensuring optimization of application performance.\nCollaborate with architects, developers, business stakeholders, and infrastructure teams to deliver modernization programs.\nEstablish and align engineering standards, governance, and best practices for AI-enabled software development and cloud migration with customer-mandated architecture standards and governance guidelines.\nMentor engineering teams and provide technical leadership throughout the modernization lifecycle.\nDevelop comprehensive migration planning to include dependency mapping, cutover strategies, and rollback procedures\nApplication & Architecture Transformation:\nAnalyze COBOL and other mainframe application-based applications, batch workloads, and business logic.\nDesign modern architectures using cloud-native services, APIs, microservices, and event-driven patterns.\nDecompose monolithic systems into modular, scalable components.\nIdentify and eliminate technical debt while improving maintainability and extensibility.\nArchitect design to ensure application and system performance, including load testing, capacity planning, and optimization of user-response time for extremely large data sets.\nLead technical assessments of: COBOL applications, PL/I applications, CICS transactions, Batch processing, JCL, DB2 databases, IMS databases, VSAM files, MQ messaging\nCloud Engineering & Platform Enablement:\nSupport the design and implementation of secure, scalable cloud-based solutions.\nCollaborate with platform teams on infrastructure, networking, identity, security, and observability.\nEnable containerization, orchestration, and serverless architectures where appropriate.\nBuild and maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code automation.\nDevelop cloud-ready on-prem solutions that require minimal re-design utilizing cloud-compatible and cloud-agnostic architecture principles.\nData Modernization & Migration:\nLead migration of legacy databases and file-based systems to modern data platforms.\nEnsure data integrity through validation, reconciliation, and quality controls.\nDevelop automated data migration, transformation, and conversion processes.\nIntegration Modernization:\nDesign APIs and integration layers to connect modern and legacy systems during transition phases.\nTransform batch processes into event-driven or service-based workflows.\nSupport enterprise messaging and integration frameworks.\nQuality Engineering & Validation:\nDefine testing strategies across functional, integration, regression, performance, and UAT phases.\nValidate application behavior, performance, and stability post-migration.\nTroubleshoot and resolve migration-related defects and performance issues.\nGovernance, Risk & Documentation:\nIdentify technical and operational risks and define mitigation strategies.\nEnsure compliance with enterprise architecture, security, and governance standards.\nProduce migration runbooks, architecture documentation, and operational procedures.\nSalary Range: $240,000 - 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This role combines expertise in legacy technologies, cloud engineering, AI-assisted software development, and automation to accelerate modernization while reducing risk, cost, and delivery timelines.\nThe role serves both strategic leadership and hands-on technical guidance throughout all phases of modernization, partnering with enterprise architects, engineering teams, cloud platform teams, mainframe application owners, DevSecOps, Testing teams, and business stakeholders to deliver end-to-end migration strategies that reduce technical debt, improve agility, and ensure business continuity.\nCore Responsibilities\nModernization Strategy & Technical Leadership:\nLead end-to-end application modernization and cloud migration initiatives.\nAssess legacy application portfolios, dependencies, and infrastructure to define target-state architectures.\nLeverage AI and automation to accelerate code analysis, dependency discovery, code transformation, documentation, testing, and migration activities.\nDefine and drive migration strategies (e.g., rehost, replatform, refactor, rearchitect, replace).\nDesign cloud-native and on-prem, cloud-ready solutions using microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, containers, and serverless technologies.\nBuild and implement automated CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and testing frameworks to support modernization efforts.\nModernize batch processing, transaction processing, and data integration while ensuring business continuity and ensuring optimization of application performance.\nCollaborate with architects, developers, business stakeholders, and infrastructure teams to deliver modernization programs.\nEstablish and align engineering standards, governance, and best practices for AI-enabled software development and cloud migration with customer-mandated architecture standards and governance guidelines.\nMentor engineering teams and provide technical leadership throughout the modernization lifecycle.\nDevelop comprehensive migration planning to include dependency mapping, cutover strategies, and rollback procedures\nApplication & Architecture Transformation:\nAnalyze COBOL and other mainframe application-based applications, batch workloads, and business logic.\nDesign modern architectures using cloud-native services, APIs, microservices, and event-driven patterns.\nDecompose monolithic systems into modular, scalable components.\nIdentify and eliminate technical debt while improving maintainability and extensibility.\nArchitect design to ensure application and system performance, including load testing, capacity planning, and optimization of user-response time for extremely large data sets.\nLead technical assessments of: COBOL applications, PL/I applications, CICS transactions, Batch processing, JCL, DB2 databases, IMS databases, VSAM files, MQ messaging\nCloud Engineering & Platform Enablement:\nSupport the design and implementation of secure, scalable cloud-based solutions.\nCollaborate with platform teams on infrastructure, networking, identity, security, and observability.\nEnable containerization, orchestration, and serverless architectures where appropriate.\nBuild and maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code automation.\nDevelop cloud-ready on-prem solutions that require minimal re-design utilizing cloud-compatible and cloud-agnostic architecture principles.\nData Modernization & Migration:\nLead migration of legacy databases and file-based systems to modern data platforms.\nEnsure data integrity through validation, reconciliation, and quality controls.\nDevelop automated data migration, transformation, and conversion processes.\nIntegration Modernization:\nDesign APIs and integration layers to connect modern and legacy systems during transition phases.\nTransform batch processes into event-driven or service-based workflows.\nSupport enterprise messaging and integration frameworks.\nQuality Engineering & Validation:\nDefine testing strategies across functional, integration, regression, performance, and UAT phases.\nValidate application behavior, performance, and stability post-migration.\nTroubleshoot and resolve migration-related defects and performance issues.\nGovernance, Risk & Documentation:\nIdentify technical and operational risks and define mitigation strategies.\nEnsure compliance with enterprise architecture, security, and governance standards.\nProduce migration runbooks, architecture documentation, and operational procedures.\nSalary Range: $240,000 - 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