Mainframe Modernization Architect & GTM Leader - North America

Capgemini • New York, NY

4d • $160,650 - $201,495 • Onsite

About The Position

Choosing Capgemini means choosing a company where you will be empowered to shape your career in the way you’d like, where you’ll be supported and inspired by a collaborative community of colleagues around the world, and where you’ll be able to reimagine what’s possible. Join us and help the world’s leading organizations unlock the value of technology and build a more sustainable, more inclusive world.

Requirements

• Expertise across IBM Z, z/OS, COBOL, PL/I, Assembler, CICS, IMS, DB2, VSAM, MQ, APIs, cloud-native technologies, containers, Kubernetes/OpenShift, DevSecOps, data platforms, and AI-enabled software engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and solution development for complex Mainframe Modernization opportunities across North America.
• Define modernization strategies and transformation roadmaps based on business objectives, application characteristics, technical constraints, economics, risk, and target-state architecture.
• Design solutions covering modernization patterns such as application optimization, API enablement, DevSecOps transformation, rehosting, replatforming, refactoring, application decomposition, cloud and hybrid-cloud adoption, data modernization, platform transformation, application replacement, and retirement.
• Lead client discovery, assessments, architecture workshops, application portfolio analysis, modernization planning, and target-state design.
• Define approaches for application discovery, dependency analysis, business-rule extraction, reverse engineering, SME knowledge capture, functional decomposition, testing, and functional-equivalence validation.
• Develop solution architectures, delivery models, transformation roadmaps, estimates, business cases, and commercial assumptions for strategic pursuits.
• Provide architecture governance and solution oversight for large-scale modernization programs.
• Own and drive the North America Mainframe Modernization GTM strategy.
• Identify priority markets, industries, clients, workloads, buying centers, and modernization triggers.
• Develop differentiated offerings and propositions around application modernization, infrastructure transformation, hybrid cloud, DevSecOps, data modernization, AI-enabled engineering, software optimization, and application portfolio transformation.
• Create repeatable offerings, assessments, reference architectures, accelerators, modernization factories, and solution plays.
• Partner with sales and account leadership to identify, qualify, shape, and close strategic modernization opportunities.
• Lead executive client discussions, workshops, proposals, RFIs/RFPs, solution presentations, and large-deal pursuits.
• Develop business cases focused on measurable outcomes including cost optimization, agility, resiliency, developer productivity, speed-to-market, and business innovation.
• Support pipeline development, bookings growth, and expansion of strategic client relationships.
• Develop joint solutions and GTM strategies with technology partners including but not limited to IBM, Red Hat, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Broadcom, Rocket Software, OpenText/Micro Focus, and other modernization technology providers.
• Build joint reference architectures, offerings, assessments, campaigns, workshops, demonstrations, and client propositions.
• Evaluate partner technologies and emerging modernization platforms to determine the appropriate fit for different client scenarios.
• Engage products and engineering organizations to influence solution development and technology roadmaps.
• Build repeatable partner-led modernization plays that can scale across the North American market.
• Lead and develop a team of Mainframe Modernization architects and solution leaders.
• Establish reusable architecture patterns, solution standards, estimating models, modernization methodologies, and governance frameworks.
• Mentor architects and technical leaders and establish a strong modernization architecture community.
• Conduct solution reviews and provide architecture assurance for strategic pursuits and delivery.

Benefits

• Paid time off based on employee grade (A-F), defined by policy: Vacation: 12-25 days, depending on grade, Company paid holidays, Personal Days, Sick Leave
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage (or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada)
• Retirement savings plans (e.g., 401(k) in the U.S., RRSP in Canada)
• Life and disability insurance
• Employee assistance programs
• Other benefits as provided by local policy and eligibility

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed