Migration Architect (Mainframe to GCP)
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. This role is an experienced professional with a strong background in software development. The Capgemini team offers extensive career opportunities and provides mentoring and coaching for teammates.
Requirements
- 12+ years in enterprise application/platform architecture.
- 6+ years of hands-on experience in mainframe modernization or legacy transformation programs.
- Proven experience leading large-scale mainframe-to-cloud migration initiatives.
- Deep expertise in: Mainframe technologies (z/OS, COBOL, PL/I, JCL), CICS, IMS, batch processingDB2 and VSAM
- Enterprise integration and cloud migration strategies
- Strong knowledge of GCP architecture, security, automation, and modernization patterns.
- Experienced architect who combines mainframe expertise, cloud architecture knowledge, modernization strategy, and hands-on migration execution skills to successfully transform legacy enterprise systems into scalable GCP-based solutions.
Responsibilities
- Lead enterprise mainframe modernization programs and define target-state cloud architectures.
- Design scalable, resilient, and secure hybrid/cloud-native platforms integrating mainframe systems with GCP services.
- Drive application modernization for technologies such as z/OS, COBOL, PL/I, JCL, CICS, IMS, DB2, and VSAM.
- Architect dual-run/parallel testing solutions to validate migrated workloads, ensuring data consistency, transaction parity, and smooth cutover/rollback.
- Design event-driven integration using APIs, messaging, and streaming technologies.
- Build hybrid connectivity between legacy mainframes and cloud-native applications.
- Implement DevOps, CI/CD, automation, monitoring, and platform engineering best practices.
- Design data pipelines using Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, and GKE for validation, analytics, and telemetry.
- Define GCP landing zones, security architectures, IAM models, networking, governance, HA/DR, and compliance frameworks.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Retirement savings plans (e.g., 401(k) in the U.S., RRSP in Canada)
- Life and disability insurance
- Employee assistance programs
- Vacation: 12-25 days, depending on grade
- Company paid holidays
- Personal Days
- Sick Leave
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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