Mainframe Modernization Specialist

What awaits you/ Job Profile

- Drive innovation in BMWs Mainframe Transformation journey by working alongside a talented team of mainframe and cloud experts to modernize legacy systems, accelerate cloud adoption, and deliver business-critical applications for the future.

- Collaborate effectively with global business stakeholders, architects, cloud engineers, and modernization teams across multiple geographies to ensure successful transformation outcomes.

- Actively participates in AWS transform refactoring cycles- Reviewing generated Java artifacts, identifying transformation gaps and raising findings to AWS transform team.

- Contributes to UAT and regression testing, validating functional parity between legacy mainframe outputs and modernised AWS platform results.

- Contributes to continuous improvement of AWS Transform pipeline by identifying,documenting and sharing technical observations with the AWS support and Engineering teams in a strcutured and constructive manner .

What should you bring along

Must Have

- 10-13 years of hands-on experience as a Mainframe professional with the ability to analyze and reverse-engineer mainframe application architectures, batch workflows, data lineage, database dependencies, interfaces, and external integrations to support accurate transformation planning and execution

- Capability to address systemic data translation challenges and attention to detail in validation activities - packed decimal transformation and Db2 constraint mapping.

- Identify opportunities to apply AI-driven automation across analysis, refactoring, migration, testing, validation, and documentation activities to improve transformation velocity, quality, and operational efficiency.

- Strong grounding in Agile methodologies and full SDLC cycle

Must have technical skill

- Expert level proficiency in COBOL, JCL, DB2, PL/I.

- Demonstrate deep expertise hands on experience in VSAM, CICS,IMS DB, IMS DC

- Hands on experience in one or both of the workload schedulers - Control-M ,IBM Z Workload Scheduler

- Hands on experience working on heterogenous database migrations from Mainframe Db2/ZOS to PostgreSQL.

- Exposure to AWS Transform or automated code transformation frameworks.

- Knowledge of AWS (cloud practitioner level)

- Experience working with both traditional mainframe source management tools (Endevor, Changeman) and modern Git-based repositories.

Good to have technical skills

- Certification in Blu age (L1or L2)

- Experience with Generative AI-assisted modernization tools

- Leverage GitHub Copilot and AI-assisted development practices to accelerate legacy code analysis, improve understanding of complex COBOL business logic, and enhance productivity across modernization initiatives.