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Russell Tobin

Mainframe Architect

Russell Tobin, Trenton, New Jersey, United States

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Position- Mainframe Architect Location: New Jersey, NJ Onsite

Rate: $60/hr

Qualifications

Experience in application development in legacy technologies like COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, Easytrieve, IDEALDatacom, RPG, ASM, MQ (at least some of the technologies, if not all)

Responsibilities

Conduct discovery and assessment of existing mainframe workloads (COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, IMS, CICS).

Define modernization strategies: Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Retire, Replace.

Develop migration roadmaps, risk mitigation, and rollback plans.

Design target‑state architecture for rehosted applications on cloud or distributed platforms.

Ensure compliance with security, performance, high availability, and disaster recovery requirements.

Create detailed blueprints for migration patterns and integration with modern systems.

Design ETL processes for migrating mainframe data Datacom to SQL Server.

Ensure data integrity and minimal downtime during migration.

Act as SME for modernization initiatives.

Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineering teams.

Communicate architecture and strategy to stakeholders and executives.

Participate in code migration and data transformation efforts as part of rehosting.

Collaborate with architects and cloud teams to support GCP‑based modernization.

Support batch job execution, console monitoring, and production control.

Understanding of interfacing systems, ongoing projects.

Provide critical inputs to the migration teams and guidance during the course of migration.

Seniority level Mid‑Senior level

Employment type Contract

Job function Design

Medical insurance, Vision insurance, 401(k)

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