Remote Mainframe Modernization Architect – Telecom OSS
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Position: REMOTE Mainframe Modernization Architect Telecom OSS
Location: Remote
Duration : 6+ Months
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Job Description:-
- Senior Leader with Telecom OSS infrastructure experience, including leadership of large, cross-functional modernization programs. Deep technical expertise in TIRKS circuit provisioning lifecycles.
- Strong IBM Mainframe skills (z/OS, JCL, IMS, VSAM, CICS).
- Hands-on modern architecture experience (APIs, microservices, AWS/Azure).
- Master of SQL, data modeling, and enterprise ETL migration tools.
- Proven mainframe modernization experience led or architected at least one largescale legacy modernization program using a tiered disposition model (retire, re-host, replatform, AI-assisted refactor, replace-with-COTS).
- Familiarity with real-time API enablement patterns (z/OS Connect, CICS Transaction Gateway, MQ-based request/reply) and data replication / CDC approaches (e.g., Debezium, Db2) is strongly preferred.
- Applied Gen-AI tooling for modernization hands-on experience using generative AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Amazon Q Developer / CodeWhisperer, Claude, or equivalent) for legacy code comprehension, COBOL/JCL analysis and autodocumentation, test-case generation, and AI-assisted refactoring.
- Must be able to define where AI accelerates delivery and where human-in-the-loop (HITL) review and validation are mandatory.
Skills Mandatory Skill Level
- Telecom OSS Infrastructure Yes 3
- Strong IBM Mainframe Yes 3
- Modern architecture experience Yes 4
- mainframe modernization API enablement patterns (z/OS Connect, CICS Transaction Gateway, MQ Yes 3
- TIRKS and adjacent modules such as SWITCH, FACS, WFA, and SOAC Yes 3
- Telcordia interfaces Yes 3
- Gen AI (AWS Sagemaker, Azure ML, Azure Data Factory, GCP AI Platform Git, Docker, CI/CD)
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