Modernization Architect

luxsoft

8+ Years | Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom (On Site) | Full Time | 1 months ago

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Job Summary

As a Senior Modernization Architect, you'll play a pivotal role in both shaping modernization solutions and supervising delivery execution. You will partner with sales, delivery, and clients to design transformation paths from legacy to modern architectures, integrating GenAI accelerators and helping deliver tangible business value. Responsibilities include collaborating on pre-sales engagements, designing modernization paths from legacy systems to modern stacks, leading effort estimation, tool strategy selection, and transformation approach definition, providing architectural oversight, and participating in tooling evaluations and PoCs.

Must Have

Collaborate on pre-sales engagements: assessments, proposals, orals, and business case creation.
Design modernization paths from legacy systems (COBOL, z/OS, etc.) to modern stacks (Java, MSA, cloud).
Lead effort estimation, tool strategy selection, and transformation approach definition.
Provide architectural oversight during execution to ensure value realization.
Participate in tooling evaluations and PoCs involving GenAI and automation accelerators.

Good to Have

Java
Python
C#

Job Description

Project description

Application Modernization Practice is a horizontal practice, supporting all business verticals in DXC. As a Senior Modernization Architect, you'll play a pivotal role in both shaping modernization solutions and supervising delivery execution. You will partner with sales, delivery, and clients to design transformation paths from legacy to modern architectures, integrating GenAI accelerators and helping deliver tangible business value.

Responsibilities

Collaborate on pre-sales engagements: assessments, proposals, orals, and business case creation.
Design modernization paths from legacy systems (COBOL, z/OS, etc.) to modern stacks (Java, MSA, cloud).
Lead effort estimation, tool strategy selection, and transformation approach definition.
Provide architectural oversight during execution to ensure value realization.
Participate in tooling evaluations and PoCs involving GenAI and automation accelerators.

Skills

Must have

8+ years in enterprise application architecture, with at least 3 years in modernization.
Proven ability to assess legacy estates and define future-state architectures.
Proficiency in mainframe tech (COBOL, DB2, CICS) and modern stacks (Java, Spring, microservices).
Exposure to GenAI use cases in application engineering and code conversion.
Strong client communication, technical documentation, and stakeholder alignment skills.