Mainframe to Cloud Modernization Architect

Job Description

DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) helps global companies run mission-critical systems while modernizing IT, optimizing data architectures, and ensuring security and scalability across public, private, and hybrid clouds. The world’s largest companies and public sector organizations trust DXC to deliver services across the Enterprise Technology Stack to drive performance, competitiveness, and customer experience.

At DXC, we use the power of technology to deliver essential IT services that help customers modernize operations and innovate across their IT landscape. We provide services across cloud, applications, security, analytics, insurance, and IT outsourcing.

DXC Insurance Services supports clients in optimizing and transforming operations, reducing costs, and enabling new digital growth channels through automation and modernization of complex business processes.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Mainframe Modernization Engineer to support the migration of legacy mainframe applications to AWS cloud environments.

This role focuses on contributing to solution design, supporting modernization initiatives, and participating in implementation activities as part of a broader transformation program.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Design Support

• Contribute to the design of target architectures for migrating mainframe applications (COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, etc.) to AWS.
• Support hybrid solutions including rehosting and replatforming approaches.
• Assist in creating technical documentation and reference patterns.

Cloud Migration & Modernization

• Support the selection and implementation of AWS services (e.g., EC2, RDS, S3, EKS, Lambda).
• Participate in application assessment and modernization planning.
• Work with tools for code transformation and migration (e.g., Micro Focus, Blu Age, AWS Mainframe Modernization).

Implementation & Delivery

• Participate in PoCs, migrations, and deployment activities.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to enable CI/CD pipelines.
• Support containerization and cloud-native adoption initiatives.
• Contribute to performance optimization and cost-efficiency efforts.

Collaboration & Continuous Improvement

• Work closely with architects, developers, and cloud engineers.
• Share knowledge within the team and contribute to best practices documentation.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5–8 years of IT experience, with exposure to cloud and modernization projects.
• Solid knowledge of mainframe technologies (COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM).
• Hands-on experience working with AWS services (AWS certification is a plus).
• Experience in at least one modernization approach: rehost, replatform, or refactor.
• Basic understanding of microservices and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS).
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation or Terraform).
• Understanding of cloud security and performance fundamentals.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.