Principal Consultant

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Job Description Summary:

Our Enterprise Suite Professional Services Team are looking for a highly skilled Mainframe Modernization Senior Consultant to provide technical support and/or leadership in the creation and delivery of technology solutions designed to support our Customers’ Digital Transformation.

Rocket Solutions for COBOL, mainframe application delivery and host access offer a comprehensive, proven solution across the three pillars of mainframe modernization – application, process and infrastructure – to achieve unprecedented speed to market, competitive advantage, and operational efficiency.

Job Description

Our Enterprise Suite Professional Services Team are looking for a highly skilled Mainframe Modernization Senior Consultant to provide technical support and/or leadership in the creation and delivery of technology solutions designed to support our Customers’ Digital Transformation .

The ideal candidate will possess deep technical skill and relevant project experience in at least one of the following focus areas:

• Infrastructure modernization projects
• Application modernization projects
• Process modernization projects

The candidate will also be able to deploy fit for purpose workload in a Hybrid Cloud infrastructure, evolve from monolithic application to Cloud-Native API Microservices, and embrace an enterprise-wide DevOps discipline to deliver application faster.

Main Responsibilities:

• Works on complex project scope with minimal direction from the technical lead and with Customer/SI nominated representatives to accomplish assigned tasks.
• Contributes to design for specific deliverables and assists in the deployment of Micro Focus products
• Contribute to implement new solutions under the direction of a Solution Architects
• Create proof of concept / proof of value technology analysis and pilots.
• Conduct external and internal technical presentations/trainings to peer groups.
• Uses and contributes to technical forums within the Micro Focus environment and local professional communities and technical user groups.
• Applies own subject matter knowledge to solve a variety of common technical issues.
• Exercises independent judgment within defined practices and procedures to determine appropriate action
• Participates as part of a team and maintains good relationships with team members and customers.

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Expected Qualification and Soft Skills:

• 3-5 years of relevant technical experience
• Excellent communication / customer service skills / confident telephone manner
• Proactive and able to work under pressure
• Experience in complex IT project implementations, customizations and or maintenance
• Must have an analytical mind set to analyse test result and facilitate defect resolution
• Organized and methodical, dealing with numerous tasks.
• Fluent in written and verbal English.

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Technical skills: 

Technical skills to include two or more of the following:

• IBM Enterprise COBOL or PLI programming experience
• System level experience of IBM CICS;  IMS and JCL
• Relational databases, such as IBM DB2/UDB, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server; PostgreSQL; …
• Windows operating system
• Linux/UNIX operating system
• Knowledge of major Cloud Provider infrastructure and technologies, such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Cloud Foundry, Docker / Kubernetes

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Desired Project Experience:

A practical experience in any mainframe application modernization project is highly desirable. For example:  

• Experience with tools and methodologies used to migrate mainframe workloads via hardware/middleware emulation, automated code conversion, and re-platforming.
• Experience with COBOL modernization and porting a