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Migration Architect - Mainframe to GCP

United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 29 Jun 2026

💰 $207,401/yr($88,544/yr – $207,401/yr)

About the role

Choosing Capgemini means choosing a company where you will be empowered to shape your career in the way you’d like, where you’ll be supported and inspired by a collaborative community of colleagues around the world, and where you’ll be able to reimagine what’s possible. Join us and help the world’s leading organizations unlock the value of technology and build a more sustainable, more inclusive world.

Location

Hybrid in Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, NY, Nashville

Your role

Role Overview

Senior technical and strategic role responsible for leading large-scale mainframe modernization and cloud migration initiatives on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Requires deep expertise in both legacy mainframe technologies and modern cloud architectures.

Key Responsibilities

Lead enterprise-scale mainframe modernization and migration programs to GCP
Advise executive stakeholders (VPs, steering committees) on cloud transformation strategies and roadmaps
Assess and modernize legacy systems built on:
- COBOL, PL/I
- CICS, IMS
- DB2, VSAM
- JCL, batch workloads
Design migration strategies:
- Re-host (Lift & Shift)
- Re-platform
- Re-factor
Architect GCP Dual Run solutions for parallel testing, validation, and risk-free cutovers
Design event-driven integrations using:
- Pub/Sub
- APIs
- BigQuery
- Cloud Storage
- GKE
Develop end-to-end GCP architecture including:
- Applications
- Data
- Networking
- Security
- Governance
- Disaster Recovery
Define data migration strategies, including:
- Change Data Capture (CDC)
- Reconciliation and rollback
- Performance optimization
Drive automation, DevOps, CI/CD, and Agentic AI adoption
Support production cutovers, troubleshooting, and post-migration stabilization

Required Skills

Mainframe modernization expertise
GCP architecture and services
Cloud migration strategies (re-host, re-platform, re-factor)
Event-driven and hybrid architectures
Security, IAM, compliance, and governance
DevOps, CI/CD, and automation

Experience

12+ years in enterprise application/platform architecture
6+ years in mainframe modernization or legacy transformation
Proven experience leading enterprise-scale mainframe-to-cloud migration programs

Ideal Candidate

A highly experienced architect with deep expertise in mainframe systems, GCP, cloud migration, and automation, capable of leading end-to-end modernization programs—from strategy and design to production deployment and stabilization—while effectively managing senior stakeholders.

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The base compensation range for this role in the posted location is $ 88,544 to $207,401

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