Mainframe to Cloud Transformation Architect

Job Description

DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) helps global companies run their mission-critical systems and operations 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 deploy services across the Enterprise Technology Stack to drive new levels of performance, competitiveness, and customer experience. Learn more at  At DXC, we deliver mission-critical IT services to modernize operations and drive innovation across the entire IT estate, providing services across the Enterprise Technology Stack for business process outsourcing, insurance, analytics and engineering, applications, security, cloud, IT outsourcing, and modern workplace solutions.

Our DXC Insurance Services help customers optimize and transform operations, lower costs, and accelerate new digital channels to growth. Our people, technology, and best practices improve and automate highly complex middle- and back-office business processes while enabling customer experience transformation.

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Mainframe Application Transformation Engineer to support large-scale modernization of legacy mainframe workloads to AWS cloud platforms
. This role is responsible for analyzing existing mainframe applications, defining modernization strategies, and executing migrations using approaches such as re-host, re-platform, re-engineer, or full re-architecture into AWS-native services. The ideal candidate brings deep mainframe expertise combined with hands-on cloud modernization experience and is preferably familiar with DXC insurance and financial services platforms such as wmA, Vantage, Cyber Life
, or similar systems.

• Analyze existing mainframe applications, batch jobs, databases, and integrations to assess modernization feasibility and risks.
• Design and execute mainframe-to-AWS transformation strategies, including re-hosting, re-platforming, re-engineering, or full cloud re-architecture.
• Modernize COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, IMS, VSAM workloads into cloud-based or cloud-integrated architectures.
• Design AWS-based replacement architectures using compute, storage, database, messaging, and integration services.
• Support modernization of DXC insurance platforms (e.g., wmA, Vantage, Cyber Life) or equivalent industry systems.
• Lead data modernization efforts, including schema conversion, data migration, validation, and cutover planning.
• Integrate legacy systems with modern cloud platforms using APIs, messaging, file transfer, and event-driven patterns.
• Collaborate with architects, delivery teams, and business stakeholders to align modernization outcomes with business objectives.
• Ensure solutions meet security, compliance, resiliency, and performance standards.
• Support testing, production cutover, and post-migration stabilization activities.

Mainframe Technologies

• COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, IMS, VSAM
• Batch processing, job scheduling, performance tuning

Cloud & Modernization

• AWS services (EC2, EKS/ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS/Aurora, IAM, VPC, Cloud Watch)
• Mainframe modernization patterns: re-host, re-platform, re-engineer, re-architect
• Familiarity with Micro Focus, AWS Mainframe Modernization, or equivalent tooling.

Data & Integration

• Data migration and transformation strategies
• API-based integration, messaging, file-based transfers
• Event-driven architectures (Kafka, MSK, SNS/SQS preferred)

Automation & Dev Ops

• CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Git Hub/Git Lab)
• Scripting (Shell, Python)
• Infrastructure as Code concepts (Terraform preferred)

Domain Experience (Preferred)

• Insurance or Financial Services
• Familiarity with DXC platforms such as wmA, Vantage, Cyber Life, or similar systems

• Plano, TX
• Farmington Hills, MI
• Nashville, TN
• New York, NY
• New Orleans, LA
• Ashburn, VA
• Bellevue, WA
• Tulsa, OK
• Charleston, SC

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