Educational requirements: Bachelor
English requirements: Competent English
Requirements for skilled employment experience for years: 3-5 years
Required residence status: Temporary visa, Permanent resident, Citizen
Accept remote work: unacceptable
The AMC Senior Solution Architect will be responsible for:
Gathering, assessing, and identifying customer needs, both business and technical. Whilst also identifying site-specific and corporate parameters and constraints that impact the solution and any other likely challenges that will require attention Investigating and optimizing the solution’s fit to the requirements of an opportunity, both current and future, and adapting the solution design to new requirements Architecting an appropriate technical solution to meet the customer’s business requirements and account team strategy including generating an implementation plan with timelines for the solution and creating appropriate test plans as required Helping Customer and Systems Integrators to design scalable, high availability application solutions built on the Micro Focus solution Working as a technical leader alongside customer business, development, and infrastructure teams. Create proof of concept technology analysis and pilots. Conduct customer presentations and internal presentations/trainings to peer groups. Enable and align consulting partners with Micro Focus mainframe modernization approach and methodology. Provide the architectural guidance and recommendations necessary to promote successful Customer engagements worldwide. Actively supporting the account team with solution advice, proposals, presentations, and other customer communications, also providing support to presales peers via mentoring and playing leadership roles in peer education programs Technical content composition and delivery: blogs, whitepapers, technical presentations at major conferences. Education and Experience:
Advanced Technical Degree in Computer Science or related field At least 5 – 10 (depending on role) years of experience leading customers with mainframe and legacy modernization initiatives. Skills and Knowledge Required:
Experience leading customers with mainframe and legacy modernization initiatives. Knowledge of major Cloud Provider infrastructure and technologies, such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Cloud Foundry, Docker / Kubernetes Experience with analyzing on-premises mainframe environment applications and process to formulate plans for modernizing workloads that achieve Customer’s desired business outcomes. Relevant Business and IT Architecture Certifications such as, AWS Solution Architect Professional, GCP Professional Cloud Architect, Microsoft AZURE Solution Architect, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) etc. Knowledge of one of more of the Micro Focus AMC products
Fluent in written and verbal English. Ability and interest in travel to our customers around APJ, as needed. Technical Experience in at least one of these areas: Infrastructure Modernization
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 application code across platforms. Hands-on technical experience with mainframe, non-x86 legacy systems and with technologies such as COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2 for z/OS, Assembler, PL/I, Rexx, flat/sequential files, GDGs, and VSAM. Must have an analytical mind set to analyze test result and facilitate defect resolution
Experience design/architecting distributed and Cloud environments (target environments) – including OpenShift, Kubernetes, and Containers Application Modernization
Strong analysis skills with solid concepts in Architecture and Design. Should have joined projects to refactor complex business applications Knowledge of Cloud Computing, Containers, Microservices, and Serverless technology. Experience with Business Rules-extraction from COBOL/PL1 Experience architecting high availability, resilient, fault tolerant systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal/vertical scaling Knowledge of Webservices, Microservices, APIs and exposing Application components to alternate platforms Process Modernization
Complete understanding of software development lifecycle including DevOps Toolchain.
Experience configuring automation pipelines in GitHub, Azure DevOps, Google DevOps, AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins, or similar tools Familiarity with agile engineering practices like Test Automation, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), DevOps, and Test Data Management, etc. Experience with implementing and operating DevOps and Agile tools/platforms across some part of the development lifecycle Job:
