Associate Vice President

• Job Title: Modernization Solutions Principal Architect (1 position)
• Job Titles: Modernization Solutions Architect (3 positions)
  
  

About Mphasis

At Mphasis, Engineering has been in our DNA since inception. Mphasis is a Hi - Tech, Hi -

Touch, Hi - Trust company, rooted in a learning and growth culture.

Mphasis is an AI - led, platform - driven company with human - in - the - loop intelligence,

helping global enterprises modernize, infuse AI, and scale with agility. The Mphasis.ai unit

and Mphasis AI - powered Tribes are focused on client outcomes and embed artificial

intelligence and autonomy into every layer of the enterprise technology and process stack.

Role Overview

The Modernization Solutions Architect is a senior member of the Solutions team within

the Modernization Tribe. This role focuses on enabling global enterprises to transform

legacy applications and databases into modern, cloud - native architectures. You will design

and deliver advanced solution s that modernize mainframe, midrange, and distributed

systems for a broad range of industry use cases.

In this high impact role as an experienced modernization architect, you will assist our

clients in architecting, developing and re - engineering applications and database systems

that can fully leverage the cloud. You will work on a variety of solutioning pr ojects at the

forefront of application development and cloud technology adoption.

• Extensive knowledge in IBM z mainframe, IBM i midrange and distributed
  
  

applications / database modernization techniques and related tools and

approaches;

• Designing architectures which meet or exceed the requirements of workloads
  
  

coming from mainframe and legacy infrastructures;

• Helping our clients architect scalable, highly available application solutions that
  
  

leverage cloud platform services;

• Working as an astute technical leader alongside our client’s business, development
  
  

and infrastructure teams;

• Advising and implementing best practices to move to target states on major cloud
  
  

platforms

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and deliver modernization solutions leveraging latest tools and
  
  

Platforms , Including

• Mphasis Neo Platforms for Modernization
• AWS Mainframe Modernization Service , AWS Transform , and IBM Watson
  
  

Code Assistant for z for automated code analysis, refactoring, and

migration.

• Agentic AI - driven modernization accelerators for intelligent code
  
  

conversion, dependency mapping, and automated testing.

• Independent Software Vendor partner technologies for modernization
• Design architectures incorporating:
• Mainframe ‘In - place modernization and optimization’ , and Mainframe
  
  

‘Exit - to - Cloud’

• Event - driven architectures (AWS EventBridge, Apache Kafka, IBM MQ) for
• Strangler Fig patterns for incremental modernization without disrupting
  
  

business operations.

• Domain - driven design , microservices , and API - first strategies for
  
  

scalability and resilience.

• Enable UI/UX modernization using Angular , React , and other front - end
  
  

frameworks.

• Implement modernization approaches using Java , .NET , and modern frameworks
  
  

(Spring Boot, .NET Core).

• Integrate DevSecOps pipelines , CI/CD automation , and container orchestration
  
  

(Kubernetes, OpenShift).

• Advise on best practices for re - factoring, re - platforming, remediation and re -
  
  

hosting legacy applications using modern frameworks and containerization.

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands - on technical experience with mainframe systems and
  
  

technologies such as COBOL, JCL, Assembler, PL/I, RPG, Rexx, CICS, DB2, IMS DB,

IMS DC, VSAM, Adabas/Natural

• Experience on distributed client - server architecture systems, with proficiency in
  
  

technologies such as Java , .NET , and experience with modern front - end

frameworks such as Angular, React, Vue.

• Knowledge of cloud migration and modernization approaches and patterns on
  
  

various hyperscaler platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure,

Google Cloud Platform, VMWare Tanzu, IBM OpenShift, Oracle Cloud.

• 15+ years designing architectures for mission - critical, large - scale transaction
  
  

processing and batch applications on IBM z / IBM i systems.

• Experience with AI - assisted code relearning and conversion tools , automated
  
  

modernization frameworks , and agentic AI orchestration .

• Familiarity with AWS Mainframe Modernization tools , AWS Transform , IBM
  
  

Watson Code Assistant for z and similar hyperscaler offerings.

• Knowledge of event - driven architectures , Strangler Fig patterns , and agentic AI -
  
  

based modernization approaches .

• Hands - on experience with containerization and orchestration platforms
  
  

(Kubernetes, OpenShift).

• Familiarity with modern application frameworks (Spring Boot, Angular, React,
  
  

Vue).

• Experience implementing event - driven microservices , API gateways , and
  
  

serverless architectures .

• Strong understanding of modernization patterns such as Strangler Fig , Domain -