Intellect Design Arena Ltd
Website:
intellectdesign.com
Company:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/intellect_design_arena
Industries: Software Development, Financial Services, and IT Services and IT Consulting
Job details:
Role-Principal Architect – AI Mainframe Modernization
Grade-SVP/VP
Location-Navalur-Chennai-WFO
Role Purpose
Drive AI-led modernization of mission-critical IBM Z applications by combining deep
mainframe expertise, Generative AI, and cloud-native engineering. Lead the transformation
of legacy banking platforms into scalable, modular, AI-enabled products with accelerated
delivery and measurable business outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
Own end-to-end modernization strategy—from assessment and reverse engineering to
cloud migration and production stabilization.
Architect migration of COBOL, PL/I, CICS, IMS, DB2, VSAM and JCL workloads into
Java/.NET microservices and cloud-native platforms.
Leverage GenAI (GitHub Copilot, Amazon Q, Claude, Cursor and private LLMs) for code
analysis, refactoring, testing and documentation.
Design AI-first SDLC, developer productivity accelerators, observability and AIOps
capabilities.
Build cloud-native solutions on AWS/OpenShift using containers, APIs, CI/CD and
DevSecOps.
Lead modernization of high-volume banking systems across Core Banking, Payments,
Cards, Loans, Deposits, AML and Fraud.
Provide architecture governance, technical leadership and strategic customer advisory.
Core Expertise
IBM Z • COBOL • PL/I • HLASM • CICS • IMS • DB2 • VSAM • JCL • REXX • AWS • OpenShift •
Java • .NET • Aurora PostgreSQL • Git • Jenkins • Ansible • Zowe • AppDynamics •
Dynatrace • Splunk • Grafana • Prometheus • ServiceNow • GenAI • Agentic AI • RAG
Ideal Profile
20+ years of enterprise mainframe engineering and modernization.
Proven success delivering AI-assisted Mainframe-to-Cloud transformations.
Strong product architecture mindset with expertise in platform engineering and cloud-
native design.
Thought leader capable of defining modernization strategy and mentoring engineering
teams.
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