Lead Mainframe Consultant - Application Modernization & Connectivity (AMC)

OPENTEXT - THE INFORMATION COMPANY

As the Information Company, our mission at OpenText is to create software solutions and deliver services that redefine the future of digital. Be part of a winning team that leads the way in Enterprise Information Management. 

The Opportunity:

An OpenText Professional Services Senior Consultant is responsible for the technical delivery of the Application Modernization & Connectivity (AMC) Enterprise solution that allows customers to move their business critical application workloads to a hybrid cloud infra-structure.

Working within a team you will be providing the technical consulting and guidance to deploy the Enterprise Solution as part of a mainframe modernization project with a heavy emphasis on delivering successful outcomes for our customers.

What You are great at: 

• Delivering on complex project work items within a customer and delivery part team with minimal direction from a technical lead
• Contributing to the design and deployment of OpenText AMC Enterprise products
• Supporting a Solutions Architect in the implementation of new customer specific solutions
• Running technical proof of concept / proof of value exercises and pilots.
• Deliver external and internal technical presentations and cross training to peer groups
• Use and contribute to technical forums and best practice initiatives within the OpenText environment and technical user communities
• Working independent to apply your subject matter knowledge to solve a variety of common technical issues
• Work collaboratively as part of the OpenText services team and to support delivery partners and the customer to ensure successful project outcomes

What it takes to excel:

• Experience working with the following mainframe technologies

• COBOL and/or PLI programming
• System or application level experience with IBM CICS, IMS and JCL Subsystems
• IBM Db2 for z, IMS DB or mainframe format data files (VSAM/QSAM)

• Experience working with the following distributed technologies

• Relational databases such as IBM Db2 LUW, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL or Oracle
• Windows, Linux, Unix operating systems
• Knowledge of Cloud infrastructure and services from AWS, Azure and GCP
• Docker / Kubernetes and or OpenShift platforms

• Exposure to tools and methodologies used to migrate mainframe workloads via hardware/middleware emulation, automated code conversion, and re-platforming.
• Familiarity with development lifecycles including agile engineering practices like Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD and automated pipelines using GitHub, Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins or similar tools
• Ability to use own initiative to resolve problems and to obtain relevant information needed to perform a given task
• Good problem solving and Trouble-shooting skills

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