Enterprise Mainframe Architect
Apply NowCompany: Publicis Groupe Holdings B.V
Location: New York, NY 10025
Description:
Company description
Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients' businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.
Overview
We are looking for a highly experienced Enterprise Architect with deep expertise in large-scale Mainframe Systems to lead strategic modernization and migration efforts for our enterprise clients. This role requires hands-on knowledge of complex legacy environments with millions of lines of COBOL code, and the ability to architect future-ready platforms using modern cloud-native paradigms.
As a key thought leader, you will drive technical vision, architecture design, and transformation roadmaps that ensure scalable, secure, and future-proof migration from mainframes to modern platforms.
Responsibilities
Your Impact:
Your Skills & Experience:
Qualifications
Additional information
Benefits of Working Here
Pay Range: $160,000 - $265,000
The range shown represents a grouping of relevant ranges currently in use at Publicis Sapient. Actual range for this position may differ, depending on location and specific skillset required for the work itself.
As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at hiring@publicissapient.com or you may call us at +1-617-621-0200.
Your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines
Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients' businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.
Overview
We are looking for a highly experienced Enterprise Architect with deep expertise in large-scale Mainframe Systems to lead strategic modernization and migration efforts for our enterprise clients. This role requires hands-on knowledge of complex legacy environments with millions of lines of COBOL code, and the ability to architect future-ready platforms using modern cloud-native paradigms.
As a key thought leader, you will drive technical vision, architecture design, and transformation roadmaps that ensure scalable, secure, and future-proof migration from mainframes to modern platforms.
Responsibilities
Your Impact:
- Serve as the architecture lead for large-scale mainframe modernization and migration initiatives across multiple client engagements.
- Analyze complex legacy systems (COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, IMS) to define migration strategies: rehost, refactor, rearchitect, or rebuild.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, engineering leads, infrastructure teams, and vendors to align modernization efforts with business goals.
- Identify and mitigate risks, performance bottlenecks, or architectural gaps during assessment and implementation.
- Provide architectural leadership across workstreams, including application, data, integration, and infrastructure.
- Lead architectural reviews, technical assessments, and workshops with client stakeholders.
- Act as a subject matter expert for mainframe tools (e.g., File-Aid, DMLO, ChangeMan, BETA92, AVISO) and database technologies (IDMS, DB2).
Your Skills & Experience:
- Experience in enterprise architecture with strong expertise in mainframe platforms (IBM z/OS, COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2).
- Proven experience leading the modernization of large-scale mainframe systems with millions of lines of legacy code.
- Deep knowledge of migration patterns, mainframe assessment methodologies, and target architecture modeling.
- Experience in re-architecting batch jobs, transactional systems, and integration layers.
- Hands-on exposure to modernization toolsets like Micro Focus, Raincode, IBM z/OS Connect, or similar platforms..
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; advanced degree or TOGAF certification is a plus.
Qualifications
- Prior experience as lead architect in multi-year mainframe migration programs across banking, insurance, healthcare, or public sector domains.
- Strong grasp of enterprise integration (APIs, messaging, ESBs), DevOps practices, and cloud reference architectures.
- Strong understanding of distributed/cloud-native systems (Azure, AWS, or GCP), modern app stacks (Java/Spring, .NET, containers, Kubernetes).
- Familiarity with data modernization and mainframe data store migration strategies.
Additional information
Benefits of Working Here
- Flexible vacation policy; time is not limited, allocated, or accrued
- 16 paid holidays throughout the year
- Generous parental leave and new parent transition program
- Tuition reimbursement
- Corporate gift matching program
Pay Range: $160,000 - $265,000
The range shown represents a grouping of relevant ranges currently in use at Publicis Sapient. Actual range for this position may differ, depending on location and specific skillset required for the work itself.
As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at hiring@publicissapient.com or you may call us at +1-617-621-0200.
Your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines