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JCL Mainframe Migration Engineer
New Era TechnologyJCL Mainframe Migration Engineer analyzing and migrating legacy mainframe workloads to modern platforms. Collaborating with teams to ensure successful transitions under operational excellence standards.
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAzureCloud.NETSQL
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Analyze Control-M and/or Atomic schedule on mainframe
- Perform maintenance/troubleshooting/investigation of JCL jobs on mainframe including spool and SMF
- Analyze CICS environment for loaded programs and its configuration
- Work with ISPF, GDG, PSD and MFT for migration investigation
- Support conversion mainframe batch jobs (JCL) to PowerShell scripts for Azure
- Help configure and automate nightly, weekly, and monthly batch jobs in Azure
- Optimize batch job performance (concurrency, multi-threading, thread safety)
- Discover and document business requirements for batch jobs
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to clarify technical and operational expectations
- Develop and maintain PowerShell modules, including code signing and security practices
- Participate in daily standups, sprint planning, and troubleshooting sessions
- Work with cross-functional teams
Requirements
What you’ll need- Expert in Mainframe JCL
- Expert in Mainframe Job scheduler, specially Control-M
- Expert in Mainframe CICS especially familiarity with CA Ideal
- Strong experience with PowerShell scripting and automation in Azure
- Expert mainframe batch job concepts (JCL, GDG, PDS)
- Experience with C#/.NET, SQL Server, and Azure Storage
- Understanding of thread safety, locking mechanisms, and concurrency in scripting
- Experience with migration projects (mainframe to cloud preferred)
- Ability to interpret and convert JCL scripts to PowerShell
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Experience with Agile methodologies and working in cross-functional teams
- Experience with operationalizing batch jobs
Benefits
Comp & perks- Health insurance
- Competitive benefits
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Hard Skills & Tools
Mainframe JCLControl-MCICSPowerShell scriptingAzureC#.NETSQL Serverthread safetyconcurrency
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationproblem-solvingrequirements gatheringAgile methodologies