What are the responsibilities and job description for the Mainframe Modernization – Cloud Architect position at DXC Technology?
Job Description
Job Description
DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) helps global companies run their mission critical systems and operations while modernizing IT, optimizing data architectures, and ensuring security and scalability across public, private and hybrid clouds. The world’s largest companies and public sector organizations trust DXC to deploy services across the Enterprise Technology Stack to drive new levels of performance, competitiveness, and customer experience. Learn more about how we deliver excellence for our customers and colleagues at DXC.com.
At DXC we use the power of technology to deliver mission critical IT Services that our customers need to modernize operations and drive innovation across their entire IT estate. We provide services across the Enterprise Technology Stack for business process outsourcing, insurance, analytics and engineering, applications, security, cloud, IT outsourcing, and modern workplace.
Our DXC Insurance Services help our customers optimize and transform operations, lower costs, increase agile new channels to growth. Our people, technology and best practices improve and automate highly complex business processes middle and back offices- while facilitating customer experience transformation.
Key Responsibilities
Architecture & Design –
Full-time hires are eligible to participate in the DXC benefit program. DXC offers a comprehensive, flexible, and competitive benefits program which includes, but is not limited to, health, dental, and vision insurance coverage; employee wellness; life and disability insurance; a retirement savings plan, paid holidays, paid time off.
At DXC Technology, we believe strong connections and community are key to our success. Our work model prioritizes in-person collaboration while offering flexibility to support wellbeing, productivity, individual work styles, and life circumstances. We’re committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.
If you are an applicant from the United States, Guam, or Puerto Rico
DXC Technology Company (DXC) is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other basis prohibited by law. View postings below.
We participate in E-Verify. In addition to the posters already identified, DXC provides access to prospective employees for the Federal Minimum Wage Poster, Federal Polygraph Protection Act Poster as well as any state or locality specific applicant posters. To access the postings in the link below, select your state to view all applicable federal, state and locality postings. Postings are available in English, and in Spanish, where required. View postings below.
Postings link
Disability Accommodations
If you are an individual with a disability, a disabled veteran, or a wounded warrior and you are unable or limited in your ability to access or use this site as a result of your disability, you may request a reasonable accommodation by contacting us via email.
Please note: DXC will respond only to requests for accommodations due to a disability.
Recruitment fraud is a scheme in which fictitious job opportunities are offered to job seekers typically through online services, such as false websites, or through unsolicited emails claiming to be from the company. These emails may request recipients to provide personal information or to make payments as part of their illegitimate recruiting process. DXC does not make offers of employment via social media networks and DXC never asks for any money or payments from applicants at any point in the recruitment process, nor ask a job seeker to purchase IT or other equipment on our behalf. More information on employment scams is available here.
Job Description
DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) helps global companies run their mission critical systems and operations while modernizing IT, optimizing data architectures, and ensuring security and scalability across public, private and hybrid clouds. The world’s largest companies and public sector organizations trust DXC to deploy services across the Enterprise Technology Stack to drive new levels of performance, competitiveness, and customer experience. Learn more about how we deliver excellence for our customers and colleagues at DXC.com.
At DXC we use the power of technology to deliver mission critical IT Services that our customers need to modernize operations and drive innovation across their entire IT estate. We provide services across the Enterprise Technology Stack for business process outsourcing, insurance, analytics and engineering, applications, security, cloud, IT outsourcing, and modern workplace.
Our DXC Insurance Services help our customers optimize and transform operations, lower costs, increase agile new channels to growth. Our people, technology and best practices improve and automate highly complex business processes middle and back offices- while facilitating customer experience transformation.
Key Responsibilities
Architecture & Design –
- Define target-state architecture for migrating mainframe applications (COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, etc.) to AWS
- Design hybrid solutions involving replatforming, refactoring, and re-architecting
- Create reference architectures and blueprints for modernization
- Recommend AWS services (e.g., EC2, EKS, RDS, Aurora, Lambda, Step Functions, S3) for modernized workloads
- Establish cost models, performance benchmarks, and governance practices
- Evaluate tools for code transformation (e.g., Micro Focus, Blu Age, AWS Mainframe Modernization service)
- Define APIs and microservices strategy for decoupling legacy systems
- Support containerization, serverless adoption, and data platform modernization
- Support DevOps and CI/CD enablement for modernized applications
- Leads Solution design, PoCs, and implementation
- Conduct knowledge-sharing sessions to build organizational capability
- 12 years of IT experience with 5 years as Cloud/Enterprise Architect
- Strong background in mainframe technologies (COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM)
- Hands-on experience designing AWS architectures (certification preferred: AWS Solutions Architect – Professional)
- Proven expertise in mainframe modernization techniques: replatform, refactor, rehost, replace
- Familiarity with AWS Mainframe Modernization service, migration tools, and code conversion frameworks
- Knowledge of microservices, containers (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS), serverless, and event-driven architectures
- Experience with DevOps, IaC (CloudFormation/Terraform), and automated pipelines
- Strong understanding of security, compliance, and performance in cloud environments
- The selected candidate will be required to report to the nearest DXC office
Full-time hires are eligible to participate in the DXC benefit program. DXC offers a comprehensive, flexible, and competitive benefits program which includes, but is not limited to, health, dental, and vision insurance coverage; employee wellness; life and disability insurance; a retirement savings plan, paid holidays, paid time off.
At DXC Technology, we believe strong connections and community are key to our success. Our work model prioritizes in-person collaboration while offering flexibility to support wellbeing, productivity, individual work styles, and life circumstances. We’re committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.
If you are an applicant from the United States, Guam, or Puerto Rico
DXC Technology Company (DXC) is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other basis prohibited by law. View postings below.
We participate in E-Verify. In addition to the posters already identified, DXC provides access to prospective employees for the Federal Minimum Wage Poster, Federal Polygraph Protection Act Poster as well as any state or locality specific applicant posters. To access the postings in the link below, select your state to view all applicable federal, state and locality postings. Postings are available in English, and in Spanish, where required. View postings below.
Postings link
Disability Accommodations
If you are an individual with a disability, a disabled veteran, or a wounded warrior and you are unable or limited in your ability to access or use this site as a result of your disability, you may request a reasonable accommodation by contacting us via email.
Please note: DXC will respond only to requests for accommodations due to a disability.
Recruitment fraud is a scheme in which fictitious job opportunities are offered to job seekers typically through online services, such as false websites, or through unsolicited emails claiming to be from the company. These emails may request recipients to provide personal information or to make payments as part of their illegitimate recruiting process. DXC does not make offers of employment via social media networks and DXC never asks for any money or payments from applicants at any point in the recruitment process, nor ask a job seeker to purchase IT or other equipment on our behalf. More information on employment scams is available here.
Salary : $115,600 - $214,700
