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IntroductionA career in IBM Consulting is rooted in long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You''ll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio, including Software and Red Hat. Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you''ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in groundbreaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role And Responsibilities

Lead efforts to modernize legacy applications built on Natural/ADABAS utilizing ModernSystems tooling and practices.

Analyze existing Natural/ADABAS codebases to identify opportunities for refactoring, replatforming, or integration with modern technologies.

Collaborate with enterprise architects and modernization teams to migrate legacy data and business logic to modern environments such as Java, .NET, or cloud-native platforms using tool-based approaches.

Participate in mainframe-to-cloud migration strategies, including data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) from ADABAS to relational databases.

Support hybrid environments by understanding legacy systems while contributing to agile development practices in modernization projects.

Document modernization processes, technical decisions, and transformation roadmaps to ensure knowledge transfer and long-term maintainability.

Preferred EducationBachelor''s Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

Natural Programming Language: Proficiency in developing and maintaining applications using Natural on mainframe or UNIX platforms.

ADABAS Database: Strong understanding of ADABAS data structures, querying, and performance optimization.

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

JCL (Job Control Language): Experience with batch processing and job scheduling in mainframe environments is a plus.

Mainframe Tools: Knowledge of tools like TSO/ISPF, FTP, are a plus.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting

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