Senior Legacy Conversion Consultant

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🕒 August 4

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

💼 Consultant

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

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Vigil is a tech consultancy company specializing in software engineering and cloud transformation. They focus on creating exceptional digital products that drive business value and are committed to innovation. Vigil values recognition, appreciation, work/life balance, and opportunities for growth, ensuring happiness and motivation for their teams. They invite clients to collaborate with them to bring projects to life.

📋 Description

• Analyse and assess legacy applications, primarily developed in CA Gen • Execute application migration projects using automation tooling • Apply technical fixes and enhancements throughout the migration process • Define migration approaches for database access, online transactions, batch processing, user interfaces, and application components • Support phased migration strategies • Deliver migrations to native COBOL environments including CICS, IMS-DC and DB2, and modern technology stacks including Java, .NET, Spring Boot, Angular and cloud platforms • Validate converted applications for functional equivalence, maintainability and performance • Document migration standards, reusable patterns and technical processes • Work with technical leadership to define migration strategies and delivery roadmaps • Support technical proposals and Statements of Work • Explain migration approaches and project outcomes to customers and technical stakeholders • Contribute to continuous improvement of migration tooling and modernisation practices

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or any related technical field • Strong commercial experience with CA Gen (Cool:Gen) • Experience with application migration, legacy modernisation or application re-platforming • Experience analysing Gen Models, Action Diagrams, Business Components, Data Models and Data Structures • Experience with online transaction processing and batch processing • Experience with relational database access and performance tuning • Experience with UI design and implementation • Experience working in mainframe environments, including exposure to 3270 block-mode applications • Experience with one or more of COBOL (CICS, IMS-DC and DB2), Java, .NET, Spring Boot, Angular or cloud platforms • Experience using or implementing automation tooling for application migration or conversion • Experience working with XML or model extraction as part of migration projects • Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills • Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities • Good communication skills with technical and business stakeholders • Collaborative approach focused on delivery and continuous improvement • Strong English communication skills, written and verbal • MigrationWorks or similar application migration tooling is awesome but not required • Experience supporting structured Gen conversion or regeneration programmes is awesome but not required • Experience delivering migrations across multiple target platforms is awesome but not required • Mainframe tooling including ISPF, JCL, SPUFI and SCLM is awesome but not required • CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps are awesome but not required • Experience contributing to migration frameworks, automation tooling or application modernisation initiatives is awesome but not required • Experience modernising enterprise applications to cloud or hybrid environments is awesome but not required

🏖️ Benefits

• Collegial environment where responsibility and authority are shared equally • Culture focused on learning from mistakes rather than criticising failure • Agile environment where ideas are welcome • Possibility to grow and experience different projects • Ongoing Training & Mentoring • Possibility to travel

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