Senior Technical Architect

Role overview

Senior Technical Architect at HCLTech

MAINFRAME ARCHITECT Detailed

Location Pan India ROLE BAND TECH STACK EXPERIENCE TYPE Mainframe Architect E3.2 Mainframe 13+ Years Full-time Role Purpose Provide end-to-end technical leadership for enterprise solutions on the mainframe platform: translating business and non-functional requirements into scalable, secure and resilient architectures, and guiding engineering teams through implementation, modernization and operational readiness.

Responsibilities

• Architecture & Design
• Own high-level and detailed architecture for complex mainframe applications, APIs, integrations and modernization initiatives.
• Convert functional and non-functional requirements into blueprints, component designs, interface contracts and implementation guidance.
• Select appropriate architecture patterns and assess trade-offs across scalability, performance, security, cost and maintainability.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise standards, approved platforms, reusable patterns and target-state roadmaps.
• Technical Leadership & Governance
• Give hands-on architectural direction to development, QA, DevOps, security and support teams.
• Set coding, API, integration, logging, configuration, testing and deployment standards.
• Run architecture reviews, design walkthroughs, technical risk assessments and PoC evaluations.
• Security, Reliability & Performance
• Embed secure-by-design across identity, authorization, secrets, data protection and interface security.
• Define resiliency patterns — retry, timeout, failover, HA and DR — plus performance and capacity targets.
• Ensure observability through structured logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards and alerting.
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Facilitate technical discovery with business, product, security, infrastructure and vendor stakeholders.
• Communicate complex decisions clearly to engineering and leadership audiences.
• Maintain architecture artifacts, decision records, risk logs and technical roadmaps.
• Technology Focus — Mainframe
• Design, develop and support COBOL/CICS/DB2 batch and online components within agreed standards.
• Optimize batch windows, DB2 access paths and resource consumption to protect service levels.
• Support mainframe modernization, API exposure and integration with distributed and cloud platforms.

Employment details

• Location: Bengaluru [India]