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Senior Legacy Conversion Consultant

Jobgetherabout 11 hours ago
Canada
Senior Level
Full-Time

Top Benefits

Large-scale enterprise modernization projects
Collaborative and inclusive work environment
Agile culture

About the role

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Legacy Conversion Consultant based in Canada. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to large-scale application modernization initiatives for enterprise organizations worldwide. You will work on complex legacy transformation programs, helping migrate business-critical systems to modern platforms and architectures. The position combines deep technical expertise with problem-solving, automation, and strategic modernization work. You will analyze legacy applications, define migration approaches, and ensure successful delivery across diverse technology environments. Working alongside experienced engineers and technical stakeholders, you will influence modernization practices and improve migration capabilities. This is an ideal opportunity for a consultant who enjoys solving challenging technical problems and driving meaningful transformation. \n

Accountabilities: The Senior Legacy Conversion Consultant will play a key role in analyzing, migrating, and modernizing enterprise applications while supporting technical delivery across complex transformation programs. Responsibilities include: Analyze and assess legacy applications, particularly those developed using CA Gen, to determine modernization and migration strategies. Execute application migration projects using automation tools and structured conversion approaches. Apply technical enhancements, fixes, and optimizations throughout the migration lifecycle. Define migration approaches for application components, including database access, online transactions, batch processing, user interfaces, and application architecture. Support phased migration strategies and deliver converted applications across various target platforms, including mainframe environments and modern technology stacks. Validate migrated applications to ensure functional consistency, performance, maintainability, and technical quality. Document migration standards, reusable frameworks, technical processes, and best practices to improve future modernization initiatives. Collaborate with technical leaders, architects, and stakeholders to establish migration roadmaps and delivery strategies. Support technical proposals, project documentation, and client-facing discussions related to modernization solutions. Contribute to improving automation tooling, migration methodologies, and modernization practices. Engage with customers and technical teams to explain migration approaches, progress, and outcomes. Requirements: The ideal candidate is a technically skilled consultant with strong experience in legacy application modernization, migration projects, and enterprise systems transformation. Required qualifications and skills include: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field. Strong commercial experience with CA Gen (Cool:Gen) and legacy application environments. Proven experience delivering application migration, modernization, conversion, or re-platforming projects. Strong understanding of Gen Models, Action Diagrams, Business Components, Data Models, Data Structures, online transaction processing, batch processing, relational database access, performance tuning, and UI implementation. Experience working with mainframe environments, including exposure to 3270 block-mode applications. Familiarity with technologies such as COBOL (CICS, IMS-DC, DB2), Java, .NET, Spring Boot, Angular, and cloud platforms. Experience using automation tools for application migration or conversion initiatives. Knowledge of XML or model extraction approaches used in modernization projects. Strong troubleshooting, debugging, analytical thinking, and problem-solving abilities. Ability to collaborate effectively with technical and business stakeholders in enterprise environments. Strong written and verbal English communication skills. Ability to work independently while contributing effectively within a collaborative engineering team. Preferred qualifications include: Experience with MigrationWorks or similar application migration tooling. Background supporting structured Gen conversion or regeneration programs. Experience delivering migrations across multiple target platforms, including COBOL, Java, .NET, Angular, or cloud environments. Familiarity with mainframe tools such as ISPF, JCL, SPUFI, and SCLM. Experience with CI/CD tools including Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps. Experience contributing to migration frameworks, automation solutions, or enterprise modernization initiatives. Benefits: Opportunity to work on large-scale enterprise modernization and transformation projects. Collaborative and inclusive work environment where ideas and technical expertise are valued. Agile culture encouraging innovation, ownership, and continuous improvement. Opportunities to work with diverse technologies and challenging technical environments. Ongoing training, mentorship, and professional development opportunities. Career growth opportunities through exposure to multiple projects and industries. Possibility of international travel depending on project requirements.

\n How Jobgether works: We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team. We appreciate your interest and wish you the best! Why Apply Through Jobgether? Data Privacy Notice: By submitting your application, you acknowledge that Jobgether will process your personal data to evaluate your candidacy and share relevant information with the hiring employer. This processing is based on legitimate interest and pre-contractual measures under applicable data protection laws (including GDPR). You may exercise your rights (access, rectification, erasure, objection) at any time. #LI-CL1

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