{"id":2305021,"url":"https://alion.io/job/photon-tech-lead-chnblr","title":"Tech Lead - CHN/BLR","company":{"id":3186451,"name":"Photon","domain":"photon.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/photon-com","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Oracle","truth_index":{"grade":"D","score":44,"open_postings":455,"ghost_share":0.941,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-10-15T05:46:00Z"}},"role":"Leadership","role_family":"Leadership","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":16500,"max_usd":44000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":27},"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"CICS","optional":false},{"name":"COBOL","optional":false},{"name":"Db2","optional":false},{"name":"Java","optional":false},{"name":"JCL","optional":false},{"name":"VSAM","optional":false},{"name":"Agile","optional":true},{"name":"AWS","optional":true},{"name":"Azure","optional":true},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":true},{"name":"GCP","optional":true},{"name":"IMS","optional":true},{"name":"Scrum","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2025-04-24T07:21:20Z","employer_posted_date":"2025-04-24","last_verified_at":"2026-10-15T19:06:06Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":539,"trust":{"level":"ghost","repost_count":0,"flags":["stale","company_stale"],"days_open":538},"description":"Location: Chennai or Bangalore\nThe Opportunity:\nWe are embarking on a significant strategic initiative to modernize our core legacy systems from the Mainframe platform to a modern Java-based architecture. This transformation is critical to our future success, enabling greater agility, scalability, and innovation. We are seeking experienced and forward-thinking Mainframe Technical Leads to play a pivotal role in this journey.\nAs a Mainframe Technical Lead, you will be a key technical authority, guiding a team of mainframe developers and collaborating closely with Java architects and development teams. You will leverage your deep mainframe expertise to analyze existing systems, define modernization pathways, ensure stability during transition, and provide technical leadership throughout the project lifecycle.\nKey Responsibilities:\nTechnical Leadership: Lead, mentor, and guide a team of mainframe developers/SMEs involved in the modernization project. Foster a collaborative and knowledge-sharing environment.\nLegacy System Analysis: Perform in-depth analysis of existing Mainframe applications (COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, etc.) to understand business logic, data structures, system integrations, and dependencies.\nModernization Strategy & Design: Collaborate with architects (Mainframe and Java) to define and refine modernization strategies (e.g., re-platforming, re-hosting, refactoring, strangler patterns). Contribute to technical design decisions for migration, interfacing, or decommissioning of mainframe components.\nBridging Technologies: Act as a key liaison between mainframe SMEs and Java development teams. Translate mainframe concepts and constraints for the Java teams and vice-versa. Facilitate technical discussions on integration points and data migration.\nRisk & Impact Assessment: Identify technical risks, challenges, and dependencies associated with migrating specific mainframe applications or functionalities. Propose mitigation strategies.\nTechnical Oversight: Oversee the technical execution of mainframe-related tasks within the project, ensuring adherence to standards, best practices, and project timelines. Review code and technical artifacts where applicable.\nProblem Solving: Troubleshoot complex technical issues arising from the legacy environment or during the migration process. Ensure the stability and performance of mainframe systems interfacing with modernized components.\nTesting Strategy: Contribute to the definition and oversight of testing strategies, particularly for integration, regression, and parallel testing between mainframe and Java systems.\nDocumentation: Ensure comprehensive technical documentation is created and maintained for existing systems and the transition process.\nCommunication: Clearly communicate technical details, progress, and challenges to project managers, stakeholders, and technical teams.\nRequired Qualifications & Skills:\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, OR equivalent extensive practical experience.\n8+ years of hands-on experience in Mainframe application development and support.\nProven experience (at least 2+ years) in a technical leadership role (Tech Lead, Senior Developer with mentoring responsibilities) within a mainframe environment.\nDeep technical expertise in core mainframe technologies: COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM.\nStrong understanding of Mainframe architecture, batch processing, online transaction processing, and system utilities.\nDemonstrable experience or significant involvement in mainframe modernization projects or initiatives.\nExcellent analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills, especially concerning complex legacy systems.\nStrong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with diverse technical teams and explain complex concepts clearly.\nExperience analyzing and understanding complex, large-scale legacy applications.\nPreferred Qualifications & Skills:\nFamiliarity with Java / J2EE concepts, microservices architecture, and modern development practices.\nExperience with specific mainframe modernization tools (code analysis, automated refactoring, data migration tools).\nKnowledge of additional mainframe technologies (e.g., Assembler, IMS DB/DC, specific scheduling tools like TWS/Control-M).\nExposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and concepts related to migrating mainframe workloads.\nUnderstanding of DevOps principles and CI/CD pipelines, and how they might apply in a hybrid environment.\nExperience working in Agile/Scrum development methodologies.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4570,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":true},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Fixed Wireless","IT Consulting & Digital Transformation"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-11T22:25:28Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":5,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.182,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":538,"expected_fill_days":19,"reasons":["conf:2","stale_co","velocity","ghost","win:tail","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-15T05:46:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/photon-tech-lead-chnblr","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/photon-tech-lead-chnblr.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-15T22:10:11Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":33698,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-16T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":3186451},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=3186451"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fphoton-tech-lead-chnblr"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fphoton-tech-lead-chnblr"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fphoton-tech-lead-chnblr"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/photon-tech-lead-chnblr\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fphoton-tech-lead-chnblr"}]}