Senior Mainframe Tech Product Owner - Austin, TX

Role: Senior Mainframe Tech Product Owner

Location: Austin, TX (Temple, TX- office 3 times a week)
Can do Only W2. No C2c

The core requirement is a senior Technical Product Owner for our mainframe modernization program.

This is a large, multi year, multi track effort and success hinges on strong technical product ownership more than incremental cloud engineering capacity.

Primary Focus: Mainframe Modernization Technical Product Ownership

We are looking for a hands on, senior level TPO who has led mainframe modernization programs end to end, not just participated in them.

Critical skills:

• Must-Have: Ability to map legacy business processes to modern technical requirements.
• Must-Have: Understanding of Data Integration (how to get data out of a mainframe via CDC or APIs).
• Nice-to-Have: Hands-on COBOL experience (they don't need to code, just understand the logic), JCL, CICS, Control M, z/OS systems
• Ability to decompose a complex modernization into clear workstreams, EPICs, and execution plans
• Strong command of Product / Agile execution (Jira, backlog ownership, sprint goals) aligned to our PAD (Product Agile DevSecOps) model
• Ownership of technical plan, sequencing, dependencies, RAID, and decisioning, including executive level reporting
• Replat forming Experience: Familiarity with Mainframe-to-Cloud re-hosting patterns (e.g., Micro Focus, Rocket Software) and the nuances of environmental parity, EBCDIC-to-ASCII conversion, and batch job translation, VSAM to RDBMS/Flat Files.

Expected artifacts and outcomes include (non exhaustive):

• Clearly defined modernization workstreams with EPICs and aligned stories
• Architecture views mapped directly to EPICs and milestones
• Decision logs, RAID logs, dependency matrices
• Wave plans, milestone tracking, and leadership ready status reporting

Soft skill expectations are equally important:

• Proactive stakeholder engagement across engineering, data, cloud, and PMO teams
• Strong sense of urgency and ownership
• Continuous re evaluation of assumptions while maintaining forward momentum
• Supporting Skills (Secondary)

Best Regards:

Emma W
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