Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end modernization projects from COBOL to Java microservices, ensuring quality, timeliness, and client satisfaction.
- Manage client relationships—expectation setting, participation, reporting, and crisis resolution.
- Partner with technical leads to define modernization strategies across application, data, and UI layers.
- Oversee migration execution, including code transformation, data migration, testing, and deployment.
- Guide teams in adopting cloud-native architectures, microservices best practices, and observability tools.
- Coordinate across global delivery teams (U.S. and India) and align efforts across time zones.
- Support delivery efforts for a major banking client with strong leverage of Agentic AI to modernize applications.
- Ensure compliance with financial regulations and support discussions with regulators as needed.
- Track progress, manage budgets, and drive continuous improvement through post-mortems and feedback loops.
Required Experience
- 15+ years in IT services or technology delivery, with 5+ years managing enterprise-scale modernization or migration programs.
- Deep familiarity with mainframe environments: COBOL, JCL, PL/1, Fortran, RPG, VSAM, DB2, and CICS (or equivalent transaction monitors).
- Proven experience in Java and cloud-based microservices architectures (AWS).
- Understanding of cloud migration challenges, including data migration, network design, latency, security, and centralized observability.
- Expertise in microservices transformation—service boundaries, data ownership, distributed trust/security, and end-to-end testing.
- Experience with Payments or Financial Services systems (Wires, ACH, Checks, Clearing & Settlement).
- Familiarity with ISO 20022 MX message formats and regulatory requirements in banking.
- Strong background in application and platform migrations, including phased and hybrid strategies beyond “big bang” cutovers.
- Experience managing global cross-functional teams, particularly across U.S.–India time zones.
- Excellent communication, client management, and team management skills.
Preferred Experience
- Background in Capital Markets or other high-compliance financial domains.
- Conceptual understanding of Agentic AI and LLM-based automation in software development workflows.
- Exposure to banking platform migrations and interactions with regulatory bodies.
Top Skills
What We Do
Doran Jones Inc. (DJI) is the leading financial services Data Engineering and Application Development firm, specializing in Capital Markets, Risk, and Regulatory Compliance. We are US-based, helping our clients fill gaps in capacity and expertise, reduce risk, and accelerate change. Our leaders average over 25 years of experience in Financial Services and Technology. DJI is repeatedly engaged by the largest and most complex clients for our Agile transformation expertise and practical understanding of the critical relationship between data, architecture, and application development.
DJI has a mission to place more people from non-traditional backgrounds into sustainable technology careers. Through partnerships with non-profit technology programs in underserved communities and Veteran organizations, candidates transition from tech training programs into real IT careers at DJI. Our unique recruitment policy allows us to create exceptional teams, bringing a broad spectrum of experience to our company and creating anything but a traditional consulting firm.
DJI is a wholly-owned subsidiary of McLaren Strategic Ventures, a private equity firm, that invests in start-ups and scale-ups. They provide a full range of highly trusted domain consulting, advisory services, and innovative technologies globally. Doran Jones is able to offer a broad range of technology, deeper AI and machine learning tools, data intelligence, alternative resourcing capabilities, and capital access to invest and digitize at scale. Our clients benefit from this unique portfolio allowing them to accelerate the pace of their own digital transformations through innovative products and services designed around industry-wide issues.
