Senior Mainframe Tech Product Owner

Role: Senior Mainframe Tech Product Owner
Location: Austin TX (Temple TX- office 3 times a week)
Job Type: Contract
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 dont 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)
• GCP/cloud architecture and hands on engineering are supporting skills not the primary drive