Global Mainframe Technology Lead, Google Cloud Practice

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You Are

We are seeking a rare and visionary leader to architect and build our global Mainframe Modernization practice on Google Cloud. This executive role is at the nexus of legacy and innovation, focused on one of the most critical challenges facing large enterprises today: unlocking the immense value trapped within their core mainframe systems.

The Work

You will be responsible for defining the strategy, building the solutions, and leading the engagements that help our most strategic customers bridge their mission-critical past to an AI-driven future. Your mission as a Global Mainframe Technology Lead, Google Cloud Practice is to prove that mainframe transformation is not just about cost savings, but about unleashing decades of invaluable data and business logic to power the next generation of data analytics, AI, and intelligent agents on Google Cloud.

Key Responsibilities

• Practice Development and Strategic Vision: You will be the founder and leader of Google Cloud's global Mainframe Modernization practice. This involves creating and executing the comprehensive strategy, methodology, and vision for how Google Cloud approaches the mainframe market. You will develop our core point of view, author reference architectures, and build the repeatable frameworks and best practices that will guide every customer engagement, establishing Google as the premier partner for mainframe transformation.
• Solution and Offering Incubation: You will spearhead the development of innovative, market-leading solutions that go far beyond simple "lift and shift." This means creating offerings that intelligently connect mainframe data and applications to Google Cloud's data and AI platforms. You will lead the charge in designing solutions for real-time data replication into BigQuery, applying Vertex AI models to decades of transactional history, creating generative AI agents that can interact with legacy business logic, and architecting secure, hybrid environments where mainframes and cloud-native services coexist and create new value.
• Executive Advisory and Thought Leadership: You will act as Google Cloud's most senior and credible advisor on mainframe transformation, engaging directly with the C-suite and technical leadership at the world's largest banks, insurers, retailers, and government agencies. You will guide them through the complex strategic decisions of their modernization journey. As the public face of our practice, you will establish our thought leadership by speaking at major industry events, publishing definitive white papers, and building unwavering confidence in Google's unique ability to solve this generational challenge.
• Go-to-Market and Sales Enablement: You will be directly responsible for empowering Google's global sales and solution architecture teams to successfully identify, pursue, and win mainframe modernization projects. This includes creating and delivering high-impact training programs, developing sales plays and enablement materials, and personally leading the technical strategy on our most complex and strategic customer accounts. Your leadership will be instrumental in building a significant and sustainable business for Google Cloud.
• Partner Ecosystem Curation and Development: Mainframe modernization is a team sport. You will own the strategy for building and nurturing a world-class ecosystem of partners. This involves identifying and cultivating deep relationships with key mainframe modernization software vendors (e.g., re-hosting, refactoring, code conversion tools), data replication specialists, and global system integrators who possess the deep skills required for complex mainframe migration and transformation projects.

Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.

Here's What You Need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering (or a related field) or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)
• Minimum of 15 years of experience in a senior enterprise technology role, with a significant portion focused on mainframe environments.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience and deep, hands-on expertise with the IBM Z platform and its core subsystems (e.g., z/OS, CICS, IMS, DB2 for z/OS, JCL, COBOL, Assembler). This is essential for credibility.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience and proven track record of architecting or leading large-scale mainframe migration, modernization, or application transformation projects for major enterprises.

Professional Skills Requirements

• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture, legacy integration patterns, and modern application development.

Bonus Points if you Have

• Direct experience with a major public cloud platform (Google Cloud Platform is strongly preferred).
• Hands-on experience with mainframe modernization tools and techniques (e.g., Micro Focus, Blu Age, GFT, TSRI) and data replication technologies (e.g., Qlik, Fivetran, Striim).
• Experience building and leading a professional services, consulting, or technical solutions practice.
• Demonstrated experience applying modern data analytics or AI/ML techniques to solve business problems, particularly with legacy data sources.
• An extensive network of executive-level relationships within mainframe-heavy industries such as Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, Retail, and Public Sector.

Key skills/competency

• Mainframe Modernization
• Google Cloud Platform
• IBM Z
• z/OS
• CICS
• DB2
• JCL
• COBOL
• Enterprise Architecture
• AI/ML Integration