HIRING | SENIOR IBM i / AS400 SPECIALIST – CORE MODERNIZATION

 Location: Remote / Offshore – India

 Experience: 12+ Years

 Budget: ₹1.8–2.0 LPM

 Employment: Contract / Project-Based

Shift: US Shift | Minimum 4 Hours Overlap

 ROLE OVERVIEW

We are looking for a Senior IBM i / AS400 Specialist with strong hands-on expertise in COBOL, DB2 for i, SQL, and Python on IBM i. You will work as the offshore execution arm of the Onshore IBM i Lead, focusing on legacy system analysis, COBOL reverse engineering, business logic discovery, system dependencies, documentation, test environments, and test-data preparation.

 KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Analyze DB2 for i schemas, files, tables, relationships & data structures

• Reverse engineer complex COBOL applications and business rules

• Trace Policy, Transaction & Line-of-Business processing flows

• Analyze batch jobs, job queues, scheduling & dependencies

• Review SQL queries, database access patterns & performance

• Document actual system behavior and technical/functional flows

• Configure/manage IBM i/AS400 QA/UAT environments

• Generate and validate realistic test data

• Support QA/UAT environment and data readiness

• Collaborate with Onshore IBM i SME/Lead and modernization teams

 MANDATORY SKILLS

 12+ years IBM i / AS400 experience

 Strong COBOL on IBM i/AS400

 Python on IBM i – Mandatory

 Strong DB2 for i & SQL

 Legacy application reverse engineering

 Batch processing, job queues & scheduling

 AS400 test environment & test-data management

 Excellent spoken/written English & communication

 Not a Cloud, DevOps, Kubernetes, or generic backend role.

 EXPECTATIONS

30 Days: Understand architecture, COBOL programs, DB2 schema & begin documentation.

60 Days: Independently own system analysis, test environments & datasets.

90 Days: Own assigned modules end-to-end and deliver validated modernization-ready documentation.