Ideal Background

• Financial services background (banking, payments, capital markets)
• Mix of mainframe and modern technology experience
• Track record of modernizing legacy systems
• Production support and incident management experience

Must-Have

• Change Data Capture: CDC design and operations (IBM, Precisely, or equivalent); subscription management, bookmarks, replay, backfill.
• Db2 & z/OS knowledge: Db2 catalog, z/OS fundamentals, batch windows, performance considerations.
• Integration patterns: Kafka/MSK hands-on, CDC-to-target pipelines, UPSERT/MERGE logic; Python/SQL; strong troubleshooting.
• Data quality mindset: Write validation tests before migration; golden-source reconciliation.

Data Architecture Fundamentals (Must-Have)

• Logical data modeling : Entity-relationship diagrams, normalization (1NF through Bo...