Saurabh Malhotra Resume

Professional

Fifteen years inside the systems banks run on

Saurabh owns end-to-end delivery for global banking and financial services: timelines and schedules, stakeholders and vendors, governance and compliance, and teams across large multi-stream programmes. He is a Certified Scrum Master who pairs deep mainframe engineering with AI-enabled productivity.

Saurabh Malhotra

Currently

Mainframe Lead II at Kyndryl Solutions, Pune

Client: ABN AMRO, NetherlandsSince: September 2025

  • Mainframe modernization to AWS. Replatforming mainframe applications with Micro Focus Enterprise Developer, and hosting and validating the migrated workloads on EC2.
  • IMS DB to DB2 migration. Using Microsoft Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry to speed analysis, development and delivery through to production.
  • End-to-end delivery ownership. Accountable for the mainframe solution: timelines and schedules, forecasts, milestone tracking and delivery against business requirements.
  • Stakeholder and vendor management. Working with client architects, business analysts, product owners and project managers to turn requirements into specifications and keep scope, schedule and priorities aligned.
  • Governance and compliance. Making sure designs, roadmaps and technical specifications are reviewed, signed off and kept in the right repositories under enterprise change processes.

By the numbers

€10M
Approximate annual MIPS savings from process optimization, automation and performance tuning.
15%
Less production downtime at Belfius through proactive troubleshooting and support.
10%
Fewer incidents through structured root cause analysis.
20%
Less manual intervention after automating job scheduling with TWS/OPC at Westpac.
Zero
Defects in production releases for Westpac Bank.
4 years
Onsite in Belgium leading knowledge transfer, deployments and mentoring.

Career credits

  1. 2025 – now

    Mainframe Lead II

    Kyndryl Solutions, Pune

    Client: ABN AMRO, Netherlands

    • Micro Focus Enterprise Developer
    • EC2
    • IMS DB
    • DB2 z/OS
    • Copilot Studio
    • Azure AI Foundry

  2. 2018 – 2025

    Mainframe Technical Architect

    Hexaware Technologies, Navi Mumbai

    Client: Belfius Bank & Insurance, Belgium. Four years onsite.

    • COBOL
    • PL/1
    • DB2 z/OS
    • IMS DB
    • CICS
    • AWS Blu Age
    What he delivered
    • Mainframe modernization to AWS. Contributed to refactoring mainframe applications to AWS with AWS Blu Age and AWS services.
    • Knowledge transfer. Led KT sessions from the client for banking accounting applications.
    • Architecture and demos. Designed the end-to-end system architecture, ran client demos, and wrote Knowledge Acquisition documents and playback presentations.
    • Client SPOC. Single point of contact for the client; designed and developed COBOL programs for customer communication and accounting.
    • Project and team management. Managed timelines, team coordination and consultants to deliver on client expectations.
    • Support and maintenance. Cut downtime by 15% and incident counts by 10% through root cause analysis.
    • Batch optimization. Reduced batch processing time by improving code and DB2 queries.

  3. 2017 – 2018

    Advisory System Analyst

    IBM, Pune

    Client: Westpac Bank, Australia

    • COBOL
    • JCL
    • DB2
    • TWS/OPC
    What he delivered
    • COBOL development. Built and maintained COBOL programs processing millions of accounting transactions a day.
    • Quality. Worked with QA on unit testing and debugging for zero defects in production releases.
    • Automation. Automated job scheduling and monitoring with TWS/OPC, cutting manual intervention by 20%.
    • Mentoring and support. Reviewed code, mentored junior developers, and gave 24/7 on-call support for critical batches and deployments.

  4. 2015 – 2017

    Senior Software Engineer

    NIIT Technologies, Noida

    Client: Sabre, USA

  5. 2013 – 2015

    Software Engineer

    UnitedHealth Group, Noida

    Client: UnitedHealth Group, USA

  6. 2011 – 2013

    Project Engineer

    Wipro Technologies, Noida

    Client: State Street, USA

Two ways to modernize, both delivered

Refactor

Transform the code with AWS Blu Age

Code transformation of mainframe applications onto AWS services, with migration validation and cloud deployment.

Delivered for Belfius Bank & Insurance at Hexaware

Replatform

Move the workload with Rocket / Micro Focus

Enterprise Developer and Enterprise Server to rehost mainframe workloads, with EC2 for hosting and validating them.

In progress for ABN AMRO at Kyndryl

Alongside the builds, Saurabh writes the migration strategies, architecture blueprints and modernization roadmaps that decide which route fits which application.

Toolkit

Mainframe
COBOL, Micro Focus COBOL, PL/1, JCL, DB2 z/OS, DB2 LUW, IMS DB (DL/I), VSAM, CICS, Embedded SQL
Modernization, DevOps and tools
Micro Focus Enterprise Suite, Rocket Enterprise Analyzer, Enterprise Developer, Enterprise Server, EC2, S3, AWS RDS, PuTTY, Git, GitHub, Azure DevOps, CI/CD, IBM IDz, Endevor, ChangeMan, ISPW, TWS/OPC
Expertise
Application development, mainframe modernization and transformation, refactor, replatform, application management, performance tuning, code reviews, unit testing, SIT/UAT, debugging, root cause analysis, technical documentation
AI and generative AI
Generative AI, prompt engineering, AI agents, Model Context Protocol (MCP), LLM fundamentals, AI-assisted development
Cloud and modernization
AWS Blu Age, AWS Transform, Microsoft Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry
Programming
REST APIs, shell scripting (Bash), JSON
Operating systems
z/OS, Linux
Methodologies
Agile Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, SDLC, onshore-offshore delivery
Strengths
Customer engagement, technical solution design, stakeholder management, production support, cross-functional collaboration, knowledge transfer

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