Alcino Roberto Soares
Mainframe IT Engineering Analyst | SAS Data Analyst

Mainframe and Distributed Platform Experience

Senior IT professional with 40+ years of experience delivering high-impact solutions across mainframe and distributed environments. Strong track record in consulting, systems analysis, development, and modernization for regulated and mission-critical operations across financial, forestry, industrial, and service sectors.

Combines deep mainframe expertise with practical knowledge of modern technologies to improve reliability, performance, data quality, and business continuity.

Core Technologies:

COBOL IMS CICS DB2 JCL SAS PYTHON JAVA C# .NET

How I Can Help

  • Stabilize and optimize critical batch processes to improve throughput, resilience, and operational reliability.
  • Clarify and document business rules to reduce ambiguity between business and technical teams.
  • Reduce technical debt in legacy systems through refactoring and continuous improvement.
  • Support modernization initiatives by connecting mainframe platforms with modern architectures safely and pragmatically.
  • Improve data quality and consistency for reporting, governance, and decision-making.
  • Model and organize complex data for analytics, integrations, and automation.
  • Bridge business priorities and technical execution with clear communication.
  • Mentor junior and mid-level professionals, helping teams ramp up faster.

Professional Summary

Executive overview for hiring managers

Senior IT professional with extensive experience in mainframe environments and SAS-based data analytics on distributed platforms. Delivers consistently in high-complexity scenarios that combine legacy system support, modernization, and business-driven solution development.

Experienced in multidisciplinary teams working at the intersection of legacy systems and modern architectures, supporting continuity and evolution in regulated business environments.

Strong background as a SAS consultant in regulatory, risk, and compliance initiatives within the financial sector, with a clear focus on data quality and information reliability.

Known for generating strategic value in complex environments by improving operational efficiency, strengthening critical processes, and aligning technical execution with business needs.

Highlights for Managers

  • Leadership and Delivery: Experience across planning, development, maintenance, migration, testing, and quality assurance in enterprise systems projects, including technical guidance for squads and support for development coordination.
  • Mainframe Engineering: Solid experience with COBOL, IMS, CICS, DB2, VSAM, and QSAM in large-scale corporate batch and online environments.
  • Distributed Platforms: Hands-on experience with SAS, C#, Python, Java, ASP.NET, and relational databases such as DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, and Teradata.
  • SAS Specialization: Strong experience in risk, credit, and compliance initiatives for major financial institutions.
  • Modernization: Practical involvement in evolving legacy systems and integrating them with APIs and newer technologies.
  • Compliance Focus: Experience delivering solutions that support legal and regulatory requirements in partnership with risk, internal controls, and legal teams.
  • Business Alignment: Participation in agile, multidisciplinary teams supporting products and services related to credit, financing, renegotiation, collection, and contract management.

Skills

Strengths and tools

Mainframe
z/OS, TSO/ISPF, COBOL, IMS, CICS, JCL, DB2, QSAM, VSAM, CONTROL-M, Changeman, IBM-RDZ, Topaz Workbench, Xpediter, Mainview, QMF, DB2 Admin, File-AID, DBeaver with DB2 plugin.
SAS
SAS Base, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Macros, SAS SQL.
Databases
Teradata, SQL Server (MSSQL), MySQL, Oracle, DB2, MongoDB.
Programming Languages
C#, Java, Python, JavaScript.
Web - Markup, Styling, Versioning
HTML5, CSS3, Git, GitHub.
Web - Frameworks and Libraries
ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework, Django, Bootstrap, jQuery.

Recent Experience

Recent roles and highest-impact work

Itaú Unibanco — IT Engineering Analyst
Sep/2021 – Sep/2025
  • Activities performed under the direct guidance of the coordination and in constant synergy with the team, ensuring that all deliveries were validated and approved by the business area.
  • Worked on the verification and modernization of mainframe systems, including construction of distributed-platform components integrated with COBOL transactions.
  • Constructed and maintained solutions for legal and regulatory requirements in partnership with risk, internal controls, and legal teams.
  • Implemented DB2 data preparation and extraction routines to support large-scale testing and validation.
  • Maintained and enhanced high-volume batch and online programs.
  • Supported incident verification and resolution for critical batch flows and online transactions, improving stability and performance.
Qintess — SAS Consultant
Jun/2018 – Jul/2021
  • Performed impact analysis on SAS code and business rules in mission-critical systems, protecting process integrity and continuity.
  • Handled ad hoc business requests using Teradata as the primary analytical data platform.
  • Provided technical leadership within a regulatory project for a major financial institution, focusing on risk, compliance, and data governance.
Resource Tecnologia — Mainframe Consultant
Aug/2011 – Mar/2016
  • Delivered consulting in COBOL, JCL, and DB2, including support for testing and validation environments and technical training for client teams.
  • Created and improved QA procedures for SAS and COBOL routines, increasing delivery quality and predictability.
  • Developed and maintained COBOL programs and prepared DB2 datasets for integrated testing across development and staging environments.
  • Participated in technical reviews focused on continuous improvement of programs, jobs, and batch flows.
  • Worked with DBAs to improve security, stability, and performance for DB2 databases and tables used by critical systems.

Selected Projects

Examples that reflect delivery style and business value

Mainframe

Developed a batch solution for processing large volumes of historical customer data, consolidating multi-year information and structuring recurring monthly update routines in a mainframe environment integrated with cloud and distributed platforms.

Contributed to a large-scale initiative involving recovery and treatment of contractual data, including retroactive calculations and multiple filtering criteria to support internal analysis and regulatory or audit-related demands.

SAS

Supported data and analytical requests from multiple business areas using SAS with Teradata as the primary data source.

Evolved initially ad hoc solutions into reusable components that became a foundation for recurring requests and new project delivery.

Pre-Production Mainframe

Coordinated the rollout and support of a testing and pre-production mainframe environment for multiple enterprise systems, working alongside other consulting teams.

Defined and applied quality and stability criteria as quality gates for migration into production, helping ensure readiness before release.

Contact

I help translate complex technical problems into robust and practical solutions, always with attention to risk mitigation, data integrity and operational continuity.
I look forward to hearing from you.

Email arsoares@arsoares.com.br