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We're building the founding team at Montora

Montora moves COBOL logic to modern code and shows evidence that it behaves the same. We're looking for two people who have seen this problem from the inside to join our founding team.

Tanveer Singh, Founder·

We're building the founding team at Montora. 01 Founding Mainframe Architect. 02 Founding Head of Enterprise Sales.

Moving legacy banking code is hard to trust. A migration can look finished and still change how an interest calculation or a fee behaves in an edge case. We record how the original system runs, replay the same cases against the migrated code, and produce signed results that anyone can verify.

We have a working engine (here is a sample evidence pack), we are offering design-partner pilots to financial institutions, and we are backed by Kickstart Global.

We are building the founding team. This is not a side project. We want people who will put in the real work, own what they take on, and help decide how the company is built.

Two founding roles

Founding roles with real ownership and a say in how we build. Terms are discussed directly.

Founding Mainframe Architect

Remote, with occasional London meetings

You will be the person who knows mainframes at first hand. You will decide which systems we take on, how we scope them, and what the engine needs next, lead pilot delivery with the founder, and be the technical voice in front of a bank's architects and engineers.

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What you will do

  • Scope design-partner pilots: choose a bounded, low-risk component and agree what is in and out of scope
  • Read real COBOL, copybooks and batch jobs, and judge where a migration is likely to break
  • Work with the founder on delivery: migrate the component, run it against recorded behaviour, and walk the client through the evidence
  • Define what the engine must support next, including CICS, DB2, VSAM and JCL
  • Represent Montora in technical conversations with bank engineering, architecture and risk teams
  • Help build the first reusable pilot method, templates and case studies

What we are looking for

  • Hands-on COBOL or mainframe experience in a bank, insurer or consultancy
  • Has worked on a real migration, modernisation or decommission, and knows where they go wrong
  • Fluent in batch processing, copybooks and financial calculation logic
  • Able to explain technical risk clearly to engineers and executives
  • You move fast on live work and finish what you start

Nice to have

  • Experience with testing, verification or parallel-run approaches
  • Background in Java, Python or C#
  • Experience delivering in a regulated environment
  • Existing relationships in bank technology teams

Founding Head of Enterprise Sales

Remote, with regular London meetings

You will turn conversations into paid design-partner pilots. You know how banks and insurers buy technology: sponsors, security review, procurement and long cycles. You will build the pipeline, run each deal, and help shape how Montora goes to market.

Read the full role

What you will do

  • Build and run the pipeline of banks, insurers and other institutions that run COBOL
  • Turn warm introductions into scoped, paid design-partner pilots
  • Manage the buying process end to end: NDA, vendor security questionnaire, procurement and purchase order
  • Develop partnerships with consultancies and systems integrators
  • Work with the founder and the mainframe architect to shape the pilot offer, pricing conversations and proposals
  • Give honest market feedback so the product and pricing improve with each deal

What we are looking for

  • Experience selling technology to banks, insurers or financial institutions in the UK or Europe
  • A track record of closing enterprise deals with long, careful sales cycles
  • A working network in banking technology, risk, operations or modernisation
  • Comfortable selling an early product honestly, with a founder-led story
  • You follow up, keep deals moving and report what is really happening

Nice to have

  • Experience selling modernisation, risk or compliance tools
  • Contacts in consultancies or systems integrators
  • Understanding of vendor onboarding and security review in regulated firms

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