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Lead Engineer, Legacy Software Baseline Location: REMOTE (U.S) Clearance: Secret SUMMARY The Air Force C2SET (Command and Control Simulation, Emulation, and Training) program delivers advanced ...

Project Engineer - Legacy Engineering & Sustainment Role: The Electronic component project engineer is responsible for executing component and system level sustainment, obsolescence mitigation, and ...

Summary We are seeking a skilled Programmer Analyst with strong experience in enterprise software ... The ideal candidate will review, refactor, and migrate legacy application logic including PL/SQL ...

Extensive experience in programming end-to-end custom-code solutions * Extensive experience converting older language legacy solutions to modern languages * Extensive experience building solutions ...

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Senior Legacy Systems Engineer (COBOL Modernization)

Montgomery, AL โ€ข On-site

Other

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Retirement, PTO

Posted 8 days ago


Job description

Provides technical leadership for sustainment, refactoring, coexistence management, and modernization of legacy IMDS/IMDS-MSM components and associated enterprise workflows. This role supports analysis, decomposition, refactoring, and incremental modernization of legacy application capabilities while preserving operational stability, synchronization integrity, maintenance history continuity, and missionโ€‘critical sustainment workflows.

The Senior Legacy Systems Engineer evaluates modernization candidates, identifies modernization sequencing risks, supports API modernization, validates coexistence between legacy and modernized components, and assists with migration of tightly coupled legacy workflows into modern architectures where operationally appropriate. This role works closely with the System Architect, Enterprise Integration Lead, Product Owners, DevSecOps Platform Lead, and Functional SMEs to ensure modernization activities do not disrupt maintenance scheduling, discrepancy management, disconnected operations synchronization, personnel qualification tracking, or operational reporting.

The Senior Legacy Systems Engineer also supports technical debt analysis, modernization risk assessments, data integrity validation, and rollback planning during modernization execution.

Must possess DoD Secret Clearance.

Technical Skills
  • COBOL
  • Legacy application sustainment
  • Mainframe/legacy integration
  • Batch processing
  • Data synchronization
  • Legacy modernization techniques
  • API integration
  • SQL/Oracle
Certifications

Preferred:

  • Security+
Education
  • Bachelorโ€™s degree or equivalent experience.
Experience
  • 10+ years legacy application support.
  • Experience modernizing legacy enterprise applications.
  • Experience supporting missionโ€‘critical operational systems.
  • Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
  • Retirement Plan (401k)
  • Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
  • Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
  • Short Term & Long Term Disability
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