C#/.NET Engineer

Zettalogix INC; Hamilton (NJ); Hybrid; USD 123,984,000 - 165,312,000; Full time

Job summary

Zettalogix INC in Hamilton, NJ is seeking a Lead C#/.NET Engineer to modernize a mission-critical benefits system hosted on AWS. The role is 6-month contract, initially 100% on-site for 30 days, then hybrid.

You will own EF Core data layer, design domain models, enforce coding standards, and ensure functional equivalence to the legacy COBOL/JCL system, while optimizing performance to meet nightly batch windows.

Qualifications

• 12-15 years of professional C#/.NET software engineering, including senior/lead responsibilities.
• Deep expertise in C# and the .NET platform (.NET Framework and .NET Core / .NET 6/8+), including async programming, memory/performance optimization, and modern language features.
• Expert-level EF Core: entity modeling, Fluent API, migrations, query optimization, transactions, concurrency, provider-specific behavior.

Responsibilities

• Refactor COBOL-derived C# into idiomatic, maintainable .NET with proper OO/domain design.
• Design and implement service layers, domain models, and ASP.NET Core Web API backends for Angular UI.
• Refactor legacy batch/procedural logic for maintainable, testable .NET; preserve exact decimal/financial arithmetic.

Skills

C#/.NET

EF Core

Async programming

Performance optimization

Entity modeling

Tools

PostgreSQL

Job description

Job Title: C#/.NET Engineer

Location: Hamilton, NJ

Duration: 6 Months contract

*Will start 100% on site for 30 days & move to hybrid 3 days onsite 2 days remote

*Deep expertise in C# and the .NET platform (.NET Framework and .NET Core / .NET 6/8+), including async programming, memory/performance optimization, and modern language features

*Expert-level Entity Framework / EF Core: entity modeling, Fluent API, migrations, query optimization, transactions, concurrency, provider-specific behavior

We are modernizing a large, mission-critical Honeywell Bull mainframe benefits system (FAMIS) converting ~1.5M lines of COBOL and ~160K lines of JCL to C#/.NET, migrating an IDS-II hierarchical database to PostgreSQL, and deploying on AWS. Converted code is delivered by an automated modernization vendor in an "as-is" state.

This Lead/Principal role owns the refactoring of that converted code into clean, maintainable, high-performance, production-grade C#/.NET, defines the data-access architecture using Entity Framework Core against PostgreSQL, sets engineering standards for the team, and safeguards functional equivalence to the legacy system. This is a benefits system serving NJ families correctness, performance within the nightly batch window, and maintainability are paramount.

Job Description

We are looking for a C#/.NET Engineer to lead the modernization of a mission-critical legacy benefits system hosted on AWS Cloud. This position will be hybrid in Hamilton, NJ.

What You'll Do

Refactor machine-converted, COBOL-derived C# into idiomatic, maintainable .NET meaningful naming, proper OO/domain design, separation of concerns, dependency injection

Work in .NET (Core) / .NET (latest version); apply modern C# language features (LINQ, async/await, records, pattern matching, nullable reference types, generics)

Design and implement service layers, domain models, and APIs (ASP.NET Core Web API) that back the Angular UI

Refactor legacy batch/procedural logic (converted from COBOL/JCL) into maintainable, testable .NET; handle exact decimal/financial arithmetic (decimal, rounding rules) to preserve benefit-calculation correctness

Optimize performance to meet the nightly batch window (profiling, memory management, async I/O, parallelism where safe)

Entity Framework / Data Layer:

Own the data-access architecture using Entity Framework Core against PostgreSQL (Npgsql provider)

Refactor the auto-generated/converted data-access layer into a clean, performant EF Core model

Design entity models, DbContext configuration, Fluent API mappings, relationships, keys, and indexes reflecting the IDS-II PostgreSQL schema (168 tables, 4,024+ fields)

Optimize EF Core queries (eager/lazy/explicit loading, projection, AsNoTracking, compiled queries, batching) to avoid N+1 and meet performance SLAs on high-volume batch operations

Manage EF Core migrations, concurrency handling, transactions, and connection resiliency

Map legacy data types and semantics correctly (packed decimals, fixed-width, EBCDIC-origin data, condition codes) to PostgreSQL/EF types without behavioral drift

Contribute to the COBOL-field PostgreSQL-column business-term data dictionary

Technical Leadership:

Define and enforce C#/.NET coding standards, architecture patterns, and refactoring guidelines for the engineering team

Serve as senior technical authority on the converted codebase; make cross-cutting design decisions

Mentor mid/junior C# developers; perform code reviews; drive engineering quality

Partner with the Technical Manager/Architect on target architecture and the refactoring strategy

Quality, Testing & Delivery:

Ensure functional equivalence: build unit and regression tests (xUnit/NUnit, Moq) to validate refactored code against the legacy baseline; fix FET-surfaced defects

Integrate with CI/CD (AWS CodeBuild/CodePipeline), enforce quality/security gates (SonarQube, static analysis, secure coding/OWASP)

Collaborate with FAMIS SMEs to preserve business logic (eligibility, benefit calculation, payments, EBT)

Deliver incrementally within Scrum; document design and decisions

What You'll Need

Required:

12-15 years of professional C#/.NET software engineering, including senior/lead responsibilities

Deep expertise in C# and the .NET platform (.NET Framework and .NET Core / .NET 6/8+), including async programming, memory/performance optimization, and modern language features

Expert-level Entity Framework / EF Core: entity modeling, Fluent API, migrations, query optimization, transactions, concurrency, provider-specific behavior

Strong relational database skills; PostgreSQL strongly preferred (Oracle/SQL Server acceptable) schema design, indexing, query tuning, stored procedures

ASP.NET Core Web API design (REST) for front-end integration

Solid software design: SOLID, design patterns, domain modeling, layered/clean architecture, dependency injection

Testing discipline: unit/integration/regression testing frameworks; TDD/mocking

Git, CI/CD, and static code analysis (SonarQube)

Proven ability to read, reason about, and safely refactor large, unfamiliar codebases

Exceptional attention to correctness financial/benefit calculation accuracy

Preferred:

Legacy modernization experience COBOL-to-C#/Java conversion, mainframe migration, or automated-transformation tooling

Understanding of mainframe concepts (COBOL, JCL, batch processing, hierarchical/CODASYL databases like IDS-II/IMS) to reason about source behavior

High-volume batch processing performance tuning

AWS experience (ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS for PostgreSQL, S3, CloudWatch, IaC/CloudFormation)

Experience integrating with enterprise job schedulers (Stonebranch, Control-M, CA7)

Government / benefits / healthcare or other regulated, high-correctness domains

Npgsql specifics, EF Core performance internals, or ORM migration experience