Resident Engineer, ELM Migration to Open Liberty

NewGen Technologies; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

NewGen Technologies is seeking a Resident Engineer to lead a large-scale modernization effort, migrating 20+ applications from Tradition WebSphere to Open Liberty/WebSphere Liberty. The role involves hands-on implementation, performance tuning, and collaboration with United Airlines teams and IBM delivery squads.

You'll guide migrations, provide technical leadership, and develop knowledge transfer deliverables while ensuring production readiness and best practices across the engagement.

Qualifications

• US Citizenship is required.
• Strong hands-on migration experience from Traditional WAS to Liberty.
• Deep expertise with WebSphere Application Server (Traditional WAS).
• Experience migrating client applications in embedded delivery models.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with United Airlines application teams to assess and migrate applications from Traditional WAS to Liberty.
• Analyze and remediate application code and configuration issues during migration.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance throughout the migration process.
• Troubleshoot and resolve migration, deployment, and performance challenges.
• Collaborate closely with client stakeholders and IBM delivery teams.
• Document migration approaches, lessons learned, and best practices.
• Deliver knowledge transfer sessions to client teams.

Skills

Java development

Stakeholder management

Technical leadership

Migration expertise

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

WebSphere Liberty

Open Liberty

CI/CD tooling

Job description

NewGen Technologies is seeking a Resident Engineer to lead a large-scale modernization effort, migrating 20+ applications from Tradition WebSphere to Open Liberty/WebSphere Liberty. The role involves hands-on implementation, performance tuning, and collaboration with United Airlines teams and IBM delivery squads.

You'll guide migrations, provide technical leadership, and develop knowledge transfer deliverables while ensuring production readiness and best practices across the engagement.