Senior Legacy Systems Engineer — Modernization Focus

BlueWater Federal Solutions, Inc.; Montgomery (AL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bluewater Federal is seeking a Senior Legacy Systems Engineer to support the USAF at Maxwell AFB. The role focuses on sustainment, refactoring, and modernization of legacy IMDS/IMDS-MSM components and enterprise workflows to ensure mission readiness.

You will lead modernization efforts, evaluate candidates, manage risks, and coordinate data integrity and rollback planning while preserving operational stability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of legacy application support and modernization experience.
• Active Secret clearance required.
• Experience with COBOL, legacy sustainment, mainframe integration, batch processing, data synchronization, API integration, SQL/Oracle.
• Security+ certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for sustainment, refactoring, coexistence management, and modernization of legacy IMDS/IMDS-MSM components and associated enterprise workflows.
• Support analysis, decomposition, refactoring, and incremental modernization of legacy application capabilities while preserving operational stability, synchronization integrity, maintenance history continuity, and mission-critical sustainment workflows.
• Evaluate modernization candidates, identify modernization sequencing risks, support API modernization, validate coexistence between legacy and modernized components, and assist with migration of tightly coupled legacy workflows into modern architectures where operationally appropriate.
• Support technical debt analysis, modernization risk assessments, data integrity validation, and rollback planning during modernization execution.

Skills

Legacy modernization

COBOL

Mainframe integration

SQL/Oracle

Data synchronization

API integration

Secret clearance

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Bluewater Federal is seeking a Senior Legacy Systems Engineer to support the USAF at Maxwell AFB. The role focuses on sustainment, refactoring, and modernization of legacy IMDS/IMDS-MSM components and enterprise workflows to ensure mission readiness.

You will lead modernization efforts, evaluate candidates, manage risks, and coordinate data integrity and rollback planning while preserving operational stability.