Senior Legacy Systems Engineer with Security Clearance

BlueWater Federal Solutions; Montgomery (AL); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

BlueWater Federal Solutions seeks a Senior Legacy Systems Engineer to support USAF at Maxwell AFB. You will lead modernization efforts for legacy IMDS/IMDS-MSM components and ensure operational continuity across enterprise workflows.

Candidate must have 10+ years in legacy systems, COBOL experience, and an active Secret clearance to support critical sustainment missions at an air force base in Alabama.

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.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for sustainment, refactoring, coexistence management, and modernization of legacy components.
• Support analysis, decomposition, refactoring, and incremental modernization while preserving stability.
• Evaluate modernization candidates and assist with migration to modern architectures where appropriate.
• Support data integrity validation, modernization risk assessments, and rollback planning.

Skills

COBOL

Legacy modernization

API integration

SQL/Oracle

Mainframe/legacy integration

Data synchronization

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Job Description Overview Bluewater Federal is looking for a Senior Legacy Systems Engineer to support the USAF at Maxwell AFB. The Base Maintenance (BMx) Family of Systems program provides critical lifecycle support for enterprise U.S. Air Force logistics and maintenance systems that enable global mission readiness and sustainment operations.

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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.


• 10+ years of legacy application support, experience modernizing legacy enterprise applications. Experience supporting mission-critical operational systems.


• Must have an active Secret clearance


• Experience with COBOL, Legacy application sustainment, Mainframe/legacy integration, Batch processing, Data synchronization, Legacy modernization techniques, API integration, SQL/Oracle


• Security+ certification is preferred BlueWater Federal is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law. BlueWater Federal is a VEVRAA federal contractor and we request priority referral of veterans.