System Analyst - Senior Technical Lead
HCLTech
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HCLTech is seeking a System Analyst - Senior Technical Lead in Smithfield, RI for an onsite role focused on a large IBM WebSphere 8.5.5 to Tomcat on Kubernetes modernization initiative.
You will lead discovery, dependency mapping, and migration assessments, ensuring SOAP interfaces, security, and business functionality are preserved while upgrading Java-based applications.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of Technical System Analysis experience.
- Strong experience with IBM WebSphere environments.
- Experience analyzing enterprise Java applications.
- Experience supporting application modernization or migration programs.
- Experience documenting complex application ecosystems and service dependencies.
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes-based deployments.
- Experience with SOAP-based enterprise integrations.
Responsibilities
- Lead discovery, impact assessment, dependency analysis, and migration planning.
- Perform current state assessment of WebSphere 8.5.5 hosted apps.
- Document architecture, deployment topology, integrations and configurations.
- Assess Java runtime dependencies and upgrade paths.
- Analyze WebSphere vs Tomcat configurations for migration.
- Identify and map service dependencies and data flows.
- Validate SOAP interfaces remain unchanged post-migration.
- Create technical documentation and risk mitigation artifacts.
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Job description
HCLTech is looking for a highly talented and self- motivated System Analyst to join it in advancing the technological world through innovation and creativity.
We are seeking a highly skilled Technical System Analyst to lead application discovery, impact assessment, dependency analysis, and migration assessment activities as part of a large-scale IBM WebSphere 8.5.5 to Tomcat on Kubernetes modernization initiative.
The role will focus on understanding the existing application landscape, analyzing WebSphere-specific implementations, identifying application and service dependencies, assessing migration impacts, and defining technical migration requirements for Java-based applications deployed across two independently managed platforms. The engagement involves a lift-and-shift migration with Java upgrades while preserving existing SOAP interfaces, consumer integrations, security mechanisms, and business functionality.
- Current State Assessment
- Perform detailed analysis of IBM WebSphere 8.5.5 hosted applications and environments.
- Document existing application architecture, deployment topology, integrations, and configurations.
- Assess Java runtime dependencies and compatibility for Java version upgrades.
- WebSphere & Tomcat Migration Analysis
- Analyze WebSphere-specific components and recommend equivalent Tomcat configurations.
- Evaluate migration requirements for:
- JNDI configurations
- JDBC connection pools
- JMS resources
- Security configurations
- Session management
- Web Services & Integration Analysis
- Analyze SOAP-based web services and service contracts.
- Identify service consumers and integration touchpoints.
- Assess impact of infrastructure and platform migration on service consumers.
- Validate that existing SOAP interfaces remain unchanged post migration.
- Dependency Mapping & Impact Assessment
- Perform application dependency analysis.
- Identify upstream and downstream integrations.
- Analyze backend database interactions and data flows.
- Produce application and interface dependency maps.
- Security Assessment
- Analyze existing SAML-based authentication and authorization mechanisms.
- Assess migration impact on identity and access management integrations.
- Validate compatibility with the target platform.
- Create Technical Documentation
- Service catalog
- Current and target-state diagrams
- Gap analysis documents
- Risk and mitigation reports
- Stakeholder Collaboration
- Work closely with architects, developers, middleware teams, infrastructure teams, and application owners.
- Facilitate requirement gathering and technical workshops.
- Support migration planning and execution teams through design reviews.
- IBM WebSphere 8.5.5 Administration & Configuration Analysis
- Tomcat Architecture and Configuration
- Java 6 through current LTS versions
- Spring Framework (Core, DI/IOC)
- SOAP, WSDL, XML Schema
- JMS
- JDBC, Connection Pooling
- Maven
- GitHub
- SonarQube
- UML, Architecture Diagrams, Technical Specifications
- 8+ years of Technical System Analysis experience.
- Strong experience with IBM WebSphere environments.
- Experience analyzing enterprise Java applications.
- Experience supporting application modernization or migration programs.
- Experience documenting complex application ecosystems and service dependencies.
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes-based deployments.
- Experience with SOAP-based enterprise integrations.
- Pay Range Minimum: $95,000 per year
- Pay Range Maximum: $151,000 per year
HCLTech is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees regardless of race, religion, sex, color, age, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, physical disability or genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with federal, state, and/or local law. Should any applicant have concerns about discrimination in the hiring process, they should provide a detailed report of those concerns to secure@hcltech.com for investigation.
A candidate’s pay within the range will depend on their work location, skills, experience, education, and other factors permitted by law.
This role may also be eligible for performance-based bonuses subject to company policies.
In addition, this role is eligible for the following benefits subject to company policies:
- medical
- dental
- vision
- pharmacy
- life
- accidental death & dismemberment
- disability insurance
- employee assistance program
- 401(k) retirement plan
- 10 days of paid time off per year (some positions are eligible for need-based leave with no designated number of leave days per year)
- 10 paid holidays per year
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