We are looking for a highly skilled
Resident Engineer to support a large-scale application modernization initiative involving the migration of 20+ applications from Tradition WebSphere Application Server (WAS) to Open Liberty/WebSphere Liberty.
Ability to implement, install, configure, customize, upgrade, migrate, develop, or design Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) solutions. Support the move from non-production to production environment and participate in knowledge sharing for self-sufficiency. Additionally, be able to perform ELM health checks and performance analysis, recommendations, and tuning.
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
Requirements - US Citizenship
- Strong hands-on development experience migrating client application code from Traditional WAS to Liberty
- Deep expertise with WebSphere Application Server (Traditional WAS)
- Proven Open Liberty / WebSphere Liberty migration experience
- Strong Java development skills
- Application modernization and migration experience
- Hands-on implementation, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and configuration expertise
- Experience working directly with client application teams in an embedded delivery model
- Ability to perform knowledge transfer and create technical documentation
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills Transformation Advisor (TA)
- Application Modernization Accelerator (AMA)
- IBM Bob
Desired Skills - Previous experience serving as a Resident Engineer or technical consultant embedded with client teams
- Experience supporting enterprise-scale Java application modernization initiatives
- Familiarity with DevOps and CI/CD practices within Java environments
