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# Legacy Systems Engineer

- **Company:** BlueWater Federal Solutions
- **Location:** Montgomery, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Architectural Patterns, Batch Processing, COBOL (Programming Language), Data Integrity, Data Synchronization, Mainframes, Oracle (Applications), SQL Databases, Enterprise Software Applications, Technical Debt, SC Clearance, Operational Systems, Code Restructuring, Legacy Systems
- **Published:** July 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/bf22878a-d66b-4fdc-9b4e-e134a559c042

## About the Role

* 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

## Description

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.


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