Sr. Websphere Developer/Architect -- 100% Remote -- W2 Profiles

Required Skills & Experience

• The ideal candidate should possess:
• 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

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

Preferred Experience

• 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