Senior Legacy Systems Engineer

Senior Legacy Systems EngineerBluewater 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.ResponsibilitiesProvide 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.QualificationsBachelor'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 clearanceExperience with COBOL, Legacy application sustainment, Mainframe/legacy integration, Batch processing, Data synchronization, Legacy modernization techniques, API integration, SQL/OracleSecurity+ certification is preferredBlueWater 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.