Position: Middleware AI consultant
Location: Onsite, Chicago Day 1 onsite
Duration: Long term
Description:
Core Middleware Expertise
· IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 7.x, 8.x, 8.5.x, 9.x
· WebSphere Network Deployment (ND)
· Cell, node, cluster, and deployment manager architectures
· WebSphere administration and troubleshooting
· WebSphere security configuration
· LDAP and Active Directory integrations
· JMS, JNDI, JDBC, connection pools
· IBM MQ integrations
· Shared libraries and class loading
· Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
· Enterprise middleware architecture and administration
· Legacy middleware modernization and consolidation programs
· Application Assessment & Discovery
· Application inventory and discovery
· Middleware dependency analysis
· Integration analysis
Identification of WebSphere-specific dependencies:
· EJBs
· JMS
· JNDI resources
· Deployment descriptors
· Security components
· Shared libraries
· Custom classloading configurations
· Custom middleware services
· Application complexity classification
· Migration feasibility analysis
· Risk and effort estimation
· Application rationalization and modernization planning
· Java Platform Knowledge
· Java SE / Java EE / Jakarta EE
· EAR, WAR, and JAR packaging
· Maven
· Gradle
· Spring Framework
· REST APIs
· SOAP services
· XML configuration analysis
· Enterprise integration patterns
· Claude Code Experience
· Resource must be comfortable leveraging Claude Code throughout the assessment engagement.
Capabilities should include:
· Codebase analysis
· Dependency discovery
· Configuration review
· Automated documentation generation
· Technical debt identification
· Migration suitability analysis
· Complexity scoring
· Refactoring recommendation generation
· Migration roadmap development
· Validation of AI-generated findings and recommendations
· Modernization Assessment Experience
· WebSphere-to-JBoss migration assessments
· Identification of low-complexity migration candidates
· Identification of middleware-only remediation opportunities
· Application portability assessments
· Licensing optimization opportunities
· Development of modernization roadmaps
· Development of migration waves and prioritization strategies
· Minimization of application team engagement through automated analysis and AI-assisted assessment techniques
Supporting Skills
· Linux administration fundamentals
· Shell scripting
· Python scripting
· Log analysis
· Performance assessment
· Configuration management concepts
· Enterprise authentication technologies:
· LDAP
· Active Directory
· SSO
Required Deliverables Experience
· Current-state middleware inventory
· Application dependency matrix
· Application complexity assessment
· Migration feasibility report
· Candidate prioritization matrix
· Application team effort assessment
· Modernization roadmap
· Executive summary and recommendations
Regards…!!!!
Aravind
Sr. Recruiter | Talent Acquisition Team
Conquest Tech Solutions, Inc.
