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HCLTech is looking for a highly talented and self- motivated WebSphere System Analyst to join it in advancing the technological world through innovation and creativity.
Job Title: WebSphere System Analyst
Position Type: Full-time
Job ID: 142497
Location: Smithfield, RI (Remote)
Job Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled Technical System Analyst to lead application discovery, impact assessment, dependency analysis, and migration assessment activities as part of a large-scale IBM WebSphere 8.5.5 to Tomcat on Kubernetes modernization initiative.
The role will focus on understanding the existing application landscape, analyzing WebSphere-specific implementations, identifying application and service dependencies, assessing migration impacts, and defining technical migration requirements for Java-based applications deployed across two independently managed platforms. The engagement involves a lift-and-shift migration with Java upgrades while preserving existing SOAP interfaces, consumer integrations, security mechanisms, and business functionality.
Key Responsibilities
-Perform detailed analysis of IBM WebSphere 8.5.5 hosted applications and environments.
-Document existing application architecture, deployment topology, integrations, and configurations.
-Assess Java runtime dependencies and compatibility for Java version upgrades.
-WebSphere & Tomcat Migration Analysis
-Analyze WebSphere-specific components and recommend equivalent Tomcat configurations.
-Evaluate migration requirements for:
- Application deployment descriptors
- JNDI configurations
- JDBC connection pools
- JMS resources
- Security configurations
- Session management
- Web Services & Integration Analysis
- Analyze SOAP-based web services and service contracts.
- Identify service consumers and integration touchpoints.
- Assess impact of infrastructure and platform migration on service consumers.
- Validate that existing SOAP interfaces remain unchanged post migration.
- Dependency Mapping & Impact Assessment
- Perform application dependency analysis.
- Identify upstream and downstream integrations.
- Analyze backend database interactions and data flows.
- Produce application and interface dependency maps.
- Security Assessment
- Analyze existing SAML-based authentication and authorization mechanisms.
- Assess migration impact on identity and access management integrations.
- Validate compatibility with the target platform.
- Create Technical Documentation
- Application inventory
- Service catalog
- Current and target-state diagrams
- Migration assessment reports
- Gap analysis documents
- Risk and mitigation reports
Stakeholder Collaboration
- Work closely with architects, developers, middleware teams, infrastructure teams, and application owners.
- Facilitate requirement gathering and technical workshops.
- Support migration planning and execution teams through design reviews.
Skill Requirements
- Application Discovery, Reverse Engineering, Impact Analysis
- IBM WebSphere 8.5.5 Administration & Configuration Analysis
- Tomcat Architecture and Configuration
- Java 6 through current LTS versions
- Spring Framework (Core, DI/IOC)
- SOAP, WSDL, XML Schema
- JMS
- JDBC, Connection Pooling
- SAML Authentication & Authorization
- Maven
- GitHub
- Docker, Kubernetes
- SonarQube
- UML, Architecture Diagrams, Technical Specifications
Other Requirements
- 8 years of Technical System Analysis experience.
- Strong experience with IBM WebSphere environments.
- Experience analyzing enterprise Java applications.
- Experience supporting application modernization or migration programs.
- Experience documenting complex application ecosystems and service dependencies.
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes-based deployments.
- Experience with SOAP-based enterprise integrations.
Pay and Benefits
Pay Range Minimum: $95000 /Annual
Pay Range Maximum: $151000 / Annual
HCLTech is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees regardless of race, religion, sex, color, age, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, physical disability or genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with federal, state, and/or local law. Should any applicant have concerns about discrimination in the hiring process, they should provide a detailed report of those concerns to secure@hcltech.com for investigation.
Compensation and Benefits
A candidate’s pay within the range will depend on their work location, skills, experience, education, and other factors permitted by law. This role may also be eligible for performance-based bonuses subject to company policies. In addition, this role is eligible for the followi14520ng benefits subject to company policies: medical, dental, vision, pharmacy, life, accidental death & dismemberment, and disability insurance; employee assistance program; 401(k) retirement plan; 10 days of paid time off per year (some positions are eligible for need-based leave with no designated number of leave days per year); and 10 paid holidays per year.
Salary : $95,000 - $151,000