Application Modernization Specialist
- Toronto, ON, Canada
$50 to $60 CAD / hour · Contract
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- Pay
- $50 to $60 CAD / hour
- Job type
- Contract
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- Experience
- 5-8+ years of Java development experience
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
Required Skills & Experience
-5-8+ years of Java development experience
-Experience modernizing legacy Java 8 applications to newer Java versions
-Strong Angular and AngularJS experience, including AngularJS-to-Angular migrations
-Experience breaking apart/refactoring monolithic applications and extracting services
Strong Spring/Spring Boot, REST API, JPA/Hibernate, and SQL experience
-Experience diagnosing application performance issues using Java profiling, tracing, SQL analysis, and load testing
-Experience with Db2 or similar relational databases
-Experience conducting code/technical debt assessments and creating modernization recommendations
-Strong understanding of secure coding and OWASP
Nice to Have Skills & Experience
-Azure experience
-Docker/Kubernetes and CI/CD
-SonarQube or similar code analysis tools
-Experience with IBM environments
-Higher education, student registration, or payment system experience
Job Description
Insight Global is looking for an Application Modernization Specialist to support a large application modernization project with a leading higher education client. This person will assess and modernize a legacy application built on Java 8, Angular/AngularJS, REST APIs, and Db2. This will be a hands-on technical role focused on identifying performance issues, technical debt, and opportunities to upgrade or refactor the application.
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Responsibilities
Assess and modernize a legacy application built with Java 8, Angular/AngularJS, REST APIs, and Db2. Identify performance issues and technical debt, and recommend or implement upgrades, refactoring, and service extraction.
Requirements
Requires 5–8+ years of Java development experience, including modernizing legacy Java applications and migrating AngularJS applications to Angular. Candidates should have strong Spring/Spring Boot, REST API, JPA/Hibernate, SQL, database, performance diagnostics, technical debt assessment, and secure coding experience.
Skills
- Java
- Java 8 Modernization
- Angular
- AngularJS
- Application Refactoring
- Microservices
- Spring Boot
- REST APIs
- JPA/Hibernate
- SQL
- Db2
- Performance Diagnostics
- Java Profiling
- Load Testing
- Secure Coding
- OWASP
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Categories
- Technology
- Software
- Education
- Consulting
Keywords
- Java
- Java 8
- Angular
- AngularJS
- Spring
- Spring Boot
- REST APIs
- JPA
- Hibernate
- SQL
- Db2
- Relational Databases
- Application Modernization
- Legacy Applications
- Monolithic Applications
- Service Extraction
- Application Refactoring
- Performance Diagnostics
- Java Profiling
- Tracing
- SQL Analysis
- Load Testing
- Technical Debt Assessment
- Secure Coding
- OWASP
- Azure
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD
- SonarQube