AI Engineer Agent Legacy System Modernization- only on w2

Jersey City, NJ, US • Posted 9 hours ago • Updated 9 hours ago

Contract W2

Travel Required

Able to Sponsor

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Depends on Experience

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Skills

Artificial Intelligence
Auditing
Autogen
Automated Testing
Business Rules
COBOL
Command-line Interface
Continuous Delivery
Continuous Integration
Extraction
Git
IBM IMS
IBM WebSphere MQ
Insurance
Java
Jersey
LangChain
Legacy Systems
MI
Mainframe
Management
Marketing Intelligence
Mentorship
Migration
MongoDB
Orchestration
Policy Administration
Prompt Engineering
Python
RESTful
Reverse Engineering
STE
Smalltalk
Software Engineering
Spring Framework
Underwriting
VisualAge

Summary

Title : AI Engineer – Agent Legacy System Modernization

Location : Jersey City, NJ (White House Station) (onsite)

Duration : 12+ Months

Rate : 55 $/hr.on w2

Need local and F2F interview

Relevant Experience 8 to 10 Yr

We are modernizing a large-scale enterprise insurance policy administration system from VisualAge Smalltalk / mainframe COBOL to Java 21 + Spring Boot + MongoDB. You will design and build the AI agents and skills that power every phase of the transformation — from reverse engineering and code extraction through to Java code generation and synthesis Build and maintain production AI agents for reverse engineering, code extraction, code transformation, synthesis and automated testing across Smalltalk and COBOL codebasesAuthor reusable AI skills for repeatable subtasks (pseudocode conversion, diagram generation, business rule extraction, pattern identification) Design multi-agent pipelines with orchestration, audit logging, and human-in-the-loop checkpointsOwn the agent standards library — design principles, naming conventions, and quality gates Mentor engineers on agentic AI patterns, prompt engineering, and legacy system analysis
---Required Skills

Hands-on experience building production AI agents (Anthropic, LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, or similar)
Strong prompt engineering — system prompts, structured instructions, tool use, context window management
- 5+ years software engineering; 2+ years in agentic AI or LLM systems
- Proficiency in Java 21 and Python
- Ability to read and reason about legacy code (Smalltalk, COBOL, or equivalent)
- Experience with legacy-to-modern migration projects
- REST API design (OpenAPI 3.0) and MongoDB
- Git, CLI-first tooling, CI/CD pipelines
-Nice to Have
- Insurance industry experience (policy administration, rating, underwriting)
- IMS/DB2, IBM MQ, or mainframe integration background.

Must Skills:

AI Agent Development
Legacy Modernization (COBOL / Smalltalk to Java)
Prompt Engineering
Java + Spring Boot + MongoDB

Thanks & regards,

Anitha golla

Technical Recruiter | ASCII Group, LLC

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38345 W. 10 Mile Rd, Ste.#365; Farmington, MI 48335

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Position Id: 8930568
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