iSeries/AS400 Developer

Axelon

Issaquah, WA

JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$53 Per Hour
SKILLS
1st Level Support, 2nd Level Support, Analysis Skills, Architectural Design, Best Practices, Code Reviews, Communication Skills, Computer Programming, Configuration Management, Data Mapping, Database Administration, Database Technology, Distribution Management, Distribution Warehousing, Embedded SQL, IBM AS-400 Server, Knowledge Base, Merchandising, Messaging Middleware, On Call, Performance Analysis, Printers, Quality Assurance, Query Analysis, RPG Programming Language, Requirements Management, Retail, SQL (Structured Query Language), Schedule Development, Software Administration, Software Reuse, Star Schema, Stored Procedures, Team Player, Unit Test, User Experience Design (UXD), XML (EXtensible Markup Language)
LOCATION
Issaquah, WA
POSTED
3 days ago

Pay Rate: $53 per hour

  • Location: Issaquah, WA

Responsibilities:

  • Analyze and develop iSeries code that supports various applications in the Retail Domain.
  • Create functional specifications for applications using standard practices, processes, and procedures.
  • Perform code reviews, unit testing, and coordinate with development team members on development and QA tasks.
  • Adhere to the company’s IS division development standards and deployment processes and procedures.
  • Collaborate with the Product Owner, business area, team members, and QA to ensure requirements are clearly defined, understood, and documented.
  • Participate in development estimation, deployment, and release planning to ensure delivery of solutions.
  • Responsible for 2nd level support resolution of daily incident tickets, creation of KB articles for 1st level support, and provide on-call support.
  • Perform peer reviews on source code to ensure reuse, scalability, and the use of best practices.
  • Participate in collaborative technical discussions that focus on software user experience, design, architecture, and development.

Requirements:

  • Excellent programming skills on the iSeries platform - Analyze and create new programs using RPG, RPG ILE, SQLRPGLE, and Control Language (CLP/CLLE).
  • Very good knowledge of SQL concepts - Analyze and modify complex SQL queries, embedded SQL in SQLRPGLE, Cursor programming, SQL Sprocs.
  • Database Concepts - Create and analyze Physical files, Logical Files, SQL tables, Indexes, Views, Stored procedures.
  • Good working knowledge in screen programming - Display Files, Subfiles, and Printer files.
  • Document business rules effectively and should be able to create data mapping documents after analyzing program flows and data flows.
  • ILE Programming - Analyze and create program modules, binding directories, service programs.
  • Working knowledge of Message Queue (MQ), MQ Trigger, and embedding XML tags in RPG Programs.
  • Good communication skills and the job will involve owning a project task completely based on the communication with the analysts at the client site.

Preferred Skills:

  • Good working knowledge in Turnover - the code configuration management tool.
  • Good working knowledge in X- Analysis - cross-reference tool for iSeries.
  • Knowledge of Triggers, Message Queuing for inter-program/inter-system communication.
  • ROBOT job scheduler - knowledge in creating and setting up scheduled jobs in the iSeries.
  • Knowledge of normalized, denormalized tables, Star Schema databases.
  • Working knowledge on iSeries Navigator - to run queries and analyze the performance of SQL queries.
  • Knowledge in the Retail Domain, especially in areas like Merchandising, Warehouse Management, Distribution, etc.

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