Senior RPG Develope

Job Description

The Senior RPG Developer will be responsible to exemplify best practices while developing and implementing efficient technical solutions, adhering to, and promoting established departmental standards and development methodologies. The Senior RPG Developer will continuously develop and utilize technical expertise in IBMi-based programming languages, primarily RPG. The Senior RPG Developer must be innovative and creative in solving complex problems. The Senior RPG Developer will have the ability to think critically and analytically, actively contribute to various projects, tasks, and support priorities to meet organizational commitments.

Job Responsibilities:

• Thorough and documented analysis, design, development, and testing for new and enhancement programming projects while delivering assignments to meet agreed-upon timeframes and milestones.
• Analyze functional requirements to determine technical design and creating technical specifications for larger scale projects.
• Incorporate performance and auditing considerations in delivered applications and development
• Assist junior developers and work with peers for solution design, development, and reviews
• Address production support issues; identifying and resolving at root cause level
• Identify and suggest new and evolving technologies and provide management with insight and recommendations/improvements to current systems
• Responsible for the adherence to change controls and change management protocols, IT governance policies and procedures
• Comply fully with all government standards and regulations, including, but not limited to HIPAA, PHI, FDA, Medicare, and Medicaid
• Work closely with IT Management, technical, and business organization team members following appropriate structured software development and project management controls, methodologies, and standards.

Qualifications

• BS Degree in Computer Science or equivalent discipline or a combination of education and experience
• 7+ years of professional experience with RPG(ILE/FREE) using Procedures, Service Programs, and Functions, within the IBMi platform.
• 5+ years of experience with Embedded and Interactive SQL. Experience in creating and utilizing views in development practices.
• 5+ years of experience in advanced DB2 database design, utilizing techniques such as referential integrity, and normalization.
• 2+ years of experience in Rational Development tools for IBMi
• Experience with full-life cycle implementations of IBMi solutions
• Change management experience and familiarity with an IBMi change management tool such as Turnover.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail
• Efficient in organizational and time management skills
• Effective verbal and written communication and ability to convey technical concepts in a non-technical manner
• Capable of balancing multiple priorities with aggressive timelines
• Experience in exposing and consuming web services, JSON, REST APIs on IBMi is a plus
• Experience with EDI transactions (extract/load/send/receive/translation/mapping) and related tools is a plus
• Experience with leading a team, guiding, and assisting other team members while leading mid to large size projects end-to-end, is a plus.
• Health Care domain experience is a plus