iSeries/AS400 Developer

Job Description

Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

• Analyzes and develops iSeries code that supports various applications in the Retail Domain.

• Creates functional specifications for applications supported using standard practices, processes, and procedures.

• Performs code reviews, unit testing, coordinates with development team members on development, and QA tasks.

• Adheres to the client's IS division development standards and deployment processes and procedures.

• Collaborates with the Product Owner, business area, team members, and QA to ensure requirements are clearly defined, understood, and documented.

• Participates 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: Must-Have

• 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

Good to Have

• 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