AS400 Developer-IBM iSeries

The developer will be working with one of the leading Wholesale retailers in the US. The ideal candidate should have the ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment. The ideal candidate must possess excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability and know-how to collaborate effectively with domain experts and the IT leadership team. 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
• 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