IBMi Software Engineer Hybrid in PA

Hi,

Role: IBMi Software Engineer

Location: Reading, PA

Duration: 6+ Month Contract to Hire

W2 Consultants only

2 day a week onsite in Reading PA

Overview:

Our Client is seeking an IBMi Software Engineer to support proprietary financial applications, including accounts payable/receivable, general ledger, and electronic matching systems. This role involves troubleshooting production issues, developing new software modules across multiple projects, and leading the design of select components. You will collaborate with business partners and process owners to translate requirements into effective solutions, contribute to the financial application modernization roadmap, and work closely with a diverse team while mentoring junior engineers.

Position Description:

• This role supports legacy IBM i applications and requires the ability to understand and reverseengineer existing RPG and CL code based on businessprovided requirements.
• Serve as the primary support lead for multiple missioncritical applications, owning daytoday support and issue resolution.
• Support the full application lifecycle (design, development, testing, release, and production support) in collaboration with senior engineers and technical leads.
• Partner with technical and business stakeholders to gather requirements, define acceptance criteria, and advise on technical feasibility and implementation approaches.
• Design, develop, test, maintain, and troubleshoot application code and backend database schemas, ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Produce clean, welldocumented, maintainable code that adheres to established standards, including unit/UI testing and CI/CD practices.
• Triage and analyze production issues, coordinating with crossfunctional teams to drive rootcause resolution.
• Provide technical leadership through task assignment, code review, and mentorship of junior and offshore engineers, and participate in newhire interviews.
• Influence technology standards, tools, and design patterns as part of continuous improvement initiatives.

Required Skills:

• Must have strong experience with IBMi development, with primary focus on RPG (aka RPG/400, RPGLE, FreeForm RPG) and Control Language (aka CL, CLLE)
• Familiarity with additional IBM i technologies such as ILE (Integrated Language Environment), DB2 SQL (aka DB2/400, SQL/400), DBU, and SQLRPGLE is a strong plus.
• SQL -Experience in writing optimized complex SQL statements in DB2
• IBM I rational, Implementer/MDCMS, Xanalysis, Advance Query Tool, Jira, Confluence.
• Experience with Agile methodology and usage of Jira board with daily standups.
• Understanding of Web Services/Restful API, SOA, XML/JSON.
• A strong combination of program language experience and business requirement gathering.

Bonus Skills:

• Java web technology experience supporting IBM i integration and modernization efforts.
• Financial application experience.