Senior IBM i / AS400 RPG Developer

Job Title: Senior IBM i / AS400 RPG Developer

Employment Type: Contract

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Senior IBM i / AS400 RPG Developer to provide application development, systems analysis, maintenance, enhancement, integration, and production support for enterprise applications running on the IBM i / iSeries / AS400 platform.

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on development experience with RPG IV / RPGLE and CL, along with experience working directly with business users to gather requirements and translate business needs into technical solutions.

Experience supporting IBM i applications within a Higher Education or University environment is highly preferred.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform business and systems analysis for applications running on IBM i / iSeries / AS400.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance applications using:
  • RPG IV / RPGLE
  • CL / CLLE
  • RPG III, as needed
• Support both existing legacy applications and new development initiatives.
• Work directly with business users to gather, analyze, and clarify requirements.
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions, including situations where detailed programming specifications are not available.
• Support applications related to:
  • Billing
  • Payments
  • Inventory
  • Order processing
  • Labor
  • Financial reconciliation
• Develop and maintain integrations between IBM i applications and enterprise systems.
• Support integrations with PeopleSoft and Identity Management systems.
• Troubleshoot production issues and perform application fixes and enhancements.
• Perform unit testing, integration testing, and application validation.
• Assist with reviewing and testing development work performed by other programmers.
• Support reconciliation of interfaced data between IBM i applications and enterprise systems.
• Collaborate closely with business users, developers, analysts, and other technology teams.
• Quickly learn existing applications, business processes, and system dependencies.

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with IBM i / iSeries / AS400 application development.
• Strong programming experience with RPG IV / RPGLE.
• Strong experience with CL / CLLE.
• Experience with IBM i application maintenance, enhancement, and production support.
• Experience performing both systems analysis and application development.
• Experience gathering requirements directly from business users.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Experience testing and validating application changes.
• Ability to work effectively in environments where detailed technical specifications may not always be available.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• IBM i / AS400 development experience within Higher Education or a University environment.
• Experience supporting enterprise applications in a college or university setting.
• Experience integrating IBM i applications with PeopleSoft.
• Experience with RPG III.
• Experience with financial, billing, payment, inventory, payroll, or reconciliation applications.
• Experience with enterprise Identity Management integrations.
• Experience supporting web-based applications integrated with IBM i.

Nice to Have

• Experience with ARCAD change management tools.
• Experience with Townsend / Perplexity security or integration utilities.
• Exposure to Java.
• Exposure to PHP.
• Experience supporting complex legacy IBM i environments.
• Previous experience working with small, collaborative application development teams.

Core Skills

IBM i | AS400 | iSeries | RPG IV | RPGLE | CL | CLLE | RPG III | PeopleSoft | Systems Analysis | Application Development | Production Support | Higher Education

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