RPG Senior Software Engineer

The Senior Software Engineer is responsible for the interpretation of system requirements into designs and the engineering and implementation of solutions. They also play a key role in investigating system issues and defects and providing solutions to the users reported issues.

The Senior Engineer will be hands on in Software Development activities however they will also spend a great deal of their time analysing requirements and problems to provide designs and solutions to our offshore Software Engineers to complete the coding activities.  They are also our gatekeepers of quality.  They will review and approve the code artefacts prior to release to testing.

Day-to-Day responsibilities include

• Building solutions, creating features and deliverables according to user stories or technical designs.
• Create and amend programs in accordance with the design.
• Provide support for existing systems, carrying out investigative work and performing software changes to resolve issues.
• Plan, design and conduct tests of programs; correct errors and re-test to achieve an error free result.
• Execute and document all work in accordance with agreed standards.
• Take part in continual improvement discussions to consider better ways of achieving solutions or conducting processes.
• Support change brought about through Software Engineering activities, showing understanding, imagination and creativity.
• Estimate and plan work and advise manager of progress against activities and highlight issues.
• Responsible for the timely and accurate completion of activity diaries.

To be successful in this role we're looking for the following technical skills/experience:

• Good IBM i knowledge
• Good IO/S knowledge
• Languages:
• CL
• RPG/400
• RPG IV
• ILE
• Free Format
• SQL
• IBM i Stored Procedures
• MQ
• Query/400
• Development Tools:
• RADi
• Jira
• Confluence
• Rocket Aldon CMS for i