About the position
Comporium is a diversified communications company providing a Quintuple Play of five services -- voice, video, data, wireless and security -- at the retail level; as well as, providing security monitoring and media services for its industry customers. Under this concept, the Comporium Group is uniquely positioned to offer customers a one-stop-shopping for all their communications needs. As a Senior IBMi Software Developer, you will be responsible for effectively communicating with business associates, team members, and other IT departments to determine requirements, communicate status, and support solutions. You will work jointly with other analysts on projects, enhancements, maintenance, and support, providing guidance to junior team members and acting as advised by team leadership. Your role will involve contributing to software analysis, design, and testing specifications, participating in interactions with Systems Engineers and Analysts, and developing advanced software solutions in new and existing systems.
Responsibilities
- Effectively communicate with business associates, team members, and other IT departments as needed to determine requirements, communicate status, and support solutions.
- Work jointly with other analysts on projects, enhancements, maintenance, and support; providing guidance to junior and uninformed team members and acting as advised by team leadership.
- Contribute to software analysis, design and testing specifications through completion of standard exercises. Provide documentation that effectively communicate implementation expectation.
- Participate in interaction with Systems Engineers and Analysts outside of project team to address integration and security details with other internal and external systems.
- Investigate existing code libraries and modules to re-use as appropriate and minimize impact to existing automation.
- Develop highly advanced software solutions in new and existing systems to support specifications designed by the project team.
- Adhere to architectural standards and processes for design, development, testing and deployment of software solutions. Participate in architectural decision making and roll-out as led by IT Architects.
- Assure solution quality through development and inspection of system-level test plans and assure that adequate testing has been completed.
- Provide advanced technical and operational support when high profile issues occur in systems for which you are responsible.
- Maintain solutions developed by your team as the need arises. Correct issues discovered, test the solution and communicate resolution to appropriate team members and business customers.
- Provide expert technical or project leadership through consistent, independent management of various projects or technical oversight of specific software systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree preferred or 10 years of related college and related work experience.
- Ten or more years of experience working in software development and requirements gathering. Work experience should include application development background using SDLC.
- Senior level experience with IBM i operating system including, DB2, security and middleware components.
- Senior level knowledge required for the following languages include COBOL, RPG, Control Language, Java, and Python.
- General understanding of RDMS is a plus.
- Excellent competencies in planning, organization time management, written and oral communication basic understanding of business operations.
