[Hiring] PowerBuilder Developer @DMS Vision

Role Description

The is seeking a Technical Specialist contractor analyst/designer/developer (>10 years experience) for a 12-month engagement for the Engineering Application Services Department (EAS) to enhance and maintain a mission-critical application called HiCAMS.

• HiCAMS is a custom, client-server, PowerBuilder application used to track work, materials, and payments on Division of Highways Construction projects.
• There are many Java, C+, and ASP.NET/C# interfaces with various internal and external systems that need to be maintained and enhanced.
• Initial assignment will be to solve a Java upgrade problem in a Red Hat Linux server environment.
• Diagnose errors/problems caused by the Linux upgrade and create solutions to ensure Java interfaces work.
• Work on analyzing/designing/coding/testing data windows in PowerBuilder 10.0 to replace outdated spreadsheet formats.
• Analyze/design/code/test/implement/support bug fixes and functional enhancements to the system and its interfaces.

Qualifications

• Experience as a PowerBuilder developer using PB10 or more recent versions.
• Development experience in Java, particularly solving library and compatibility issues between versions.
• Strong SQL skills (HiCAMS uses a Sybase database but SQL skills in any database platform are acceptable).
• Strong Microsoft Suite experience, particularly Excel.
• Experience working in a remote software development environment.
• Strong analytical, conceptual, and technical skills.
• Positive interpersonal skills coupled with an independent, self-motivated work ethic.
• Ability to work with a custom base-class.
• Proven written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain business processes to IT users and IT applications to business users.

Requirements

• Development experience in C# (Highly desired).
• Development experience in C+ (Highly desired).
• Experience coding stored procedures and triggers (any database) (Highly desired).
• Experience developing .NET applications and APIs in a Visual Studio environment (Highly desired).
• Data conversion experience (Highly desired).

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