AS/400 Solution Designer

SA TECHNOLOGIES; Montreal (administrative region); On-site; CAD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

SA Technologies Inc. is hiring an AS/400 Solution Designer to lead technical design from conception to production for projects in Toronto, ON. The role oversees a small dev team and ensures adherence to standards and schedules while advising the project manager on development planning.

The ideal candidate has deep RPGLE, IBM i, DB2/SQL expertise and strong UML, with fluency in French and English. Knowledge of Java, XML and related tools is a plus in a fast-growing IT services environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in solution design.
• At least 5 years developing RPGLE applications.
• Strong knowledge of IBM i (AS/400) and DB2/SQL.
• Familiar with UML and related methodologies.
• Experience leading a 4–6 person development team.
• Excellent bilingual communication in French and English.
• Bonus: Insurance knowledge or related domain experience.
• Experience with XML and related technologies.
• Enterprise Java knowledge is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Designs and maintenance of complete application solutions based on project requirements.
• Ensures solutions meet overall architecture, logic and business technique.
• Analyzes impacts and promotes reuse of components.
• Writes or updates deliverables (documentation, sequence diagrams, class diagrams).
• Manages a team of developers (4-6) from a technical standpoint.
• Ensures compliance with norms, standards and code reviews.
• Participates in development efforts and application support.
• Provides support for estimates and planning of development work.
• Assists project manager for development planning.
• Participates in deployment of applications across environments.
• Collaborates with other teams to resolve project conflicts.

Skills

Solution design

RPGLE dev

IBM i / AS400

DB2 SQL

Team leadership

UML

Rational Developer

MKS Implementer

French & English

Java knowledge

Tools

Rational Developer for IBM i

MKS Implementer

WebLogic Server

WebSphere

Oracle

XML

Job description

SA Technologies Inc. (www.satincorp.com) is a market leader and one of the fastest growing IT consulting firms with operations in US, Canada, Mexico & India. SAT is an Oracle Gold Partner, SAP Services Partner & IBM Certified enterprise.

All SA Technologies requirements are Direct Client Requirements from IT Hiring Managers. We guarantee you the best rate for your skills and performance.

Job Description

Title: AS/400 Solution Designer

Location: Toronto, ON

Type: Fulltime or Contract or CTH

Scope:

Reporting to the Director of the Development Team for Application Sales and

Distribution, the incumbent acts as the technical lead for projects. From the design phase to the production environment, will participate in the organic design (sequence diagram) under development. Candidate will play an advisory role with programmers AS / 400 of his team and participate in the implementation of components according to pre-established norms and standards and ensuring adherence to quality and schedule.

Responsibilities

• Designs and maintenance of complete application solutions based on project requirements.
• Ensures that the solutions meet the overall architecture, logic and business technique.
• Analyzes and documents the impacts of proposed solutions while identifying and promoting the reuse of components.
• Writes or updates the deliverables according to the methodology (documentation, sequence diagram and class).
• Manages a team of developers (4-6) from a technical standpoint
• Ensures compliance of norms and standards, best practice development and code reviews, while contributing to improving these.
• Participates in the development and application support.
• Participates in development efforts estimates and assumptions provides concrete support for its figures.
• Advises and assists the project manager for the planning of the development work.
• Participates, advises, document and follows the deployment of applications in different environments.
• Dealings with other teams to identify conflicts between projects and manage resolutions.

Technical Competencies / Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in solution design
• Experience of at least 5 years of development of applications RPGLE
• Very good knowledge of the 'IBM i' Operating system (AS/400)
• Very good knowledge of DB2 as well as structured query language (SQL)
• Knowledge of MKS Implementer
• Knowledge of Rational Developer for 'IBM i'
• Knowledge of the unified object modeling notation (UML)

Good to Have

• JAVA development of knowledge in an advanced environment such as Java / EJB, Weblogic Server (WLS) or Websphere, Windows, Oracle, etc. sharing multiple databases including Oracle, DB2 and SQL / Server
• Experience of XML and related technologies such as XML schemas, XML namespaces, xpath , xslt.
• Minimum 10 years of application development experience.
• Minimum 3 years of managing team of developers
• Excellent skills in verbal and written communication skills in French and English, both with external stakeholders, colleagues, team members with management.
• Sense of innovation, initiative, creativity, organization, rigor, autonomy and work collaboratively.
• Adaptability to diverse technologies.
• Strong analytical background
• Bonus: Insurance Knowledge

Additional Information

408-598-3037