Looking for Web Application/Powerbuilder Developer

Optimized Solutions Inc; New York (NY); On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Optimized Solutions Inc is seeking a Web Application Developer for a contract position in New York City. The role involves enhancing the Automated Food Stamp Employment and Tracking system. Candidates should have extensive experience with Power Builder and Oracle technologies, coupled with a strong background in programming and quality assurance.

The ideal applicant will be responsible for developing and implementing IT standards, assisting technical support, and working on application enhancements. This position prioritizes local candidates, but non-locals willing to relocate can also apply.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 Years Experience with writing application software using Power Builder.
• Minimum 8 Years Experience with data structures and programming using Oracle.
• Minimum 8 Years Exposure to environments including mainframe and Unix.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and monitor quality assurance standards.
• Provide programming assistance and work independently.
• Assist technical support staff with IT issues.

Skills

Power Builder application development

Web technologies

Oracle SQL

Data analysis

Technical and user documentation

Job description

Web Application / Powerbuilder Developer (Contract)

Project Name: Paperless Office System Enhancements

Job Title: Web Application Developer

Location: New York City

Duration: Long Term

Start Date: Expecting January last week

Project Description

The Automated Food Stamp Employment and Tracking project is an employment tracking system for food stamp clients. The system has to interface with WMS, POS, and NYCWAY to keep the transaction in sync. At the same time the employment assessment, timekeeping and scheduling component has to be built in this application for the vendors which are already known to NYCWAY. The FS Employment Project must have a backend process to extract the eligible cases for employment assessment by the vendor and has to be processed and the outcome has to be logged. Depending upon the business rules, the case will be updated in WMS so that the case can be sanctioned or closed. The information on FSE will be shared with POS and NYCWAY via web services if needed. The position is needed for the implementation of streamlining enhancements requested by FIA due to the increased workload experienced over the past several months.

Tasks & Duties

• Develop, implement, and monitor information technology quality assurance standards.
• Provide general programming assistance to other MIS programmers/projects as needed. Also, have the ability to work independently with minimal assistant.
• Provide assistance to MIS technical support staff when they are unable to resolve a program, database, or IT issue by themselves.
• Contact customers as may be needed to clarify the intent of a new feature or resolve a problem.
• Work with MIS staff (managers, senior programmers, support staff, and product manager) to enhance the existing POS application. Write SQL queries in Oracle.
• Create, test and maintain existing application code. Performance tuning of SQL queries using different tools to make it efficient.
• Design reports, audit trails/logs, security mechanisms for the new and existing application.
• Test programs and systems and integrates system modules.
• Develop system test plan and use cases to test the batch processes to cover all the test cases.
• Assist in system stress test. Perform volume testing and document the results.

Required Skills

• Minimum 8 Years Experience with writing application software using Power Builder, web technologies and Oracle. Perform data analysis and unit testing.
• Minimum 8 Years Experience with data structures, data manipulation, databases, design, programming, testing and implementation using Oracle.
• Minimum 8 Years Experience with technical and user documentation, software conversions.
• Minimum 8 Years Exposure to environments include but are not limited to mainframe, windows, Unix, web development.
• Minimum 8 Years Hands on development experience with web technologies, power builder application and fluent in writing SQL in Oracle.

Additional Conditions: Locals preferred; non-locals may apply if willing to relocate with own expenses.