PowerBuilder Application Developer

VGroup Inc; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

VGroup Inc. invites applications for a PowerBuilder Application Developer in Brooklyn, NY. The contract spans 36 months with onsite work, focusing on developing, maintaining, and enhancing web and mobile applications and supporting integration with various data sources.

Responsibilities include system design, documentation, and converting legacy COM+ consumption to XML gateway services, with collaboration across ITS staff to plan and implement features and fixes.

Qualifications

• Proficient in Oracle 12C/11g development including stored procedures, packages and triggers.
• PowerBuilder Windows application development experience.
• Experience with data analysis, data access and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Develop system design specifications and general design documents.
• Create and maintain configurations for databases, servers and networks.
• Develop system documentation and installation procedures.
• Enhance applications and implement new features in PowerBuilder and Oracle.

Skills

Data analysis

Software design

Documentation

Testing & debugging

Tools

PowerBuilder

Oracle 12C/11g

Job description

End Client: Department of Social Services

Job Title: PowerBuilder Application Developer

Duration: 36 months and Extension

Location: Brooklyn, NY 11238 Onsite

Hours Per Week: 35 hours

Ceipal ID: NYC_POW111_SN

Job Code: 111

Department: ITS

Scope of Work

The HRA Eligibility Systems-POS Application Development unit within the Office of Enterprise Solutions Engineering is responsible for developing, maintaining and enhancing web and mobile applications required to support the agency s mission of preventing and addressing hunger, poverty and homelessness. The unit is also dedicated to the testing of administrative systems that either develop or purchases, as well triaging and responding to data and analytics request necessary to monitor and report on key performance indicators such as capacity, census, and critical incidents occurring in the SNAP and CA eligibility systems. Many of the applications from the HRA Eligibility Systems unit, communicate with both internal and external systems and platforms like the NY State Welfare Management System (WMS), New York City Work Accountability and You (NYCWAY) and other diverse data sources.

Tasks & Duties

• Develop system design specifications
• Develops and prepares documents for the general design of solutions that meet system and security requirements, including the selection of alternative approaches.
• Develops specifications for databases, communication systems, hardware, network, security, storage and software configurations.
• Develops structured diagrams for the specifications of databases, communication systems, computer or storage area networks, security or network programs.
• Develops, compiles, maintains and documents configurations of the following: databases, servers, computers, security and network monitor systems, packaged programs, macros, utilities, and communication systems
• Develop system documentation
• Develop operational and installation procedures for communication systems, hardware, network, security, storage and software
• Develop guidelines and upgrade techniques of new operational procedures for the support of databases, hardware systems, operating systems software, network systems software, security and client server systems.
• Develops detailed systems operations designs
• Perform System Design/Developing
• Applications enhancement and new feature tasks in PowerBuilder and Oracle database procedure and tables
• Application Edits and other business rules conversion to the new monitoring Tools.
• Web service and one viewer support and integration for the forms.
• To create and maintain Reports for upper management.
• Working on converting the consumption of Legacy COM+ applications to new XML Gateway services, including debugging, code review with design and QA, and developing.
• Work with ITS staff (e.g., managers, senior programmers, support staff, product manager) to plan program developing strategies, implementation planning, enhancements and changes
• Design reports, audit trails/logs, security mechanisms
• Provide assistance to ITS technical support staff when they are unable to resolve a program, database, or IT issue by themselves
• Occasionally contact customers as may be needed to clarify the intent of a new feature or resolve a problem
• Provide general programming assistance to other ITS programmers/projects as may be needed
• Perform Testing/Evaluation/Maintenance
• Handle production incidents: analysis, triaging, finding root cause and bug fixing
• Create unit test plan and data preparation
• Application Version controlling and compiling and distribution by phases

Required Skills

• Oracle 12C/11g (proficient in developing/debugging store procedures, and packages, triggers)
• Working on PowerbBuilder windows application development
• Writing application software, data analysis, data access
• Data structures, data manipulation, databases, design, programming, testing and implementation
• Technical and user documentation, software conversions
• Exposure to environments include but are not limited to mainframe, mid range, personal computers, laptops
• Lead in the design of program specifications and the implementation of software solutions