RPG Analyst Developer

RPG Analyst Developer

An Agritalent client, a leading agribusiness, seeks a RPG Analyst Developer at its Pretoria Corporate Offices within its Corporate Services Division.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Required to partake in the development of application code, by liaising with other developers via designing, and planning to satisfy the requirements of business users.
• Assist developers to ensure that code standards and the development process are adhered to.
• Plan and implement solutions for effective development of a program to meet specifications and deadlines.
• Required to stay abreast of industry standards.
• Plan and execute Unit Testing, Systems Integration Testing, and archiving of test results.
• Partake in the development of System/Functional Documentation, operations manuals, systems processes, and technical designs. Is accountable for getting these documents done.
• Analyse, resolve difficult/complex system issues, by working with the end-users and other IT support staff.
• Writing of technical specifications according to functional requirements.
• Translate functional requirements into design specifications, according to the development standards in area of responsibility.
• Required to do standby on occasion.
• Required to do production support on occasion.
• Responsible for developing quality code according to technical specifications.

Desired Experience & Qualification

• Matric / Grade 12.
• Relevant technical or business qualification – degree / diploma.
• Minimum 3-5 years IT experience.
• Knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle.
• Senior developer (3+ years RPG / ILE experience).
• Embedded SQL.
• Experience using IBM Rational IDE.
• Fully free-form RPG using embedded SQL.
• Proficient in SQL400.
• CLLE.
• Web Front-end technology (e.g., PHP/JS) experience (advantageous).
• Experience with XML and JSON (advantageous).
• Integration with 3rd party services via webservice. E.g., SOAP and RESTful API (advantageous).
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
• Sound RPG programming and solid technical skills.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to liaise with users at all levels.

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