IBMi Developer

About the position

Ecolab’s Pest Elimination Division protects the health and safety of our customers, and our customers’ customers, with industry leading science-based pest prevention solutions. Focused exclusively on commercial pest elimination, we bring cutting-edge innovation to diverse markets, sharing our expertise to help companies strengthen their brand, enhance customer satisfaction, increase efficiency and implement more environmentally sustainable practices What is in it for you This position is responsible for designing, developing, implementing and maintaining purchased and/or custom application solutions using the following technologies: RPG/400, RPGILE/400, DB2/400, CL/400, and additional IBM technologies. This position is responsible for applying functional business knowledge to develop, program, implement and/or support individual components. This involves planning, analysis, detailed design, developing/coding, testing and implementation of the components. This may also involve providing enhancements and ongoing application support to the deployed application. This position will require the ability to work independently and work collaboratively with other IT Developers, Contract Programmers, and Customers (internal and external). The position will require strong communication skills and ability to lead a project that interfaces with our vendors and customers. This position adheres to the established lifecycle methodology and practices, in accordance to project plans while carrying out their responsibilities. This may include maintaining technical documentation of the individual components within an application.

  • Responsibilities
  • Develop, maintain, enhance and support the design of business applications with primary focus international countries.
  • Write technical specifications and make technical recommendations
  • Test and review computer/business applications using RPG technologies
  • Design DB2/400 and SQL databases as required.
  • Coordinate physical changes to databases applying knowledge of database management systems.
  • Work independently in the absence of supervision.
  • Provide training to other IT Developers on any new development created while on staff
  • Requirements
  • Bachelor’s degree and 5- experiences; or no degree and 9 years combined education and equivalent work experience
  • 5 years’ programming experience
  • 5 years’ experience in RPGIV or RPGILE/400
  • 5 years using iSeries technologies such as: SQL, CL, SDA, RDA
  • No immigration sponsorship available for this position.
  • Nice-to-haves
  • JSON and API technologies & experience support a service business.
  • Excellent communication skills working with both internal and external customers
  • Ability to work closely with and understand business requirements and translate them to functional solutions within the business application
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