PowerBuilder developer REMOTE

Location: Raleigh NC

Duration: 12 Months

Job Description:

The Technical Specialist is a seniorlevel resource with specialized knowledge and experience in a specific technology. The Technical Specialist has an overall knowledge and understanding of application development and architecture that serves as a strong base for technical expertise in a specific product or program. Demonstrates expertise in conveying technical and functional concepts for a specific technical specialty. Identifies improvements to project standards to achieve high quality services/ products. Able to identify best practices and standards for the use of the product. Delivers support and design for industry specific applications that require integration with statewide systems or applications. Interacts with executive level business users or technical experts. May function as a niche technical SME. Advanced experience in the required technical subject matter. Proven experience with a technical specialty across large and complex implementations and systems.

The candidate must reside in the United States. The candidate must be willing either to use their personal computer to log into a virtual client workstation (via their Internet access using Citrix and the Cisco AnyConnect vpn) or to come to Raleigh at their expense to pick up an client laptop. Position is remote with minimal inperson engagement in the Raleigh area.

The client is seeking a Technical Specialist contractor analyst/designer/developer (>10 years experience) for a 12month engagement for the Engineering Application Services Department (EAS) to enhance and maintain a missioncritical application for the department called HiCAMS.

• HiCAMS is a custom clientserver PowerBuilder application used to track work materials and payments on client of Highways Construction projects. We also have many Java C and asp.net/C# interfaces with various internal and external systems that need to be maintained and enhanced. Additionally there is a list of new interfaces and web applications tied to HiCAMS that our clients want to have developed in the coming years.
• The initial assignments will be to analyze/design/code/test data windows to replace approximately 200 sample test result spreadsheet formats that were coded using an outdated 3rd party software tool. Additional work will involve analyzing/designing/coding/testing bug fixes and other functional enhancements to the system and its interfaces.
• This individual should have practical experience with standard development life cycle including requirements gathering analysis design development unit & system testing quality assurance testing as well as experience with business process transformation. Experience designing and implementing SharePoint and webbased solutions are also valuable skills were seeking.

Skills:

Skill

Required / Desired

Amount

of Experience

Experience as a PowerBuilder developer using PB10 or more recent versions.

Required

10

Years

Strong SQL skills (HiCAMS uses a Sybase database but SQL skills in any database platform are acceptable)

Required

10

Years

Strong Microsoft Suite experience particularly Excel

Required

10

Years

Experience working in a remote software development environment

Required

5

Years

Strong analytical conceptual and technical skills

Required

10

Years

Positive interpersonal skills coupled with an independent selfmotivated work ethic

Required

10

Years

Ability to work with a custom baseclass

Required

10

Years

Proven written and verbal communication skills including the ability to explain business processes to IT users and IT applications to business user

Required

10

Years

Previous development experience with NCDOTs HiCAMS application

Required

1

Years

Development experience in C#

Desired

3

Years

Development experience in Java

Desired

3

Years

Development experience in C

Desired

1

Years

Experience coding stored procedures and triggers (any database)

Desired

3

Years

Experience developing .net applications and APIs in a Visual Studio environment

Desired

3

Years

Data conversion experience

Desired

5

Years