EDI Application Developer III

Background/Skillset

• 5 years experience with the following:
• IBM Transformation Extender v 9.0.x.x/10.0.x.x (Design Studio, Partner Manager) fka Mercator
• EDI ANSI X12 Standards
• SQL / PLSQL
• Unix Scripting
• PGP encryption
• Transmission Protocols (FTP,SSH,SFTP,FTPS)
• Proven understanding of Unix operating system
• Proven understanding of Windows operating systems
• Familiarity with Utility industry Retail EDI interfaces

• Provide 24 x 7 operational monitoring and production support of the Middleware application environments.
• Participating in an on-call support rotation is required.
• Primary responsibility for system change management and deployment in the Middleware environments.
• Ability to work independently for monitoring, installation, configuration, design, development, testing, and deployment.
• Interaction with local and offshore application developer resources.
• May develop conversion and migration designs and test plans.
• Complies with architecture and quality processes, principals, policies and standards.
• Participates in software inspections and quality reviews.
• Provides input to policies and standards.
• Remain abreast of current technologies and best practices that may be applicable to the company.
• Develop software specifications
• Participates in short- and long-term planning sessions with application owners to identify and implement process and application improvements within an assigned client area.
• Documents discussion and agreements.
• Interfaces between the application owners and the IT organization in order to provide technical solutions to meet user needs.
• Escalates or resolves conflicts, as needed.
• Helps prioritize business needs and recommend options, risk and costs vs. benefits.
• Helps develop detailed project plans and schedules or assist in the development of work plan timelines.
• Provides work direction and leadership to assigned programs, including scheduling, assignment of work and review of individual project efforts.
• Identifies system technical requirements. Devises or modifies procedures to solve problems considering computer equipment capacity and limitations, operating time, form of desired results, and integration of components.
• Requires skill and proficiency in many technical functions and ability to integrate across disciplines.
• Must have experience in the full project life cycle including defining requirements, evaluating alternatives, designing, developing and implementing solutions.
• Uses appropriate change control procedures for implementing software enhancements.