AS/400 RPG DEVELOPER

Position Description.
This role is hybrid and requires you to be at our client's (Toronto downtown) and/or downtown Toronto office (250 Yonge Street) at a minimum 1 day per week - subject to change at any time.
"Senior AS/400 RPG Developer We are Canada's largest independent information technology services firm, and after 40 years, we're still growing! Join Canada's largest IT Company as a Senior AS/400 RPG Developer, in our Financial Services Sector in Toronto.
Future Duties and Responsibilities.
• Provide technical leadership to other RPG developers both onshore and offshore • Provide Application Support, Testing & Deployment including but not limited to.
o Participate in IST regression testing on projects, as required o Support business partners with testing in UAT.
Maintain and track PLOGs, as needed o Prepare test cases and test scripts and assist in creating and retrieving required test data.
o Provide Release Management support and facilitation, ensuring all releases are delivered efficiently and without defect.
Act as a liaison with other departments to create the release checklist, as required.
o Provide overnight and weekend support for project implementations and releases.
Pager support may be required.
o Assist in creating internal operation support manuals.
Create support strategies and assist in post implementation shakedown testing, as required.
o Meet the SLA for incidents and project timelines.
• Maintain a good understanding of the Division's business strategies, business policies, financial instruments, risk management and back-office processing.
• Identify and communicate any impediments with practical solutions to Sr.
management, downstream systems/processes.
• Being Proactive vs Reactive • Work with already established mature AS400 team, adapt to team culture and dynamic.
• Willing to adopt, practice agile, Kanban and scrum principles.
Utilize Kanban board to manage workflow • Engage, inspire, and cultivate high performing team culture.
• Collaborate with team members in-person and virtually from different regions in Canada and India.
• Collaborate with various stakeholders like product owner, business lines and QA team.
Requirements.
• 8+ years’ IT industry experience (with AS400, Unix, Mainframe) • Hands-on experience with development using one or more tool and technologies like RPG, CL, JCL Unix, Java, Db2, Icebreak, S4i, IFS, PlanetPress, Robot Scheduler etc.
• Familiar with OS400, IBM iSeries, Unix, and Linux platforms • Experience with data sourcing, ETL and data integration.
• Hands on experience with MS Office Suite i.
., MS Outlook, MS Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and Project • Understanding of Database environment (i.
., relational, structural, etc.) Nice to Have.
• Exposure to wealth products • Wealth/financial industry exposure • Code versioning tool like Arcade, Bitbucket and DevOps pipeline.
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence and Service Now • Familiarity with Agile, Kanban methodology and Continuous Improvement mindset Education.
• University / College level degree program in IT and/or business.
Location.
Downtown Toronto Reporting to.
Director, Consulting Services GTA " Skills.
Code Review Code Review Database Design Financial Services Performance/Stress Testing Software Architecture Software Design Patterns What you can expect from us.
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