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Software Engineer - RPG
4206 South 108th St. Omaha, NE 68136 US
Posted: 04/10/2023
2023-04-10
2023-07-09
Employment Type:
Permanent
Category: Engineer
Application Link: 4191
Job Description
Software Engineer
Omaha, NE 68127, USA
Job Details
Description
Software Engineer
Join us at Oriental Trading, a Berkshire Hathaway Company, where fun means business!
General Summary of Purpose:
As our Software Engineer, you will support, design, document, code, implement, and maintain applications developed in RPG. Work closely with Application Development Manager to provides cutting-edge solutions to business units needs, conducting research and development. Gather business requirements, documents, designs, programs, tests, implements and maintains these applications, with the aid of the management staff. Provide guidance and assistance to the non-senior developers whenever necessary.
Principle Duties and Responsibilities:
Essential Functions
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Full-Time
- Locations
Omaha, NE 68127, USA
Job Details
Description
Software Engineer
Join us at Oriental Trading, a Berkshire Hathaway Company, where fun means business!
General Summary of Purpose:
As our Software Engineer, you will support, design, document, code, implement, and maintain applications developed in RPG. Work closely with Application Development Manager to provides cutting-edge solutions to business units needs, conducting research and development. Gather business requirements, documents, designs, programs, tests, implements and maintains these applications, with the aid of the management staff. Provide guidance and assistance to the non-senior developers whenever necessary.
Principle Duties and Responsibilities:
Essential Functions
- Act as consultant to Oriental Trading Company business units by providing solutions to complex business issues
- Performing due diligence with internal customers
- Recommending Business System functionality
- Assisting in developing business requirements
- Assisting in developing Business Cases
- Serve as project manager working with users, programmers and other OTC functional areas in development and installation of projects. These are complex projects implemented across one or more platforms. The project plans to include staffing, resources, time tables and responsible parties
- Participate with team members in priority planning: estimating resource requirements, project planning and scheduling for programming projects
- Implement complex projects through:
- Creating and interpreting complex design documents independently and explaining to team members as necessary
- Design test plans to thoroughly test all enhancements
- Conduct code and design walk throughs
- Review unit test output from others
- Set up and execute system test
- Provide status reports on assigned projects
- Project owner for projects done in conjunction with other platform implementations
- Assist in functional-area systems issues to include cause determination and resolution
- Write coding with minimal supervision
- Develop and execute unit tests that align with industry best practices and standards
- Debug and quality check software and serve as an escalation point for more complex issues
- Abides by all policies and procedures of Oriental Trading Company, Inc.
- Maintains regular and predictable attendance
- Must be able to attend face to face meetings on short or little advance notice
- Work requires in-person collaboration among colleagues and contractors
- Participate in regularly rotated on-call duties: Must be available 24 hours/day to receive calls from Operators/Users, investigate and solve issues while on call
- Provide training to new people and junior members of staff
- Assist other team members with system and technical knowledge
- Mentor Programmer Trainee through Programmer Analyst positions
- Perform other duties or special projects as assigned
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Understand generally accepted analysis and design techniques.
- Must become proficient in the daily operations at Oriental Trading Company.
- Must possess communication skills (written and verbal) that will help in determining customer’s/user’s exact needs and in disseminating that information to appropriate personnel.
- Strong knowledge of applications development/maintenance for interactive and batch programming (e.g., RPG).
- Able to use advanced system utilities (TAATOOLS, Job Scheduler, APIs, etc.). Can use new utilities relying only on manuals.
- Strong knowledge of PDM, SEU, PFE, Job Scheduler, MKS Implementer™, SQL, FTP, IBM Rational, or equivalent.
- Expert knowledge of dump analysis techniques or batch job troubleshooting.
- Expert in testing techniques and knows all testing requirements of systems supported.
- Broad knowledge of catalog or mail order systems for retail use such as OTC’s Functional Business System.
- Able to work under pressure, meet deadlines and handle multiple projects simultaneously.
- Ability to interface with customers, clients and other departments to respond to requests both in written and verbal form for the purposes of analysis and software implementation coordination.
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in computer science, electrical engineering, electronics, communication or closely related field required
- Minimum five years of experience with application development, software QA, or related field