PowerBuilder Developer

Responsibilities

• Serve as lead developer for HCR's PowerBuilder applications, responsible for their day-to-day development, maintenance, and support.
• Design, develop, test, and implement enhancements and fixes to large, mature PowerBuilder applications built on the PowerBuilder Foundation Classes (PFC), including PFC ancestor objects and services, DataWindows, and PowerScript.
• Develop and maintain the Oracle database components that support these applications, including PL/SQL stored procedures, packages, and triggers, and the PowerBuilder code that calls them.
• Diagnose and resolve production issues across the application and database layers; serve as the primary escalation point for PowerBuilder application problems.
• Analyze business processes and requirements with HCR program staff and translate them into application changes.
• Document the applications, including code structure, business rules, and build and deployment procedures.
• Support modernization efforts by providing knowledge of the existing applications' business rules, data, and integrations to modernization teams, and keep production systems stable through the transition.
• Transfer knowledge to designated State staff throughout the engagement.

Skills Needed

• 84 months practical, real-world application of the PowerBuilder Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and its associated technologies to design, build, maintain, and modernize enterprise-level applications, using PowerBuilder, PowerScript, and PowerBuilder DataWindow technology.
• 84 months of experience developing and maintaining PowerBuilder applications built on the PowerBuilder Foundation Classes (PFC) framework, including extending and customizing PFC ancestor objects and services.
• 84 months of experience developing PowerBuilder applications that use an Oracle database, including writing Oracle Procedural Language/Structured Query Language (PL/SQL) stored procedures and packages and calling them from PowerBuilder.
• 12 months of PowerBuilder development experience within the last 36 months.
• 84 months of experience as the lead or primary developer responsible for production support of PowerBuilder applications, including diagnosing and resolving production issues across the application and database layers.