Role & responsibilities

AS400 / IBM i Developer

Employment Type: Full-Time

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced AS400 / IBM i Developer with strong hands-on experience in RPG/RPGLE, CL/CLLE, DB2 for i, and AS400/IBM i environments.

The candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, enhancing, maintaining, and supporting business applications running on the IBM i platform.

Key Responsibilities

- Design, develop, maintain, and enhance applications on AS400 / IBM i.
- Develop and maintain programs using RPG, RPGLE, and CL/CLLE.
- Work extensively with DB2 for i / DB2 database.
- Develop and optimize SQL queries, stored procedures, and database objects.
- Analyze business requirements and convert them into technical solutions.
- Perform application development, modification, debugging, and production support.
- Troubleshoot application and database-related issues.
- Perform code reviews, unit testing, integration testing, and defect fixing.
- Develop and maintain batch jobs and job schedules.
- Work with IBM i system objects, libraries, jobs, files, and subsystems.
- Perform data analysis, data fixes, and application enhancements.
- Develop interfaces and integrations between AS400 applications and external systems.
- Work with APIs, web services, or middleware where required.




- Prepare technical documentation and support deployment activities.
- Collaborate with business analysts, QA teams, technical teams, and other stakeholders.
- Participate in production support and incident/problem management.

Mandatory Skills
- Strong experience in AS400 / IBM i development.
- Hands-on experience with RPG / RPGLE.
- Robust knowledge of CL / CLLE.
- Strong experience with DB2 for i.
- Good knowledge of SQL.
- Experience with application development, maintenance, and production support.
- Good understanding of AS400 architecture, libraries, objects, jobs, and batch processing.
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.

Good to Have
- Experience with RPGLE Free Format / Fully Free RPG.
- Knowledge of ILE RPG.
- Experience with Embedded SQL / SQLRPGLE.
- Knowledge of DB2 stored procedures.
- Experience with Web Services / REST APIs.
- Knowledge of XML / JSON.
- Experience with MQ / IBM MQ.
- Knowledge of Git / version control.
- Experience with Jenkins or CI/CD.
- Knowledge of Control-M / job scheduling tools.
- Experience in modernization of legacy AS400 applications.
- Exposure to Java, .NET, or cloud integration is an advantage.

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