Senior PowerBuilder Developer

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Position: Senior PowerBuilder Developer

Duration: 12 months – contract

Location: DFW, TX or Phoenix, AZ (Hybrid – 3 days onsite)

JOB DESCRIPTION

SKILLS NEEDED : strong experience Powerbuilder with .net or core .net with powerbuilder/PowerApps experience.

• As one diverse, high-performing team dedicated to technical excellence, you will focus relentlessly on delivering unrivaled digital products that drive a more reliable and profitable airline.

• The Software domain refers to the area within Information Technology that focuses on the development, deployment, management, and maintenance of software applications that support business processes and user needs. This includes development, application lifecycle management, requirement analysis, QA, security & compliance, and maintaining the applications and infrastructure.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

This list is intended to reflect the current job but there may be additional essential functions (and certainly non-essential job functions) that are not referenced. Management will modify the job or require other tasks be performed whenever it is deemed appropriate to do so, observing, of course, any legal obligations including any collective bargaining obligations.

• Writes, tests, and documents technical work products (e.g., code, scripts, processes) according to organizational standards and practices

• Solves technical problems and builds components/libraries with far-ranging impact

• Delivers high quality work and coaches more junior engineers on technical craftsmanship

• Conducts root cause analysis to identify systemic problems and defines and leads execution of action items to address

• Designs thoughtfully integrated systems that model organizational best practices, allowing disparate teams across product domains to deliver value with speed, scale, and reliability

• Oversees the management of technical debt in existing systems and drives opportunities to eliminate within ongoing implementations

• Consistently anticipates scaling, latency, and durability challenges and guides teams in implementation of mitigating strategies

• Partners with the security organization to incorporate security conscious practices early in the lifecycle of new systems

• Thoughtfully evaluates technical risks and guides toward practical prevention strategies

• Consistently reflects on squad delivery practices throughout their span of of influence, recommends improvements to leadership and drives their implementation

• Maintains a focus on removing the duplication of effort across teams and proactively identifies opportunities for reuse within their span of influence

• Thoughtfully measures and assesses team and identifies areas of development for individuals

• Explores emerging technologies, leads development of prototypes with little or no guidance and incorporates into architectural solutions where appropriate

ALL YOU’LL NEED FOR SUCCESS

Minimum Qualifications – Education & Prior Job Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training

• 7 years of experience designing, developing, and implementing large-scale solutions in production environments

Required Skills & Experience:

• 7-9 PowerBuilder experience

• PowerBuilder Framework Components

• Support PowerBuilder legacy code

Preferred Qualifications – Education & Prior Job Experience:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training

• Airline Industry experience

Skills, Licenses, and Certifications:

Proficiency with the following technologies:

o Programming Languages: PowerBuilder Required, C# preferred

o Frameworks: PowerBuilder Foundation Classes required, .net Core preferred

o Front-End Technologies: PowerBuilder UI required, Angular preferred

o Deployment Technologies: Desktop Client Packaging and Azure Pipeline required, Kubernetes and Rancher preferred

o Source Control: GitHub, Azure DevOps

o CICD: GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps

o Data management: Oracle and PostgreSQL required, MongoDB, Redis

o Integration/APIs Technologies: SOAP and REST required, GraphQL preferred

o Cloud Providers such as Azure and AWS – Good to have not required

o Test Automation: Cypress and Jest required, Selenium, TestNG, Postman, SonarQube, JUnit/NUnit/PyTest, Cucumber, Playwright, and Wiremock/Mockito/Moq preferred

• Ability to analyze, document, and refactor legacy applications with limited documentation and complex procedures

• Ability to optimize solutions for performance, resiliency and reliability while maintaining an eye toward simplicity

• Ability to concisely convey ideas verbally, in writing, in code, and in diagrams

• Ability to optimize system designs spanning multiple teams to allow small, safe, incremental releases

• Ability to work through others by cooperatively sharing responsibilities

• Ability to combines deep knowledge of a product domain with awareness of advancing technology to introduce solutions that propel the technical capability of the organization forward.

• Proficiency in object-oriented design techniques and principles

• Proficiency in Agile methodologies, such as SCRUM

• Proficiency in DevOps Toolchain methodologies, including Continuous Integration and

Continuous Deployment

Comment: This position will follow the onsite hybrid requirements of being onsite 3 days a week - Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays. The resource can be located in either DFW or Phoenix - must be local to work onsite at either location. This position will require an onsite only interview in either DFW or Phoenix (Candidates are required to interview onsite and there will be no exceptions to this expectation for non local candidates). A coding assessment will be part of the onsite interview. Must Haves: • 7-9 PowerBuilder experience, • PowerBuilder Framework Components, • Support PowerBuilder legacy code