Negotiable
Undetermined
Remote
Remote
Summary: The role of the WebFocus Developer involves evaluating and enhancing existing reports, designing and coding new reports, and providing production support. The consultant will work independently and collaboratively within a team, requiring a strong understanding of WebFOCUS and associated technologies. Excellent communication skills and the ability to analyze user requirements are essential for success in this position. The role is non-supervisory and requires coordination with various business and technical personnel.
Key Responsibilities:
- Analyze user requirements for remaining conversion projects
- Collaborate with application teams on setting up users, data, etc.
- Identify and document system defects
- Communicate clearly and effectively in written and spoken English
- Evaluate existing reports and determine fields used
- Design, code, and test reports
- Maintain and enhance existing reports
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues
- Confer with business and technical personnel regarding data ownership
- Work independently and as part of a team
Key Skills:
- Reports development utilizing Information Builders' WebFocus
- User Interface Design / HTML
- Experience with GUI / User Interface driven by dynamic parameter driven reporting selection criteria
- JavaScript / CSS
- Business and System Analysis
- Report Development Skills
- Ability to follow UML Diagrams
- Understanding/Reading SQL Code and Stored Procedures
- Knowledge of WebFocus Security
- 4 Year College Degree or equivalent technical study
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: undetermined
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Complete Description:
The consultant will be responsible for evaluating how the existing reports are written, determining what fields were used, analyzing the report structure, as well as designing, coding and testing each of the reports. The consultant will be involved in maintaining (including production support), enhancing existing reports, and developing new projects from scratch.
The consultant must have a broad range of skills, a general knowledge of WebFOCUS internals, and the understanding of associated technologies that WebFOCUS uses (PDF, EXCEL, HTML, AHTML and WORD as output formats). The programmer will be responsible for troubleshooting and resolving production issues related to legacy and new-development reports.
This is a professional level non-supervisory position which will require coordination of programming activities being conducted by the Team Lead in association within the existing structure, rules and guidelines of the current AOC WebReporting environment. This person will confer with other business and technical personnel who own data in various other systems stemming from many stored sources of information (DB2, Sybase, SQL, Mainframe Flat Files, etc.).
Skills/Qualifications:
Must be able to compare actual project procedures to the specified standards and procedures
Should be able to demonstrate expertise with the most recent and relevant technologies in the WebFocus environment
Must have excellent communication skills and possess the ability to collaborate with internal and external groups including vendors
Skills:
* Reports development utilizing Information Builders' WebFocus
* User Interface Design / HTML
* Experience with GUI / User Interface driven by dynamic parameter driven reporting selection criteria
* JavaScript / CSS
* Business and System Analysis
* Report Development Skills
The ideal candidate can:
Demonstrate expertise in teaching, conveying technical and or functional courses and concepts
Develop appropriate work programs utilizing time-management effectively with regard to scheduled tasks and assignments
Identify improvements to project standards to achieve high quality
services and products
Responsibilities:
* Analyze user requirements for remaining conversion projects
* Collaborate with application teams on setting up users, data, etc.
* Identify and document system defects
* Communicate clearly and effectively in written and spoken English
The consultant will be required to work independently at their own defined location and as a member of a team. Independent work will consist of, but not limited to, design, prototyping and documentation. Team work will consist of collaboratively connecting with another analyst remotely to bring the project to the end user as well as participate at two scheduled weekly meetings.
Skill
Required / Desired
Amount
of Experience
Develop Reports utilizing WebFocus 8 (Information Builders)
Required
4
Years
Ability to follow a UML Diagram provided by an end user in order to create multiple WebReports
Required
4
Years
Experience with the GUI Environment/User Interfaces Built using Dynamic Parameters/Report Selection Criteria
Required
4
Years
Business Flow and Systems Data Analysis/Analytics
Required
4
Years
Understanding/Reading SQL Code and Stored Procedures to Translate to WebReports
Highly desired
4
Years
Building user interfaces utilizing HTML/JAVA script/JQuery/ CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
Highly desired
2
Years
Knowledge of WebFocus Security and how it works
Desired
1
Years
4 Year College Degree or an equivalent of Technical Study
Required
4
Years
Question 1
One-hour unpaid lunch. Do you accept this requirement?
Question 2
In what City/State is the candidate Geographically Located?
Question 3
Please provide link to LinkedIn profile.