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Job Summary:
Seeking an experienced PowerBuilder Developer to provide ongoing maintenance and production support for a legacy business application. The role focuses on maintaining application stability, efficiently diagnosing issues, and implementing focused, low-risk fixes. The position requires the ability to analyze and reverse-engineer an unfamiliar legacy codebase where technical documentation may be limited. The application is expected to transition to a newer platform in the future, providing opportunities to support evolving application and technology needs.
Key Responsibilities:
• Investigate and resolve application incidents and support tickets.
• Diagnose issues involving PowerBuilder, DataWindows, PowerScript, SQL, Oracle, and related application interfaces.
• Analyze existing application code, object inheritance, business logic, and data flows.
• Create and maintain technical documentation as system knowledge is developed.
• Communicate findings, risks, effort estimates, and recommended next steps clearly.
• Support application builds and deployments when required.
• Respond to routine and priority issues within established support timeframes.
• Provide support for other applications developed using C# and .NET.
• Troubleshoot application interfaces and data-processing issues.
• Support ongoing maintenance activities while minimizing risks to production systems.
Required Qualifications:
• 5+ years of hands-on PowerBuilder development experience, including production support of legacy applications.
• Strong experience maintaining and troubleshooting existing PowerBuilder applications.
• Advanced knowledge of DataWindows, including retrieval and update logic, computed columns, and nested and composite DataWindows.
• Strong PowerScript skills, including event-driven logic and object inheritance involving windows, menus, and user objects.
• Demonstrated ability to debug undocumented or unfamiliar codebases and determine system behavior directly from existing code.
• Proficiency with PowerBuilder tools such as Object Browser, Find in PBLs, and cross-reference or dependency reports.
• Strong SQL skills, including the ability to analyze and tune queries embedded in DataWindows.
• Experience working with Oracle databases or the ability to quickly become proficient with the applicable database environment.
• Experience troubleshooting application interfaces and data-processing issues.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to clearly document technical findings, changes, risks, and deployment procedures.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience developing, maintaining, troubleshooting, and supporting enterprise applications using C# and Microsoft .NET.
• Experience with web frameworks such as ASP.NET Web Forms, ASP.NET MVC, Web API, or ASP.NET Core.
• Experience with financial applications, including fund management, budgeting, or capital-program funding.
• Experience creating technical documentation for legacy applications.
• Familiarity with source control, backup, build, and release management practices for PowerBuilder applications.
