Product Specialist 4

Compunnel

$95K — $115K *
Dover, DE 19901In-Person
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of PowerBuilder development experience, especially with legacy systems
  • Strong skills in DataWindows, including complex logic and nested structures
  • Proficient in PowerScript, particularly with event-driven logic
  • Ability to analyze undocumented code and deduce system behavior
  • Strong SQL skills, especially for query tuning and analysis
  • Experience with Oracle databases or quick adaptability to new environments
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

  • Investigate and resolve application incidents and support tickets
  • Diagnose PowerBuilder and SQL issues within the legacy application
  • Analyze existing application code and data flows
  • Create and maintain technical documentation as insights develop
  • Clearly communicate findings, risks, and recommendations
  • Support application builds and deployments as needed
  • Troubleshoot application interfaces and data-processing issues

Benefits

  • Ongoing professional development opportunities
  • Opportunity to work on transitioning applications to new platforms
  • Collaboration with other applications developed using C# and .NET
  • A central role in maintaining application stability within a legacy system
  • Potential to influence future application and technology evolution
Full Job Description
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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.

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