🚀 Senior IBM i (AS/400) Software Engineer

📍 Location: LATAM

🗣️ English & Spanish (Bilingual)

💵 Contractor Full Time

Join a team responsible for one of the entertainment industry's most critical payroll and financial platforms.

As a Senior IBM i Engineer, you will help maintain, enhance, and modernize a large-scale IBM i (AS/400) ecosystem that processes complex payroll, billing, and financial transactions for productions ranging from independent projects to major studio releases.

This is more than a traditional RPG maintenance role. You will play an active part in modernization initiatives involving application decomposition, database modernization, systems integration, API enablement, and migration planning.

• Design, develop, and maintain applications using RPG IV, ILE RPG, and CL
• Analyze existing business logic and implement new functionality
• Troubleshoot production issues across online and batch environments
• Support large-scale batch processing and operational workflows
• Enhance payroll, billing, deductions, and financial processing systems

• Develop and optimize DB2 for i database solutions
• Write and maintain SQL queries, stored procedures, views, and utilities
• Improve performance of high-volume transactional systems
• Design and maintain database structures supporting payroll operations
• Contribute to database modernization initiatives using modern SQL practices

• Support integrations between IBM i applications and enterprise platforms
• Maintain interfaces with JD Edwards and related financial systems
• Investigate data flow issues across interconnected applications
• Document integration dependencies and business processes

• Analyze legacy applications and architecture
• Participate in system decomposition and service identification efforts
• Assist with migration planning and modernization strategies
• Document business rules and operational workflows
• Collaborate with architects and engineering teams on future-state solutions

• Experience integrating with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
• Experience with service programs, binding directories, and activation groups
• Knowledge of API integration patterns
• Experience modernizing legacy enterprise applications
• Exposure to Java, C#, or modern backend technologies
• Experience in payroll, accounting, ERP, financial services, or enterprise systems
• Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD, Git, and modern development practices

• 5+ years of IBM i (AS/400, iSeries, IBM i) development experience
• Strong RPG IV / ILE RPG programming skills
• Experience developing and supporting CL programs
• Solid understanding of IBM i operating system concepts and object architecture
• Experience with batch processing and job scheduling environments
• Familiarity with DDS physical, logical, display, and printer files

• Strong SQL development experience within DB2 for i
• Experience optimizing queries and troubleshooting performance issues
• Understanding of indexing strategies and access path design
• Knowledge of transaction processing, record locking, and concurrency concepts
• Experience maintaining production database structures

• Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills
• Ability to assess impact across complex enterprise systems
• Experience supporting production-critical applications
• Strong communication and collaboration skills

• IBM i (AS/400)
• RPG IV / ILE RPG
• CL
• DB2 for i
• DDS
• SQL
• JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
• IBM Access Client Solutions (ACS)
• Rational Developer for i (RDi)
• Git