Must-Have Excellent programming skills on the iSeries platform - Analyze and Create new programs using RPG, RPG ILE, SQLRPGLE, and Control Language (CLP/CLLE).

Very good knowledge of SQL concepts - Analyze and modify complex SQL queries, embedded SQL in SQLRPGLE, Cursor programming.

Database Concepts - Create and Analyze Physical files, Logical Files, SQL tables, Indexes, Views, Stored procedures.

Good working knowledge in screen programming - Display Files, Subfiles, and Printer files.

Document business rules effectively and should be able to create data mapping documents after analyzing program flows and data flows

ILE Programming - Analyze and Create program modules, binding directories, service programs.

Working knowledge of Message Queue (MQ), MQ Trigger, and embedding XML tags in RPG Programs

Good communication skills and the job will involve owning a project task completely based on the communication with the analysts at the client site Good to Have

Good working knowledge in Turnover - the code configuration management tool

Good working knowledge in X- Analysis - cross-reference tool for iSeries.

Knowledge of Triggers, Message Queuing for inter-program/ inter-system communication

ROBOT job scheduler - knowledge in creating and setting up scheduled jobs in the iSeries.

Knowledge of normalized, denormalized tables, Star Schema databases

Working knowledge on iSeries Navigator - to run queries and analyze the performance of SQL queries.

Knowledge in the Retail Domain especially in areas like Merchandising, Warehouse Management, Distribution, etc.

Skills: RPG, RPGi, SQL, IBM ISeries, AS400, control language