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 8 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 Web Reporting 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
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