IBMi Applications Architect

About the role

At Giant Tiger, our mission is simple: help Canadians save more every day. We're a Canadian institution rooted in our communities and built on 60+ years of success. As part of our store support team, your work directly impacts stores across the country and drives the value that our customers see on the shelves. We're looking for people who are passionate about retail and motivated by meaningful work that makes a real impact. This posting represents a current opportunity at Giant Tiger. Job Title IBMi Applications Architect About This Role: Workplace Arrangements: This is a fully remote role! The incumbent may be asked to come onsite to our Ottawa, Ontario Home Office on a quarterly basis.

Responsibilities

• Develop and test an on-boarding process including required training for individuals with knowledge and experience to take on the accountabilities of this role as part of succession planning.
• Develop and test an on-boarding process including required training for both, individuals with existing IBMi and RPG development skills, as well as for individuals new to IBMi and RPG development.
• Encourage continuous improvement through modern IBMi techniques, tooling, and AI-assisted development where appropriate. Promote knowledge sharing and reusable patterns across the team.
• Testing methodologies exist to ensure applications are designed for optimal performance and these are being followed by your team.
• Modernization techniques are implemented to ensure the existing RPG code base and database are following current IBM development standards and are designed to function at optimal performance.
• Documentation standards are implemented for the design of new applications, database tables, indexes, etc. and ensure these are being adhered to across IBMi development teams.
• Issue management processers are in place and followed by IBMi Software Engineers in the prioritization, escalation, resolution and communications of issues in a timely manner. Provide technical leadership and ownership of issues across IBMi platform and integrated technologies.
• Advocate for automation, CI/CD improvements, and enhanced monitoring.
• Develop a 5yr plan for application and database improvements required to keep the platform functioning optimally.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology or a related degree
• 5+ years application architecture, design, and customization experience in IBMi JDA MMS (merchandise management) software.
• 5+ years IBMi systems and security administration experience
• Experience implementing ILE and ILE best practices in a large IBMi RPG application environment.
• Experience administering and supporting large IBMi JDA MMS application environments with 7x24 operations and >1000 users
• Experience implementing and using VS Code for IBMi, RDi (Rational Developer), ARCAD, iNavigator, and ACS.
• Experience leading a team of IBMi systems engineers.
• Experience defining, implementing and enforcing processes and standards that follow IBMi RPG,SQL and database best practices.
• Experience with IBMi DR/BCP including backup recovery, powerHA and iASP's.
• Experience with IBMi performance tools and using them to identify and solve RPG/SQL application performance issues.
• Experience implementing and managing user/application security in a large IBMi environment and knowledge of IBM best practices in these areas.
• Assets You May Have:
• Previous experience with Arcad source code management tool.
• Previous experience with Bob, Claude, Codex or other AI tools.
• Previous experience implementing and supporting NodeJS on the IBMi.
• Previous experience with formal project management and corresponding tools such as MS Project, Asana, Smartsheet, etc
• Experience with and defining and enforcing new processes and standards
• Experience with Profound UI software
• #LI-REMOTE
• Giant Tiger is proud to offer a Total Rewards package designed to support your financial security, health, and career growth. This includes competitive compensation for all employees, as well as retirement savings support and comprehensive well-being benefits for our permanent team members.
• Salary
• $107,600.00 - $157,600.00
• Short Term Incentive Plan
• Bonus - Short-Term In

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