WebFocus Developer

Web Focus Developer

Location: Trenton NJ (Remote)

Duration: 12+ Months

Short Description:

Client seeking a skilled, experienced and energetic consultant who is well-versed in WebFOCUS 8 to write and develop reports (in both GUI and source code) and create HTML User Interfaces within the WebFocus environment. 

Complete Description:

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 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 AOC WebReporting 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

The ideal candidate can:
• Demonstrate expertise in teaching, conveying technical and or functional courses and concepts
• Develop appropriate work programs utilizing time-management effectively with regard to scheduled tasks and assignments
• Identify improvements to project standards to achieve high quality
services and products

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
The consultant will be required to work independently at their own defined location and as a member of a team. Independent work will consist of, but not limited to, design, prototyping and documentation. Team work will consist of collaboratively connecting with another analyst remotely to bring the project to the end user as well as participate at two scheduled weekly meetings.

Required / Desired Skills

• Develop Reports utilizing WebFocus 8 (Information Builders) Required 4 Years
• Ability to follow a UML Diagram provided by an end user in order to create multiple WebReports Required 4 Years
• Experience with the GUI Environment/User Interfaces Built using Dynamic Parameters/Report Selection Criteria Required 4 Years
• Business Flow and Systems Data Analysis/Analytics Required 4 Years
• Understanding/Reading SQL Code and Stored Procedures to Translate to WebReports Highly desired 4 Years
• Building user interfaces utilizing HTML/JAVA script/JQuery/ CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) Highly desired 2 Years
• Knowledge of WebFocus Security and how it works Desired 1 Years
• 4 Year College Degree or an equivalent of Technical Study Required 4 Years