IBMi Applications Architect

• Provide senior technical leadership for IBMi application architecture, acting as the escalation point for complex design, integration, and performance challenges across enterprise systems.


• Define and enforce development standards, testing methodologies, and documentation practices to ensure consistency and optimal application performance across teams.


• Design and evolve modernization strategies for RPG/ILE-based applications and databases, ensuring alignment with current IBMi best practices.


• Lead issue management processes, ensuring structured prioritization, escalation, resolution, and communication across IBMi platforms and integrated systems.


• Promote engineering excellence through mentoring, knowledge sharing, reusable patterns, and continuous improvement initiatives.


• Advocate for automation, CI/CD enhancement, enhanced monitoring, and AI-assisted development practices to improve efficiency and delivery speed.


• Develop and maintain a 5-year application modernization roadmap to ensure long-term platform stability, scalability, and performance.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline.


• 8+ years of IBMi software development experience, including CL, RPG/RPGLE, free-format RPG, ILE components, SQL/embedded SQL, APIs, DDL, and database triggers.


• 5+ years of experience in application architecture and customization within IBMi JDA MMS environments.


• Strong expertise in IBMi application development standards, performance optimization, and enterprise-scale RPG systems.


• Experience with modern development tooling such as VS Code, Rational Developer for i, ARCAD, IBM iNavigator, and ACS, as well as version control practices.


• Proven experience implementing ILE best practices in large-scale IBMi environments supporting high availability and large user bases.


• Strong background in IBMi security, system administration, DR/BCP strategies, PowerHA, and iASP configurations.


• Demonstrated leadership in guiding technical teams, defining standards, and improving engineering processes.


• Familiarity with AI tools (e.g., coding assistants or automation tools) and their application in software development environments is an asset.


• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to operate effectively under pressure.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary range: $107,600 – $157,600 annually.


• Short-Term Incentive Plan: up to 15% annual performance-based bonus.


• Management Profit Sharing Plan (MPSP): up to 15% annual contribution.


• Company-funded retirement savings program.


• Comprehensive health and dental coverage with flexible cost-sharing options.


• Paid time off including vacation, personal days, and additional holiday closure between Christmas and New Year’s.


• Fully remote work arrangement with occasional onsite visits in Ottawa.


• Career development support, coaching, and internal growth opportunities.


• Additional perks including employee discounts, parental leave top-up, recognition rewards, and a strong safety-first culture.