About this role
This is a remote position.
Position Overview
Seeking a hands-on Senior IBM Datacap Administrator / Developer to support the design, development, implementation, administration, integration, and ongoing enhancement of an internal enterprise document-processing product for PBGC .
The role combines IBM Datacap development, platform administration, integration engineering, troubleshooting, testing, deployment, and production support . The consultant will work within an Agile product engineering team to build a secure, reliable, and scalable document-processing solution.
This is not purely a Datacap administration role . The candidate must have strong hands-on Datacap development experience and be able to move from requirements and technical design through development, integration, deployment, and production support.
Key Responsibilities
1. IBM Datacap Development
- Design, develop, configure, and enhance IBM Datacap applications.
- Develop and maintain:
- Datacap rulesets
- Tasks
- Actions
- Document hierarchies
- Workflows
- Validation rules
- Verification processes
- Configure and optimize:
- OCR
- Document recognition
- Document classification
- Data extraction
- Field validation
- Image processing
- Batch processing
- Develop reusable Datacap components and custom actions/extensions.
- Implement business rules for document processing, routing, validation, and exception handling.
2. Datacap Administration
- Install, configure, administer, and maintain IBM Datacap environments.
- Support:
- Datacap Server
- Rulerunner
- Datacap Studio
- Datacap Navigator
- Configure and administer Rulerunner services.
- Manage Datacap environments across Development, Test, QA, UAT, and Production .
- Monitor application health, processing queues, logs, throughput, and performance.
- Troubleshoot failed batches, Rulerunner failures, OCR issues, extraction errors, workflow failures, connectivity problems, and performance issues.
- Perform patching, upgrades, configuration management, and environment migrations.
3. Product Development
- Participate in requirements analysis, solution design, sprint planning, development, testing, deployment, and production support.
- Translate business requirements and user stories into Datacap technical solutions.
- Develop new product functionality and enhancements.
- Participate in architecture and technical design discussions.
- Estimate development effort and contribute to release planning.
- Perform code and peer reviews.
- Support functional, integration, regression, and UAT testing.
- Troubleshoot defects and implement permanent fixes.
- Support releases and post-deployment stabilization.
4. Integration Development
- Develop and support Datacap integrations using:
- REST APIs
- SOAP Web Services
- Databases
- File-based interfaces
- Enterprise content repositories
- Business applications
- Workflow platforms
- Integrate Datacap with IBM FileNet P8 and IBM Content Navigator where applicable.
- Handle database lookups, metadata mapping, document/metadata exports, API data exchange, retries, error handling, audit logging, and exception management.
5. Custom Development
- Develop and support custom Datacap components using:
- C#
- .NET
- Java
- JavaScript
- SQL
- XML
- REST
- SOAP
- Strong C#/.NET experience is especially valuable for custom Datacap actions and extensions.
6. Security & Federal Environment
- Work within secure enterprise and federal government environments.
- Support security practices involving:
- NIST
- FISMA
- Federal information security controls
- Secure software development
- IAM/RBAC
- Audit logging
- Vulnerability remediation
- Application security
- PII protection
- Change/configuration management.
7. DevSecOps / Release Management
- Support Git/source control and CI/CD.
- Participate in automated deployment and build/release management.
- Manage environment configuration, version control, branching, deployment automation, monitoring, and incident management.
Requirements
Required Qualifications
Must-Have
- 5+ years of hands-on IBM Datacap experience
- Strong IBM Datacap 9.x / 9.1.x
- Strong Datacap Studio development
- Strong Rulerunner administration and development
- Experience developing:
- Datacap rulesets
- Workflows
- Tasks
- Actions
- Strong understanding of document capture/intelligent document processing
- Experience with:
- OCR
- Classification
- Extraction
- Validation
- Verification
- Enterprise Datacap administration experience
- Strong production troubleshooting experience
- Datacap integration with databases and enterprise systems
- Strong SQL
- REST and/or SOAP integration experience
- Windows Server and IIS
- Strong root-cause analysis and troubleshooting skills
- Agile application/product development experience
- Strong written and verbal communication.
Highly Preferred
- IBM FileNet P8
- IBM Content Navigator
- C# / .NET
- Custom Datacap action development
- Java / JavaScript
- SQL Server, Oracle, or DB2
- Federal government IT experience
- FISMA / NIST
- DevSecOps
- CI/CD
- Enterprise application integration
- Experience handling sensitive/PII data
- Experience building new enterprise products , not only maintaining legacy applications.