Progress development Technical Expert

We are looking to onboard a Progress OpenEdge technical expert to augment our cross domain Progress technical team. As a technical expert you will help improve our in-house built legacy ERP application by suggesting and implementing technical improvements and enabling an SRE mindset within our product team developers. Your role involves continuous improvement of applications and development teams, assessing feasibility of improvements, advising on technical enhancements, and solving incidents across domains.

Must Have

• Take responsibility for development and continuous improvement of applications and team best practices.
• Assess feasibility and ROI of proposed technical improvements.
• Proactively advise and recommend technical enhancements.
• Solve incidents and problems across domains.
• Guide junior and senior developers to excellence.
• Relevant bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Good spoken and written knowledge of English.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Minimum 10 years experience with Progress OpenEdge (11.7 & later) development.
• Strong analytical mind.
• Accurate, methodical, and systematic way of working.
• Customer-oriented attitude.
• Able to work in a team as well as independently.
• Proactive approach focused on problem solving.
• Good understanding of REST.
• Experience with working in an Agile way.

Good to Have

• Knowledge of Google Cloud Platform, ArgoCD, Kong, Gitlab, SVN, Jenkins, ELK, Grafana, Kafka, Akeyless.
• Experience with Linux/Unix and with open-source databases (postgresql).
• Experience with test driven development, CI/CD environments.

We are looking to onboard a Progress OpenEdge technical expert to augment our cross domain Progress technical team.

As a technical expert you will help improve our in-house built legacy ERP application.

You will do this by suggesting and implementing technical improvements, but also by enabling an SRE mindset within our product team developers.

Your role and responsibilities

• Take responsibility for the development and continuous improvement of both applications and the development teams and their best practices.
• We take pride in fostering a collaborative and inclusive work environment, where creativity, technical excellence, and diversity thrive.
• Using your technical expertise you assess the feasibility and ROI of proposed improvements.
• Proactively you advise and recommend technical improvements.
• Progress development is your main expertise but you can expand your scope to other technologies (e.g. Java or .NET).
• You take responsibility and solve incidents and problems across domains and are continuously on the lookout for improvements of applications and processes.
• Your technical prowess will be vital in driving improvements, recommending technical enhancements, and guiding both junior and senior developers to excellence.

How to succeed / Your profile

• Relevant bachelor's degree or equal by experience.
• A good spoken and written knowledge of English.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Minimum of 10 years experience with Progress OpenEdge (11.7 & later) development
• A strong analytical mind.
• An accurate, methodical and systematic way of working.
• A customer-oriented attitude.
• Able to work in a team as well as independent.
• A proactive approach focused on problem solving.
• Good understanding of REST.
• Experience with working in an Agile way.

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of Google Cloud Platform , ArgoCD, Kong, Gitlab, SVN, Jenkins, ELK, Grafana, Kafka, Akeyless.
• Experience with Linux/Unix and with open-source databases (postgresql)
• Experience with test driven development, CI/CD environments.