Senior Progress OpenEdge Developer - Relocate to New Zealand

This is an exciting opportunity to work in Auckland, NewZealand with a fantastic team of people right in the heart of the CBD overlooking the beautiful Waitemata harbour.

Practiv is a Progress Services Partner, and due to an expanding requirement we are looking for senior level Progress Open Edge developers.

Your experience is highly valued and as part of a team you will have responsibility designing and building complex enterprise systems including, depending on seniority:

• Communication with clients across the full life cycle - planning, requirements, technical design and implementation, deployment and testing.
• Ensuring the quality, reliability and repeatability of delivered solutions.
• Continually improving development processes and procedures.
• Assist with estimating and planning of technical solutions.
• Setting up development environments.

Remuneration is based on your commercial experience. We have multiple roles to fill so if your experience matches our requirements, and you are thinking that a life in New Zealand could be for you - Get in touch.

Practiv has experience in hiring exceptional people from the UK and US, and we will help ensure your relocation here is both successful and enjoyable.

Skills & Qualifications:

Our ideal candidate will have at least 5 years development experience on OpenEdge V9, OOABL. Knowledge of Rollbase, Corticon or Pacific would be an advantage as would Java or .Net.

You will need to demonstrate knowledge of Object Oriented techniques.

Experience with Web Services (including WCF) with focus on SOAP compatibility and working with XML (DOM, Xpath, XSLT) is a plus. 

Computer science or equivalent degree a strong plus as is Microsoft certification with MCPD, MCAD or MCSD.

If you also have knowledge of telecommunications or insurance systems, is also positive although not required.

Personal Skills & Aptitude:

You will be used to working with external customers, have excellent written and spoken English and must be able to communicate complex concepts well in all forms of communication. We develop strong relationships with our customers based on our integrity, depth of capability, and continuous desire for improvement. We want you to share these values, contribute to our team, achieve your maximum potential, and enjoy doing it.

About Practiv:

For 14 years Practiv have lead the application of technology in financial services and Telecommunications. We deliver strategic business change through automation, straight through processing, online self-service and other intelligent uses of technology. We have very strong domain knowledge, project management and technical capability that we deploy in partnership with our clients to achieve maximum advantage for their operations.