Senior IBM Datacap Administrator / Developer

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.