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, branch