Senior VB6 Engineer

*Remote Contract Opportunity*

?Lighthouse Technology Services is partnering with our financial client to fill their Senior VB6 Engineer role! This is a 12+ month contract role and can be remote in the United States. This role will be a W2 employee of Lighthouse Technology Services during the contract period.

What You'll Be Doing:

Complete and oversee basic to complex systems analysis, design and development efforts. Play a key role as a technical lead or individual contributor on complex projects. Maintain an excellent technical understanding of the supported application(s).

Direct and monitor less experienced resources and coordinate development tasks for any scope project.

Prepare and manage the technical component of project plans.

Confer with other Development, operations and Technology staff in overall systems development direction from technical analysis to user acceptance testing.

Prepare and review test data and execute detailed test plans. Complete any required debugging. Evaluate and understand complex interrelationships and effects among programs, interfacing applications and platforms. Provide highly analytical consulting and leadership in identifying and implementing new uses of information technologies to assist business units in meeting strategic objectives.

Prepare thorough, clear technical and functional specifications and update systems documentation. Prepare charts, tables and diagrams to assist in analyzing problems. Review documentation prepared by less experienced staff.

Prepare and review assessments to include required tasks, estimated time frames and effort for any scope project.

Maintain efficient operation and effectiveness of supported applications.

Recommend new technology, policies or processes to benefit the organization and improve deficiencies. Lead or participate in technical evaluations of vendor software.

Follow and promote use of development standards and procedures.

Recommend new technology and related policies or processes to enhance applications and ensure technical support provided clients is efficient and effective to meet internal and external customer needs. Provide technical feedback to internal application owners on current or proposed vendor software, including what the application does or the extent it supports predefined business needs.

Complete status reports on system changes; present project, status or activity-related information to senior management to ensure their awareness of pertinent issues and that the technology portfolio is efficiently and effectively supporting applications that meet business needs of the Bank.

Identify performance and effectiveness enhancement opportunities and recommend new policies and procedures that support improvement.

Assist in developing expense and capital budgets.

Monitor employee performance and may participate in annual appraisal and development plans.

What You'll Need to Have:

VB6 Development experience

Experience with the following tech stack: VC++, Java, C#, VB.net, ASP.net

Minimum of an Associates degree and 8 years systems analysis/application development experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 10 years higher education and/or work experience, including a minimum of 8 years systems analysis/application development experience.

Familiar with application development software and hardware platforms.

Proficiency with personal computers as well as pertinent project management, word processing and spreadsheet software.

Capable of working on multiple projects of a complex nature.

Experience coordinating between Applications and business units.

Experience recommending and implementing systems solutions.

Experience driving project milestones and delivery dates.

Pay Range: $100-$120/hr +

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