Senior IBM Datacap Administrator / Developer

Accountabilities

• • Design, develop, configure, enhance, and maintain IBM Datacap applications, including rulesets, tasks, actions, document hierarchies, workflows, validation rules, and verification processes.

  • Configure and optimize OCR, document recognition, classification, data extraction, field validation, image processing, and batch-processing capabilities.

  • Develop reusable Datacap components and custom actions or extensions, including business rules for document routing, validation, exception handling, and processing.

  • Install, configure, administer, monitor, and maintain Datacap environments across Development, Test, QA, UAT, and Production.

  • Administer and troubleshoot Datacap Server, Rulerunner, Datacap Studio, and Datacap Navigator, including processing queues, logs, performance, failed batches, OCR issues, workflow failures, connectivity problems, and production incidents.

  • Participate throughout the product development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, technical design, sprint planning, development, testing, deployment, release planning, and post-deployment stabilization.

  • Translate business requirements and user stories into technical solutions, estimate development effort, conduct peer reviews, troubleshoot defects, and implement sustainable fixes.

  • Develop and support integrations using REST APIs, SOAP web services, databases, file-based interfaces, enterprise content repositories, workflow platforms, and business applications.

  • Integrate document-processing capabilities with enterprise platforms such as IBM FileNet P8 and IBM Content Navigator where applicable.

  • Manage metadata mapping, database lookups, document and metadata exports, API data exchange, retries, error handling, audit logging, and exception management.

  • Develop and maintain custom components using C#, .NET, Java, JavaScript, SQL, XML, REST, and SOAP, with particular emphasis on C#/.NET for custom Datacap actions and extensions.

  • Support secure enterprise and federal environments, including practices related to NIST, FISMA, IAM/RBAC, audit logging, vulnerability remediation, application security, PII protection, and configuration management.

  • Contribute to source control, CI/CD, automated deployments, release management, environment configuration, monitoring, incident management, and DevSecOps practices.

  Requirements

  • 5+ years of hands-on IBM Datacap experience, including strong experience with IBM Datacap 9.x/9.1.x.

  • Strong Datacap Studio development experience, along with hands-on Rulerunner administration and development.

  • Proven experience developing Datacap rulesets, workflows, tasks, actions, and other custom processing components.

  • Strong understanding of document capture and intelligent document processing, including OCR, classification, extraction, validation, verification, and image processing.

  • Enterprise-level Datacap administration experience across multiple environments, with strong production troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.

  • Experience integrating Datacap with databases and enterprise systems, including strong SQL capabilities and REST and/or SOAP integration experience.

  • Working knowledge of Windows Server and IIS.

  • Experience participating in Agile application or product development environments, from requirements and design through development, testing, deployment, and production support.

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across technical and business teams.

  • Experience with IBM FileNet P8 and IBM Content Navigator is highly preferred.

  • C#/.NET experience and a background in developing custom Datacap actions or extensions are highly valued.

  • Experience with Java, JavaScript, SQL Server, Oracle, or DB2 is advantageous.

  • Familiarity with federal government IT environments, FISMA, NIST, DevSecOps, CI/CD, enterprise application integration, and secure handling of sensitive or PII data is preferred.

  • Experience building and enhancing new enterprise products, rather than exclusively maintaining legacy applications, is a strong advantage.

  Benefits

  • Remote work opportunity.

  • Contract engagement with an enterprise-focused technology environment.

  • Opportunity to work on a large-scale document-processing product with significant technical scope.

  • Exposure to IBM Datacap, enterprise integrations, intelligent document processing, and modern DevSecOps practices.

  • Opportunity to contribute across development, architecture, administration, integration, deployment, and production support.

  • Collaboration within an Agile product engineering environment.

  • Experience working with enterprise and secure federal technology environments.

  • Compensation and contract benefits aligned with the engagement and applicable market conditions.