Job Description
| Job Title: | RPG Developer / AI Enthusiast |
| Position Type: | Full-Time Contract (7 10 Months) |
| Location: | Remote (with initial and periodic on-site visits to Alabama) |
| Industry Focus: | Warehouse Management (WMS), Inventory, & Retail Distribution |
| Core Tech Stack: | RPG III, RPG IV, ILE, Claude AI, Visual Studio Code |
We are seeking a highly skilled and forward-thinking RPG Developer / AI Enthusiast for a 7 10 month full-time contract. This unique role requires a blend of heavy, hands-on legacy RPG development experience and a passion for leveraging modern Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools. The successful contractor will extract legacy applications from an existing ERP/WMS system, feed them into Claude AI to evaluate functionality, input requirements for modern updates, and test/implement the reconstructed code into a brand-new ERP/WMS system.
Key Responsibilities
- Legacy Analysis & AI Prompting: Download legacy source code via Visual Studio and feed applications into Claude AI to dissect, document, and map existing functionality.
- AI-Augmented Recoding: Provide precise, business-specific instructions to Claude to adjust and rewrite applications to align with the framework of the new WMS system.
- Core RPG Development: Directly program, refactor, and maintain high-volume code leveraging RPG III, RPG IV, and ILE environments.
- Supply Chain Logic Execution: Engineer and update applications managing critical warehouse processes: Purchase Orders, Vendor Management, Warehouse Transfers, and Retail Outlet Product Distribution.
- Deployment & Testing: Deploy the rebuilt applications into the new ERP/WMS system, managing end-to-end testing, error debugging, and final optimization.
- Deep RPG Domain Knowledge: Extensive, proven experience coding in RPG III, RPG IV, and ILE architectures within ERP/WMS domains.
- AI Tool Fluency: Active, hands-on experience using Claude AI or similar LLMs to interpret code logic, generate code variations, and streamline development pipelines.
- Modern IDE Familiarity: Proficiency using Visual Studio / VS Code for managing source code control, exploration, and editing.
- Functional Supply Chain Experience: Strong understanding of core inventory and logistics workflows: vendor coordination, purchase order cycles, inventory moving, and retail setups.
- Availability & Travel Flexibility: Ability to dedicate 40 hours a week to a 7-10 month contract, with willingness to travel to the client site in Alabama for kickoff acclimation and occasional milestones.
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Numbers & Facts
| Location | Birmingham, TN (Remote) |
| Industry | Other/Not Classified |
| Company Size | 50 to 99 employees |
| Year Founded | 2012 |
| Website | http://www.thorndalepartners.com/ |
About Company
Thorndale Partners llc was founded by merging assets from two long standing Nashville based staffing agencies with 17 years in the market and a back office funding partner with over 40 years of funding and managing the back office for multiple professional staffing businesses. We have three divisions:
Thorndale Technology : supporting all levels of IT staffing for corporations, technology companies, and startups.
Thorndale Health : Supporting all levels of technology related staffing for healthcare organizations, healthcare technology companies, and healthcare consulting firms.
Thorndale Finance : Supporting staffing for the Accounting and Financial roles for all the organizations our other divisions support as well.
Our goal is to quietly become the team retained by clients providing the best options to the highly competitive and tight candidate market. We work primarily on private search and hold the information about candidates we work with in the highest level of confidentiality.
We are and will continue to be the firm noted for the highest level of integrity and accuracy in details related to job opportunities and the backgrounds of candidates we represent.
Skills
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
- Debugging Skillsunmatched
- ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)unmatched
- Editingunmatched
- IDE (Integrated Development Environment)unmatched
- Logisticsunmatched
- Microsoft Visual Studiounmatched
- Process Managementunmatched
- Purchase Ordersunmatched
- RPG Programming Languageunmatched
- Retailunmatched
- Software Administrationunmatched
- Source Code/Configuration Management (SCM)unmatched
- Supply Chainunmatched
- Systems Administration/Managementunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Managementunmatched
- Warehousingunmatched
- Willing to Travelunmatched
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