Senior VB6 Engineer
Telford, Shropshire, United Kingdom
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passionate about delivering impactful public sector solutions. Role Purpose As a Senior VB6 Engineer, you will remediate, stabilise, and modernise VB6 applications participating in the "Ingres?only" pathway-decoupling data from Ingres to target relational platforms (e.g., Oracle/SQL Server) and implementing secure, supportable fixes that reduce risk ahead of March 2027. You'll collaborate with architects, DB … safe change in line with the client standards. Key Outcomes Risk reduction & compliance: Identify and remediate vulnerabilities, unsupported dependencies, and non?compliant VB6 patterns to meet clients security and data?protection expectations. Decoupling from Ingres: Refactor data access; support migration from Ingres to the agreed target RDBMS while retaining VB6 UI where required. Quality & Release readiness: Deliver … teams. Responsibilities Analyse VB6 applications (forms, modules, class libraries, COM components) to map dependencies (ADO, ODBC, custom DLLs/OCXs) and Ingres touchpoints. Design and implement low?risk remediation: data access abstraction, connection?string/driver changes, error?handling hardening, and performance fixes aligned to target databases. Collaborate with DB engineers to plan and validate schema/data More ❯
Employment Type: Contract
Rate: £370 - £480/day
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