Progress Developer – Progress OpenEdge 4GL / ABL (Yorkshire | Hybrid)
Pension / Bonus (5%) / Flexi Package including buy and selling of holiday, dental, critical illness
Region: Hybrid
The Opportunity
We are recruiting for a Progress Developer for an established organisation with a strong in-house engineering function. The role sits within a structured delivery environment, working on enterprise-grade applications where quality, reliability and governance matter.
You’ll be hands-on with Progress OpenEdge 4GL / ABL, delivering new functionality and improving existing services. You’ll work closely with Testing and Change Management, producing well-engineered solutions to agreed timescales, while also contributing to continuous improvement across development standards and internal processes.
This is a great opportunity if you like working in a proper delivery setup (clear change control, testing, standards) and want a role with strong support, training and long-term stability.
What you’ll be doing
You’ll be involved across the full development lifecycle: analysis through build, unit testing, and controlled release.
Key responsibilities
- Analyse requirements and design solutions for enterprise applications using Progress OpenEdge 4GL / ABL.
- Develop and maintain high-quality code, including unit testing and peer review practices.
- Collaborate closely with Testing and Change Management teams to ensure release readiness and smooth deployments.
- Deliver to time and budget: planning work, estimating effort, and managing priorities across multiple initiatives.
- Contribute to continuous improvement: propose enhancements to internal processes, tooling, and coding conventions.
- Adhere to (and help reinforce) development standards: naming conventions, code structure, reusable components, and consistent error handling.
- Troubleshoot and resolve defects: log analysis, data investigation, and performance diagnosis.
Technology environment (what you’ll work with)
This is a classic OpenEdge estate with additional modernisation touch points.
Essential skills
- Commercial experience with Progress / OpenEdge 4GL / ABL (development + analysis)
- Experience building enterprise-level applications in a structured software delivery environment
- Comfortable working alongside QA/testing, change governance and release processes
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across technical/non-technical teams
Desirable technical experience (highly valued)
- Integration/adjacent tech: .NET interoperability or service wrappers
- Source control (e.g. Git, Azure DevOps, SVN) and good branching/release discipline
What we’re looking for (behaviours & capability)
- Experience delivering development projects in a commercial environment
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills (ability to isolate code vs data vs environment issues)
- Ability to work under pressure and adapt to changing business priorities
- Good personal organisation: prioritising workload and managing delivery commitments
- An effective communicator who can work across teams and explain technical decisions clearly
What success looks like in the first 90–180 days
- You’ll be fully up to speed on the application landscape, standards and release process.
- You’ll deliver enhancements that meet quality gates (unit tests, QA sign-off, change governance).
- You’ll reduce defects through improved design consistency and proactive troubleshooting.
- You’ll contribute at least one meaningful improvement to team standards, tooling or delivery process.
Apply
If you’re a Progress OpenEdge Developer looking for a Leeds-based hybrid role with structured delivery, strong benefits, and clear opportunities to develop your skills—apply now. We’ll share full details on the team, tech estate, and project pipeline in confidence.
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