Software Engineer, Mainframe

Overview

Join us as a Software Engineer

• This is an opportunity for a driven Software Engineer to take on an exciting new career challenge
• Day-to-day, you'll be engineering and maintaining innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions
• It’s a chance to hone your existing technical skills and advance your career while building a wide network of stakeholders
• We're offering this role at associate level
  
  

What you'll do

In your new role, you’ll be working within a feature team to engineer software, scripts and tools, as well as liaising with other engineers, architects and business analysts across the platform.

You’ll Also Be

• Producing complex and critical software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business
• Working in permanent teams who are responsible for the full life cycle, from initial development, through enhancement and maintenance to replacement or decommissioning
• Collaborating to optimise our software engineering capability
• Designing, producing, testing and implementing our working software solutions
• Working across the life cycle, from requirements analysis and design, through coding to testing, deployment and operations
  
  

The skills you'll need

To take on this role, you’ll need a background in software engineering, software design, and architecture, and an understanding of how your area of expertise supports our customers.

You’ll Also Need

• Four to eight years of experience with Mainframe technologies including COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2, and VSAM, with proven expertise in batch processing and online transaction processing (OLTP) environments
• Solid experience in application support, with a good understanding of Incident and Problem Management processes, along with the ability to contribute to software development and enhancement activities
• Familiarity with industry-standard mainframe toolsets, development methodologies, and operational processes
• Experience of DevOps and Agile methodology and associated toolsets
• A background in solving highly complex, analytical and numerical problems
• Experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance