Software Engineer - Mainframe

Join us as a Software Engineer - Mainframe

• This is an opportunity for a driven Software Engineer to take on an exciting new career challenge
• Day-to-day, you'll build a wide network of stakeholders of varying levels of seniority
• It’s a chance to hone your existing technical skills and advance your career
• We're offering this role at senior analyst level

What you'll do

In your new role, you’ll engineer and maintain innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions. You’ll be working within a feature team and using your extensive experience to engineer software, scripts and tools that are often complex, 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 code
• Working across the life cycle, from requirements analysis and design, through coding to testing, deployment and operations

The skills you'll need

You’ll need a background in software engineering, software design, architecture, and an understanding of how your area of expertise supports our customers. Also, it is desirable to have experience building and managing test environments

You’ll also need:

• At least three years of experience in Mainframe environment either in development or support role
• Experience in multiple programming languages or low code toolsets
• Experience of DevOps and Agile methodology and associated toolsets and methodologies
• Working knowledge of Python and motivation to learn
• Knowledge of Gitlab and building automation solutions
• Experience of working with COBOL,DB2, JCL, CA7, and VSAM
• Experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance

Hours

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