Mainframe Developer

Position Purpose

As a developer, join an enthusiastic multidisciplinary team. Together, develop, enrich, and maintain the applications creating different kind of Client Reporting.

Develop products in Cobol from the BNP Paribas Fortis requirements definition to the end to end test participation. Working in an agile mode with daily huddles and frequent production releases, whilst maintaining high quality standards.

Responsibilities

Direct Responsibilities

• Ensure together with the other squad members the implementation of changes requests, maintenance and future improvements.
• Help to define the development plan and acceptance criteria out of those requirements.
• Help to design, build, test and maintain the new & existing features with high performance, reusable, and reliable code.
• focus on the best possible performance, quality, and uptime of the application by:
• Identifying & solving bottlenecks or bugs.
• Ensuring High Code quality, readability, and structure.
• Making smart automatization (if relevant).
• Creating/Updating the technical documentation to ensure service continuity.
• Embed the agile & the development best practices in your daily job.

Contributing Responsibilities

As a developer (technical analyst) in a squad:

• leverage the expertise to refine features in workable activities.
• share your expertise & improvement ideas to enrich the squads backlog.
• align and follow the priorities defined by the squad.

collaborate with the peers to deliver high quality service.

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

Mandatory:

- Mainframe MVS : Expert

- COBOL / MFEEE / EDz : Advanced

- IMS/DB : Advanced

- DB2/SQL : Advanced

- CTL-M monitoring

- Job-scheduling : CTRL-M (or CA7 or similar)

- Repository (Endevor or similar) : Advanced

Strong plus:

- zOS Connect

- MQ

- XML

- IMS/DC (TPX)

Nice to have :

- Rally

- Octane

- Agile & Scrum experience