Mainframe Software Engineer, AVP

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 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 associate vice president 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

We’re looking for someone with ten plus years of mainframe experience in software design and implementation, including being able to exploit coding languages to solve complex problems. You’ll also need to be capable of complex requirements analysis capture and validation against and with business and systems requirements.

You’ll also need:

• Experience in Mainframe COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM and DB2.
• Hands on experience with Expeditor, z/OS connect API, Web/MQ DPL bridge services
• Should have basic knowledge of Assembler.
• Should have prior working experience in Core Banking Domain
• Experience in the implementation of programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance
• Strong stakeholder management skills and communication skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts in a simple way