Mainframe Software Engineer

Join us as a Java 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
• Its a chance to hone your existing technical skills and advance your career
• We're offering this role at associate level

In your new role, youll engineer and maintain innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions.

Youll be working within a feature team and using your extensive experience to engineer software, scripts and tools that're often complex, as well as liaising with other engineers, architects and business analysts across the platform.

Youll 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

Youll need 5+ years of strong background in software engineering, software design, and architecture, and an understanding of how your area of expertise supports our customers. On top of this, youll bring experience of COBOL, JCL, Db2, REXX and CICS.

Youll also need:

• Experience of working with code repositories, bug tracking tools and wikis
• Coding experience in multiple programming languages
• Experience of DevOps and Agile methodology and associated toolsets and methodologies and associated toolsets such as scrum or Kanban
• Understanding of relational databases and modern databases like Postgres, Mongodb
• 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