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 here for our customers whatever the time of day or night, so you’ll need to be flexible in working a rotating shift pattern

What you'll do

You'll be the custodian for the mainframe environment, whilst collaborating with project and infrastructure partners to understand requirements from the customers.

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. Experience of REXX would be advantageous.

You’ll also need:

• Experience with COBOL, JCL, DB2 and CICS
• Experience of working with development & testing tools, bug tracking tools and wikis
• Experience in multiple programming languages or Low Code toolsets
• Experience of DevOps, Testing 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