Software Engineer - Mainframe, VP

Join us as a Software Engineer - Mainframe

• This is an opportunity for a technically minded individual to join us as a Software Engineer
• You ll be designing, producing, testing and implementing working software, working across the lifecycle of the system
• Hone your existing software engineering skills and advance your career in this critical role
• Were offering this role at vice president level

What youll doWorking in a permanent feature team, you ll be developing knowledge of aspects of the associated platform across the disciplines of business, applications, data and infrastructure. You ll also be liaising with principal engineers, architects in the domain and other key stakeholders to understand how the platform works and how it supports business objectives.

Youll work as a subject matter expert to oversee, manage and contribute in Mainframe technical areas of Production incidents, system changes as per business regulatory requirements, new projects design and development, programme impact assessments and decommissions.

You ll also be:

• Applying Agile methods to the development of software on the backlog
• Producing resilient and long-lived software and acting flexibly to cope with future needs
• Delivering intentional architecture and formulating emergent design through innovative ideas, experimentation and prototyping
• Designing and developing software with a focus on the automation of build, test and deployment activities, using executable patterns

The skills youll needWe re looking for someone with strong full stack experience in software design and implementation, including being able to exploit programming 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. Youll need at least twelve years of experience working with mainframe technologies such as COBOL, JCL, DB2, SQL, and CA7.

Additionally, you ll demonstrate:

• Experience of leading the implementation of programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance
• Sound collaboration skills with the ability to work with business teams to produce pragmatic solutions that work for the business
• Experience of information security policies and practices within the financial sector
• Strong stakeholder management skills and communication skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts in a simple way

Hours

45Job Posting Closing Date:

• 30/05/2025