Mainframe Software Engineer, AVP

Join us as a Mainframe Software Engineer

• In your new role, you’ll engineer and maintain innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions
• We’ll look to you to design and engineer software focusing on the customer or user experience as the primary objective
• It’s a chance to hone your existing technical skills and advance your career as you develop the discipline of software engineering across the business
• We're offering this role at associate vice president level

What you'll do

As a Software Engineer, you’ll design, develop and deploy applications capable of meeting and exceeding the anticipated load, performance and availability volumes, including load balancing, performance testing and benchmarking.

You’ll be working within a feature team and using 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 high quality software 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 come with nine plus years of experience in software engineering, software or database design and architecture, as well as experience of developing software within a DevOps and Agile framework.

Along with an expert understanding of the latest market trends, technologies and tools, you’ll bring significant and demonstrable experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance.

You’ll also need:

• A strong background in Mainframe technologies like COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL and VSAM. Assembler experience will be an added advantage.
• Significant and demonstrable experience of test-driven development, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools
• A background in designing or implementing APIs , z-OS connect.
• The ability to rapidly and effectively understand and translate product and business requirements into technical solutions
• A background of working with Dev-Ops tools like Jenkins.