Software Engineer, Mainframe

NatWest Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in the United Kingdom is searching for a Software Engineer with expertise in mainframe technologies to join their team. The role involves engineering and maintaining high-performance solutions while collaborating with various stakeholders. Candidates should have a strong background in ZOS Connect EE, DB2 RestAPIs, Agile practices, and a variety of development tools including Jenkins and Git. This position offers a chance to advance your technical skills in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Background working in ZOS Connect EE and DB2 RestAPIs.
• Extensive knowledge in CICS webservice.
• Proficiency with SOAP, WSDL and JSON.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and maintain high performance, customer-centric solutions.
• Produce complex and critical software rapidly and of high quality.
• Collaborate to optimize software engineering capability.
• Design, produce, test, and implement working code.
• Work across the full software life cycle from requirements to operations.

Skills

ZOS Connect EE

DB2 RestAPIs

Expert level knowledge of SOA

Restful APIs

Agile Practices

JIRA

Confluence

IBM UCD

Jenkins

Bitbucket

Gitlab

Endevor

CICD

FileAid

Xpeditor

IBM explorer for ZOS

API

COBOL

IntelliJ

Bash

Git

SOAP

WSDL

JSON

JAVA microservices in z/os

Job description

Join us as a Software Engineer, Mainframe

• This is an opportunity for a driven Software Engineer to take on an exciting new career challenge
• You’ll have the opportunity to 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

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 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

You’ll need a background working in ZOS connect EE and DB2 RestAPIs along with extensive knowledge in CICS webservice.

You’ll also need:

• Expert level knowledge of SOA and Restful APIs
• Knowledge of Agile Practices and Tools such as JIRA, Confluence, IBM UCD, Jenkins, Bitbucket and Gitlab
• Development experience using Endevor, CICD, FileAid, Xpeditor, IBM explorer for ZOS, api, cobol, IntelliJ, bash and or git
• Proficiency with SOAP, WSDL and JSON
• Exposure to JAVA microservices in z/os