WoW Software Engineer - Host

Natwest Digitalx; Chennai; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Natwest Digitalx is seeking a Software Engineer at senior analyst level to join our Chennai, India team. You will engineer and maintain customer-centric, high-performance software and collaborate across a broad stakeholder network to deliver secure, robust solutions.

In this role you will work in a feature team, handling full lifecycle activities from development through maintenance. The position emphasizes strong mainframe skills, agile practices, and DevOps fluency to drive value for our

Qualifications

• Background in software engineering and architecture.
• Experience in mainframe development (COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2, VSAM).
• Experience with API integration, Web Services, and modernization initiatives.
• Proven SDLC experience for Tier 1 applications.
• Familiarity with Agile (Scrum/Kanban) and DevOps practices.
• Strong problem-solving and multi-tasking abilities.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and maintain high-quality, robust software.
• Work in a feature team across the lifecycle, from development to deployment.
• Collaborate with engineers, architects, and analysts across the platform.
• Design, test and implement working code.
• Support requirements analysis, design, coding, testing, deployment and operations.

Skills

Agile methodologies

DevOps practices

Analytical problem solving

Team collaboration

Tools

Endevor

Xpediter

Abend-AID

File Manager

DB2 tools

Job description

Job Summary

Join us as a 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 senior analyst level

What you'll do

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 are 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

The skills you'll need

Youll need a background in software engineering, software design, architecture, and an understanding of how your area of expertise supports our customers.

Youll also need:

• Basic hands-on experience in Mainframe application development using COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2 and VSAM, with exposure to API integration, Web Services, and modernisation initiatives.
• Experience with mainframe development and support tools such as Endevor, Xpediter, Abend-AID, File Manager, and DB2 tools.
• Proven experience in the software development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and production support for business-critical Tier 1 applications.
• Good understanding of Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban.
• Exposure to DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, source code management tools, and agile delivery methodologies.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate and resolve technical issues.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks, prioritise workload, and meet agreed deadlines with a focus on producing high-quality code.
• Strong team-working and collaboration skills, with a focus on knowledge sharing, continuous improvement, and fostering a positive engineering culture.

Hours

45