Description
We are IT Recruitment Specialists partnered with a prestigious Global Consultancy who requires a Cobol Software Engineer for one of their Public sector clients based in Worthing/Remote.
*IR35 Status- Inside IR35
Description
Software Engineer
6 months
Worthing/Remote
Candidate can be SC Eligible
The role falls within the Data and Analytics delivery centre of market unit. The group provides a wide range of data and analytics solutions in support of business priorities: maximise revenues, bear down on avoidance and evasion, improve and transform tax systems and respond to current Covid challenges. You'll work primarily within an agile team including software architects and fellow software engineers. You will also be supported by product managers, scrum masters and solutions architects. With additional client and key stakeholder interaction as required.
The focus of your role
The design, development, testing and support of data and analytics software solutions.
Work as part of an Agile software delivery team; typically delivering within an Agile Scrum framework.
You will work on the full range of software engineering and solutions development activity; covering requirements gathering and analysis, solutions design, software coding and development, testing, implementation and operational support.
You will contribute to the software engineering communities by providing your ideas for innovation and process improvement and coaching and mentoring other team members.
What you'll bring
Experience as a software engineer delivering within large scale data analytics solutions.
Ability to operate at all stages of the software engineering life cycle
Awareness of devops culture and modern engineering practices
Experience of Agile Scrum based delivery
Proactive in nature, personal drive, enthusiasm, willingness to learn
Excellent communications skills including stakeholder management
Design solutions with understanding of the architecture and NFRs
Providing technical leadership and governance
Build engineering capability within your team and wider Data and Analytics
Responsible for impacts being produced by your team
Build high performing engineering led teams
Accountable for the quality of deliverables your team are producing, and continually look for ways to improve it
Cobol
DB2
DB2 utilities
REXX
RACF
HSM
JES3
IBM utilities
CICS
File transfers
Automation techniques
Full knowledge of the development life cycle
Business Intelligence
Warehouse Design
Datamodelling
Good to have:
IBM z/OS Systems Programming
Awareness of Configuration Management
JCL, z/OS, IBM, MS Office tools
Experience of z/OS upgrades
TWS/Netview
IDMS/Broadcom
E5 (Cedar)
ASG/CCC
Mainframe SAS
Knowledge of Agile methodology, Jira/Confluence
Awareness of Risk, Change
If you are interested in this position and would like to learn more, please send through your CV and we will get in touch with you as soon as possible. Please note, candidates are often Shortlisted within 48 hours.