(Senior) Mainframe Software Engineer (all genders) #natural #cobol #adabas
Software engineer at Erste Digital (Erste Group's banking IT) developing and maintaining one of the bank's largest databases and ~20 mainframe applications, building stable libraries and modern microservices in Natural/Adabas, Cobol/DB2, SQL, CICS and JCL on IBM zOS, including fault analysis, troubleshooting and occasional on-call duty in agile teams.
- Compensation
- €64.6K / yr
- Location
- Not listed
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Proficiency in Natural/Adabas
- Comfort working in a mainframe environment, familiarity with decentralized programmers, interest in AI-assisted development tools
- Ability to collaborate with decentralized programmers on an equal footing
- Strong knowledge of application lifecycle (planning, requirements analysis, implementation, operation)
- Teamwork, reliability, resilience, self-motivation, and ability to analyze and explain complex contexts
- Ability to iterate quickly without sacrificing quality and attention to detail
- Passion for improving existing systems and creating functional/technical specifications and documentation
- Commitment to learning and sharing knowledge with others
- Comfortable working in agile teams and taking responsibility for defined tasks
- Strong communication skills in both German and English
- Willingness to do occasional night or weekend duties
- Several years of work experience, preferably in the banking industry
- Mainframe development experience: Cobol/DB2, ADABAS/Natural, SQL, CICS, ISPF, JCL on IBM zOS
- Development of secure and fault-tolerant software
- SQL databases (Oracle, Postgres, ...)
Nice to have
- Infrastructure knowledge (servers, networks, operating systems)
- Operations architecture and application monitoring
- Microservices design and implementation
- Coding & modernization with support of AI
- Agile toolchain (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket/git)
- Knowledge of the bank's basic business and its projects
Full description
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Make a difference in the financial life of millions of people: At Erste Digital you are co-creating the digital future, in which better financial health is possible. #believeinyourself
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We are part of Erste Group – the largest banking group in Central and Eastern Europe with more than 2,500 branches and over 45,000 employees. Our more than 2,000 IT experts and enthusiasts are the bank's Digital Muscle.
With top notch technology, we drive the realization offers the Group’s vision: To provide human banking in digital times, and to build Financial Health for over 16 million customers in the CEE region.
We aim to attract and develop the best talent and aspire to be an IT employer beyond compare.
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Our experienced team is responsible for one of the largest databases of our company and further 20 applications, which are mainly developed and maintained on mainframe where large amounts of data and performance are our daily challenges.
The smooth operation of our products is rounded off by fault analyses and troubleshooting, so that know-how regarding banking business is not neglected either. This means insights into practically all "corners" of banking IT through our close cooperation with infrastructure, George and payment transactions up to the DWH.
We are looking for an engaged and enthusiastic (Senior) Software Developer Mainframe to join our team help shape our applications for the future by building efficient and stable libraries and state of the art microservices which you will also get in contact with.
What to do
- Proficiency in Natural/Adabas
- Comfort working in a mainframe environment and familiarity with decentralized programmers, as well as a strong interest in leveraging AI-assisted development tools
- Ability to collaborate with decentralized programmers on an equal footing
- Strong knowledge of application lifecycle, including planning, requirements analysis, implementation, and operation
You check these boxes
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Softskills:
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Ability to work in a team, reliability and resilience characterize you, as well as self-motivation and the ability to analyze complex contexts and to explain them in a generally understandable way
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Ability to iterate quickly without sacrificing quality and attention to detail
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A passion of improving existing systems as well as creating "Functional & Technical Specifications" and the corresponding software and process documentation