Software Engineer Mainframe/Cobol

Large Corporates & Institutions (LC&I) is the Swedbank business area designed to meet the needs of large and midsized corporates and financial institutions. This includes multinationals and other clients in need of advanced financing solutions.

The business area is also responsible for delivering corporate and capital markets products to Swedbank’s retail operations and the customers of the Swedish savings banks. LC&I operates from offices in Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Finland, the U.S., South Africa, China and Luxembourg.

Swedbank is the bank for the many. We believe in a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we want all our employees to feel valuable and have the prerequisites to develop and perform at their very best. Inspiring and learning from each other is what moves us forward. Join us in our journey and find out more about us at: swedbank.com/work-with-us

About the job The cross functional team you will be joining is developing Swedbank's next generation of payment processing for international payments.

As a software engineer in our team you will work with maintenance and development in Cobol/Mainframe environment. The right person also has the opportunity to contribute to design and architecture of system solutions.

You will work in a Cross Functional Team together with Agile Product Owner and Scrum Master to create a collaborative environment in order to maximize the investments in the payments area.

You will be working with colleagues from both Sweden and the Baltic countries. You conduct your work the agile way, ensuring that we efficiently develop the right things with the goal to provide customer satisfaction and new business opportunities.

In this position you will:

Contribute in all areas: analyse, design, develop, test and maintain services delivered by the team
Proactively reduce the technical depts
Solve and deploy solutions of incidents and problems
Readiness to have on-call for the IT services developed and maintained by the team
Participate and follow maintenance processes (incident, problem, event as applicable)
Ensure quality awareness and care when designing, building and maintaining software
Act as team player in the cross functional team and constantly improve the way of working
 

What you need to succeed z/OS development skills, that includes:

COBOL
IMS and/or CICS
IMS/DB
JCL
(Optional) Tivoli scheduler
(Optional) Changeman
Relation Database skills:

SQL and DB2 specifics
pureXML
Java development skills will be an advantage

Linux and WebSphere administrative skills (optional), that includes:

Linux shell scripting skills
WebSphere application management and basic concept understanding
WebSphere configuration basics
 

What you may have worked with previously Software Engineer
Development
Service/System Management
 

Potential next steps in your career after this job Architect
Team Manager
 

Why work with us – Global Payment Platform team We are one of the most interesting areas to work within in our agile transformation. We have amazing persons within our team. They are all working with great energy, have enormous joint knowledge, are curious and want to change but are at the same time very aware of and take responsibility to deliver with full attention to what is needed for Swedbank.

If you join us you will have the opportunity to grow, take on a big responsibility and will have the possibility to guide the team in the agile transformation.

Why work with me – Maria Edvardsson I'm a manager who believes in people. Being a team that support each other provides the best condition for achieving common goals. Therefore, I am driven by engaging employees who take responsibility and who can self-detect and enforce improvements.

I always try to be a manager who is available and a support in our everyday work. I see it as my role in the team is to remove obstacles along the way and to make life easier for my team.

We may begin the selection under the application period, so we welcome your application as soon as possible.

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