Senior Cobol Developer

Group IT is a cross-border organization with 1500 IT employees spread across all home markets, located in Stockholm Umeå, Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius. Group IT is responsible for IT management in ensuring the long-term focus of IT and adaptation to the bank's business strategies. Last but not least, Group IT deliver a range of IT services to the bank, including development and maintenance.

To find out more about Swedbank as an employer, visit https://www.swedbank.com/work-with-us/

About the job We are looking for a Senior Developer for the international Payments domain. The position is located in Stockholm and is a part of our international team.

You will be a part of a cross-functional Agile team, delivering development and application maintenance activities and be responsible for a particular task or technical direction
You will supervise, coach and consult other team members, promote technical skills/ knowledge by day to day activities and planned learning sessions
You will play a key role in resolving major and critical incidents, identifying and implementing preventive actions and delivering application changes

In this role you are expected to independently write and improve Cobol code in compliance with specifications. You will do this by applying standard programming methods and best practices, following guidelines and processes regarding programming, design, system integration, versioning control, test, documentation, code review, security.

You need to be able to read, understand and interpret complex business or technical subjects and capable to discuss or explain this data with others, either business or IT.

Working together with architects you are expected to contribute to system design strategy and decisions and propose technical solutions while taking into account system as a whole.

What you need to succeed 5+ years hands-on experience of application development and/or maintenance
5+ years' experience working with IBM Mainframe and Cobol programing
Good spoken and written English language skills
Availability to be on-call
Permit to work in Sweden

It's an advantage if you have experience in one or more of the following areas:

Banking systems or Payments area
Knowledge of DB2 SQL and pure XML
Agile way of working
ITIL certification or experience
Swedish language skills

What you may have worked with previously Cobol Developer
Senior Mainframe Application Administrator

Potential next steps in your career after this job Project Architect;
Subject Matter Expert (SME)

Why work with me? – Patrik Forsblom I highly enjoy working in an international environment, where diversity and different points of view can be turned into our strengths. I trulybelieve empowerment allows business to navigate successfully in a state of constant change. I am striving to create a positive, open and engaging environment, where teams could perform at their best and be truly proud of their achievements!

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

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