Cobol software engineer (senior) - Pension
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- Level
- Senior
- Apply from
- Denmark
About the role
- Join a team focused on pension systems.
- Work with mainframe technologies like COBOL.
- Collaborate with vendors and customers.
- Contribute to automated testing and service modernization.
- Engage in an agile development environment.
Skills the posting asks for
- COBOL
- Java
- SQL
- OpenShift
- JCL
Summarised from the employer’s posting, which is reproduced in full below.
The employer’s full posting
You will join our Pension Foundation team, located in Warsaw, Poland, and Roskilde, Denmark. The team is part of Mortgage & Pension and is responsible for end-to-end maintenance and support of four pension-related systems. It includes software engineers, business analysts, testers and a team architect, and reports to the development manager.
Two systems are third-party solutions, making collaboration with vendors a natural part of the work. The team also maintains BEC pension systems on the mainframe and contributes to decoupling mainframe integrations through APIs, expanding automated testing and modernising services on OpenShift. You will join a community of more than 60 experienced mainframe engineers. Your direct manager will be Michał Cydzik .
Primary tasks and responsibilities include:
We offer a diverse range of benefits for our employees. Here are just a few of them.
BEC is in the process of being acquired by our largest customer and co-owner, Nykredit, which is Denmark's largest mortgage provider and third-largest bank. We will become part of a new and larger organization called Nykredit Financial Technologies. In the transition phase, we are recruiting for roles that we expect to be highly needed in our future organization.
Two systems are third-party solutions, making collaboration with vendors a natural part of the work. The team also maintains BEC pension systems on the mainframe and contributes to decoupling mainframe integrations through APIs, expanding automated testing and modernising services on OpenShift. You will join a community of more than 60 experienced mainframe engineers. Your direct manager will be Michał Cydzik .
Primary tasks and responsibilities include:
- Investigating and resolving incidents in COBOL- and Java-based components.
- Monitoring four pension systems, responding to alerts and warnings, and keeping application security and certificates up to date.
- Maintaining test environments based on RHEL on OpenShift and Microsoft SQL Server databases, and operating systems on the OpenShift Container Platform.
- Working with JN Data on OPC jobs using JCL and coordinating with vendors and customers when errors occur.
- Maintaining and improving existing solutions, including technical and procedural documentation.
- Contributing technical expertise in collaboration with other IT specialists to deliver solutions that meet changing business needs.
- Helping establish automated testing, migrating web services to REST services on OpenShift and supporting event streaming to the new BI platform.
- More than five years of experience in mainframe development using COBOL.
- Experience with Java.
- Experience developing and unit testing with one or more of the following: COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, SQL, IDz/RDz and Java.
- An understanding of Red Hat OpenShift.
- Experience working in an agile development environment, including Agile or Scrum methodologies.
- A proactive, adaptable and collaborative approach, with the confidence to express your views and an interest in understanding business objectives.
- Strong analytical skills and professional proficiency in written and spoken English.
- Experience with pension systems.
- Experience with Git or Bitbucket, Jira, APIs, the Spring Framework, Jenkins, ServiceNow or API testing tools.
We offer a diverse range of benefits for our employees. Here are just a few of them.
- Professional development budget
- Healthy, varied lunch and fruit in the canteen
- Active staff associations: yoga, cycling, go-karting, salsa dancing etc.
- Flexible starting time
- Health insurance
- Referral bonus
- Send us your CV: We want to get to know you
- Screening call: Let's chat and see if we're a match.
- Meet our talent partner and technical expert: Learn more about the job, BEC Poland, and tell us more about your skills and experience.
- Meet your future manager and team: See who you'll be working closely with.
- Time to sign the contract: We're ready to welcome you to BEC!
BEC is in the process of being acquired by our largest customer and co-owner, Nykredit, which is Denmark's largest mortgage provider and third-largest bank. We will become part of a new and larger organization called Nykredit Financial Technologies. In the transition phase, we are recruiting for roles that we expect to be highly needed in our future organization.