Mainframe Developer

Position Purpose

The squads within Tribe Daily Banking are responsible for the development and maintenance of  key applications within BNP Paribas Fortis.  It works in an agile mode with daily huddles and frequent production releases, whilst maintaining high quality standards.

We are looking for a technical analyst, developer to support the change and run activities of several core Invest applications in mainframe technologies. A close collaboration with business and functional analyst as well as tribe architects in order to understand the business logic and the IT technical landscape is key to success.

Responsibilities

Direct Responsibilities

• As member of an international, multi-functional squad you work closely together with the business and functional analysts as well with the testers in order to define and execute the correct technical solutions whilst respecting the architectural & security requirements and guidelines. 

• You identify and manage dependencies with other teams (within or outside the tribe) and ensure a smooth integration of the applications within the application landscape, keeping an E2E view

• You take care of all technical activities, from configuration to development and ensure you deliver qualitative solutions by performing unit and integration testing.

• You participate in the testcycle, troubleshooting and fixing defects.  

• You optimise your code on the level of performance, security and maintainability and you provide an up to date documentation.

• You ensure a correct integration and deployment in de different environments.

• You ensure the 3rd line support, analyse and fix incidents and problems.

• You actively participate in squad ceremonies, ensure a good communication with your fellow squadmembers and stakeholders

Contributing Responsibilities

• Identify and implement improvement actions that improve the way of working of the squad and the quality of the delivery.

• Promote best practices within your squad and beyond as part of Communities of practice.

• You build up your knowledge by keeping up to date on the company evolutions and the domain specific content.

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

At least 5 to 7 years of experience in a relevant environment

Mandatory:

- Mainframe MVS : Expert

- COBOL / MFEEE / EDz : Advanced

- IMS/DB : Advanced

- DB2/SQL : Advanced

- CTL-M monitoring

- Job-scheduling : CTRL-M (or CA7 or similar)

- Repository (Endevor or similar) : Advanced

Strong plus:

- zOS Connect

- MQ

- XML

- IMS/DC (TPX) 

Nice to have : 

- Rally

- Octane

- Agile & Scrum experience

Specific Qualifications

• Agile and Scrum experience 
• Business experience and knowledge of invest products is a plus 

• Experience with integration using different technologies (distributed/mainframe) is a plus

Experience Level : At least 5 years

Other/Specific Qualifications

• Team player who promotes communication between internal and external stakeholders.
• Result oriented: adapts to the context and wants to obtain the best possible result considering available means.
• Act and analyse proactively.
• Pragmatic and problem solver.
• Quick self-starter, pro-active attitude, self-motivated.
• Good communication skills.
• Ability to work in a dynamic and multi-cultural environment.               .
• Ability to build professional relationships in a complex environment.
• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders.
• Asking and giving feedback.
• Promote continuous improvement (market evolutions, working methods, ) to improve delivery speed of software and hardware, and to improve operational quality