COBOL Developer

  • Full-time
  • Business Segment: Business & Commercial Banking

Company Description

Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.

Job Description

To design, code, verify, test, document, amend and refactor programs/scripts. Applies agreed standards and tools, to achieve a well-engineered result. To monitor and report on own progress and proactively identify issues related to software development activities. To propose practical solutions to resolve issues. To collaborate in reviews of work with others as appropriate.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
Type of Qualification: First Degree
Field of Study: Information Studies
Type of Qualification: First Degree
Field of Study: Information Technology

Experience Required
Software Engineering
Technology
5-7 years
Broad experience in translating business and functional requirements into technical specifications and developing the programming code to create the solutions.

Primary Skills:

  • Mainframe experience – 5 – 8 years
  • COBOL programming – 5 – 8 years experience 
  • Job Control Language (JCL)
  • DB2 database
  • Knowledge around mainframe batch scheduling and processing
  • Availability to do callout in 24 x 7 environment
  • Knowledge of Toolsets: REMEDY, JIRA, Confluence, ISPW – an advantage

Additional Information

Behavioral Competencies:

  • Adopting Practical Approaches
  • Articulating Information
  • Checking Details
  • Developing Expertise
  • Documenting Facts
  • Embracing Change
  • Examining Information
  • Interpreting Data
  • Managing Tasks
  • Producing Output
  • Taking Action
  • Team Working

Technical Competencies:

  • Agile Development
  • Debugging and Fixing Software
  • DEVOPS
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
  • IT Applications
  • Testing (unit, regression, integration)
  • Write Code
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