This role is to start asap and will pay £67k p/a plus benefits

Programming knowledge of CA-IDEAL and JCL is essential

We are looking for a Mainframe Engineer with a solid grasp of GENTRAN, and excellent experience of Mainframe technology, including: Cobol, CICS, DB2, JCL and SQL.

The Mainframe Engineer will be instrumental in crafting and building functionality on the mainframe for Commercial Motor Vehicle business whilst maintaining and building new Integration Maps (TS), including Platform Engineering, Application Development and Maintenance as well as end to end testing to ensure high availability of systems. You'll be working in a strong Agile team of 5 engineers, and sitting within Application Development and Maintenance (AD&M).

Day to day duties -

Working with COBOL and CA-DATACOM/DB programming as well as SQL.

Collaborating closely with business users on projects and smaller change initiatives to deliver an ongoing backlog of improvements

Working with internal and external suppliers to craft and build the configuration management, release, deployment and operations cycle to meet business requirements.

Identifying and delivering Service Improvements in both production, testing and development environments

Working with Architecture, Security and Other key teams to implement the Technology strategy roadmap

Identifying and implementing opportunities for innovation and continuous improvement in the development and continuous deployment of applications.

Experience Required -

Solid experience with GENTRAN map development and the application.

Programming knowledge of CA-IDEAL and JCL is essential

Commercial experience of Agile and ITIL concepts & practices

Experience in any of the following software applications: ENDEVOR, SAS, Connect:Direct, TSO/ISPF, CICS, CA-DATACOM/DB, CA7

This role is to start asap and will pay £67k p/a plus benefits

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