WoW Software Engineer, Host

About the Role

• Opportunity for a driven Software Engineer to take on an exciting new career challenge.
• Chance to hone existing technical skills and advance your career.
• Role offered at senior analyst level.

What You'll Do

• Engineer and maintain innovative, customer-centric, high-performance, secure, and robust solutions.
• Work within a feature team, engineering software, scripts, and tools that are often complex.
• Liaise with other engineers, architects, and business analysts across the platform.
• Produce complex and critical software rapidly and of high quality that adds value to the business.
• Work in permanent teams responsible for the full life cycle: initial development, enhancement, maintenance, replacement, or decommissioning.
• Collaborate to optimize software engineering capability.
• Design, produce, test, and implement working code.
• Work across the life cycle: requirements analysis, design, coding, testing, deployment, and operations.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Background in software engineering, software design, and architecture.
• Understanding of how your area of expertise supports customers.
• Mainframe application development using COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2, and VSAM.
• Exposure to API integration, Web Services, and modernisation initiatives.
• Experience with mainframe development and support tools such as Endevor, Xpediter, Abend-AID, File Manager, and DB2 tools.
• Proven experience in the software development lifecycle for business-critical Tier 1 applications: requirements analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and production support.
• Good understanding of Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban.
• Exposure to DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, source code management tools, and agile delivery methodologies.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate and resolve technical issues.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks, prioritize workload, and meet agreed deadlines with a focus on producing high-quality code.
• Strong team-working and collaboration skills, with a focus on knowledge sharing, continuous improvement, and fostering a positive engineering culture.