Senior Cobol Software Engineer at Sage

Job Description    

• The Senior Software Engineer is responsible for building, enhancing and maintaining products and/or systems to enable Sage’s business plans and long-term objectives using the identified architecture. The Senior Software Engineer will assume ownership in the design, develop and delivery of high-quality products and/or systems and services that exceed customers’ or business partners’ expectations and will proactively share their own knowledge for specific technical solutions and business processes in their area of responsibility.

Key Responsibilities    

Skills, know-how and experience:
Must have:

•  Technology expert in their field.
•  Complex problem-solving ability. Innovative and creative thinking.
•  Operates with considerable latitude for unreviewed action or decision.
•  Ability to interpret and/or gather user requirements and translate these into technical specifications and/or code
•  Proficient with several relevant programming languages, frameworks and databases
•  Experienced implementing Architecture Best Practices and Patterns like Microservices, CQRS, Event Sourcing, Domain-Driven Design, …
•  Proven experience in using a TDD approach
•  Proven Track record of creating API-first products
•  MS Azure experience
•  AWS experience
•  A rapid ‘pick up and learn approach’ that will ensure valuable contribution to any team within days of joining the team
•  Very good in spoken and written English (must have!)

Preferred:

•  Innovative and creative thinking
•  6-10 years relevant professional experience, Payroll and/or financial domain expertise is an advantage
• Technical / professional qualifications (technical skills on at least intermediate, preferably expert level):
•  Computer Science (or related degree/qualification)
•  Real world application development experience
•  Cobol / AcuCobol (must have at least 5 years or more experience)
•  Micro Focus Bench (must have at least 2 years or more experience)
•  C#.Net
•  JavaScript client-side framework
•  Microsoft SQL Server
•  REST API / Web API
•  Entity Framework or similar
•  API development & testing tools – e.g. Postman