Specialist Cobol Developer - Johannesburg at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Summary

• The Payments team within CIB Transactional Banking Tech is looking for a Mainframe Developer to apply critical thinking & problem solving skills to contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle & quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications.

Job Description

Technical skills and experience required:

• Min 5 years experience as a Cobol / Mainframe Developer
• Relevant B-Degree in Computer Science preferred but not essential if minimum requirements of experience & practical application are evident
• Cross-domain knowledge
• COBOL Programming, IMS, DB2, easytrive, SQL and JCL
• Knowledge of payments and EFT/RTC/Debi-check/Naedos will be an added advantage

Accountability

• Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills to solve complex technical problems with high quality solutions
• Reviews, analyzes, and modifies programming systems including encoding, testing, debugging and installing for a large-scale mainframe computer system.
• Determine operational feasibility of solutions by evaluating analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development and proposed solutions
• Quickly produce well-organized, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions
• Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organization principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience
• Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
• Apply unit testing frameworks and perform integration, validation and verification testing.
• Apply version control and related concepts and techniques
• Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture, Security & Infrastructure guidelines
• Work with project & program teams (when required) to plan & manage the development lifecycle e.g. releases, risk management, testing, integration etc.
• Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices e.g. Cloud-Based Solutions.
• Contribute to the design & evolution of Group Architecture, Infrastructure & associated technical standards for the organization

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology