Software Engineer Edinburgh, Scotland
Job description
Our people work differently depending on their jobs and needs. From hybrid working to flexible hours, we have plenty of options that help our people to thrive.
This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.
Join us as a Software Engineer
- This is an opportunity for a driven Software Engineer to take on an exciting new career challenge
- If you're a strong communicator you’ll have the opportunity to build a wide network of stakeholders from multiple geographies and of varying levels of seniority
- It’s a chance to hone your existing technical skills and advance your career with exposure to functional conversations in leading domains within our technology spectrum
What you'll do
In your new role, you’ll engineer and maintain innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions.
You’ll be working within a feature team and using extensive experience to engineer software, scripts and tools that are often complex, as well as liaising with other engineers, architects and business analysts across the platform.
You’ll also be:
- Producing complex and critical software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business
- Working in permanent teams who are responsible for the full life cycle, from initial development, through enhancement and maintenance to replacement or decommissioning
- Collaborating to optimise our software engineering capability
- Designing, producing, testing and implementing our working code
- Working across the life cycle, from requirements analysis and design, through coding to testing, deployment and operations
The skills you'll need
You’ll need a background in software engineering, software design, architecture, and an understanding of how your area of expertise supports our customers. You'll have good team leading and stakeholder management capabilities, along with excellent knowledge and hands on experience of mainframe technologies, tools and utilities, including CA-7 scheduling, JCL Procedures, TSO, ISPF, Endevor, and CICS.
Ideally, you'll have knowledge of mainframe and other technologies such as, Rexx programming, VBScripting and Jira automation, Db2, INFOMAN, RACF, VSAM, and MQ, with exposure to distributed systems, but these aren't essential.
You’ll also need:
- Experience of working with code repositories, bug tracking tools and wikis
- Coding experience in multiple programming languages
- Experience of DevOps and Agile methodology and associated toolsets and methodologies
- Strong risk management, change control, defect analysis and fixing code experience
- Experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance
If you need any adjustments to support your application, such as information in alternative formats or special requirements to access our buildings, or if you’re eligible under the Disability Confident Scheme please contact us and we’ll do everything we can to help.
