Here at Next, we are looking a Mainframe Developer to join our growing team and play a crucial role in helping to drive Next forward in a fast moving retail environment.

As a Developer/Senior Developer, you’ll be required to understand and interpret technical specifications, and turn them into working code, using a mix of technologies.

Ideally, you’ll have solid experience in the full development life cycle, including requirements gathering, systems / business analysis and technical development.

About the role

• Develop, test and implement code to the department and industry technical specifications and standards.
• Perform maintenance programming and correction of identified defects.
• Create, document and implement test plans.
• Produce timely documentation and ensure proposed solutions are fit for purpose.
• Work to plans / deadlines provided, escalating issues as appropriate.
• Provide ad-hoc analysis, reports and business support as required
• Ensure that IT and business users are aligned at all times on the project aims and deliverables.
• Ensure issues raised by business users are appropriately evaluated, prioritised and resourced.
• Build and maintain working relationships with key business users.
• Proactively improve existing skills, taking on new technical skills as appropriate, and continuously seek to expand business knowledge.
• Work closely with other systems teams to improve cross-team resolution of issues, where appropriate.

There are flexible working options available for this role.
 

Essential Criteria

• COBOL
• JCL
• IBM DB2

Desirable Criteria

• JAVA
• CICSWeb
• General/Standard SQL
• Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS)