Senior Developer/Lead Developer - COBOL, JCL, DB2
- Employer
- NEXT
- Location
- Enderby, Leicester
- Salary
- £39,436 - £52,940 p/a
- Closing date
- 21 Jun 2019
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- Sector
- Technology & Digital, Retail
- Hours
- Full Time
- Flexibility
- Flexible working available
- Contract Type
- Permanent
Job Details
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
- Demonstrate analytical and programming skills across a range of platforms.
- Support your team’s work as well as independently create and finalise all the code on small to medium sized technical debt projects among other varied projects
- Maintain and support our systems through bug fixes, customised requests and small enhancements.
- Develop in both a batch and online environment adhering to relevant standards.
- To work closely with our user community to provide both technical and non-technical advice.
- Proactively improve existing skills, taking on new technical skills as appropriate, and continuously seek to expand business knowledge.
- A proven track record of feature level design, development and testing of architecturally robust and scalable technical solutions.
- Strong problem solving skills with the capability to analyse existing systems for enhancement whilst identifying risks and change impact.
- Provide out of hours callout support on a weekly basis, as well as providing out of hours support to business key events.
There are flexible working options available for this role
Criteria
Essential
- COBOL
- CICS
- JCL
- IBM DB2
- ADABAS
Desirable
- JAVA
- CICSWeb
- General/Standard SQL
- Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS)
- Syncroft
- Websphere MQ
Benefits
- Bonus Scheme
- Pension Scheme
- ShareSave Scheme
- Life Assurance
- Childcare Vouchers
- Staff Discount
- On-site Nursery
About Next
You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 43,000 people across the UK and Ireland. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. At the last count we have over 540 stores, plus the Next Online and it’s now possible to buy on-line from over 70 countries around the world! So we’ve gone global!
Company
NEXT is a British multinational clothing, footwear and home products retailer headquartered in Enderby, Leicestershire. It has around 700 stores, of which circa 500 are in the United Kingdom, and circa 200 across Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Next is the largest clothing retailer by sales in the United Kingdom, having overtaken Marks & Spencer in early 2012 and 2014. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
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