About the Team

The Warehouse & Distribution technology team develops & supports our I.T. products across the whole of Warehousing & Logistics for Next.

Warehouse & Distribution are critical in ensuring our customers, stores & partners orders are all processed & delivered efficiently & ontime.

It’s always busy at Next and we are about to start the development required for a new Online Warehouse, whilst expanding our current Warehouses productivity, adding to our 3rd party Partner Portfolio & looking to modernise our development processes & platforms.

We have recently moved to a Product based structure within the department & are recruiting for a Mainframe developer to join our Outbound Logistics Product Group, primarily dealing with our carrier integrations.

About The Role

You will:

• Working within your Product Set team including Developers, Testers, Product Development Manager and Product Owner to design, develop, implement & support the changes required to deliver developments. As part of the wider Warehouse Systems team help look at how existing legacy architecture & processes can be modernised 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 Provide out of hours callout support, as well as providing out of hours support to business key events.

Criteria Technical Skills:

• COBOL DB2 and SQL ADABAS NATURAL JCL

Desirable Skills:

• zOS connect Websphere MQ JSON XML IDZ within Eclipse Framework

Benefits

• Bonus Scheme
• Pension Scheme
• ShareSave Scheme
• Life Assurance
• Staff Discount
• On-site Nursery
• Share Options (tradable for cash)

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!