Software Developer II - Cobol

Job Purpose

To realise the detailed design through programming and configuration and provide guidance and mentoring to other software developers. A COBOL developer with strong technical expertise in COBOL, mainframe environments (like IBM z/OS, JCL, and DB2), and software development principles, coupled with significant leadership and communication skills.
 

Job Responsibilities

• Produce working quality software that meets the design
• Develop critical and complex technical components in area of accountability
• Deliver system component designs that are robust and fault tolerant for large complex systems
• Ensure system component designs are supportable, maintainable and re-usable
• Deliver software that is observable and scalable
• Conduct estimate of work effort
• Trouble shoot and problem solve of software issues and provide guidance to other team members
• Produce documentation as per organisational standards
• Continuous improvement of software
• Provide Maintenance and support of software in environments of accountability
• Develop unit and system test cases and conduct unit and system testing
• Create deployment artefacts and stores in source control library
• Manage the deployment package and the execution thereof
• Optimise the tool change in collaboration with the Biz/ Dev / Ops Engineer
• Update and control the asset knowledge base 
• Ensure integration of own work with other individuals and in team
• Collaborate with designers, product owners and engineering leads to refine the solution
• Contribute into the decomposition of the system solution into component parts for development
• Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values
• Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise 
• Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities
• Contribute to the Nedbank Culture building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc.).
• Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy
• Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models and systems though agile thinking.
• Provide mentoring for multiple software developers

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

Preferred Qualification

Diploma / Certificate  in multiple  languages

Minimum Experience Level

• COBOL programming: Deep expertise in writing, testing, and debugging COBOL is essential.
• Understanding: IBM z/OS mainframe development, batch and online processing, CICS transaction systems, JCL DB2 data access, ISPW tool. Manage program/performance tuning, error triage for ABENDs and batch strategies and scheduling (Control‑M). Knowledge API/REST/SOAP interop from COBOL, and code review
• Mainframe environment: Proficiency with mainframe technologies like IBM z/OS, JCL, and CICS is crucial.
• Databases: Experience with database technologies such as DB2 and SQL is often required.
• System integration: Experience in modernizing and integrating legacy systems is frequently a requirement.
• Software development lifecycle (SDLC): Solid understanding of SDLC methodologies, including both traditional and Agile practices, is needed. 

Behavioural Competencies