Mainframe Designer

**Job Title**: Mainframe Designer

**Location**: Pune

About Barclays
Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.

Risk and Control Objective
Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards.

Working Flexibly
We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life.
If you would like some flexibility then please discuss this with the hiring manager.

Hybrid Working

Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

Introduction
- Mainframe Application Engineer role requires an experienced, high calibre mainframe engineer with good functional and technical engineering skills / product knowledge to work with business stakeholders and key suppliers to deliver change as per the requirements and to integrate them in the bank’s infrastructure to agreed time, quality and cost parameters
- An engineer will carry out Application Design, Development and Testing related activities. The person will need to understand the functional/ business domain in question and have the technical skills required to do Design, Development and Testing that includes Test automation.
- Require Mainframe Knowledge/Expertise in IBM Z-Series Mainframe, COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2, IMS and VSAM. Mainframe DevOps knowledge will be additional advantage

What will you be doing?
Following are key activities expected from the role
- Responsible for component technical delivery (Design / Build / Test / Implementation) of projects within agreed timescales, High Quality and budgets
- Participate in project requirement gathering / component impact assessment
- Develop and maintain effective stakeholder relationships - Liaise with technical delivery managers, leads keeping them updated on release progress against milestones, risks, issues and finances
- Grooming & Mentoring of juniors in the team (Technical & Functional / process improvements)
- Ensuring that all changes are designed, developed, tested and implemented using defined best practices
- Drive and Lead the Team and Barclays objectives / initiatives
- Demonstrate leadership skills by ensuring all colleagues have a clear understanding of how their role contributes to our Group Technology and team priorities
- Conducing review progress meeting for direct team members against their objectives and provide development feedback. Provide guidance and assistance as in when required
- Drive/contribute in Optimization/Simplification of Application estate/Processes
- Strong interpersonal and written/oral communications skills

**What we’re looking for**:

- Graduate with Technical background.
- Experience and Expertise in Mainframe Application Design / Development/ Testing.
- Good understanding of Tools (Debugging / performance) is required.
- Sound logical reasoning & design methodology is desirable
- Ability to explore new age technology improvement / automation / DevOps toolchain is desirable

**Skills that will help you in the role**:

- Good exposure on IMS and DB2 Databases
- Good designing exposure

Where will you be working?
Pune

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