Mainframe Developer

Job description

About Barclays

Barclays is an international financial services provider engaged in personal banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking and wealth management with an extensive presence in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. Barclays' purpose is to help people achieve their ambitions – in the right way.

With over 300 years of history and expertise in banking, Barclays operates in over 50 countries and employs approximately 140,000 people. Barclays moves, lends, invests and protects money for customers and clients worldwide.
At Barclays, we recruit based on merit and are committed to promoting diversity throughout our organisation.

About Barclaycard Business Solutions

Barclaycard Business Solutions is a portfolio of B2B2C (business to business to consumer) businesses including merchant acquiring, commercial payments, offers and point-of-sale (POS) finance.
Making our clients more successful is at the heart of what we do. We are unique. We are the only business in the UK which can make and take payments, putting us in a unique position to offer a broader choice of payment solutions and products to our B2B customers.
Our focus is on making clients more successful by allowing them to always make the sale, help them pay and to help them to promote and sell.

About Payments Tower

The primary function for the Payments Technology Tower is to support the Global Payments Acceptance business and in doing so running payment transactions for 30% of the UK high street, adding business value by leveraging technology solutions and payments domain / industry knowledge. The tower also operates across Barclaycard and the wider bank providing payment solutions where the other business units are acting as a merchant or in the operation of authorisations and settlement routing.
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Overall purpose of role:

The role is to perform activities related to the design, development, testing, deployment and support and maintenance of new, or existing, Barclays software applications and information systems as per the key accountabilities described below.

Key Accountabilities
· Understand the various phases of the software development lifecycle
· Undertake impact assessment and estimation of change requests against applications / products within domain
· Liaise with stakeholders for any requirement clarification to take that to closure.
· Responsible for design, development & local test and adherence to all coding standards
· Document all work in accordance with agreed standards, and with re-use in mind
Report progress against assigned activities in a timely manner.

Stakeholder management and leadership
· Co-ordinate and communicate with colleagues to encourage ideas and build on the suggestions of others.
· Be supportive within the team, both technically and culturally, to help achieve all targets set within sprint plans
· Identify own development needs and seek opportunities to address these needs through guidance, coaching and formal training
· Collaborate with other component design and build teams, ensuring that end-to-end system design is followed
Enlist others in working towards the organisation goals takes prompt and effective action to rectify problems within the team.

Decision making and problem solving

Raise risks and issues in a timely manner, and complete associate actions in required timeframe.
Analyse and document specific projects' business requirements and strategic resolution initiatives; describe alternative problem-solving approaches and their optimal uses
Create/Review component designs & builds to ensure compatibility with the end-to-end system design
Create/Review test strategies to guarantee the quality of the delivered system, assist in the diagnosis of system problems encountered during testing

Risk and Control Objective

All Barclays colleagues have to 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

Person Specification

Skills
· Must have experience of working in an IT project environment preferably in card acquiring domain in banking and financial sector.
· Must have Strong analytical skills, proficiency in COBOL, JCL, VSAM. Unit testing and system testing approach
· Hands on knowledge on FileAid in Mainframe.
· Hands on knowledge of version control tool Endeavour
· Hands on knowledge on RDBMS DB2 preferred
· Knowledge of Change, Incident and Problem Management process

Competencies

· Ability to articulate and compare alternatives approaches.
· Ability to draw upon professional concepts to collaborate with others to carry out assigned duties.
· Ability to recognize problems related to team's objectives / deliveries and to apply creativity / judgment to professional, technical or operational problems.
· Should be proficient in architecture and related frameworks
· Ability to understand team's mission and objectives and align person objectives, goals and aspirations to the team's objectives
· Ability to coordinate activities of less experienced or less knowledgeable team members.
· Ability to understand and influence high level technical design of design of components
· Ability to understand, implement and influence security concepts and solutions of components
· Analytical ability including root cause identification and pro-active design improvement
· Communicating, both written or orally, with both business and technology stakeholders at peer and adjacent organisational levels

Purpose and Values

Barclays has a single cross-business Purpose for Barclays and five core Values which underpin it.
Our Purpose is helping people achieve their ambitions in the right way. Put simply this is the answer to the question ‘What is Barclays for?' and it should guide our every action as employees.

Respect

We respect and value those we work with, and the contribution that they make.

Integrity

We act fairly, ethically and openly in all we do.

Service

We put our clients and customers at the centre of what we do.

Excellence

We use our energy, skills and resources to deliver the best, sustainable results.

Stewardship

We are passionate about leaving things better than we found them.