Software Specialist - Lending

If you've always wanted to apply your skills to a large-scale Kiwi success story, then today is your lucky day - as we are on the lookout for a new Software Specialist with strong Cobol development and support skills to join us here at ASB!

About us:

We're not your average bank and break the assumptions of tech in banking being old and decrepit (yay us!). We embrace innovation at speed, using modern tools and technologies to get us ahead of the game and stay there.

You'll be part of a team that are on the forefront of working to deliver a secure, functional and performant product that delights our customers every day. In our diverse and accepting environment, our people grow their agile mind-set, learn, evolve and utilise their skills, while being empowered to make decisions.

About the role:

A software specialist (Cobol) is responsible for providing technical support, consultancy, analysis and development to ensure maintenance, refinement and constant improvement to ASB's core suite of high volume transactional banking systems.

The ideal candidate for this role will have solid exposure to the following technologies;

• COBOL-74 or equivalent
• XGEN (desirable)
• Unisys ClearPath MCP (or similar mainframe environment) (desirable)
• Agile methods including Scrum
• Knowledge of BDD and/or TDD

About you:

We'll value your proven initiative, problem solving abilities and leadership skills as we look for every engineer to lead from their position. You must be self-driven with the ability to maintain high standards, attention to detail, accuracy, and completeness. You have demonstrable commercial experience in Cobol development and Support within a complex mainframe environment with a positive attitude and the desire to work on a mix of project and support work. Experience working within the Financial Services environment will be advantageous, as would experience of working with the .net technology stack and web or REST Api's.

What's in it for you:

We offer a competitive salary and bonus, great banking benefits, heaps of personal and career development opportunities, flexible working styles, extra holidays and parental benefits.

If we've nailed our pitch and this role sounds like it might be the one for you then please click "apply"… we'd love to hear from you!

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