Senior Software Engineer - IBM i (iSeries) RPG (Insurance and Money Services)

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Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Salary - Between £50,240-£75,360 + annual bonus & benefits.

Location - Southampton Permanent

Office Attendance - Our roles are hybrid, however you should be able to travel to our Eastleigh office at least 1 day per week for this position.

Closing Date - Applications close Friday the 28 th of June at 5pm.

We deal in the personal - from pet insurance for your best friend, and home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you've worked hard for. And that means we always work with heart. Whether we're helping our customers or looking after our people, you'll find there's a warmth and friendliness to everything we do.

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Insurance Money Services team.

Technical Challenges : The role involves designing, building, testing, supporting, and delivering our claims applications, deployed on the IBM i platform. There will also be opportunity to train in low-code on the OutSystems platform.

Mentorship Opportunities : You will work closely with all engineers on your team. Line managing, mentoring, and building the careers of Software Engineers. This provides a chance to share your knowledge and help other engineers grow.

Subject Matter Expertise : You will act as a subject matter expert within Claims Engineering allowing you to showcase and further develop your own expertise.

Collaborative Environment : We encourage engineers to share new ideas, challenge existing practices, and look for opportunities to improve their teams and the wider engineering community creating a culture of continuous learning and improvement.

Influence on Direction : You will have the opportunity to set the direction with the Lead Engineers and drive through service improvements, features, and changes. This allows you to make a significant impact on the product and the team.

Career Advancement : Working closely with Lead and Principal Engineers and architects on longer-term technology goals provides an excellent opportunity for career advancement.

What you'll be doing

• Supervise, line-manage and coach other engineers in the team
• Lead teams of other engineers on features or work individually on small changes
• Work closely with our internal stakeholders and third party suppliers
• Analyse systems to re-engineer, update or add new features
• Understand business requirements, documenting when required, including creating user stories with clear acceptance criteria
• Design system changes according to modular software design principles
• Write high-quality code and unit tests, according to defined standards
• Complete work according to agreed commitments
• Review work produced by other members of the team
• Analyse and identify the root causes of problems and defects and design suitable fixes
• Produce documentation describing new and existing systems

We need you to have:

• Extensive experience showing the ability to analyse, design, and develop systems on the IBM i using:
• RPGIV ILE free & fixed format
• Embedded SQL
• CL
• DB2 (DDS and SQL DDL)
• HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Knowledge of Agile practises and ceremonies

And if you have any of these, even better.

• Experience of coaching junior software engineers
• Insurance or other financial services background
• Exposure to DevOps toolsets and CI/CD concepts
• RPG Smart Pages (RPGSp)
• Understanding and exposure to integrating REST/SOAP API endpoints
• Writing Swagger/YAML specifications
• Programming with 2E (CA/Advantage/Synon)
• Using PTC Implementer (formerly MKS Implementer)
• Developing interfaces with JDE
• Developing EDI interfaces (ideally ABC)
• OutSystems low-code

We don't expect you to tick every box, and if you feel you hit most of the brief, it's worth exploring to further develop your career here with us.

What's in it for you

• Prepare for your retirement with our colleague pension scheme.
• Private Medical Insurance (WL2+) and virtual GP Service you and your family 365 days a year.
• Performance related annual bonus.
• Indulge in a generous holiday allowance with a minimum of 7.2 weeks, with the opportunity to buy more.
• Embrace the benefits of our Colleague Clubcard, enjoy a 10% discount that increases to 15% every payday (worth up to 2K). As an added perk, we'll give you a second card to share with someone else.
• Benefit from our family-oriented initiatives, encompassing enhanced maternity leave pay, a shared parental leave policy, and a generous 8-week paid paternity leave.
• A place to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.
• Take part in our Buy as you Earn and Save as your Earn share schemes.

Everyone's welcome

We want all our colleagues to always feel welcome and be themselves at Tesco Bank. We're committed to building a more inclusive workplace and celebrating everything that makes colleagues unique, and value the richness and diversity this brings to our business. A more diverse business helps us deliver on our purpose to serve our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Additional Information

Role Alignment

Following the announcement regarding Tesco's strategic partnership with Barclays, this role will support our Insurance and Money Services business and will remain with Tesco.

Interviews

Interviews are expected to be held immediately.

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How to apply

We value our people and diverse teams and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals.

Our colleagues are working hybrid, taking time to meet with colleagues in our offices for moments that matter, such as team catch ups, planning meetings and more. If you're interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Bank looks like, click apply to find out more!

Why Tesco Bank?

We're also a little obsessed with the future. Your future. Our future. That's why we take development seriously; we want to help you thrive and evolve in your career. Tesco Bank is a place to get on, all colleagues have access to LinkedIn Learning and Abstract, from day one.

It's important to us that we make sure you're supported by your team and colleague networks every day, celebrating when it matters and helping you to be the best version of yourself. The people make Tesco Bank, and we take pride in what we achieve together.

All that hard work? Come and see it turned into something real, usable, and important to customers' and colleagues' everyday lives. At Tesco Bank, our products make things a little better for everyone.