# Developer / Senior Developer - Mainframe

**Company**: NEXT
**Location**: Leicester
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £42,100 - £55,400
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

We are seeking a Developer/Senior Developer to join our Mainframe team. As a key player in our organisation, you will work on designing, developing, and supporting new business solutions and pre-existing mainframe products.

Responsibilities:

- Design, develop, and support new business solutions and pre-existing mainframe products

- Provide analysis and programming skills in core languages

- Gather user requirements and produce sustainable and efficient solutions following Agile methodologies

- Design, code, maintain, and support business-critical systems used 24/7, 365 days a year

- Develop in both batch and online environments adhering to relevant standards

- Work closely with the user community to provide technical and non-technical advice

Requirements:

- Good standard of English (written and verbal)

- Experience working in a collaborative manner in a large-scale, fast-paced environment

- Proven experience working in a Mainframe environment with solid commercial experience in COBOL/CICS COBOL, ADABAS, NATURAL, DB2 and SQL, JCL, and Syncsort/DFSort

Desirable skills:

- Selcopy

- IBM Fault Analyzer

- APIM

- z/OS Connect

- WebSphere MQ

- XML

- JSON

- FTP

- ZIP390

Benefits:

- 25% off most NEXT, MADE, Lipsy, Gap, and Victoria's Secret products

- Company performance-based bonus

- Sharesave scheme

- On-site Nursery available

- 10% off most partner brands and up to 15% off Branded Beauty

- Early VIP access to sale stock

- Access to fantastic discounts at our Staff Shops

- Restaurants with great food at amazing prices

- Access to a digital GP and other free health and wellbeing services

- Free on-site parking

- Financial Wellbeing - Save, track, and enhance your financial wellbeing

- Apprenticeship - Grow and develop on the job whilst gaining a qualification

- Direct to Work - Discount online and in-store, collect your items the next day for free from your place of work or local store

- Support Networks - Access to Network Groups to empower and celebrate each other

- Wellhub - Discounted flexible monthly gym memberships, with apps, PT sessions, and more

## Skills

### Required
- COBOL
- CICS COBOL
- ADABAS
- NATURAL
- DB2
- SQL
- JCL
- Syncsort
- DFSort

### Nice to have
- Selcopy
- IBM Fault Analyzer
- APIM
- z/OS Connect
- WebSphere MQ
- XML
- JSON
- FTP
- ZIP390

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