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From the employer's careers site First seen 27 Oct 2026

Developer / Senior Developer - Mainframe

NEXT Leicester On-site senior full-time

Salary

£42,100 - £55,400

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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

Ready to apply?

You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://ekeq.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_3001/job/77567

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