Barclays

Software Engineer - Mainframe

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1 month ago
Pune, IndiaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and deliver scalable, maintainable, secure, and high-performing mainframe software solutions.
  • Provide technical leadership through solution and design reviews, implementation guidance, and support for delivery teams across multiple workstreams.
  • Debug applications, optimize performance, support production stability, and manage software changes.
  • Collaborate with product managers, designers, engineers, stakeholders, and external partners to define requirements and align solutions with business objectives.
  • Participate in code reviews, unit testing, knowledge sharing, and technology communities.
  • Contribute to mainframe modernization, API enablement, automation, DevOps practices, and continuous improvement.
  • Manage and mitigate risks while strengthening controls related to the team’s work.

Requirements

  • Strong proven experience in mainframe application design, development, and technical leadership.
  • Deep expertise in COBOL, JCL, IMS/DB/DC, DB2, VSAM, CICS, TWS scheduling, stored procedures, and REXX.
  • Strong understanding of mainframe debugging, performance optimization, and change-management tooling, including Endeavor, Abend-Aid, File-Aid, and DB2 Platinum.
  • Ability to review and assure solution and design quality, guide complex large-scale implementations, and unblock delivery teams.
  • Strong understanding of performance engineering and production stability considerations.
  • Experience with mainframe DevOps practices, toolchains, and automated delivery pipelines is valued.
  • Exposure to mainframe automation, modernization, next-generation engineering practices, and DevOps-driven engineering enablement is valued.
  • Strong banking or financial-services domain knowledge is valued.
  • Ability to demonstrate risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, and job-specific technical skills.

Tech Stack

COBOLIBM DB2

Categories

Barclays

About Barclays

10,000+ employees

Our vision is to be the UK-centred leader in global finance. We are a diversified bank with comprehensive UK consumer, corporate and wealth and private banking franchises, a leading investment bank and a strong, specialist US consumer bank. Through these five divisions, we are working together for a better financial future for our customers, clients, and communities. For further information about Barclays, please visit home.barclays.

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