Specialist Product Engineer (Cobol / Mainframe Developer)

Minimum requirements:

• At least 2 years relevant experience, preferably in the Mechanical Services (Mining, Power Generation and or Petro Chemical industries) is preferred.
• Fully conversant in the English language, additional languages will be an advantage.
• Be computer literate on Microsoft Excel and Word
• Work within guidelines and rules
• Be attentive to detail, cooperate and participate in relevant training programs.
• Follow job procedures
• Work safely
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• The ability to delegate.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle including Evaluate analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development & provide recommendations to enable the operational feasibility of solutions
• Quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions
• Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience
• Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
• Work with integrated teams and other developers to improve and evolve technical products and services
• Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture & Infrastructure guidelines
• Provide input into project & program teams (when required) to plan & manage the development lifecycle e.g. releases, risk management, testing, integration etc.
• Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices and continuously evolve existing knowledge & skill in preparation for cross domain and other experiences e.g. Secure Side, Testing, Infrastructure solutions etc.
• Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team
• Support the people change teams in the development of user material (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption)
• Risk & Governance
• Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post release)
• Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks
• Participate in incident management & DR activity applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents