Backend Developer – Cics Product Development

Introduction
As part of the zSoftware development team, you would be developing, testing and supporting industry leading integration products that are central to digital transformation for large organizations. You will be part of the TXSeries and CICS TX development team (part of CICS portfolio), which is owned fully by the India Systems Development Lab. Being partof this team will provide an opportunity to drive the growth of zSoftware business , hence making a lasting impact on large organizations that have a major impact on world economy.
Your Role and Responsibilities
The CICS development team is looking for software engineers with a real passion for creating solutions to enable enterprise customers to solve business problems. The right candidates will be valued members of the CICS team and will closely work within a multi-disciplined squad, in a design led and agile environment, to deliver world class quality product enhancements. Software development continues to transform within CICS and across the industry and the right candidates will want to actively engage in these improvements and will get the opportunity to take the highly successful CICS product to the next level. The successful candidates will want to grow their problem solving abilities, learn how to apply new technologies to provide solutions to business problems and work within a highly successful team. Candidates will contribute across product development , test development and automation.

Unique Selling Point

CICS aka CICS Transaction Server is a critical product for the IBM Z platform, IBM and for thousands of customers across banking, retail, transport and insurance domains, as it powers the majority of enterprise transactions. CICS runs more transactions than the number of google searches each day. You name a company from Fortune 500, it’s very probable to be a CICS customer. If you are swiping your card today at an ATM or a shop, you are most likely experiencing CICS.

As a member of the highly valued CICS product development team, you could play a key role in shaping the world’s most trusted, secure, and scalable enterprise solution.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 8 – 12 years of development and/or consulting experience.
• Proven programming and debugging skills in Java OR C
• Strong skills and experience with z/OS application development and debugging
• Effective communication with global and cross functional teams.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Programming skills in PLX / Assembler
• Understanding and experience of CICS application development
• Knowledge of Web Services, GitHub and Jenkins/Tekton.