Software Engineer - IBM i (iSeries) RPG

General information

Job Title Software Engineer - IBM i (iSeries) RPG Ref # 8173 Location Eastleigh Department Engineering Business Area Engineering Working time Full-Time Date Published 26-04-2023

Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

IBM i (iSeries) RPG Software Developer, Permanent

Eastleigh, Hybrid working

Salary between £38,000 - £45,000

The Role

We are looking for an experienced IBM i (iSeries) RPG Software Developer to join our team of Software Engineers in Eastleigh who support and enhance bespoke application software used by our Insurance business.

We enjoy working in a hybrid working environment where we meet some days in the office for collaboration and moments that matter and some days working from home.

What you’ll bring

We work with the following tech stack. We don’t expect you to tick every box, but if you feel you hit most of the brief, it’s worth exploring to further develop your career here with us at Tesco Bank.

Essential experience: At least 2 years of recent experience showing the ability to analyse, design, and develop systems on IBM iSeries using:

• RPGIV ILE free & fixed format; embedded SQL
• CL
• DB2 (DDS and SQL DDL)
• HTML, CSS and Javascript

Desirable experience:

RPG Smart Pages (RPGSp) Insurance or other financial services Developing interfaces with external XML and JSON webservices Developing webservices and writing Swagger/YAML specs Outsystems Lo-Code JIRA Agile methods

Nice to have experience:

• Programming with 2E (CA/Advantage/Synon)
• Using PTC Implementer (formerly MKS Implementer)
• Developing interfaces with JDE
• Developing EDI interfaces (ideally ABC)
• Developing documentation using Interform400

Key responsibilities:

• Understand business requirements and convert them into clear functional system specifications
• Design system changes according to modular software design principles
• Produce technical specifications for system changes
• Write high-quality code according to defined standards
• Analyse systems to re-engineer, update or add new features
• Analyse and identify the root causes of problems and defects and design suitable fixes
• Produce documentation describing existing systems
• Work according to agreed deadlines
• Work collaboratively in a team of other developers on projects or individually on small changes #LI-KP1

How to apply

We value our people and diverse teams and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals.
Our colleagues are working hybrid, taking time to meet with colleagues in our offices for moments that matter, such as team catch ups, planning meetings and more. If you’re interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Bank looks like, click apply to find out more!

Why Tesco Bank?

We’re also a little obsessed with the future. Your future. Our future. That’s why we take development seriously; we want to help you thrive and evolve in your career. Tesco Bank is a place to get on, all colleagues have access to LinkedIn Learning and Abstract, from day one.
It’s important to us that we make sure you’re supported by your team and colleague networks every day, celebrating when it matters and helping you to be the best version of yourself. The people make Tesco Bank, and we take pride in what we achieve together.

All that hard work? Come and see it turned into something real, usable, and important to customers’ and colleagues’ everyday lives. At Tesco Bank, our products make things a little better for everyone.