Developer / Senior Developer - Mainframe

Job Description The Role: Let’s talk numbers. When it comes to UK retail, it’s hard to find a bigger name. We sell thousands of items an hour and are expanding our e-commerce business by the second. For anyone in Tech, this is the place to learn. To grow. And to thrive. Stock & Pricing are pivotal to ensuring our fantastic products are always available, both in our stores and for online customers. Stock & Pricing support all our Partners by making sure that the right stock is in the right place and at the right price. Be it in physical stores, websites or wholesalers both in the UK and internationally. We do all of this whilst using robust modern development methodologies and tools allowing us to redesign our complex legacy systems into modern new architecture. In retail today, few areas of expertise are as important as this. What You’ll Take On: You will work to design, develop and support both new business solutions as well as our pre-existing mainframe products. This involves all aspects of the development lifecycle and requires a flexible and innovative mindset with a positive attitude. You will provide analysis and programming skills in core languages, and gather user requirements and produce sustainable and efficient solutions following Agile methodologies. You will design, code, maintain and support business critical systems which are used 24/7, 365 days a year. You will develop in both a batch and online environment adhering to relevant standards and working closely with our user community to provide both technical and non-technical advice. You will be doing all this from our Leicestershire Head Office. A fast-paced, encouraging and supportive environment in which everyone brings an energy and a commitment to delivering for our customers and their own careers. Bring your energy. Play to your strengths. Make things bigger and better than before. Let’s Take It On. What You’ll Bring: Good standard of English (written and verbal) sufficient to communicate effectively with colleagues and stakeholders and safely carry out the duties of the role. Reasonable adjustments will be supported where required. You will be experienced in effectively working in a collaborative manner in a large scale, fast paced environment within a multifunctional technical team. You will have proven experience working in a Mainframe environment, with solid commercial experience in the following: COBOL/CICS COBOL ADABAS NATURAL DB2 and SQL JCL Syncsort/DFSort Desirable: Selcopy IBM Fault Analyzer APIM z/OS Connect WebSphere MQ XML JSON FTP ZIP390 About Us You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 44,000 people across the Next group. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. At the last count we have over 450 stores, plus the Next Online and it’s now possible to buy on-line from over 80 countries around the world! So we’ve gone global! About The Team 25% off most NEXT, MADE*, Lipsy*, Gap* and Victoria's Secret* products (*when purchased through NEXT)Company performance based bonusSharesave schemeOn-site Nursery available; OFSTED outstanding in all areas10% off most partner brands & up to 15% off Branded BeautyEarly VIP access to sale stockAccess to fantastic discounts at our Staff ShopsRestaurants with great food at amazing pricesAccess a digital GP and other free health and wellbeing servicesFree on-site parkingFinancial Wellbeing - Save, track and enhance your financial wellbeingApprenticeship - Grow and develop on the job whilst gaining a qualificationDirect to Work - Discount online and instore, collect your items the next day for free from your place of work or local storeSupport Networks - Access to Network Groups to empower and celebrate each otherWellhub - Discounted flexible monthly gym memberships, with apps, PT sessions and more Conditions apply to all benefits. These benefits are discretionary and subject to change. We aim to support all candidates during the application process and are happy to provide workplace adjustments when necessary. Should you need support with your application due to a disability or long-term condition, feel free to get in touch with us by email headoffice_careers@next.co.uk (please include 'Workplace Adjustments' in the subject line), or call us on 0116 284 2486 and leave a voicemail.