General information

Job Title
Software Engineer (IBM i/iSeries RPG)
Ref #
9177
Location
Southampton Office
Department
IMS - Engineering
Business Area
Engineering
Working time
Full-Time
Date Published
20-12-2024
Closing date
31-01-2025

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

Salary – Between £38,000-£57,000 + annual bonus & benefits.
Location – Southampton (Whiteley), Permanent
Office Attendance - Our roles are hybrid; however, you should be able to travel to our Southampton office at least 2 days per week for this position.
Closing Date - Applications close Friday the 31st January at 5pm.

We deal in the personal – from pet insurance for your best friend, and home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you’ve worked hard for. And that means we always work with heart. Whether we’re helping our customers or looking after our people, you’ll find there’s a warmth and friendliness to everything we do.

We’re looking for a Software Engineer to join our Insurance Money Services team.

Technical Challenges: The role involves designing, building, testing, supporting, and delivering our claims applications, deployed on the IBM i platform. There will also be opportunity to train in low-code on the OutSystems platform.

Subject Matter Expertise: You will act as a subject matter expert within Claims Engineering allowing you to showcase and further develop your own expertise.

Collaborative Environment: We encourage engineers to share new ideas, challenge existing practices, and look for opportunities to improve their teams and the wider engineering community creating a culture of continuous learning and improvement.

Influence on Direction: You will have the opportunity to set the direction with the Senior and Lead Engineers and drive through service improvements, features, and changes. This allows you to make a significant impact on the product and the team.

What you’ll be doing
• Work closely with our internal stakeholders and third-party suppliers
• Analyse systems to re-engineer, update or add new features
• Understand business requirements, documenting when required, including creating user stories with clear acceptance criteria
• Design system changes according to modular software design principles
• Write high-quality code and unit tests, according to defined standards
• Complete work according to agreed commitments
• Review work produced by other members of the team
• Analyse and identify the root causes of problems and defects and design suitable fixes
• Produce documentation describing new and existing systems

We need you to have
• At least 5 years of recent experience showing the ability to analyse, design, and develop systems on the IBM i using:
o RPGIV ILE free & fixed format
o Embedded SQL
o CL
o DB2 (DDS and SQL DDL)
o HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Knowledge of Agile practises and ceremonies

And if you have any of these, even better.
• Insurance or other financial services background
• Exposure to DevOps toolsets and CI/CD concepts
• RPG Smart Pages (RPGSp)
• Understanding and exposure to integrating REST/SOAP API endpoints
• Writing Swagger/YAML specifications
• Programming with 2E (CA/Advantage/Synon)
• Using PTC Implementer (formerly MKS Implementer)
• Developing interfaces with JDE
• Developing EDI interfaces (ideally ABC)
• OutSystems low-code

We don’t expect you to tick every box, and if you feel you hit most of the brief, it’s worth exploring to further develop your career here with us.

What’s in it for you
• Prepare for your retirement with our colleague pension scheme.
• Virtual GP Service for you and your family 365 days a year.
• Performance related annual bonus.
• Indulge in a generous holiday allowance with a minimum of 7.2 weeks, with the opportunity to buy more.
• Embrace the benefits of our Colleague Clubcard, enjoy a 10% discount that increases to 15% every payday (worth up to 2K). As an added perk, we’ll give you a second card to share with someone else.
• Benefit from our family-oriented initiatives, encompassing enhanced maternity leave pay, a shared parental leave policy, and a generous 8-week paid paternity leave.
• A place to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.
• Take part in our Buy as you Earn and Save as your Earn share schemes.

Everyone’s welcome
We want all our colleagues to always feel welcome and be themselves at Tesco Bank. We’re committed to building a more inclusive workplace and celebrating everything that makes colleagues unique, and value the richness and diversity this brings to our business. A more diverse business helps us deliver on our purpose to serve our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.
Additional Information

Role Alignment
Following the announcement regarding Tesco's strategic partnership with Barclays, this role will support our insurance and money services business and will remain with Tesco.

Interviews
Interviews are expected to be held from 20th January.

Why Tesco Insurance and Money Services?

Seeing your impact all around you: there's no better feeling.

Lucky for us, we get to feel it all the time. Because whatever our role, we're helping our colleagues and serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.

We deal in the personal – from pet insurance for your best friend, and home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you’ve worked hard for.

Everything we do is about making things better. Not just for others, but for you too. It's why you'll get bags of choice and plenty of development. It's why you'll always be heard and find balance that works for you. It's why you'll feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome.

So, if you want a career where you can do good and feel good, you've found it.

Let's make everyday a little better.

Our story

Making Insurance and Money Services more rewarding and offering great value and choice - because we know little wins can make a big difference.

We began life in 1997 and now help more than 2 million customers protect what matters to them.

We want to deliver a helpful service in everything we do and to make life easier for our customers. Our policies are really easy to manage online for our customers, but we know that being able to speak to our customer service staff when you need to is really important. This is why our customer service centres are open seven days a week.

Delivering great customer service means having great people behind the scenes – people who understand our customers and are driven by doing the right thing for them. We offer colleagues a place where they can feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome, where they can be part of a great team focused on making a real difference for our customers.

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 Insurance and Money Services looks like, click apply to find out more!
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