Cobol software engineer (senior)

This position is a fixed-term contract until 10.07.2027

You will join our team FCP KYC (Financial Crime Prevention - Know Your Costumer & Fraud Prevention) in Financial Crime Prevention Domain. The team develops and maintain our solutions to support our respective banks in their effort to prevent financial crime and terror financing. The team area of responsibility is centered around the risk scoring of costumers and the knowledge about the costumer and the system to support the processes to gather and analyses data. The senior Cobol engineer is a crucial part of our agile team, and you will be a part of a full stack delivery team with 2 other Cobol engineers, 4 Java engineer, 1 Subject matter expert and 3 Business analysts. All supported by a Scrum master, Product owner and a development manager. The team is located both in Denmark and Poland, and you will be meet in the office by 8 other team members in Warsaw.

As a senior Cobol engineer in the team you will be challenged by both supporting our current solutions but also being a central part in our future development of our systems in the team. We are focused on value creation for our customers and continuously adding functionality to existing systems as well as providing new solutions to assist our banks preventive measures towards money laundry and terror financing. The focus is to deliver the AMLA package, enhancing our products to meet the new legislation requirements, and your role will play a crucial role in this delivery.

Your direct manager will be Lars Simmelsgaard.

Primary task and responsibilities include:

• Enhance our systems to support the AMLA regulation.
• Proactive maintenance of the systems under team support, in close collaboration with our Java developers and Business analysts.
• Ad hoc handling of any incidents reported by our customers, to ensure stable operations of the systems to our costumer.
• Processing of bank requirements together with business analysts to transform customer requirements into feasible development tasks.
• You will work with all the roles in the team, from Business analysts, Java developer, and Product Owner to solve and develop our systems. We have a close collaboration with the other 4 teams in our Domain.
• The team is in both Denmark and Poland and we meet up physically 1-2 times a year. Given development tasks can request your presence in Denmark besides the full team gatherings.

To succeed you will have:

• Minimum 5-8 years of experience in mainframe development and various languages such as Cobol / CICS or PL/1 from the financial sector, telecom, pharma, or similar
• Experience with working with DB2, IDz/RDz, JCL, TSO & OPC. We don’t require extensive experience on all of the above, but rather an interest in learning about these tools and how to utilize them.
• A curious mind with an open nature and desire to knowledge-share with others.
• A desire to learn new things and to improve continuously.
• An urge to ensure a stable and safe system. Take pride in our solutions and acknowledge the beauty in resilient code.
• Experienced in working in an agile team, and to participate actively in the agile events.
• To master English fluently both spoken and written, and not be afraid to interact across borders with team member in Denmark.

It’s nice-to-have:

• Knowledge of Jira and Confluence, while we uses these product heavily for our documentation and agile planning.
• Knowledge of Kafka and/or OpenShift Container Platform.
• Open minded personality. We value transparency and honesty in the team, and we enjoy each other’s company.

Be your best self with BEC’s Benefits!

We offer a diverse range of benefits for our employees. Here are just a few of them.

• Flexible working hours
• Mental health support
• Free lunch at the office
• Professional development
• Referral bonus up to PLN 10,000
• PLN 600 on a benefit platform a month
• Passion clubs and social events (Tennis, salsa, running)

What does the recruitment process look like?

• Send us your CV: We want to get to know you

• Screening call: Let’s chat and see if we’re a match

• Meet our talent partner and technical expert: Learn more about the job, BEC Poland, and tell us more about your skills and experience.

• Meet your future manager and team: See who you’ll be working closely with.

• Time to sign the contract: We’re ready to welcome you to BEC!

If you have any questions related to the position, please contact Talent Attraction Partner at Robert.Piec@bec.dk.

BEC is in the process of being acquired by our largest customer and co-owner, Nykredit, which is Denmark's largest mortgage provider and third-largest bank. We will become part of a new and larger organization called Nykredit Financial Technologies. In the transition phase, we are recruiting for roles that we expect to be highly needed in our future organization.