Senior System Programmer (Adabas & Natural)

Senior System Programmer * (Adabas & Natural)

Locations in Germany: Darmstadt (preferred); Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Berlin, Hamburg, Saarbrücken

Software AG helps companies to manage and optimize their operations, infrastructure and technology with products that simplify complexity, increase transparency and prepare organizations for change.

Trusted by the world’s best brands for more than 50 years, Software AG’s AI-enabled process intelligence, application development, high-performance database, and strategic portfolio management solutions are used by banks, retailers, manufacturers, governments and more.

Software AG’s Adabas database & Natural development platform are used by the world’s leading organizations to build and deploy high-performance, mission-critical applications for IBM Z®, Linux® and cloud. Governments and businesses (in finance, manufacturing, retail and more) tailor these applications to give their organization a distinct competitive advantage and optimize them to meet the most demanding operational service level agreements. With a pledge to innovate Adabas & Natural to 2050 and beyond, we ensure our customer’s mission-critical Adabas & Natural applications are Future ready. Now.

Be you, join us. 

In this exiting field we are looking for a Senior System Programmer* who will join our mainframe infrastructure team to maintain and enhance our IBM Z® environments.

ABOUT YOU

General Skills

• Good analytical and problem-solving skills

• Good creativity & innovation

• Commitment to the team & its goals and working in a collaborative environment

• Adaptive & self-motivated to learn new skills

• Ability to multi-task

• Strong quality focus

• Very good communication skills in English and/or German

Technical Skills

• Good understanding of IBM Z and z/OS architecture

• Good understanding of common installation, customization and maintenance practices followed in the z/OS world

• Open to support product developers & testers and product service & support staff

• Open to work in multiple technical areas across system programming, administration & operations

• Open to perform mainframe operations tasks like IPL as required

• Have experience in the following topics:

  • Mainframe security and encryption

  • Networking on z/OS

  • Db2 for z/OS

  • zPDT including knowledge of internals & Linux Administration

  • z/OS Unix system services including shell scripting

  • z/OS console operations

  • z/VM

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree from reputed institutions, but master’s degree is preferred

• 12+ years of system programming experience in the above-mentioned topics

What’s in it for you?

• Earn competitive total compensation and receive comprehensive country-specific medical and other benefits.

• Enjoy time and location flexibility with our Hybrid Working Model, which allows a remote workshare of up to 60%.  Work anywhere in your country or abroad for up to 10 days per year.

• Set yourself up for success in your new role by upgrading your home office space using your one-time hybrid work payment.

• Lean on the Employee Assistance Program for support during some of life’s most common but difficult challenges.

INTERESTED?

We look forward to receiving your complete application documents. Your application should include a short cover letter, a CV in tabular form and your training and work references.
 

Your contact:
Archana Singh, Lead Talent Acquisition Partner

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At Software AG we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect and fairness where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and employees without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, pregnancy, national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

We believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, compensate, develop, promote, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.

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