Senior Mainframe Engineer

Business Unit: Chief Operating Office

Salary range: £40,800 - £55,000 per annum

Location: UK Hybrid, with occasional travel to our hubs in Glasgow / Newcastle

This role will be based within the Route to Live Team within IT Operations. The position is for a Senior Mainframe Engineer who will be a key member of the team responsible for supporting the Group’s non-production mainframe environment.

What you’ll be doing:

• Responsible for providing support for all quality Engineering services or technical expertise initially within the IBM Mainframe specialism.
• Delivery of a wide range of testing commitments to our stakeholders, whilst complying with current security policy and test environment procedures.
• Engagement with and providing support to, and present appropriate challenge to many roles across the Portfolios.
• Liaising with Technical Specialists and Environment Managers to provide technical advice and guidance within own area of expertise.
• Engage with various stakeholders such as Quality Engineers, Quality Leads and Developers.

We need you to have:

• Good technical knowledge of the Testing Environment.
• Experience of providing technical guidance and support to colleagues and stakeholders.
• Experience of CICS & Batch schedule setup and execution.
• Experience of CICS & Batch schedule/execution issue resolution.
• Familiar with Environment/application/schedule cloning.
• Working knowledge of IBM Endevor.
• Competent with JCL, TWS(OPC) and SDSF.

It’s a bonus if you have but not essential:

• Assess deploy and where necessary correct REX code delivered by various engineering rooms.
• Experience in the Financial Services industry.

Red Hot Rewards:

• Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time) plus the option to buy more.
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year.
• 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt.
• Market-leading pension.
• Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance.
• Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness.
• Ability to work anywhere in the UK (where the role allows).

Feeling insatiably curious about this role? If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.

We’re all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.

Be yourself at Virgin Money:

Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.

As a Disability Confident Leader, we’re committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion. If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team.

Now the legal bit:

Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we’ll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. If you’re successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks – we’ll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you’ll be subject to periodic employment checks.