Senior Mainframe Engineer - FTC

Legal & General supports the savings, protection and retirement needs of around 14 million people, through our portfolio of retail and workplace businesses.

Our Retail division helps people enjoy a more colourful retirement, both directly and through their employers, including Lifetime Mortgages, Retirement Interest Only Mortgages and financial advice on our range of lending products.

We are the UK’s number one individual life insurer, and also provide Group Protection products for employers – all helping people to plan for the unexpected. We support home buying through our Mortgage Club – the UK’s largest – and our award-winning Surveying Services team. And our fintech team finds and supports socially useful start-ups and scale-ups working in the workplace, home, insurance and wealth areas.

Joining us means helping create brighter financial futures for all our customers. 

We are seeking a highly skilled Mainframe Engineer to become an integral part of our expanding engineering team. The ideal candidate will leverage their extensive software engineering expertise to develop innovative features, resolve complex issues, and manage technical debt. Additionally, they will apply a strategic perspective to enhance team processes and tooling, ultimately driving the delivery of exceptional, high-quality software solutions to our valued customers.

What you'll be doing:

• Collaborating within the team to develop clean, maintainable features and resolve end-to-end issues, leveraging various approaches to ensure optimal outcomes for our customers. Ensuring solutions are fit for purpose, deliver significant business value, adhere to quality standards, and align with standard engineering practices.
• Contributing to the strategic management of technical debt within the team, ensuring Legal & General’s systems remain secure, resilient, and reliable.
• Defining and reviewing test approaches and strategies within your team to ensure the highest quality customer experience, with a strong emphasis on security, usability, and accessibility.
• Participating in and conduct code reviews, focusing on both functional and non-functional requirements, including performance, resiliency, maintainability, and security, to consistently deliver high-quality software for our customers.
• Actively promoting continuous improvement and adaptation to enhance team effectiveness and satisfaction, supporting changes that improve processes and culture, ensuring the team remains happy, productive, and efficient.
• Fostering a culture of mutual respect, collaboration, and engagement within the team, providing coaching, mentoring, and support to less experienced engineers to help them develop and grow their skills.
• Engaging in continuous research on relevant application technologies, identifying and implementing opportunities to integrate them into our applications. Share your findings and insights in developer forums.
• Ensuring that all customers and stakeholders are treated fairly, in line with Legal & General’s principles on Customer Experience and the Treating Customers Fairly policy.

Who we're looking for:

• Proficient in Key Mainframe Skills: Expertise in COBOL or PL/I, JCL, Rexx, DB2, CICS, VSAM, SORT utilities, File-AID, SPUFI, ISPF, and SCM tools such as Endevor.
• Experience with Third-Party Products: Skilled in using HPS, Easytrieve, and Selcopy.
• DB2 Database Management: Proficient in managing and optimizing DB2 databases, including writing SQL queries and ensuring data integrity.
• JCL (Job Control Language): Essential skills for managing job streams, scheduling tasks, and handling data processing.
• CICS (Customer Information Control System): Expertise in building and managing high-volume transaction applications.
• Debugging and Troubleshooting: Proven ability to identify and resolve issues in mainframe applications.

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer: 

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes  
• Generous pension contribution  
• Life assurance   
• Private medical insurance (permanent employees only) 
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday 
• Competitive family leave 
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
• There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online   
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

Legal & General is a leading financial services group and major global investor, named Britain’s Most Admired Company in 2023, for the second year running. Rated top in our sector and top for inspirational leadership, we have a strong heritage and an exciting future.

We aim to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone.

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We strive to be open, mindful and inclusive, so are always willing to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs.

If you’re open to find out more, we'd love to hear from you.