Experienced Cobol Developer

• 7+ years of Cobol experience, a large part of which is recent
• Experience working in an Agile environment within a Scrum framework
• Knowledge of relational databases (Oracle and MySQL)
• Experience with Spring Boot framework and JPA (Hibernate) is a plus
• You are stress-resistant and feel at home in a dynamic environment
• You work under time pressure to achieve sprint deliverables and resolve disruptions

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience with microservices design/architecture and clean architecture is a plus
• Knowledge of Maven, Gitlab, Grafana, Kafka is a plus
• Affinity with (financial) services and payment traffic (SEPA and Non-SEPA)
• You are a proactive improver (of processes, content, and collaboration)
• You analyze complex problems and arrive at concrete (IT) solutions
• You are involved, social, and a true team player

This position falls in scale 10, with a gross monthly salary between €5,179.72 and €6,906.29 (based on 36 hours per week). Furthermore, we offer:

• A flexible 36-hour work week, such as 4x9 and working from home
• 8% holiday allowance and a 13th month, at a time that suits you best
• Based on full-time employment: 208.8 leave hours per year
• A good collective pension scheme
• € 750 per year to continue your development (to be saved up to € 3,000)
• Every 5 years € 900 to fully organize your home working space again
• An NS-Business Card and a mileage allowance if you come by bicycle

With us, you will find it. Code that matters. As an Experienced Cobol Developer, you will work in and on the heart of ASN's payment traffic. Our applications and services are used daily by hundreds of thousands of customers. You ensure that everything runs smoothly. A job with impact.

What will you do?
As an experienced Cobol Developer, you will work on the foundation of ASN Bank's payment chain. Think of all functionalities surrounding payments: thousands of requests per minute that must be processed without error. You improve and innovate user experiences and dive into technologies that make payment processes run even more smoothly for our customers. Your impact? Enormous. Hundreds of thousands of customers use what you build every day. Additionally, together with the rest of the team, you bear responsibility for the continuity of our payment services. Your scope is end-to-end: from architectural choices to go-live and operations. That combination of technical complexity and direct social impact? You won't find it anywhere else. Furthermore:

• You will think along about the future, actively contributing to the transition of our core payment application to the target architecture
• You will work on the introduction of the new European payment standard WERO
• In addition to Cobol, you will also work with modern technologies such as Java 17+, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Kafka
• You take end-to-end ownership, from requirements to working features in production, including operations, incident management, and stand-by, true DevOps
• You deliver high code quality, optimize performance, and have extensive experience with Cobol (80/20 split with Java). In other words, you also want to deepen your knowledge in Java
• At ASN Bank, you get the freedom and the responsibility to shape your work in your own way. You are the owner of your solutions, from the first line of code to go-live. You work together with colleagues within the bank, exchanging knowledge in communities of practice.

You work in a multidisciplinary BizDevOps team Payments within Daily Banking, together with fellow Developers and a Business & Engineering Lead. Product Delivery Banking is responsible for all processes surrounding payments, savings, consumer lending, and investing, as well as the IT applications that make these processes possible. The team is close-knit, open, and ambitious, a place where you keep each other sharp and where there is room for humor and honesty. Every Tuesday, you meet in Utrecht (sometimes Den Bosch) to brainstorm, build, and celebrate successes. The rest of the week, you work flexibly, partly from home.

You bite into complex issues, inspire your colleagues, and lift the entire team to a higher level. Together with your colleagues, you strive for high quality. You find it important that our customers have access to good financial services. Therefore, you look critically at continuity, stability, and performance. You do this with pride and by showing your ownership. Through your enthusiasm, you engage others, and you enjoy sharing your knowledge with colleagues and guiding other colleagues in their development. Furthermore, you have:

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