Consultant Developer – Procedural Programming / Legacy Systems
Your day to day
- Work within an agile and collaborative development environment, closely collaborating with Product Owners, Business Analysts and other developers
- Design, develop, test, deploy and monitor software solutions within a business-critical application environment
- Develop and maintain applications using procedural programming languages, such as COBOL
- Work with non-relational databases and indexed files
- Provide technical support to business teams and contribute to the continuous improvement of existing applications
- Take ownership of specific areas of the application landscape and progressively develop strong technical expertise
- Participate in code reviews, pair programming and knowledge sharing to support the development of other team members
- Contribute to technical and architectural decisions, while being able to explain and justify proposed solutions
- Collaborate with developers from other teams to improve systems, processes and overall technical efficiency
- Contribute to the modernisation of legacy applications and the adoption of new technologies
- Work with APIs, event-driven architectures and other modern development approaches when relevant
- Communicate project progress clearly and provide realistic estimates of remaining work
Your profile
- Solid experience in procedural programming, ideally with COBOL or a similar language
- Proven experience working with non-relational databases and indexed files
- Good understanding of the full software development lifecycle, from design and development through testing, deployment and monitoring
- Ability to contribute to and challenge software architecture and technical design decisions
- Experience with code reviews, pair programming and technical mentoring
- Strong interest in the Life Insurance / Insurance industry
- Good understanding of modern software development practices and continuous improvement principles
- Familiarity with object-oriented or functional programming and modern technologies
- Knowledge of event-driven programming / Event Sourcing is an advantage
- Experience with Kafka is a plus
- Knowledge of REST APIs and JSON-API standards is appreciated
- Knowledge of MongoDB or other non-relational databases is an advantage
- Familiarity with functional programming languages, such as Scala, is a plus
- Experience with continuous deployment and monitoring tools such as Kubernetes, Jenkins, Instana or Sentry is an advantage
- Good knowledge of Git or another version control system
- Experience with unit testing frameworks
- Ability to work effectively in a collaborative, cross-functional environment
- Proactive, autonomous and willing to continuously learn and develop technical expertise
Job Category: Developer IT
Job Type: Consulting
Job Location: Luxembourg