Job Description

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Sub-Domain: Application Development Management

Experience Level: Junior – L2 (3–5 years)

Location: Kuala Lumpur

Type of Work: QR

Job Summary: 

We are seeking a Cardlink Developer with hands-on experience in Mainframe COBOL/CICS development and Cardlink application delivery within the banking sector. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing, enhancing, maintaining, and supporting Cardlink applications running on the IBM Mainframe z/OS platform. 

The ideal candidate will have approximately 4 years of experience in COBOL/CICS development, a good understanding of banking and card-related systems, and practical experience across the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), change management, testing, and production support processes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, enhance, maintain, and support Cardlink applications on the Mainframe platform.

• Perform application development using COBOL and CICS based on functional and technical requirements.

• Develop and maintain batch processes using JCL.

• Work with VSAM and sequential datasets for application data processing.

• Analyze business and technical requirements and translate them into effective technical solutions.

• Perform program coding, unit testing, debugging, and defect resolution.

• Conduct impact analysis for application changes and enhancements.

• Support system integration testing, user acceptance testing, and production implementation activities.

• Investigate and resolve application issues within agreed service levels.

• Prepare and maintain technical documentation, program specifications, test evidence, and implementation of documents.

• Follow established SDLC, change management, coding, testing, and release management processes.

Required Skills:

• 3–5 years of overall IT/application development experience, with approximately 4 years of hands-on COBOL/CICS development.

• Proven experience in Cardlink development and delivery.

• Strong hands-on experience with Mainframe COBOL and CICS.

• Good knowledge of JCL and Mainframe batch processing.

• Experience working with VSAM and Sequential Datasets.

• Working knowledge of Easytrieve.

• Experience working on IBM z/OS Mainframe environments.
• Banking sector experience is required.

• Understanding card applications / card processing is highly desirable.

• Good understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

• Experience with application testing, debugging, defect fixing, and production support.

• Familiarity with change management and release management processes/tools.

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