Mainframe Developer

We’re creating our own future 

At Volvo Cars, we are making bold digital visions come true. We aim to be the leader in the automotive world by creating a digital ecosystem built around making our customers' lives less complicated. What we all have in common at Volvo Cars is our passion for protecting lives, our endless curiosity, and our dedication to create a new future for the automotive industry. Our human centric focus is what separates us from all other car companies.

Main Responsibilities

• Providing technical mainframe competence

• Gathering functional and non-functional requirements from the stakeholders and document such requirements

• Developing efficient & quality assured software according to design and business requirements within agreed time frame

• Aligning and coordinating delivery with product owner, product team colleagues and tech leads to ensure consistency in solutions

• Collaborating within and outside the product team to secure resilient solutions and shared technical design

• Providing technical design and guidance – Code Review, Test Automation, DevOps best practices

Do you fit the profile?

We believe that you have a BSc or equivalent training/experience in Computer Science or other relevant subject area. We expect you to have 8+ years of industry experience.

The person we are looking for must have some years of practice from software development, testing and operational management (Design/Build/Maintain/DevOps) of IT systems/applications. Furthermore, 4-7 years of development and maintenance experience in Cobol and IMB mainframe is also a requirement. We expect the candidate to be technically strong in Cobol, JCL and IMS DB (DL1) databases.

As we are in a transformation and digitalization journey, we also value complementary skills and experience within the agile methodology SAFe, the more modern technology stack like Java, SQL databases and querying and modern integration & development architecture like API management and microservices.

Who are we?

Everything we do starts with people. Our purpose is to provide freedom to move, in a personal, sustainable and safe way. We are committed to simplifying our customers’ lives by offering better technology solutions that improve their impact on the world and bringing the most advanced mobility innovations to protect them, their loved ones and the people around them. 

Volvo Cars’ continued success is the result of a collaborative, diverse, and inclusive working environment. The people of Volvo Cars are committed to making a difference in our world. Today, we are one of the most well-known and respected car brands, with over 40,000 employees across the globe. We believe in bringing out the best in each other and harnessing the true power of people. At Volvo Cars your career is designed around your talents and aspirations so you can reach your full potential. Join us on a journey of a lifetime as we create safety, autonomous driving and electrification technologies of tomorrow.