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Are you a seasoned PL/1 professional looking for one final challenge where your expertise will truly make a difference?
We are seeking an experienced PL/1 Developer to play a pivotal role in the modernisation of a business-critical legacy application. This is a unique opportunity to apply years of hard-earned knowledge to reverse engineer and analyse a complex system, uncovering how its functions, procedures, modules, interfaces, and program calls work together to support essential business operations.
Your expertise will be instrumental in guiding the migration of the underlying database from Datacom (Broadcom) to VSAM, helping ensure valuable business functionality is preserved, understood, and thoroughly tested throughout the transition.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, documenting and sharing knowledge, and leaving a lasting impact on a significant transformation programme. Whether you're currently consulting, semi-retired, or simply looking for a role where your specialist skills are genuinely valued, we'd love to hear from you.
We can offer flexibility to suit your lifestyle, including part-time arrangements, and the role can be based in Wellington, Auckland, or Christchurch. The focus is on finding the right person with the right experience, not fitting them into a rigid working model.
Key Responsibilities:
- Analyse and reverse engineer PL/1 applications to understand and document how they work.
- Map application workflows, program calls, interfaces, and data dependencies.
- Support the migration from Datacom (Broadcom) to VSAM by identifying impacts and required code changes.
- Produce clear technical documentation and specifications to support development and testing.
- Work closely with developers, testers, architects, and business stakeholders to validate solutions.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues within legacy PL/1 applications.
- Provide guidance to ensure business processes are fully tested and protected throughout the migration.
- Share knowledge and insights to help build a strong understanding of the application's design and behaviour.
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About You
- Strong PL/1 development experience in mainframe environments.
- Experience maintaining and enhancing legacy applications.
- Proven ability to analyse and reverse engineer complex systems.
- Good knowledge of Datacom/Broadcom, VSAM, JCL, and batch processing.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work with limited documentation.
- Experience producing clear technical documentation and specifications.
- Strong communication skills with both technical and business stakeholders.
- Self-motivated and comfortable working independently.
- Curious and persistent when investigating complex issues.
- Practical, hands-on approach to problem solving.
- Able to explain technical concepts in a clear, straightforward way.
- Detail-oriented with a focus on quality and risk management.
- Collaborative and willing to share knowledge with others.
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We are open to flexible working arrangements for this role - work from home or the office, you choose the hours!
What you will love about working here:
- You will be a part of a diverse collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs, and industry experts. You will love the exposure to the scale of transformation, the depth of expertise, and the opportunities for career growth.
- We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance. We embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people.
- At the heart of our mission is your career growth. You will have countless learning and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications crafted to support you in exploring a world of opportunities.
- We realise a Total Reward package should be more than just compensation. We offer a range of core and flexible benefits and have a Peer Recognition Portal called ‘Celebrate’.
- We don’t just believe in inclusion we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and ‘Inclusive future for all’ campaign, we build environments where you can bring your whole self to work.
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