Cobol software engineer (regular or senior) - Securities Trading
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 5, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 4, 2026. BEC Financial Technologies scores A on the Alion truth index.
This position is based at our office in Warsaw, Poland, and you will join our Securities Trading team. The area team is in charge of developing products and concepts around Trading and Settlement of Securities within the Wealth Management and Trading Domain, part of the Engineering Platforms division. Tasks related to Sustainable Finance - Customer preference and Target Market, Post Trade harmonization, and Decoupling of Mainframe are a few examples of the upcoming focus areas for the team.
The Mainframe engineer role offers the opportunity to work on impactful financial systems in a collaborative team of three Business Analysts and five Software Developers.
At BEC, we prefer to collaborate often in the office, but we also keep the opportunity to work remotely up to 8 days per month. Your direct manager will be Kamil Szpich.
Primary tasks and responsibilities include:
- Develop and maintain Mainframe solutions supporting the Securities Trading area.
- Analyze existing solutions and translate business requirements into maintainable technical solutions.
- Work with COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL and MQ in the IBM z/OS environment.
- Participate in development, maintenance, troubleshooting and incident resolution.
- Contribute to regulatory and mandatory deliveries affecting Securities Trading.
- Work closely with Business Analysts, Product Owners, architects, QA and other development teams.
- Participate in code reviews and ensure high standards for software quality and maintainability.
- Contribute to technical documentation and systematic knowledge sharing.
- Support knowledge transfer and help build stronger Mainframe competence and backup within the team.
- Participate actively in Agile events and break larger requirements into actionable development activities.
To succeed you will have:
- A curious mind with an open nature and desire to knowledge-share with others.
- Strong experience developing solutions on IBM z/OS.
- Solid COBOL programming skills.
- Experience with CICS.
- Experience working with DB2.
- Good understanding of JCL.
- Experience with MQ / Message Queue.
- Experience with modern development practices including version control and code review.
- Ability to analyze complex existing Mainframe applications and understand dependencies between systems.
- Fluent in English (written and spoken)
It’s nice-to-have:
- Familiarity with Git/BitBucket, JIRA, API, Java, Kafka
- Experience in the financial sector
- Problem management skills (e.g., root cause or Pareto analysis)
Be your best self with BEC's benefits!
We offer a diverse range of benefits for our employees. Here are just a few of them.
- Mental health support
- Free lunch at the office
- Professional development budget
- Referral bonus up to PLN 10,000
- PLN 600 on a benefit platform a month
- Passion clubs and social events (tennis, salsa dancing, board games, family picnics and more)
What does the recruitment process look like?
- Send us your CV: We want to get to know you
- Meet our talent partner: Learn more about the job, BEC Poland, and tell us more about yourself.
- Meet your future manager and team: See who you'll be working closely with.
- Time to sign the contract: We're ready to welcome you to BEC!
If you have any questions about the position, please contact Talent attraction partner at [email protected]
BEC is in the process of being acquired by our largest customer and co-owner, Nykredit, which is Denmark's largest mortgage provider and third-largest bank. We will become part of a new and larger organization called Nykredit Financial Technologies. In the transition phase, we are recruiting for roles that we expect to be highly needed in our future organization.