Senior Software Engineer (AS400)

Job Summary:
- Own end‑to‑end technical responsibility for AS400 applications, including country‑specific core banking systems.
- Strong experience in I-Series/ AS400 programming, application development and support.
- Hands-on expertise in ILERPG, CLLE, DB2/400, SQL
- Experience in coding, debugging, enhancement, and maintenance of AS400 applications.
- Good-to-Have Skill: Experience in Equation/Finestra core banking API development .

Job Responsibilities:
- Collaborating with business analysts, QA teams, and other technical teams to understand requirements and deliver solutions within agreed timelines.
- Optimizing the existing programs and SQL queries to improve application performance and processing efficiency.
- Developing and maintaining the batch jobs, CL programs, and job schedules to support daily banking operations and batch processing.
- Creating and modifying DB2/400 physical files, logical files, and SQL-based objects to support application requirements.
- Performing application debugging, root-cause analysis, and defect resolution to ensure smooth functioning of banking applications.
- Developing and modifying RPGLE programs, CLLE programs, and SQL queries to support new features, regulatory changes, and existing application enhancements.
- Analysing business requirements and functional specifications to implement technical solutions aligned with banking processes.
- Work with ILERPG (ILE RPG), CLLE, DB2/400, and SQL for application development, customization, and maintenance.
- Develop enhance, and maintain AS400 (IBM i-series) applications supporting core banking and lending systems, including country-specific business requirements.

About Pennant: Pennant Technologies is an agile, innovative financial technology company that powers the lending operations of global banks and financial institutions - HDFC, Bajaj Finserve, LIC HFL, Godrej HFL, RAK Bank, QNB to name a few. Its suite of future ready lending products and solutions offer banks composable features and scalable capabilities to deliver differentiated loan origination, servicing, and collections experiences for their customers. Trusted by leading banks and financial institutions in Asia, Pennant’s award-winning lending platform has managed more than 10 million loans and facilitates 50 million loan transactions per year. Pennant is HQ in Hyderabad and have offices and/ business operations in India, ME, Saudi, Australia, Philippines and UK. We are aggressively expanding across the geographies and adding to our 450+ workforce, spread across multiple locations. Visit us at www.pennanttech.com (http://pennanttech.com)
Growth Opportunity: Banking is the biggest consumer of technology, and the share is simply growing. Banks generate maximum profits out of Lending operations hence it’s imperative for them to ensure they use the right technologies right from the customer onboarding, servicing till retiring the end customers. In the past few years FI’s have not been able to refresh lending tech stack and that’s leading to challenges, higher operational cost, and customer dissatisfaction. Stupendous growth in lending activities across the segments, markets and LOB’s has created once in a decade business opportunity for Pennant. Do you want to be part of our growth story? Digital Lending Platform | Modern Lending Software for Banks & Financial Institutions (https://www.pennanttech.com/)