We are currently seeking an experienced VBA Engineer to support the maintenance, enhancement, and modernisation of business-critical user-developed applications within a large enterprise environment.
This role provides the opportunity to work across a diverse application landscape, partnering with business stakeholders and technical teams to deliver reliable solutions, support operational excellence, and drive automation and modernisation initiatives. You will play a key role in maintaining application stability while identifying opportunities to improve scalability, efficiency, and business outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
• Support and maintain user-developed applications (UDAs), resolving complex technical issues and ensuring ongoing platform stability.
• Design, build, test, deploy, and support automation and application modernisation solutions using industry best practices.
• Provide technical guidance on application upgrades, scaling, capacity planning, and future-state modernisation strategies.
• Identify opportunities to automate manual processes and implement scalable operating models for application support and enhancement.
• Manage incidents, investigate application issues, coordinate issue resolution, and provide timely communications to business stakeholders.
• Lead incident calls, post-incident reviews, and operational communications to minimise business disruption.
• Design and review technical solutions, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards for security, integration, performance, and scalability.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and SMEs to gather requirements, validate solutions, and ensure development activities meet business needs.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, discovery workshops, and development planning activities.
• Ensure robust exception handling, failover capabilities, and operational support processes are incorporated into solutions.
• Conduct code reviews, contribute to quality assurance activities, and promote the reuse of scalable components and solutions.
• Build strong partnerships with business stakeholders and develop a deep understanding of business processes and operational requirements.
Skills & Experience
• Strong experience working within large and complex enterprise environments, ideally within financial services or similarly regulated industries.
• Strong experience designing, developing, and supporting solutions using VBA, SQL, SharePoint, and Microsoft Access.
• Experience with database design, application support, and maintenance of business-critical applications.
• Proven experience working in application delivery, production support, or application maintenance functions.
• Strong incident management experience, including stakeholder communications and operational support activities.
• Understanding of automation technologies and opportunities to modernise legacy user-developed applications.
• Experience working within Agile delivery environments and collaborating across business and technical teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to manage competing priorities and tight deadlines.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver outcomes on time, within budget, and to a high standard of quality.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including engagement with senior business stakeholders.
• Experience working with risk, governance, and quality frameworks within enterprise environments.
• Ability to balance BAU support responsibilities with ongoing automation and modernisation initiatives.
Next Steps
If you feel this opportunity suits you, or Cognizant is the type of organisation you would like to join, we want to have a conversation with you! Please apply directly with us.
For a complete list of open opportunities with Cognizant, visit www.cognizant.com/careers.
Cognizant is committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunities.
Successful candidates will be required to undergo a background check.
À propos de Cognizant
Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) est un AI Builder et une entreprise de services numériques (ESN) élaborant des solutions complètes d’IA maximisant les investissements pour des résultats concrets. Sa profonde expertise des métiers, des processus et des technologies lui permet d’intégrer dans les systèmes technologiques le contexte unique de chaque organisation de l’ingénierie à la production à l’échelle. Son objectif: améliorer l’efficacité des équipes, créer de la valeur et permettre aux grandes entreprises de rester performantes dans un monde qui évolue rapidement. Pour en savoir plus: cognizant.ai ou @cognizant.
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