Job Description

BASIC JOB DESCRIPTION
Coding and development

• Utilise established development tools, guidelines, and methods for handling development task
• Maintain detailed documentation and project files concerning progress, problems, and required
• changes, and provide regular reports on such to the ICT Team and Management.
• Develop at all stages of the interface component design from conception through to execution
• Develop reusable, efficient, and scalable code
• Writing new code or modifying code to enhance system functionality
• Develop new software applications.
• Develop real-time transaction processing systems that can support millions of transactions daily
• Complete coding & development in line with agreed timelines.
• Develop/ Build efficient and secure API/integration with other systems (internal & external systems)
• Lead development and automation projects.

Code Quality Management

• Adhere to the defined procedures for code management, code reviews, coding standards, naming conventions and security standards
• Perform testing to ensure any changes made to the system are of a high standard and the system hasnt regressed
• Perform code reviews to ensure current code meet quality and best practice standards
• Ensure code version control is in line with best practices standards/
• Adhere to change control processes
• Help maintain code quality, performance, and application responsiveness
• Create unit and integrated system tests to show that the developed functionality works as intended
• Create and execute functional test scenarios (dev testing)

Analysis & Design

• Assist in the creation of user story definitions.
• Analyse system change requests to provide work estimates
• Convert user stories into a system design that addresses a business problem (fit-for-purpose solutions)
• Design application user interfaces that are fresh (modern) and exciting
• Design APIs and external system interfaces for integration with third-party applications
• Participate in research and innovation, analyze internal systems against current technology trends and provide recommendations.
• Maintain knowledge of current and emerging technologies/products/trends related to digital innovative solutions development

Database Design and Management

• Design database structures/ architecture to provide for efficient performance and security controls.
• Monitor system databases to identify and resolve issues.
• Ensure data integrity and database security.
• Optimise databases for high performance
• Write queries to extract data and create reports

Support and maintenance

• Monitor everyday activities on the system and provide support to end-users.
• Evaluate and improve application performance and high-availability features
• Perform root cause analysis on bugs to find and fix the cause of a problem in an integrated system
• Adhere to system change control process
• Communicates status and escalates risks and issues appropriately and timeously
• Ensure application management audit report issues are addressed
• Compile monthly reports for the area of responsibility and submit them to senior management
• Resolve problems across multiple platforms (Dev, QA, Production, etc)
• Attend to support tickets with the agreed SLA targets.
• Collaborate with the infrastructure team(s) to solve technical issues affecting software applications.

Training & People Management

• Train and mentor junior developers and interns
• Perform post-development system training for staff
• Develop system documentation (e.g. Manuals & SOPs)
• Facilitate end-user training
• Performance management junior developer(s)
• Participate in the development and implementation of software application-related policies and procedures.

Financial & Supplier Management

• Contribute to the ICT budget formulation by determining needs for the area of responsibility.
• Supplier management for the area of responsibility to ensure the business gets value for money for contracted services.

ICT Continuity & Security

• Participate in the software applications' risk identification on regular basis.
• Identify and communicate to management software application project risks.
• Work with the infrastructure team to deploy, test and manage software patches that may affect software application.
• Work with Database Administrator(s) to ensure databases are backed up and can be restored.
• work with the ICT infrastructure teams to design the best fit disaster recovery for software applications and partake in disaster recovery simulations.

REQUIRED MINIMUM WORK EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

• NQF 6 National Diploma/ B. Degree: Computer Science/Information Technology/Information Systems or equivalent qualification with major subjects in software development, Valid driver's license (code 8)
• 5 - 7 years experience as a Software Developer with 2 - 3 years experience as a Lead/Senior developer.
• 2 years NetCore API. 3 years experience in HTML, JavaScript and jQuery.
• A Minimum of 3 years of Microsoft SQL server experience. Bootstrap experience. Understanding WSDL integration, DHA integration, CIPC integration and Banks integration is an added advantage.
• C#, .Net, Microsoft SQL / Microsoft development certification (added advantage), Project Management (added advantage)

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