Responsibilities And Duties
- Required to partake in the development of application code, by liaising with other developers via designing, and planning to satisfy the requirements of business users
- Assist developers to ensure that code standards and the development process are adhered
- Plan and implement solutions for effective development of a program to meet specifications and deadlines
- Required to stay abreast of industry standards
- Plan and execute Unit Testing, Systems Integration Testing, and archiving of test results
- Partake in the development of System/Functional Documentation, operations manuals, systems processes, and technical designs. Is accountable for getting these documents done
- Analyse, resolve difficult/complex system issues, by working with the end-users and other IT support staff
- Writing of technical specifications according to functional requirements
- Translate functional requirements into design specifications, according to the development standards in area of responsibility
- Required to do standby on occasion
- Required to do production support on occasion
- Do peer reviews
- Responsible for developing quality code according to technical specification
- Matric / Grade 12
- Relevant technical or business qualification degree / diploma
- Minimum 3-5 years IT experience
- Minimum 2 years retail systems and enterprise application integration experience
- Knowledge of message exchange patterns and application design patterns
- Knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle
- SQL, Stored Procedure and SQL Server experience
- Web Services and ESB experience highly advantageous
- Strong knowledge of SOA
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills
- Sound OO programming and solid technical skills
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Good documentation skills
- Ability to liaise with users at all levels
