SOFTWARE DEVELOPER L3 Permanent

Description

• Our client seeks Software Developer to develop and design products according to Industry Best Practices and Standards with focus on re-usability, high-availability and portability.
• Responsible for providing in depth analysis and technical input on a broad-based set of challenges across the Technology landscape. Provide technical leadership to level 1 and level 2 developers.

Technology Transformation & Innovation  

• Assists the Development Manager in driving delivery components of the Development functional strategy.
• Proactively drive innovation through the generation of new ideas and options made by new technologies.
• Assist other developers, analysts, and designers in conceptualizing and developing new software programs and applications.
  Continuous service improvement design and review of existing environment as well as research and development into new and upcoming trends and relea

Analysis and Planning 

• Plan phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC) for a variety of projects.
• Conduct research on emerging application development software products, languages, and standards in support of procurement and development efforts.
• Analyse and understand business requirements, architecture and technical documents.
• Assist in the preparation and documentation of software requirements and specifications
• Conduct system and impact analysis of new development changes and remedy them prior to development.
• Ability to manage project plans – milestone tracking, communication checkpoints, budgeting and forecasting.
• Recommend, schedule, and perform software improvements and upgrades.
• Understand functional and technical documentation needs of customers and research technology solutions to meet those needs
• Identify and resolve system problems and create a troubleshooting guide for future reference.

Design

• Provide technical input and document detailed technical design documents.
• Define and provide input on the Application Roadmap in line with the Technology Strategy.
• Host and participate in JAD and ideation sessions with relevant stakeholders.
• Collaborate with internal teams and vendors to fix, improve and develop new applications.
• Enhance applications by identifying opportunities for improvement, making recommendations and designing solutions.
• Review and apply security principles to all design and development work performed.
• Provide expertise for technical product documentation projects and support and assist in documentation design
• Create a shared understanding and demonstrate solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, code comments and clear code facilitating inter team discussions

Implementation and Execution 

• Engage with various client departments and project managers to manage specific processes within the software development life cycle (for example, functional specification, construction, quality assurance, implementation and reporting)
• Ensure development of code meets quality (zero defects) and coding conventions (the company and generally acceptable standards). Follow change, incident, release and internal processes
• Liaise with clients to coordinate the rollouts
• Maintain relevant coding standards documentation, user training manuals
• Write code according to Industry best practice and standards with focus on re-usability, high availability and portability meeting business requirements using the relevant technologies.
• Ability to develop software across different domains and technologies (Full Stack).
• Develop both platform independent solutions that are cloud ready and develop web-based solutions that are mobile ready.
• Provide technical input and advise on changes to the current applications.

Risk & Quality Management 

• Strive for ZERO defects on any code developed from the team.
• Design and develop unit test cases for any development work.
• Perform unit testing on code developed for quality assurance and alignment with requirements.
• Conduct and report on code reviews and unit testing on code written by other team members including corrective action identified to meet minimum standards.
• Identify, document and manage Internal Risks Controls with reporting into the Technology Risk Register.
• Manage code deployment, fixes, updates and related processes through defect tracking in testing and evaluation of error logs.
• Ensure that all artefacts are well managed and controlled in the relevant repositories as per the defined policies and procedures.
• Run and monitor software performance tests on new and existing programs for the purposes of correcting errors, isolating areas for improvement, and general debugging.

Effective stakeholder engagement and management

• Actively build, maintain and grow strong relationships with clients and internal stakeholders
• Manage client expectations and the effective flow of information
  Effectively communicate and regularly engage with key stakeholders at different levels.

Effective teamwork and self-management

• Follow through to ensure that personal quality and productivity standards are consistently and accurately maintained
• Demonstrate consistent application of internal procedures
• Plan and prioritise, demonstrating abilities to manage competing demands
• Demonstrate abilities to anticipate and manage change
• Demonstrate flexibility in balancing achievement of own objectives with abilities to understand and respond to organisational needs
• Manage own career development by staying abreast of any technical and industry changes
• Provide leadership, guidance and motivation to employees measured via the company people survey
• Drive, train and inspire the team to consistently improve their technical knowledge.
• Drive the company, values while inspiring confidence and generating excitement, enthusiasm and commitment.

Policy Formulation & Management

• Ability to construct policies and processes
• Ability to define the reporting content for the correct audience combined with the ability to scale the presentation of these reports to the appropriate audience

Requirements
Minimum Requirements: Work Experience

• 10 years’ experience as a software developer.
  –  Web based development (HTML5, Javascript, Angular, ReactJS, CSS)
  – Object oriented development (Java, C#, .Net Core, Python)
  – Database Management (SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL)
  – Version Control (Git, MS TFS)
• 3 years’ development experience of cloud applications.
  – Docker knowledge
  – Kubernetes
  – Node.js
  – NGINX
• Deep understanding of new emerging web and mobile development frameworks and models.

Minimum Requirements: Education

• Degree in Information Technology Management, Computer Science, Business Administration, Commerce or similar
• Technical certifications, e.g.  SQL, .Net, Java, Python (advantageous)