Position Summary
Industry: Education & Training
Job category: University and Academy
Location: Potchefstroom
Contract: Permanent
Remuneration: The annual total remuneration package will be commensurate with the level of appointment as advertised and in line with the NWU policy guidelines.
Introduction
NORTH-WEST UNIVERSITY (POTCHEFSTROOM CAMPUS) DIVISION: DVC POTCH CAMPUS OPERATION DEPARTMENT: BUSINESS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT AND SUPPORT POSITION NUMBER: N003021 POSITION: SENIOR DEVELOPER PEROMNES GRADE: P7 EMPLOYMENT TYPE: PERMANENT APPOINTMENT TOTAL REMUNERATION: R771 354
Job Description
PURPOSE OF THE POSITION:
- Lead a team of developers on development projects of a medium to complex nature.
- Instruct, influence, advise and enable developers to achieve goals.
- Identify, analyze, troubleshoot and debug, write, modify and test code for one or more organization business areas improving its business performance, efficiency, and productivity through procedural and technical activities.
- Supply technical support to existing solutions and integrate new features and improvements.
- Produce logical and technical specifications from functional specifications for enhancements and/or new solutions and processes, perform all aspects of testing and performance assessments.
- Work closely with business analysts and business stakeholders to ensure that all stakeholders have a shared understanding of how the requirements will be implemented.
- Support and assist the lead developer and Manager: Collaborative development with their duties.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Perform continuous technical investigation, analysis, troubleshooting and debugging to identify and recommend technical changes of one or more business areas to improve solutions, business efficiency and productivity using approved standards, methods, techniques and tools.
- Assess, identify and mitigate potential risk within this environment.
- Understand the solutions architecture and technologies it is working with.
Design:
- Identify, design and produce technical specifications from functional requirements for code and program changes according to approved standards and methodologies.
- Identify problem patterns and design changes needed to avoid recurring problems for solutions.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to ensure understanding of implementations of business requirements.
Programming:
- Produce code, identify problems, recommend cost-effective changes, data extracts, data corrections, data conversions, integration components and automated data corrections for complex programs and program modifications and solution implementations. Implement effective change that will result in cost savings, higher quality, increased efficiencies, lower risk, and shorter cycle times.
- Produce and keep documentation for written programs up to date. Participate in system upgrades, define impact changes of upgrades and integrations in their organizational business domain and/or across domains. Perform code reviews for other developers.
Testing:
- Execute effective testing during the development life cycle ensuring the program modifications, new programs, enhancements and new solutions meet the business requirements, satisfy quality, success and auditability of the solution implemented.
- Design tests for programs, correct errors and re-test to achieve an error-free result.
- Produce test scripts, test material, regression test packs for effective testing of new and amended programs and solutions using agreed methods and standards.
- Communicate test results to business stakeholders.
Projects:
- Serve as project team member for projects of medium to large scope and high complexity and may be enterprise-wide performing development, problem solving, coding and integration activities according to approved methodologies, tools and standards.
- Collaborate and function as a team member building relationships across multiple business areas.
- Act as technical team lead on small projects with developers reporting to him/her.
Support:
- Support and maintain solutions in more or lower moderate complex business areas in terms of the business functions, processes, the information they use and integrations between those systems ensuring maximum system availability, sustainability and stability to the production environments.
- Troubleshoot, debug, perform adequate root cause analysis, amendments and establish workarounds while developing permanent solutions to eliminate risk of recurrence for the problems and errors.
- Responsible for the support issues.
Minimum Requirements:
- A bachelor's degree (NQF level 7) in Information Technology or diploma (NQF level 6) with certifications in Information Technology.
- A minimum of 4 years’ experience in understanding and speaking to all aspects of the solution development life cycle (e.g. requirements, analysis, design, development, implementation/deploy, testing, and documentation).
- A minimum of 4 years’ knowledge of industry standards and best practices in solution architecture and design.
- A minimum of 4 years’ proven working experience in Java development.
Recommendation:
- Java Certification, Spring Certification or Other relevant Certification.
Key Functional/Technical Competencies:
- Demonstrative experience covering the following concepts and products:
- Application development using e.g. Java, J2EE, Java Script, Vaadin, SQL, WebServices, RestServices, Angular, MS Power Apps.
- Knowledge of different databases such as Oracle, MYSQL and Microsoft SQL.
- Knowledge working with J2EE application servers, e.g. JBoss, WebLogic, Tomcat etc.
- Knowledge working with Kafka, Kibana.
- Familiarity with ORM concepts and a relational database.
- Familiarity in using IDEs: Eclipse, Intellij, NetBeans, JDeveloper etc.
- Familiarity with Build, repository and CI tools such as SVN and Maven, Jenkins, Bitbucket.
- Knowledge of XML, XSD.
- Test driven development.
- Event driven integration.
- Knowledge working with Integration platforms and services such as RESTful and SOAP services.
- Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodology.
- Knowledge of Wiki mark-ups (preferably Confluence) and JIRA.
Key Behavioural Competencies:
- Demonstration of strong analytical, technical and critical thinking skills.
- Showing good interpersonal and communication skills.
- Shows leadership potential.
- Good work planning, time-management and multi-tasking skills.
- The ability to function independently, systematically and accurately.
- Good problem-solving and decision-making skills.
ENQUIRIES REGARDING JOB CONTENT MAY BE DIRECTED TO: Mrs. Dassie Janse van Vuuren, Tel: 018 299 4676
ENQUIRIES REGARDING RECRUITMENT PROCESS MAY BE DIRECTED TO: Mr. Rabs Diratsagae, Tel: 018 299 4797
CLOSING DATE: 27 September 2024
PLANNED COMMENCEMENT OF DUTIES: As soon as possible
Kindly take note: applications must be submitted online through the official NWU vacancy website. Incomplete applications and those submitted through any other platform will not be considered. The University subscribes to and applies the principles of Employment Equity (EE) Act and is committed to transformation. Preference will be given to candidates from the designated groups, in accordance with the principles of the EE Act and NWU Employment Equity Plan. The University reserves the right not to make an appointment. Communication will be limited to shortlisted candidates only. If you are not contacted within two months from the closing date of this advertisement, please accept that your application was unsuccessful.
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