·         Combine strong technical resume with leadership/technical and project management skills and lead a team of developers on development projects of a moderately complex to complex nature by instructing, influencing, advising, directing and enabling developer teams to achieve company, project and team related goals (as they relate to technology). Delivering and supporting best-of-breed business solutions, understand and implement industry best practices, standards and procedures.

·         Java Certification

 

·         7 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)

·         5 years’ knowledge of industry standards and best practice in solution architecture and design at an advanced level

·         4 years’ proven working experience in Java development at an advanced level

·         Proven hands-on Solution Development experience and tool set:

·        A strong knowledge of different databases such as Oracle, MYSQL and Microsoft SQL

·        Experience in designing and developing enterprise-scale applications using multiple solution languages, e.g., J2EE/Java, NET, ASP, XHTML, HTML5, JavaScript, Stored Procedures, Angular JS, CSS

·        Experience working with J2EE application servers, e.g., JBoss, WebLogic, Tomcat etc.

·        Experience in major portal products and technologies, e.g., AJAX, JSON, XML/XSLT, JSP, Hibernate, Struts, Spring, etc.

·        Experiences in using IDEs: Eclipse, NetBeans, JDeveloper etc.

·        Experience with Build, repository and CI tools such as Ant and Maven, Subversion, and Nexus / Jenkins.

·        Experience of event driven integrations, microservices - XML, XSD, WSDL, HTTP, SOAP, REST, KAFKA

·        Experience in a variety of solutions development approaches and methodologies including Agile

·         Experience in formal personal development planning and individual, team and process performance management

·         Proven experience in leading and managing the delivery of solutions development projects in a structured environment

·         Experience in requirements capture, analysis techniques and process improvement approaches

·         Stable, adaptable with high stress tolerance in a mature way

·         Sound analytical, problem-solving, interpretive and presentation skills

·         Rigorous and organized attitude to work

·         Strong facilitation and mentoring/coaching skills

·         Strong communication skills - both written and verbal - with the ability to engage with both internal and external stakeholders

·         Comfortable working without routine supervision

·         A desire to remain technically capable and an expert in current technologies

·         Excellent personal organisation and ability to prioritise and carry out multiple tasks

·         Able to influence and drive projects to meet key milestones and overcome challenges

·        Experience in leading and managing delivery of solutions development projects

·        A strong customer service ethic.

·        Ability to work as part of a team.

·        Analysis and problem-solving ability

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1.    Analysis and Design:

§  Provides leadership and subject matter expertise on emerging technologies, underlying architecture, formulate and implement best practices, coding techniques, standards and methodologies used in solution development cycle to set direction for technical decisions

2.    Development management:

§  Defines, directs and manages the delivery of well-designed, testable and efficient applications for mission-critical systems, contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle using best-practices and industry standards

§  Phases include all activities, sub-activities of the development delivery milestones, system integration across multiple business areas from definition through implementation

§  Suggests alternative technical solutions to meet client requirements more efficiently, and/or with greater reusability, and / or longer life

3.    Stakeholder Engagement:

·         Collaborate directly with functional team (Project management, Business Analyst and Functional area experts) and directs technical teams (developers, architects) to produce accurate delivery estimates and develop, test and deploy new and improved system components and solutions

·         Ensures awareness maintaining robust communication on the project progress throughout its development life cycle

·         Serves as liaison between development staff and project manager and/or client across multiple projects

4.    Resource management:

·         Manages, guides and mentors the technical teams (internal and external resources) improving technical awareness, depth and use of technology across the business

·         Accountable for the technical team development deliverables

·         Builds high productive and efficient technical teams

·         Manages multiple technical teams within budget and project schedule

5.    Documentation:

·         Produces comprehensive and applicable technical documentation throughout the development lifecycle addressing development protocols, technical specification, design, standards and ensuring that these are kept up to date

·         Conducts post implementation reviews

6.    Quality Assurance:

·         Establish acceptance criteria, automated and effective testing plans and methods to satisfy quality, success and auditability of any solution implemented

·         Conducts code reviews ensuring quality of code according to approved requirements, standards and methodologies

 

The annual total remuneration package will be commensurate with the level of appointment as advertised and in line with the NWU policy guidelines.