Senior Software Developer needed at SITA SOC

Key Responsibility Areas 

• Lead the design and development of new features for the software systems, and improvement of the existing ones; 
• Implementation, debugging, documentation and release of the software solutions; 
• Provide maintenance and enhancement support of the existing systems; 
• Perform software systems coding assignments; and 
• Supervision of the Software development team. 

 Qualifications and Experience 

• Minimum: 3 years National Higher Diploma/ Bachelor’s degree in ICT (Computer Science, Information Systems, Technology and Engineering) or related field. 
• Experience: 6-7 years’ experience with full software development lifecycle (SLDC), including solution development, operational responsibility in a large corporate/public sector organisation. The experience must include: Good solid programming Skills and understanding of C# or JAVA or Visual Basic 6. Experience in two or more of the listed programming languages will be an advantage. Oracle database knowledge and experience is essential and required.
• Experience in solution analysis, development, implementation and maintenance/enhancements of systems within the corporate/public sector, including: Successfully developed and implemented applications. Software development team leadership competency. Software development deliverable effort planning, estimations and execution management.
• Developed efficient and effective IT solutions to diverse and complex business problems. Extensive experience with a wide variety of database management systems and maintenance. Extensive experience with a wide variety of programming languages and technologies, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap. Extensive experience with working on multiple tasks and report status. Experience in interacting with customers. Experience in maintaining technical documentation that supports the systems. 

Technical Competencies Description 

• Solid understanding of computer science including algorithms, data structures, operating systems and databases. ICT Governance and Compliance Governance e.g. Cobit and ITIL. Strong knowledge to design test plans according to the software requirements specification. Broad and extensive knowledge of the software development process and its technologies.
• Extensive knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in the production of software requirements specifications, models and designs. Strong knowledge of user interfaces. Strong knowledge of solution Integration strategies and tools. Working knowledge of Cloud Computing. Strong knowledge source control and version control tools like Git and SVN. Working knowledge of virtualisation and containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes). Working knowledge of DevOps (Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Testing, Continuous Monitoring Infrastructure as Code, Config Management).
• Working knowledge of Agile Methodologies (Feature-Driven Development, Test-Driven Development, Scrum, Extreme Programming). Extensive background in coding. Extensive knowledge of software testing techniques and tools. Extensive knowledge of software team leadership IT Quality Management e.g. ISO9001 and CMMI IT Security ICT Standards COTS (Commercial of the Shelf) Products OSS (Open Source Software) Products IT Strategies and Architectures. Strong knowledge of data integration tools Execution of Architecture methods and practices e.g. TOGAF and GWEA.