Senior Software Developer needed at SITA SOC

Purpose of the job

• To perform solution and software development in order to design, develop, procure, package, release and maintain/enhance solutions, in accordance with ICT standards and the enterprise architecture for government.
• This includes the development of enterprise solution, the integration thereof with the other applicable enterprise and coordination of systems processes product development across a number of disciplines to archive objectives.

Key Responsibility Area

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

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum: 3 year National Higher Diploma/ Bachelor’s degree in ICT (Computer Science, Information Systems,Technology and Engineering) or related field.
• Experience: 6 – 7 years’ experience in the ICT Field within System Design, Development, Implementation and Maintenance.

Knowledge of:

• ORACLE Forms and Reports (PL/SQL), ORACLE APEX Programming Language
• Application development, enhancement and maintenance practices
• Development, Maintenance, Implementation and Integration, including Testing, Packaging and Release
• IT Quality Management
• IT Security and ICT Standards
• Time Management.

Expertise on:

• System and software design
• Software Development and maintenance
• Relational database structures
• Planning and Organising.

Behavioural Competencies:

• Initiative and Innovation
• Business Acumen
• Customer Service
• Mentoring
• Negotiation and
• Communication.

Skills:

Development methodologies

• covering the design, development, testing, packaging and releasing phases of the system delivery life cycle
• Software Candidates with working experience on Logistics
• Applications and experience in PL/SQL will be given preference.

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

Closing Date: 18 June 2025