Job Description

Main Purpose of Job
To work fairly independently within area of expertise, giving guidance to staff in the business on issues relating to Software Development and Software Design, with minimal support from seniors. 

Differentiators for this specific role

• Produces code that is of high quality and is in line with industry software development standards.
• Performing code review for all code that is checked into source control (TFS) before it is deployed to QA and production environment.
• Provides guidance and technical leadership on the technologies to be used.
• Prioritizing and resolving bugs on the production environment in a timely manner.
• Ensures that security and Microsoft patches are up-to-date.
• Ensures that the environment is stable with an availability of 98%. 
• Translating of problem statements, business requirement and business processes into a solution on the applicable technological platform
• Produces documentation for all solutions that is developed
• Performs thorough testing in each step of the SDLC (Black box testing, Unit testing, regression testing, integration testing, UAT testing)
• Conduct thorough testing before and after deployments. 
• Conducts testing before and post-monthly maintenance or when ad-hoc patches are deployed.
• Conducts JAD sessions with the business to advise, present and gathers business requirements for operational deployments
• Mediate between application development and business user teams when issues arise during design, development and testing
• Designs and architects solutions that are to be implemented in the environment

Key Performance Areas:
Strategic Impact 

• Is a resource to management to deal with needs and queries relating to the area of expertise
• Provides a specialist service within the business which impacts broader business / service area in delivery of strategy

Client Impact: External / Internal

• Consults effectively with client on their specific business needs / requirements, identifies suitable concepts and solutions for management consideration
• Proposes possible solutions taking into account the wider business needs, precedent within the business and global guidelines 

Operational Effectiveness

• Manages outputs on a daily basis without supervision, receiving direction from seniors/management from time to time
• Impact of the role is visible on a daily basis to the output of the area
• Acts as a sounding board to members of staff across levels in area of expertise
• Delivers work within a week-to-month timeline which may fluctuate, with outputs generated regularly to meet both short and long-term needs of business

Development/Growth of Team

• Provide technical mentoring to Software Developers
• May train / develop others in area of expertise at an intermediate level
• Maintains up-to-date knowledge in area of expertise
• Provides meaningful development feedback upward to peers and to junior staff 

Budgets / Profitability

• Impacts profitability through timeous and consistent standard of delivery in area of responsibility

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• 3-year B Degree in IT / Computer Science And MCSD certification 

Minimum Experience

• Minimum 3 years’ experience as a SharePoint Developer with 5 years of solid experience with C#, ASP.NET, HTML, CSS, XML, .Net 3.5-4.5, JavaScript, jQuery and MVC 
• 3+ years within Microsoft SharePoint