Analyst Developer (Front end Development) at Sanlam Private Wealth

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The Sanlam Personal Finance (SPF) cluster is responsible for Sanlam’s retail business in South Africa. SPF provides clients across different market segments (entry-level, middle-income, affluent, professional market and business owners) with a comprehensive range of appropriate and competitive financial solutions. These include traditional life insurance risk and savings products, investment, retirement, health and fiduciary services. Designed to facilitate long-term wealth creation, protection and niche financing, these solutions are engineered around client needs. As Wealthsmiths™ we believe in creating and cultivating a positive, energised working environment that gives you every opportunity to achieve success. Sanlam is committed to transformation and embracing diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse workplace with employment equity as a key goal to create an inclusive workforce, representative of the demographics of our society as well as people with disabilities.

Position Description

Key Responsibilities

• Analysis of change requests received
• Provide recommendations and cost / man-day estimates for implementing changes
• Design prototypes for change requests
• Design/Build Web Interfaces if applicable
• Maintain existing programmes according to change requests
• Produce appropriate software programs that satisfy the specifications
• Test own programs / artefacts
• Test Interfaces to other systems
• Debugging of programs
• Provide test information to Testers
• Implement changes into the Production environment
• Updates of data model documentation
• Technical support / assistance to others on own programs / systems
• Provide standby / support (if and when applicable)

Minimum Requirements

Qualifications:

• Grade 12
• An Appropriate IT Qualification (Diploma/Degree) will be a strong recommendation.

Experience:

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience within application development, predominantly front-end.
• Experience in designing solutions.

Experience in working with the following:

• .Net C#
• MVC and Web forms
• JavaScript / TypeScript (an asset)
• JavaScript frameworks such as AngularJS (Angular 2)
• JavaScript libraries such as Knockout, jQuery
• Front-end Frameworks such as Bootstrap
• CSS(including CSS3) & CSS Processors (SASS / LESS)
• Development and integration with RESTful Services and APIs
• Development and integration with SOAP Services (WCF)
• HTML (including / preferably HTML5)
• Cross-browser development (compatability)
• MS SQL server (2012+) and SQL Reporting Services
• XML / JSON
• Test-Driven Development in the .Net and JavaScript environment.
• ORM (Entity Framework & NHibernate)
• Experience with SharePoint App development is considered an asset, but not essential.

Knowledge:

• Working knowledge of Visual Studio 2012+
• Systems analysis and design concepts
• Repositories (e.g. Git, Subversion, Team Foundation Server)
• Responsive Design
• OOP / SOLID Design Principles
• Database architecture and design
• IIS
• Knowledge of user experience and accessibility standards (usability)

Competencies

• Strong analytical & numerical ability
• Problem solving skills
• Conceptual thinker
• Good communication / interpersonal skills
• Action / results orientation
• Quality orientation
• Knowledge seeking / learning orientation
• Strong Interpersonal and people interaction skills
• Ability to perform under pressure