Application Developer at Construction Industry Development Board

Key Performance Areas

Plan and Design IT Application Solutions

• Collaborate with the procurement and development team and other ICT staff to develop specifications and configurations for new applications.
• Establish a detailed technical specification through discussion with co-workers and clients.
• Clarifying actions the system is intended to perform.
• Communicate ideas to the Information Systems Overseer and ICT team.
• Design creative prototypes according to specifications.
• Coordinate application development plans with the supply chain management.
• Develop application release schedule and introduce new functionality using SDLC methodologies.
• Provide application health reports, such as performance, availability, utilisation and capacity.
• Devise possible solutions to anticipated problems.
• Ensure application staging is correctly scheduled, such as development, testing and training platforms. Ensure correct resources for production environment.

Development, Testing & Deployment

• Develop release, test, training, and stabilisation plans.
• Actively participate in training, testing and UAT sign-off activities.
• Manage post go-live stabilisation using advanced troubleshooting and debugging.
• Aggressively influence project delivery timelines.
• Ensure new systems are part of the existing backup plans.
• Develop a disaster recovery testing plans for systems and participate in business continuity simulation.
• Conduct user-acceptance testing to ensure the application meet the user requirements.
• Develop end-user reports.

Application Maintenance and Support

• Manage the application lifecycle, and people involved in the process, to ensure smooth deployment and post-deployment modifications.
• Evaluate existing applications to propose enhancements and new functionalities.
• Establish processes and procedures to resolve applications errors in the production platform.
• Manage the application security.
• Develop adaptation of the program to new requirements, as necessary.
• Develop technical documents and manuals to accurately represent application “As-build”.
• Participate in monthly service level review and operational meetings.

Job Requirements

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• NQF 6 qualification in IT or related field.
• Certifications in Microsoft Dynamics and Azure cloud will be an added advantage.
• At least three (3) years’ experience in software development involving releases, versioning, change control and source code control within technologies such as SharePoint, .Net, C#, CSS, REST API, JSON, Angular, Power Automate, etc.
• Experience in cloud-based application development within Azure, Dynamics 365, Microsoft PowerApps, Azure database and SharePoint platforms is an added advantage.

COMPUTER SKILLS

• The applicant must have advanced computer skills in engaging agile system development methodologies and techniques.
• S/He must have a good grasp of emerging software development culture, processes, and tools within application development and operational environment.
• Further be skilled fairly in .NET, ERP, ITIL, SQL, Azure technologies.