Job Vacancies at The Shoprite Group of Companies

Job Objectives    
1: Configuration and creation of technical components and services required to deliver online customer-facing features:

• Analyse and understand business requirements in the context of the current business environment in conjunction with Product Manager, Business Analysts and Solution Architects.
• Develop and document design and maintain source base.
• Create conceptual, logical and physical solutions, using appropriate coding techniques and methodologies.
• Identify suitable coding solution(s) and alternatives that address the business needs/requirements of key stakeholders from the business, solution delivery, and operations areas.
• Develop solutions according to standards and best practice for front-end, back- end and integration to other solutions.
• Maintain development principles and quality compliance criteria to deliver according to commitments.
• Integrate design for maintainability, scalability, and efficiency.
• Coordinate with Architects and business stakeholders to determine functionalities.
• Complete deliverables throughout the system development life cycle for compliance according to agreed plan.
• Work within the frameworks of both waterfall SDLC and Agile (SCRUM) methodologies.
• Work as part of a team without close supervision.
• Experiencing in designing systems to take advantage of true cloud architecture, preferably AWS.

2. Successful delivery of development projects and changes as required:

• Thoughtful and clear understanding of program and project goals and needs.
• Engagement with different stakeholders.
• Identification and prioritization of project risks.
• Applied code review and QA changes as requested.
• Successful deployment through quality gates.
• Coding to industry best practice.

3. Provide technical input and guidance into online channel evolution by keeping up to date with relevant technology.

• Detect critical deficiencies and recommend improvements.
• Adhere to best practices and processes for the team.
• Research, understand and stay up to date with current trends in online channels and related Information Technology.
• Setting up and maintaining technical infrastructure.
• Actively share insights and information with relevant stakeholders.

Qualifications    

• Diploma /Degree in Information Systems / B.Sc Computer Science (or similar)
• Matric with experience equal to three times the number of years study specified

Experience    

• 3+ years Cloud Technologies - especially AWS
• 3+ years Deep technical expertise in SAP Cloud Platform Integration (CPI) and SAP Process Orchestration skills
• 3+ years Good understanding of HTTPS, Basic Auth, Client Certificate Auth, REST and SOAP-based services
• 3+ years Expertise in SAP Graphical Mapping Tools and in XSLT

Knowledge and Skills    

• 3+ years Hands-on experience in design, development, and implementation of integration flows (I- Flow)
• 3+ years Experience with SAP CPI / HCI, SAP API hub