Intermediate Software Engineer at Sanlam Group

What will you do?

• Design, develop and maintain appropriately scaled effective solutions to support the Sanlam Private Wealth business. This covers frontend to the backend work including integration.
• Ensure design and development take into account all aspects of requirements – including data quality, customer experience architecture, securty & operations – so that software is fit for the purpose.
• Deliver a robust, testable, repeatable framework of jobs and scripts for migrating data and producing reconciliation reports to confirm success or failure.
• Work with third party suppliers to understand their software APIs and integrate them with SPW solutions to load and extract data.
• Identify and solve performance bottlenecks in SQL Server and database platforms. 
• Manage MS SQL Server database environments that support data migration and backups and recoveries in test environments. 
• Use approved technologies when developing systems and adhere to department, industry and regulatory standards. 
• Provide support for solutions, including analysis, issue tracking and resolution. Take pro-active ownership of support tasks and see them through to completion. 
• Report progress on development at daily stand-ups and escalate issues or slippage in a timely fashion, identifying remedial action to keep the project or business as usual on track. 
• Demonstrate a logical and structured approach to time management and task prioritisation. Work within project/business as usual timelines and budgets. Be able to organise own time, schedule tasks for completion and deliver work to that  schedule. 

Qualification and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or Diploma in IT preferred or equivalent combination of education, training and experience
•  5+ years solid experience in C# development and the .net framework
•  5+ years Angular/React experience
•  Minimum 5+ years experience in middle tier C# development such as integration services,  MVC/MVVM/SAM type patterns
•  5+years solid experience in a data environment and development framework.
•  5+ years of practical experience with SQL Server (e.g. 2008, 2012, 2014).
•  5+ years scripting, tuning, debugging, troubleshooting and other advanced SQL concepts
•  Expert Transact- SQL skills and the ability to create complex queries, stored   procedures, user-defined functions, views, and other database objects.
•  Exposure to big data.
•  Experience in the financial services industry

Knowledge and skills

•  Experience with HTML, JavaScript and web development frameworks (AngularJS, Bootstrap,   jQuery)
•  Exposure to the MVC pattern
•  Deep understanding of C# which you leverage to build all sorts of code in the language
•  Ability to transition your understanding of fundamental coding practices to any   language
•  Proven experience with software design and OOD methodologies
•  Implement, test, and bug-fix functionality
•  Advanced Excel, OLAP and presentation skills.
•  ETL knowledge (SSIS).
•  Exposure to MS PowerQuery and PowerBI is an advantage.
•  Advanced knowledge of SQL and SQL server skills is an advantage.