Job Vacancies at The Shoprite Group of Comapanies

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 the 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.
• Perform code reviews.
• Provide active technical advice to the team, IT and internal stakeholders.
• Detecting critical deficiencies and recommending improvements.
• Provide technical leadership in Hybris technology stack to team.

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

• Play a leading role in maintaining best of breed development standards for online technologies and solutions.
• Research, understand and stay up to date with current trends in online channels and related Information Technology.
• Actively share insights and information with relevant stakeholders and team.
• Detecting critical deficiencies and recommending improvements.
• Adhere to best practices and processes for the team.

4. Mentoring of development team

• Setup procedures and processes to facilitate best practice for development.
• Help facilitate leadership and problem solving skills.
• Provide regular feedback, both to team and to management.
• Maintaining technical infrastructure.

Qualifications    

• Diploma/Degree in Information Systems/BSc Computer Science (or similar)

Experience    

• 5 - 8 years eCommerce - especially Java development. (essential)
• 5 - 8 years SAP Cloud 4 Service, SAP Customer Activity Repository, SAP ERP (desirable)
• 5 - 8 years experience in being the senior developer within a development team. (essential)
• 5 - 8 years experience in software development and testing. (essential)
• 5 - 8 years experience of working on projects in both Agile and DevOps (essential)
• 3+ years experience in cloud solutions. (desirable)
• 5 - 8 years experience in Application development

Knowledge and Skills    

• 5+ years Agile/Scrum Tool set, preferably Atlassian (desirable)
• 5+ years Ant, Maven or Gradle Build Tools (essential)
• 5+ years experience in distributed source control systems, like GIT (essential)
• 5+ years JSP, JavaScript, XHTML, HTML5, CSS, Java 8 Object Orientation Programming (essential)
• 5+ years Angular JS 4 and Type Script (desirable)
• 5+ years Cloud Services (AWS Lamda) (essential)
• 5+ years strong understanding of web services (SOAP and Rest) (essential)
• 3+ years hands on experience in a DevOps environment (essential)