Recent Jobs Openings at PPS

Education:

• Matric
• BCom, B.Eng, BSC Eng, BSC Informatics or related degree/diploma
• Linux operating environment is advantageous
• Web: HTML, HTML5, XML, CSS is advantageous

Experience:

• Minimum 2 years’ experience on Java 7 and JEE (Servlets, JSP, EJB, REST and SOAP , JPA/Hibernate), JBOSS, MS SQL Server
• Advantageous - Struts, Spring, HTML5, Angular JS, JSON
• Knowledge of and exposure to SDLC / Change Control / Release Management
• 1 – 2 years’ experience with Build tools ie. Maven

Knowledge and Skills:

• Good computer literacy (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio/Aris, Project)
• Troubleshooting
• Service Delivery Orientated (Possess sense of urgency)

Competencies:

• Self-motivated and ability to use own initiative, with ability to work without supervision
• Quality Orientation
• Analytical thinking & decision-making ability in a moderately complex environment.
• Problem solving skills (analysis and business / process solution design).
• Interpretation of information in a clear and concise manner
• Interpersonal communications skills and presentation skills.
• People networking and good, rapid relationship & team building.
• Innovative
• Strong personal characteristics, energy, drive, focus, motivation, responsibility
• Strong aptitude for teamwork (Contributes to the teams success)
• Outcomes Driven

Duties and Responsibilities

Key Accountabilities: 

• To engage in technical scoping sessions with a clear mandate of defining and agreeing the technology, design & tools
• Responsible for producing working implementation (code) from functional / technical documents like a functional specification.
• To ensure appropriate use of tools and applications that is in place to support the development process and SDLC.
• Interacting and maintaining good relationships with business stakeholders (business users, project management resources, testing and training teams)
• Performance Management – To engage with leadership
• To engage leadership and take initiative around career growth & training
• Software Development and Testing
• Database administration & manipulation to create SQL statement, etc.
• Unit testing
• Integration testing of code
• Demonstration of knowledge of best practice and project standards for coding