Junior Postilion Developer Graduate at Paycorp Holdings

Introduction

To provide architecture and design input as well as development on the Postilion & Postilion Office SDK for new products and enhancements to exist products. A deep understanding of the Postilion and Postilion Office framework and operations is required to assist with system support and troubleshooting. Development and system support follows agile and DevOps methodologies and therefore managing user development stories, understanding and at times soliciting business requirements and support requests is key.
Job description

Administration

• Developing, running and executing Postilion SDK/Java components.
• Conducting standard Postilion terminal administration which includes loading new terminals, editing previously configured terminals and trouble shooting.
• Carrying out interchange administration to ensure that all interchanges to partner banks are up and running.
• Conducting Post Office administration which ensures that all relevant business reports for the finance, cashing and treasury departments are delivered to them.
• Trouble shooting any failures that have occurred or items that have not run on time which includes speaking to partner banks for information that is not yet delivered to Paycorp.
• Checking on data feeds into the sub-systems/applications like Device Manager and data warehouse (eg. Nil transactions).
• Mentor, coach and knowledge share with team members. 

Issue Management

• Ensuring that all tickets (including requests for information) are logged on the ticketing system and actioned to postilion team members.
• Reassigning/re-routing tickets that are to be sent to other teams outside of the Postilion team.
• Attending to logged calls by resolving the issues specific to the Postilion team and closing tickets that have been resolved.
• Project Work (60% - 70% of Day)
• Attending to any requests that are received in Paycorp sandbox.
• Compiling project breakdowns that specify the scope of the project and predict a time frame within which the project can be completed.
• Actioning configurations according to the scope of the project, inputting new information and checking whether reports work. If the configuration is unsuccessful and the reports fail, referring the issues to the development team.
• Testing and implementing new configurations in the QA and UAT environments and resolving any bugs or issues with the projects.
• Implementing projects to production for all postilion, post-office, portal or third party changes.
• Participate in design and architecture of Postilion solutions to business requirements.

 
System Health & patch management

• Advising third party providers if there are system errors or if something breaks and ensuring that the third party makes repairs to the system or application.
• Ensuring that Windows/Unix (OS) and SQL are working efficiently and installing system updates together with the service providers and the Server/Database Administration team.
• Facilitating the installation of patches (system and OS) to cover holes that have been identified.
• Picking up and installing the patches for all software provided by software vendors.

Minimum requirements

• Completed BSc Information Systems qualification
• Java EE
• SQL
• Windows Server
• Unix
• Intermediate to Advanced MS Excel (for reporting purposes)
• Java EE, JSF, Apache Tomcat, Apache ActiveMQ
• SQL / Advance SQL experience
• (Optional) 2 years knowledge of ATM and POS terminal driving, transaction processing as well as issuing operating environments
• PBT (Postilion basic training) would be beneficial
• PDT (Postilion developer training) would be beneficia