Principal Developer: User Experience at Road Accident Fund

Purpose of the Job:

• Reporting to the Manager: Digital Delivery, the successful incumbent is accountable for developing new applications/ systems as well as enhancing and maintaining existing application applications/ systems in accordance with the business requirements.

Key Performance Areas

• Application Development Management
• Acceptance of requirements from analysts.
• Design the system in accordance with architectural standards.
• Develop/ enhance/ maintain programs according to the RAF standards and requirements daily.
• Keep records of all programs in application register and configuration management.
• Documentation of programs and assisting in training manuals.
• Facilitate software testing and quality assurance activities.
• Fix the identified bugs/ defects as reported by the testing process.
• Ensure alignment with DevOps, CI/CD Documentation and processes.

Integration

• Develop the interfaces (coding) as described in the development activities category.
• Build and maintain automated workflows using suitable solutions.
• Contribute to the development and deployment of native or cross-platform mobile applications.

Policy Review and Implementation

• Contribute to the development and implementation of departmental policy, procedures and processes.
• Keep up to date with effective policy and practice execution strategies.

Reporting

• Track and prepare the activity status report on the progress of the implementation of received requirements.
• Compile and submit a report of development activities to the supervisor as requested.
• Prepare proposals, briefings, presentations, reports, and other documentation and provide management information both verbally and in report format.

Stakeholder Management

• Actively participate in knowledge-sharing sessions or team learning initiatives.
• Facilitate and manage communication with relevant internal and external stakeholders and proactively and progressively manage the relationships.
• Deal with enquiries and requests for information from both internal and external stakeholders.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree/ Advanced Diploma in IT related qualification.
• Microsoft Certified Application Developer is an added advantage.
• Certificate in ITIL is an added advantage.
• Cloud Certification is an added advantage.
• Java Certification is an added advantage.
• Certification in Power Platform development is an added advantage.
• Relevant 5 - 7 years’ experience in the entire Software Development (SDLC) environment.
• Experience in writing Application Integration Programs.
• Experience in Unified Modelling Language (UML).
• Experience in the development and implementation of Power Platform solutions.
• Experience with API integration (RESTful APIs).

End Date:  22 Jul 2025