Senior Analyst Programmer at Old Mutual South Africa

Job Description

This is a Senior Development role including design of specifications, coding, implementation, testing, data conversion and documentation and system enhancements. The incumbent is individually accountable for achieving results through own efforts.

• A Senior programming function that constructs solutions, including design of specifications, programming, implementation and testing (unit, systems & integration testing).
• Designs the test strategy and / or test plans.
• Conducts data conversion and documents new systems and systems enhancements.
• Provides higher-level technical and programming support to Programmers / Analyst Programmers and Junior Programmers.
• Analyses and assists with design of new systems and databases.
• Assists Business Analyst and Architect to translate strategic decisions into Business Solutions.
• Required to advise Management on effective applications, covering areas such as maintenance, support, man-machine interface and data management requirements.
• Provides sizing and scoping for development work required
• Operates as a subject matter expert across program initiatives
• Expected to task lead on certain work initiatives
• Coaches and mentors new staff (programmers and analyst programmers).
• Provides Lead Technical direction
• Leads large scale applications eg. Flexcube , Inspire, Wealth Integrator and Bizagi
• Builds prototypes to assist the business with user requirements

Drives out business requirements

• Provide production support through warrantee period
• May need to train the business on new applications (in the absence of a BA)
• No supervision required

Extract, validate and analyse data to answer strategic and operational questions.

• Automate data extraction and report update processes.
• Design, build and support the components of data warehouse, such as ETL processes, databases, reports, and reporting environments.
• Develop and automate ETL processes that involve error and reconciliation handling.
• Knowledge on web frameworks and technologies such as:
• AngularJS, Angular, Node,  jQuery, Twitter Bootstrap, HTML, ASP.Net, CSS, ASP.MVC (Razor), WCF, Web API, Entity Framework, Oracle,  SQL Server, Visual Studio etc.
• Cloud-based technologies would be advantageous

Skills

• ASP.NET MVC, C# .NET Programming, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Excellent communication skills, Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), jQuery, Problem Solving, Systems Analysis Design, Technical Design Documentation, Twitter Bootstrap, Web APIs

Education

• Bachelor of Science (BSc): Information Technology (Required), Diploma (Dip): Information Technology (Required), Matriculation Certificate (Matric) (Required)