Senior Developer - Level 1 - Durban Forest Park 2 (Customers & Emerging Markets) at Derivco

Our Atlantic Team for new U.S market project is looking for a Senior Developer Level 1

Background

• There are multiple components / products required to support the USA Business readiness. These platform extensions are systems / products and integrations which DGC require to be competitive in the market. The core team will be responsible for the implementation, the design and alignment with Derivco standards, it will work closely with our partners DGC and our contracting partners to execute on these.
• Supporting the core team will be a shared services team, BA's, PM's and supporting roles to the contract and core teams will form part of shared services. Shared Services will support Asia + US projects.

Strategy

• Existing Product teams and mechanisms will be used for Market entry and traditional product development / evolution. The Atlantic team will execute on fast-tracking the integration of best of breed products from the market to augment the platform, where needed products or components will be built from scratch if not available to integrate.

Core team 

• We will be working in a fast paced and changing environment, it's highly likely that things will change fairly often in terms of the type of work.
• We will be working with an internal core team, teams across the Derivco business as well as with multiple teams of contractors. If this gives you the weeby jeebies this will be a great opportunity to develop these skills, if you don't want to develop these skills then it's probably not for you.
• We will be engaging with vendors and integrating best of breed products into multiple areas of our system, engaging SME's across Derivco will be essential. Integrations will play a large part of the mandate of the team. These will include multiple product verticals, not just one type of integration.
• We will be upholding the highest Derivco standards and aligning on SDLC best practice from day 1. SDLC maturity requirement is 100%.
• Expectation is that we do what is needed, any legacy boundary of testing vs dev vs IT etc. responsibilities must be left at the door. 

Requirements:

• Relevant technical skill
• Understand and stay abreast of software development methodologies and best practices
• Appropriate problem solving skills
• Effective prioritisation
• Effective time management
• Work under pressure
• Software analysis and design skills
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Understand Product Lifecycle
• Technical coaching skills
• Able to successfully collaborate

Technical leadership

• Understanding of code design patterns
• Ability to understand complex code
• Track record of effective troubleshooting
• Minimum 3 year relevant qualification and at least 5 years software development experience OR
• Relevant 1 year certification and at least 7 years software development experience OR
• Minimum 8 years software development experience