Senior .Net Developer at Absa Group

Overall Job Purpose
To be responsible for system analysis, design, applications development and implementation of business systems. You will be required to perform problem determination diagnostics as a means to solve system failures and faults. You will provide technical support to the users of the business units. 
You will meet with clients to identify project requirements, develop project plans and schedules, write, test and implement software according to the client’s specifications

Accountability: 
Develop Software Applications: 

• Interpret the business requirements- and functional documentation received from business / business analysts from a technical perspective 
• Engage with business analysts and Subject Matter Experts to ensure appropriate delivery according to expectations
• Write code in the relevant technology to support approved system changes in the development environment
• Follow the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) policy of the environment when developing application components 
• Develop a program / application back-out plan in order to ensure that a project can be removed from production if necessary by investigating and documenting the dependencies between programs 
• Provide an overview to the business analyst on the rules applied within the respective programs to ensure a common understanding of the system functionality and interpretation
• Attend relevant project progress review sessions and provide feedback when requiredComplete all changes in the agreed timeframe whilst ensuring compliance to all change control management policies 
• Attend scheduled meetings between different divisions to ensure that requests are updated and being adhered to

Accountability:

• Problem resolution to minimise impact on business environment 
• Inform and update the senior system developer or technical team lead on the status of all escalated service problems (Severity 1) or outages when they occur and until they are resolvedEnsure that problems are resolved within the Service Level Agreement (SLA) timelines as per the severity grading through appropriate solution designs 
• Adhere to the correct level of escalation according to problems, definition and impact
• Investigate and document the root-cause analysis, action plans to address the problems and communicate these to the business analyst / subject matter expert 
• Update the service desk application by documenting the root cause analysis, outcomes and the preventative measures taken for each problem needing resolution for future reference by others to ensure minimal recurrences for the problem experienced 

Education and Experience Required:

• Certification in related technology · Higher Certificate: Information Technology: Information Systems (NQF Level5) 
• 4 years’ experience as a systems developer
• 5 years’ experience as a systems developer 
• 3 years’ experience in LISP industry
• Development Skills in the following programming languages : C# .Net, VB.Net & ASP .Net (with Visual Studio 2003, 2005, 2008 
• Oracle 9iCrystal Reports 
• SQL Server CE & Windows platform CE 
• ASP.Net for Mobile Devices 
• MS SharePoint Server, Configuration & Development