Senior Programmer .Net at The Shoprite Group of Companies

Purpose of the Job    
The senior developer, you will need to have a deep specialised knowledge beyond your peers in development and provide technical solutions to enterprise problems.

You will be responsible for setting up the design patterns, libraries, frameworks and processes. You have to be aware of how the organization and business partners work and are able to adapt, within the frameworks, to deliver

Job Objectives    

•  To develop operational systems in accordance with Shoprite Standards
•  To maintain operational systems in accordance with Shoprite Standards
•  To manage the release process
•  To provide support to users of the systems
•  Understand the existing requirement and document the requirements
•  Develop .Net programs and functions.
•  Confirm with requirements with Systems Analyst
•  Do unit testing of developed programs and functions
•  Code reviews
•  Capture the release using the Shoprite release management system.
•  Ensure instructions are clear and concise and applied by relevant deployment teams
•  Confirm the success of the deployment and follow through until the production stage is reached

Qualifications    
Essential:

• 3 Years IT Degree/Diploma

Experience    
Essential:

• 4-5 Years Development experience in coding and building Enterprise Solutions using ASP.Net and C#
• 4-5 Years Database Design and Development –experience in writing SQL code and stored procedures
• 3-4 Years UML Exposure - understand sequence and class diagrams
• Reporting Services – experience in creating of transactional reporting
• 4-5 Years Development experience in MVC
• 4-5 Years Development experience in WPF
• 4-5 Years Development experience in WCF
• 4 -5 Years Understanding of OO principles

Knowledge and Skills    
Desireable:

• VSS/TFS exposure
• 4-5 Years SQL Server 2008 – Understand the internals and architecture of SQL Server e.g.: memory usage, in-depth knowledge of indexes and performance tuning
• Good technical understanding of Windows Operating System