Snr Specialist: IT Systems Developer (Compass) at Liberty Group South Africa

Purpose

• The purpose of the role is to analysis, design, develop, test, and implement appropriate and efficient solutions that integrate with the core Compass application. These solutions must be efficient and delivered according to provided specifications, standards, and procedures, using various tools and languages but within the architectural standards and guidelines.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyse, design, build, test and implement solutions for the Compass Interfaces based on requirements.
• Communicates effectively with stakeholders to identify needs and evaluate alternative business solutions with project management/Agile Release Trains (ART's).
• Facilitates/participates in code/design review sessions.
• Investigate system problems and support the Application Managed Services (AMS) team in remediating production issues.
• Creating functional and technical specifications/user stories.

Additional Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical support for the team and business users.
• Review test plans and the test book for each project release before User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Conduct unit/integration testing to ensure that the design was aligned and designed according to the technology business requirement specifications.
• Provide support for the quality assurance testing team.
• Play an active role in supporting of other Compass Developers.
• Collaborate with other developers/architects and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyse trade-offs between usability and performance needs.
• Gain a deep understanding of the Compass Retail product offering.
• Multi-tasking, be a collaborator and have an attitude of "owning" a problem or task.

Minimum Experience

• Must have a minimum of 5 years Oracle PL/SQL experience.
• Must have Oracle forms experience.
• Micro Focus Cobol experience would be an advantage.
• Compass experience would be advantageous.
• Experience in the finance/insurance industry preferable.
• Working knowledge of AGILE.
• Compass application knowledge.

Minimum Qualifications

• Tertiary education, preferably BCom (IS) or B.Sc. (Computer Science) or IT diploma equivalent would be an advantage.