Specialist: Back End Developer at MultiChoice

Purpose of the Position

• To lead in the development, maintenance and support of technical solutions in the online, media and video on demand space.
• To drive development not just as a code generator but also as a craftsman, by building future focused solutions which may become game changers in the media space - Blue sky vision and green field’s projects are more the norm then exception for this role.

Key Performance Objectives
Tasks
Solution Design

• Design and prototype interactive applications based on business requirements.
• Design and maintain technical system requirements based on business needs.
• Design and implement best practice environments and/or technical architecture.
• Design and implement best practice release and/or deployment strategies.
• Develop interactive applications based on approved specifications and prototypes.
• Follow emerging technologies and apply them to the environment where relevant

Development Operations

• Develop, test, debug and maintain applications and/or code.
• Develop, update and maintain technical documentation.
• Integrate existing as well as new applications onto Online, Mobile, Broad band & Broadcast platforms.
• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging.
• Write clean code to develop functional web applications.
• Troubleshoot and debug applications.
• Perform UI tests to optimize performance.
• Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications.
• Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server side logic.
• Gather and address technical and design requirements.
• Provide training and support to internal teams.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Liaise with developers, designers and system administrators to identify new features.

Qualifications Essential

• Degree in Information Technology
• Relevant Information Technology certification(s) and/or accreditation(s)
• Post Graduate Degree advantageous

Experience

• 2-5 years’ experience in a similar role
• Solid SOA, BPM, ESB and rules experience
• Solid experience with frameworks such as Scrum
• CI/CD knowledge; Experience with the likes of Jenkins, Selenium, Maven, JBehave, Puppet

Technical Competencies

• Ability to think and act independently in a start-up like environment
• Exceptional working knowledge of Java, JSON, XML, XSL
• Networking
• Open Source fanatic
• Tomcat, Apache
• Full Stack Microsoft Framework
• .NET
• AZURE (Cloud) full stack
• Hybrid architecture frameworks
• ITIL
• Release Management
• Deployment Strategies
• Test Driven Development (TDD) and/or Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
• Solid understanding of Agile methodologies, SCRUM experience would be advantageous.
• RDBMS experience (MySQL, MSSQL)
• NoSQL knowledge would be a definite advantage (MongoDB, Neo4J)
• Mobile/Tablet development experience would be a plus (Android, iOS)

Behavioural Competencies

• Relationship Building
• Conflict Resolution
• Decision Making
• Critical Appraisal
• Holistic Thinking
• Persuading & Influence
• Coaching
• Innovative
• Service Orientated