Thunderhead Documentation Developer at Santam Insurance

You will be responsible for development, testing, maintaining and supporting software that meets business requirements using the Thunderhead tool to generate Short Term insurance related templates for documentation purposes.
Principle Accountabilities

•  Adheres to defined software development lifecycles and best practice (including code standards, code reviews, source control, etc.)
•  Authoring business templates as per the business requirements
•  Consolidating form templates, recognizing common graphical elements, information blocks, layouts, variable data requirements, functional similarity and multilingual requirements
•  Developing and documenting forms designs and form specifications, including form usage and derivation rules, data mapping, variable logic, templates, styles, layout etc.
•  Create test data and unit tests to ensure developed software works according to business requirement, design and specification

Generic Functions

•  Contributes and collaborates with team members across the SDLC from business analysis, design, development and testing in Agile / self-managed team environment

Qualifications & Experience

•  Relevant Tertiary IT qualification and/or qualification through experience 
•  Minimum of 2-4 years’ IT development experience across the systems development lifecycle 

 Experience in :

• Business Content Studio
•  Business Object Studio
•  Admin modules of Thunderhead
•  Should be well versed in creation of Static Layouts for Print and Responsive Layouts for Web

​​​​​​​Knowledge & Skills

•  Technical knowledge in creating Simple, Scriptable Batch Config/Template Selector and Output Configurations for post processing
•  Working knowledge of the Atlassian Suite of products (e.g. Bamboo, JIRA, Confluence) would be advantageous
•  Knowledge of Agile methods, e.g. Kanban, SCRUM 
•  Knowledge of the short term insurance industry is advantageous 
•  Competent in problem solving and troubleshooting
•  Prioritising objectives and planning
•  Working effectively as a team member sharing responsibility, providing support and maintaining communication
•  Identifying, resolving or escalating risks, issues, dependencies, etc. 
•  Must be able to work in a highly pressurised and dynamic environment
•  Investigation and analysis of information
•  Able to accept accountability for actions and decisions