Current Positions Open at Mediro Recruitment

Description:

Specific accountabilities will include, but may extend beyond the following:

1. Processes

• Formulate strategies and modernisation techniques, harness emerging technologies to advance company’s objectives and gain transformational efficiency and effectiveness.
• Promote the use of innovative technologies that will provide benefits to the organisation.
• Champion policy frameworks and objectives with internal partners to ensure integration between functions in pursuit of strategic goals.
• Develop annual and longer-term resource plan and secure capacity to achieve divisional objectives consistent with long term strategic plan.
• Develop annual and long-term functional plans, set clear priorities and measurable milestones in line with company’s objectives.
• Proactively identify interconnected problems, model alternative solutions, develop and establish contingency plans aligned to  the organisations’ direction.
• Provide periodic reports on performance against plan and progress on long-term initiatives and use to realign operating plan and objectives appropriately.
• Identify and capitalise on industry trends and market opportunities appropriate for a high performing software development company.
• Accountable to effectively manage Cybersecurity, Risk Management, Legal and Compliance protocols in line with latest international/national standards.
• Demonstrates agility in responding to market changes, technological advancements, and customer demands.
• Utilise relevant business data and insights to identify trends, make informed choices, and drive business growth.
• Embraces and promotes a culture of innovation, creative thinking and taking calculated risks.
• Oversee and encourages research and development programmes to ensure that company remains at the forefront in the industry, applies the most cost-effective methods and approaches, provides leading-edge products and services and retains its competitive edge.

2. Stakeholder Engagement

• Define and influence relationships and service level agreements made with internal and external stakeholders.
• Build and maintain strong positive, trust-based relationships with all stakeholders, employees, customers, government departments, agencies, local authorities, key decision makers, and industry influencers.
• Ensure strategic positioning of company and promote the enterprise with key stakeholders.
• Lead with quality business strategies through a stakeholder collaborative implementation approach.
• Places a strong emphasis on understanding customer needs and delivering exceptional customer experiences.
• Ensure that company 's products and services are designed to meet and strives to exceed customer expectations.

3. People

• Create a positive organisational climate and culture to energise and focus, in order to optimise short-term and longer-term productivity.
• Influence the development of clear human capability and accountability frameworks in support of people management strategies.
• Provide leadership and direction by articulating and reinforcing the company’s vision or direction.
• Communicate strategic context that guide best practice, fosters an environment that encourages experimentation, continuous improvement and improved employee engagement levels.
• Ability to articulate a compelling vision for company 's future and inspire others to work towards that vision.
• Effectively manage company’s organisational structure and build high-performance teams.
• Promote and nurture a high-performance culture with emphasis on employee engagement, teamwork, career planning, open communication and employee morale.

4. Financial

• Ensure that the functional strategy is budgeted for through the development and implementation of a requisite budget.
• Implement effective financial control, management of costs and corporate governance.
• Complies with all requirements of PFMA and relevant company’s policies and regulations.
• Oversee and monitor financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting to ensure the company 's financial health, business growth and maximise profitability.
• Be a good steward of company resources by taking cognisance of public sphere environment.

5. Governance

• Drive the development and implementation of integrated governance, risk, and compliance frameworks.
• Ensure the consolidation of the risk profile of the company, manage critical risks, and ensure feedback integration.
• Accountable for management of the risk register and adherence to the governance, legal and compliance frameworks.

Leadership Attributes

• Successful and trustworthy individual, committed to Steward Leadership.
• An ethical individual with a verifiable track record of delivery at an executive role in the public or private sector.
• One who can lead with strategic clarity whilst being driven with delivering the highest degree of performance excellence.
• This position will rely heavily on the incumbent’s ability to lead and inspire employees within company.

Minimum Functional Requirements

• Previous working experience as the CEO / Managing Director for (5) years or relevant executive management experience at an operational level for a complex business for at least 10 years.
• Understanding of the software development life cycle and sound knowledge of the current IT landscape.
• Understand the principles of effective organisation management, risk mitigation, risk management and governance.
• Be comfortable to operate in a fast-paced and rapidly evolving industry.
• Good understanding of various functions such as marketing, PR, HR, sales, finance, etc.
• Considerable Board experience and track record of ethical stewardship.
• Good knowledge of public finance and state entity procurement practices and regulatory framework.
• Knowledge of IT Governance and Framework.
• Knowledge and understanding of IT Applications.

Minimum qualifications and experience required:

• Relevant Master's Degree (NQF 9) in Business Administration, Commerce or Computer Science
• 8 -10 years of experience in a similar environment, of which 5 years at CEO / Managing Director level.
• Relevant IT technical qualification and knowledge of the public sector environment would be advantageous.

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Responsibilities/Tasks:

• Support existing and develop new functionality and components.
• Understand existing product and domain elements and work with business analysts to refine and implement new requirements.
• Refactor and improve the code to keep the product maintainable and adaptable to new requirements.
• Work effectively in a team environment and follow/develop product software development processes and standards.
• Evaluate and improve application performance, and high availability features.
• Create unit and integrated system tests to show that the developed functionality works as intended.
• Create technical documentation that explains how the various components of the system work and how to use them.
• Do root cause analysis on bugs to find and fix the cause of a problem in an integrated system.
• Build and deploy the system on an application server.
• Create and execute functional test scenarios (dev testing).
• Incorporate the work done by other developers and do whatever is necessary to get the system to work again with the changes, including debugging other people’s code, making changes to test data, etc.
• Provide guidance and assistance to more junior developers to ensure they deliver quality work within the agreed timeframes.
• Provide technical leadership to the development team and other teams within the company.

Requirements:

Minimum Requirements:

• Relevant tertiary qualification in Information Technology or Computer/Engineering Sciences and/ or at least 10 years relevant experience as a developer as part of a team in a software development environment
• A strong knowledge of Microsoft web development toolsets is essential.
• 2-3 years relevant experience as a Senior Front-end developer as part of a team in a software development environment, include the role as leading Developer within a team.
• Experience in scripting languages is preferred (e.g., JavaScript, Angular, React)
• Ability to work in a team environment: Follow mentorship/provide team leader mentorship, collaborate on a common (UML) design model.
• A good understanding of the SDLC process, tools and techniques specifically as applied to software development methodology.

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Description:

• Support existing and develop new functionality and components.
• Understand existing product and domain elements and work with business analysts to refine and implement new requirements.
• Refactor and improve the code to keep the product maintainable and adaptable to new requirements.
• Evaluate and improve application performance, and high availability features.
• Create unit and integrated system tests to show that the developed functionality works as intended.
• Create technical documentation that explains how the various components of the system work and how to use them.
• Do root cause analysis on bugs to find and fix the cause of a problem in an integrated system.
• Build and deploy the system on an application server.
• Create and execute functional test scenarios (dev testing).
• Work effectively in a team environment, actively collaborating to improve software development processes and standards.

Requirements:

• Relevant tertiary qualification in Information Technology or Computer/Engineering Sciences and/ or at least 3 years relevant experience as a developer as part of a team in a software development environment.
• A strong knowledge of Java is essential.
• 2-3 years relevant experience as a senior back-end developer in a multi-tiered Java application development.
• Experience in scripting languages is preferred (e.g. JavaScript, Angular, Python/Jython).
• Ability to work in a team environment and collaborate on a common (UML) design model.
• A thorough understanding of SDLC processes, tools and techniques.

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Responsibilities/Tasks:

• Support existing and develop new functionality and components.
• Understand existing product and domain elements and work with business analysts to refine and implement new requirements.
• Refactor and improve the code to keep the product maintainable and adaptable to new requirements.
• Work effectively in a team environment and follow/develop product software development processes and standards.
• Evaluate and improve application performance, and high availability features.
• Create unit and integrated system tests to show that the developed functionality works as intended.
• Create technical documentation that explains how the various components of the system work and how to use them.
• Do root cause analysis on bugs to find and fix the cause of a problem in an integrated system.
• Build and deploy the system on an application server.
• Create and execute functional test scenarios (dev testing).
• Incorporate the work done by other developers and do whatever is necessary to get the system to work again with the changes, including debugging other people’s code, making changes to test data, etc.

Minimum Requirements:

• Relevant tertiary qualification in Information Technology or Computer/Engineering Sciences and/ or at least 10 years relevant experience as a developer as part of a team in a software development environment
• A strong knowledge of Microsoft web development toolsets is essential.
• 2-3 years relevant experience as a Senior Integration developer as part of a team in a software development environment, include the role as leading Developer within a team.
• Experience with integration solutions utilising both JSON and XML message exchange.
• Experience with XML messaging and schema validation of these messages is important within an IBM MQ Client interaction.
• Ability to work in a team environment: Follow mentorship/provide team leader mentorship, collaborate on a common (UML) design model.
• A good understanding of the SDLC process, tools and techniques specifically as applied to software development methodology.

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Description

• Develop complex T-SQL queries, Stored Procedures, and Triggers.
• Assist in the design of the relational database architecture for new development projects.
• Develop new / alter existing SQL objects based on a set of requirements.
• Troubleshoot SQL objects that fail.
• Support the development team in troubleshooting application performance using SQL profiler and optimizing SQL queries or tuning indexing.
• Service requests from business, which include changes to processes or ad hoc data requests.
• Develop according to set coding standards and processes.
• Collaborate with Business Analysts to define scope and goals, track milestones, decide priorities, and report regularly to team leaders and BA’s.
• Work with Business Analysts to identify and understand source data systems.
• Contribute to all phases of the SDLC process extending from requirements gathering and design to development, testing, and deployment.
• Investigate and fix production issues.
• Develop and test extraction, transformation, and load processes.
• Work in a very data-driven environment and use data analysis skills to anticipate and fix bugs.
• Supporting production databases.
• Monitor production databases regularly or respond to any database issues by bringing down the database or taking the database offline.
• Monitoring or optimising the performance, security, backup, recovery, or integrity of database management systems.

Minimum Requirements:

• Relevant tertiary qualification in Information Technology or Computer/Engineering/Mathematical Sciences and/ or at least 4-5 years relevant experience as a SQL developer as part of a team in a software development environment
• Relevant Microsoft Certification (SQL developer/Azure) will be beneficial.
• 2 years of relevant experience as an Intermediate SQL developer as part of a team in a software development environment.
• Ability to work in a team environment: Follow mentorship/provide team leader mentorship, collaborate on a common (UML) design model.
• A good understanding of the SDLC process, tools, and techniques specifically as applied to software development methodology.
• Experience working with security-sensitive data (beneficial)

Skills and Knowledge requirements:

• Knowledge of security vulnerabilities and working impact on solutions.
• Experience of the following in Microsoft SQL Server:
• Relational database design principles
• Understanding of SQL Server Administration
• SQL OLTP development
• SQL Query optimization
• SQL Query analysis
• Database object design
• XML and JSON structures (beneficial)
• God XML manipulation skills in XQuery (beneficial)

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Description

Skills and Knowledge Requirements:

• Extensive experience in Project Administration, with a focus on systems integration project management.
• Systems integration experience, ideally in a software development environment.
• Demonstrated leadership skills and a history of motivating project teams.
• Ability to conduct scenario-based analysis.
• Proficiency in critical thinking and the ability to ask probing questions to effectively find solutions.
• An understanding of systems integration principles, including middleware, APIs, and data integration, with a history of successful integration projects.
• Experience in integrating third-party components and interfaces into software projects.
• Proficiency in developing, implementing, and continuously improving systems integration best practices within project management processes, with a history of optimizing integration efficiencies.

Role-specific knowledge:

• Collaborate with Business Analysts, Systems Engineers, and project stakeholders to establish and agree upon project scope, with a strong emphasis on systems integration.
• Ensure a clear definition of roles, responsibilities, and deliverables for each project discipline/member, emphasizing systems integration tasks.
• Facilitate high-level software design sessions, integrating systems considerations into the design process.
• Host project effort estimation sessions with a focus on understanding the intricacies of systems integration.
• Define a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and create a comprehensive project plan in MS Project or a suitable tool, highlighting systems integration milestones.
• Set up JIRA projects and create Jira tickets that address systems integration tasks as part of the defined project plan.
• Define a workflow tailored to the project environment, ensuring that it is agreed upon by project members and aligns with systems integration requirements.
• Manage project communication, including project plans, meeting minutes, and reporting, giving special attention to systems integration-related communication.
• Perform impact analysis for project changes, especially those affecting systems integration, and oversee the change management process.
• Facilitate regular project updates with project stakeholders, emphasizing systems integration progress and challenges.
• Collaborate with System Engineers, Architects, and Team Leads to understand non-functional and quality requirements, particularly as they relate to systems integration.
• Lead and motivate the project team, ensuring that they understand the critical role of systems integration.
• Oversee systems integration tasks, including the integration of third-party components and interfaces.
• Build ongoing relationships with line management and other company departments required for project delivery, emphasizing systems integration alignment.
• Understand the company software release process and manage multiple releases to the client, with a specific focus on integration points.

Minimum Requirements

• Relevant tertiary qualification in Engineering or Information Sciences.
• 4-7 years of technical project management experience, with a significant portion involving systems integration.
• At least 3 years of Project Management experience in a software development environment, with a strong focus on systems integration.
• Project management certification.
• Proficient understanding of Agile Principles.
• Proficient understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Proficient user of MS Project or similar software and MS Office applications.
• A solid grasp of Software Design Principles.

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Duties:

Development of a SharePoint solution

• Scoping, developing, and supporting customizations to Microsoft SharePoint to meet specific requirements.
• Developing integrations and migrations of data
• Define project requirements.
• Develop plugins and integration points.
• Develop web parts/services, event handlers, and visual workflows.
• Collaborate with network engineers on SharePoint architecture and installation.

Modify and customize fields and reports within the SharePoint system as per user requirements.

• Customise SharePoint forms, fields, views, reports, and dashboards.
• Align the functionality roadmap and support users with configurations, workflows, dialogs, custom reports, dashboards, etc.

Provide critical thinking and problem-solving services.
Maintain and update the system.

• Perform regular updates.
• Develop and maintain custom validation rules, workflows, and plugins, as well as participate in the integration process with other enterprise systems.
• Perform audits to uncover and resolve integrity issues.

Maintain security & IT Liaison

• Maintain SharePoint user security roles and privileges.
• Liaise with IT on infrastructure and performance-related matters.
• Manage Microsoft Releases and recommend changes or additions to the roadmap.
• Submit and coordinate Microsoft and other integrated systems support tickets when required.

Provide user support and training.

• Develop and update training and resource materials on functionality and features.
• Keep technical documents up-to-date based on ongoing enhancements to the system.
• Provide User Training and prepare User Training Manuals – Quick Guides to assist all SharePoint users.

Minimum Requirements

• A minimum of 3 years in the IT industry which includes experience in the following:
• 3 years Implementing and supporting Microsoft SharePoint
• Software solution implementations addressing business management issues.
• Analyzing and documenting business process
• Experience with data integration software systems
• 3 years of Microsoft.NET platform development using VB.NET or C#
• 3 years Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Reporting Services
• Intermediate Active Directory & Microsoft Exchange Skills