Fresh Openings at Optimi Learning

Job Description

• Optimi is looking for a business analyst to help drive the implementation of projects across our organisation. The ideal candidate for this role should have strong technical and analytical capabilities as well as project management and/or software development experience. In addition, the successful candidate should have business acumen, good stakeholder management skills and the ability to clearly communicate and present information.

REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or IT-related field
• Further studies/proven experience in project management would be beneficial
• Exposure to supply chair or warehousing operations would be beneficial, but is not required
• Advanced computer literacy (MS Office (especially Excel), SQL, data manipulation skills)
• Experience in operational software would be beneficial, but is not required
• Must be fluent in English
• Excellent organisational skills
• A critical thinker with strong business judgement.
• Strong problem-solving capabilities
• Good communicator

DUTIES

• Define and scope projects
• Work closely with business to identify key areas for improvement, prioritise needs, development of strategies to pursue them, development of actionable solutions
• Facilitate workshops to define business requirements
• Prepare detailed specifications including requirement and functional specifications and business cases
• Process design, mapping and re-engineering
• Project/solution implementation
• Manage process change within the business
• Manage projects independently and liaise with senior stakeholders
• Perform system and user testing
• Risk management
• Stakeholder management

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Job Description

• Optimi is looking for an experienced Software Developer to enable innovation through technology solutions and drive coding standards in our software development team. The successful candidate will be involved in designing and building new technology solutions, interegrating existing software and mentoring junior development team members. We are looking for highly self motivated, strong problem-solver and a candidate with good communication skills.

REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s Degree/Diploma/Technical Certification
• Must be computer Literate
• Customer service-oriented attitude
• More the six (6) years relevant experience
• Must be fluent in English
• Must be able to prioritize and meet deadlines
• Excellent organisational skills
• Preference will be given to candidates with their own laptops

DUTIES

• Take charge of the code-base to ensure quality and documentation standards are adhered to.
• Consult with other technology team members to ensure that technologies chosen are future proof, has proper community support, and will not result in code refactoring in the near future.
• Effectively communicate and collaborate with test analysts and business analysts to provide timely feedback and resolutions to issues identified during functional- and user acceptance testing.
• Work with the Technical Operations team to automate builds and code deployments and where automated deployments aren’t possible – communicate deployment times with the technical operations team.
• Effective communication and collaboration with cross-functional team members.
• Keep up to date with technology trends and how they can benefit Optimi’s software landscape.
• Identify areas for system and code improvements and implement them as well as taking system availability and business stakeholders into account.