Jobs at Paracon

The Job

Your main responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Managing the technical aspects of the solution delivery and systems within the IT domain;
• Understanding the focus and direction of the business; prioritising and driving delivery that helps to achieve this;
• Defining the technical direction for the domain and ensuring the quality of technical solutions, whilst maintaining standards and managing the impact introduced by changes across domains;
• Identifying areas for continuous improvement of both systems and architectural standards and helping to drive implementation; and,
• Managing a team of developers (+/- 5 developers) in the domain. This will in all aspects of people management, assigning work as well as ensuring the correct skills are always available.

To apply, you need to have a Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Information Science or related technical discipline coupled with 8+ years’ professional development experience (Must be at a Senior Developer level).

You experience and/or knowledge must cover the following:

• Exceptional skills writing SQL for Microsoft SQL server, including stored procedures, UDF’s and other T-SQL Querying;
• Data integration, validation and reconciliation (SSIS or similar);
• Reporting technologies (SSRS, PowerBI or similar);
• Data analysis and performing complex data manipulation using Microsoft SQL;
• Designing and implementing relational and dimensional database structures;
• Creating and maintaining cubes (SSAS); and,
• Fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures and algorithms.

It will be an advantage if you have AWS Cloud implementation experience as well as exposure to PostgreSQL.

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The Job

A client is  looking for a Software Engineer Practice Lead to join their dynamic team in Cape Town.

You will be the main steward and thought leader of the company’s solution delivery practices. You will envision, develop and lead the adoption of modern software engineering development practices (e.g. Agile, SAFe) at the speed of business innovation and change.

It’s vital that you have extensive expertise in Agile transformation, Agile software delivery, a track record of leading the successful adoption of new software engineering practices in an organisation as well as deep technical knowledge of defining and configuring DevOps toolchains.