Jobs at Praesignis

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide ongoing coaching that enables the teams to excel at agile development
• Facilitate discussions leading to collective decision-making, goal setting and conflict resolution
• Continuously seek to improve team performance by promoting joint accountability for results and solving productivity issues
• Coach the Product Owner and Scrum Masters to focus on delivering incremental business value while sustaining an engineering culture
• Facilitate cross-team meetings and help teams find innovative ways of resolving dependencies and navigating complex business and technical trade-offs.
• Engage in problem solving sessions with team leads on how to develop long-term strategies and roadmaps which are congruent with the Agile approach and the company strategy
• Conducts training sessions on the fundamentals of Agile with new team members and training SAFe to all roles
• Focus on business units or departments outside of traditional software development that are interested in adopting Agile principles and methods.
• Facilitates organisation transformation relating to the new way of working across the organization

Qualifications: 

• Relevant Agile certification and training.
• Safe Program Consultants (SPC) certification is compulsory

Experience:

• At least 5 successfully delivered projects using Agile methodology.
• At least 2 – 3 projects that include an end to end Agile implementation playing the role of a Scrum Master or Tech Lead.
• Experience in coaching people on the Agile methodology.
• Experience with any of the key disciplines required in agile delivery – such as software development or business (system) analysis.

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of Agile software development process (e.g. XP, Kanban, Scrum, etc.)
• Knowledge and/or experience with Agile techniques:
  • User Stories, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Paired Programming, Automated Testing and Agile Games.
• Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team.

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Description:

• To apply a set of tasks and techniques used to work as a liaison amongst stakeholders in order to understand the problems; opportunities; needs; structure; policies and operations of the organisation on medium to large projects / medium risk.
• To recommend solutions that enable the organisation to achieve its goals and to elicit and analyse the actual needs of the stakeholders.
• Facilitate communication between organisational units and play a central role in aligning the needs of business units with the capabilities delivered by information technology and may serve as a translator between these groups.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 - 6 years professional Business Analysis experience.
• Minimum 2 years BA management experience.
• Agile Scrum, Waterfall SDLC methodologies.
• Experience in a financial services business.
• FTI Business Analysis.
• Financial services and insurance industry experience is preferential.
• Financial acumen, the ability to keep abreast with current technology, proven ability to think strategically and the ability to solve problems with ease should be among your

Qualifications required:

• B.Sc. or B.Com degree with Computer Science / Information Technology.
• MBA will be advantageous.
• Relevant Business Analysis qualification essential.

Closing Date 18 August 2023

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Requirements:

• Big data experience
• AWS experience advantageous
• Solid data analysis experience & related skills
• Data warehousing experience
• Full SDLC experience
• Requirements elicitation & documentation
• Data modelling
• Data querying skills e.g. SQL, Python etc
• Any experience of working with Agile methodology advantageous
• Proficient in Microsoft Office

Minimum Qualifications:

• Relevant Degree in IT

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• As a Feature Analyst, you will focus on understanding and leveraging the features or attributes of data to extract meaningful insights that drive informed business decisions. You will contribute to data analysis, modeling, visualization, performance optimization, and effective communication within the BI ecosystem.

Requirements:

• 5 years’ experience in a similar environment
• Strong Analysis
• SQL experience
• Power BI
• Power Automate skills

Closing Date 26 July 2023

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• We are looking for a dedicated and strategic Manager: Application Development with 10 – 15 years ICT management experience to be accountable for a team that monitors, analyses, designs and develops our client's software applications.

Requirements:

• The manager will be in charge of developing new applications and maintaining, supporting, and upgrading existing systems and applications needed to keep the business running.
• You should have excellent software architecture, design, solution skills, communication, conflict management and leadership skills to be able to collaborate with Business, developers and system owners of software programs and applications.
• Degree or Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology.
• Software Solution skills
• Application architecture and design thinking
• Information Technology certifications such as ITIL
• Good problem solving and analytical skills.
• Understanding, Business/System Analyst area of knowledge.
• Good understanding of SDLC conceptual model.
• Technical and Behavioural Competencies
• High level understanding of budgeting and cost control.
• Intermediate level of strategic planning and objectives.
• Decision making.
• Project management.
• Maintaining standards and policies.

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• The above-mentioned position exists within our client's ICT Application Development Department and will be responsible for developing Natural Adabas based software solution to modernise applications and also work on enhancements and changes associated with maintenance of existing software.

Qualifications required:

• Bachelor's Degree is preferred
• Certifications in Natural development
• Certifications in NaturalOne development
• Proficiency in developing software using NATURAL/ADABAS development tools in a
• HP-UX/Linux environment.

Experience and Knowledge required:

• 6 – 10 years’ relevant experience
• Minimum 10 years of experience in the development and strong knowledge of:
  • Natural
  • NATURALOne
  • Natural Engineer
  • Entire/X
  • Integration Server
  • Adabas
  • Online & batch processing
• Experience with JIRA, GIT and Microsoft TFS are helpful.
• Implementation of technologies – Natural.

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Description:

• The successful incumbent should be able to address technical aspects and be able to perform security and network reviews and analysing risks, and addressing contingency planning.

Qualification required:

• BSc degree in Computer Science or Degree in Information technology or 3 Year National Diploma or equivalent professional qualifications
• ITIL certification.
• Five to ten years of industry experience in an information security function.
• Cisco Certified Network Professional – Security
• Cisco Certified Network Professional – Network
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) (Recommended)
• CISA – Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) (Advantageous)
• CEH – Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) (Advantageous)

Experience and knowledge required for the position:

• Expertise in SIEM, anti-virus software, intrusion detection, firewalls and content filtering.
• Expertise in routing, switching, Wi-Fi technologies, load balancers and QoS.
• Deep understanding of networking protocols (IPSEC, HSRP, BGP, OSPF, 802.11, QoS)
• Knowledge of risk assessment tools, technologies and methods.
• Expertise in designing secure networks, systems and application architectures.
• Disaster recovery, computer forensic tools, technologies and methods.
• Planning, researching and developing network and security policies, SOP’s
• System administration, supporting multiple platforms and applications.
• Expertise with mobile and malicious code.
• Endpoint security solutions, including file integrity monitoring and data loss prevention.
• Experience in the administration of benefits and compensation programs

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Description:

• The Security Engineer will be involved in analysing, planning, implementing, maintaining, troubleshooting and enhancing large complex systems or networks consisting of a combination that will include servers networks, load balancers, fabrics, storage arrays, and the physical and logical components that integrate these systems together as an enterprise networking backbone or platform.

Requirements:

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong Troubleshooting/problem solving ability.
• 10 Years senior system engineer experience.
• 8 Years’ experience as a team lead.
• 5 Years’ experience senior security engineer experience.
• 5 Years’ experience senior data engineer experience.
• 5 Years’ experience senior voice engineer experience.
• Coding experience in Python, C#, or Java.
• Understanding of SQL, including SQL Queries.
• Extensive understanding of Proxies, Reverse Proxies, Nat, and Load Balancers.
• Understanding of virtual environments and containers.
• Experience in DevOps processes, including CI/CD automation.
• Extensive understanding of Networks switching and routing as well as Voice technologies SIP and SBC’s.
• Extensive Understanding of firewalls, ips, acls, dlp and vulnerability assessment.
• Understanding of Enterprise Linux and Windows servers and services.
• Experience with monitoring systems.
• Experience with automation software.

 Qualifications required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or equivalent
• Certification in Security and Data or Voice networks
• ITIL certification

Closing Date: 19 August 2023