Jobs at The Shoprite Group of Company

Job Objectives    
IT Strategic Sourcing
- Enforce and assist with comprehensive sourcing strategies and opportunities to maximise value and minimize the total cost of ownership, including improved quality, pricing and service levels within applicable risk tolerance levels
- Conduct financial analysis of historical spend and cost performance
- Promote the benefits of a comprehensive sourcing strategy within the group

Coordination, Facilitation and Influencing
- Collaborate with different business units to understand complex business, technical, regulatory, service and legal requirements, and translate these into specific RFx requirements across the various scoring categories
- Adhere to standardised systems and controls for IT sourcing (including RFx processes and documentation, follow sourcing and procurement rules and guidelines, RFx execution models, and supplier or contractor selection criteria) to enable the most efficient and effective procurement approach based on investment risk and type of procurement

RFx Process Design and Execution
- Elicit the business service definition, service details, current use statistics, risks and service levels required from the key stakeholders to refine the business requirements and mould the contract (terms and conditions or Statement of Work) to become the basis for bidding
- Evaluate the existing capabilities, suppliers, business requirements and risks identified to determine the most appropriate sourcing strategy
- Enforce standardised RFx systems and controls
Qualifications    
Essential:
Grade 12/Matric

Preferred:

• Bachelors Degree (3 years) / NQF level 7
• FTI Diploma
• ITIL and / or COBIT

Experience    

• -5 years experience in a similar role
• -Experience in General IT administration and IT SDLC
• -Experience of RFx process design and execution
• -Experience of TCOO models and investment risk

Knowledge and Skills    
Strong knowledge of:

• Sourcing models (Total Cost Analysis)
• IT infrastructure and solution architecture
• IT software and related processes
• IT service management and related processes
• Legal and commercial issues associated with IT contracting
• Statistical analysis techniques
• Cost Accounting

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Purpose of the Job    
As a Senior Developer in Sixty60 your deep specialized knowledge to create, test and document high quality software will be a key success factor. Your collaborative technical guidance and mentorship to others will ensure that high quality of code and performance is maintained, as well as contribute to design patterns, libraries, frameworks and processes. You will be part of a team that provides technical solutions to enterprise problems, and deliver high performing software for a fast-paced consumer environment. You will apply DevSecOps principles, and employ proper source code control, infrastructure security and necessary automation. Work closely with Business Analysts and Solution Architects, as well as other cross functional teams and stakeholders in co-creating a sustainable Sixty60 experience.

Job Objectives    

• Apply the attributes of the Job Purpose, as needed, to aspects (of software applications) such as the front-end, back-end, interface-based, data persistence, etc.

Qualifications    

• Matric
• 3 Years IT Degree/Diploma or Matric with extensive, relevant and demonstrable job-related experience in writing robust, efficient production code.
• Experience in general software development including testing and standards development with experience in backend, web and mobile technologies - (essential). Including the practical ability in developing applications using multiple programming languages, frameworks and technologies.
• Experience developing in at least one of Java, J2EE, C++, C, Golang, (Preferred) in a front-end focused test-driven environment.
• A Senior developer with specific exposure to mentoring and coaching a team of junior - intermediate developers - (essential).
• Experience with AWS, Stateless architecture design, Micro Services and the understanding of the strengths and weaknesses thereof.
• Any additional experience in technical solutions support with exposure to both waterfall and agile projects in DevOps with the Agile/Scrum Tool set, preferably Atlassian - (highly beneficial).

Experience    

• Code, Test and Debug Software:
• Ensure that coding mistakes are found and eliminated at the earliest possible point, by using the best available coding and debugging techniques, unit testing and TDD (where applicable), smoke testing and further testing, and interaction with QA professionals.
• Apply DevSecOps principles by automating as much of code standards checks, built-in security and testing as possible.

Deploying application to live environment:

• Work in environments that may employ various approaches such as Scrum, Kanban, CI/CD, etc.
• Gain a deep understanding and ability to employ and assist with the best available deployment approaches.

Research and Development:

• Keep improving your understanding of the ever-changing software industry.

Customer Service:

• Do everything with a customer-first approach

Knowledge and Skills    

• Tech stack environment:
• Development: Go Lang, Java, Node.Js, Bash, React.js
• Containers: Docker, Kubernetes, ECS
• Data: MongoDB, ElasticSearch, SQL,
• Cloud: AWS Cloud technologies (EC2, ECS, EKS, S3, CloudWatch).
• Integration: Payment gateway, POS,
• CI/CD: Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline,
• Testing: Selenium
• Source Code Management: Git

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Purpose of the Job    
The senior developer, you will need to have a deep specialised knowledge beyond your peers in development and provide technical solutions to enterprise problems.

You will be responsible for setting up the design patterns, libraries, frameworks and processes. You have to be aware of how the organization and business partners work and are able to adapt, within the frameworks, to deliver

Job Objectives    

•  To develop operational systems in accordance with Shoprite Standards
•  To maintain operational systems in accordance with Shoprite Standards
•  To manage the release process
•  To provide support to users of the systems
•  Understand the existing requirement and document the requirements
•  Develop .Net programs and functions.
•  Confirm with requirements with Systems Analyst
•  Do unit testing of developed programs and functions
•  Code reviews
•  Capture the release using the Shoprite release management system.
•  Ensure instructions are clear and concise and applied by relevant deployment teams
•  Confirm the success of the deployment and follow through until the production stage is reached

Qualifications    
Essential:

• 3 Years IT Degree/Diploma

Experience    
Essential:

• 4-5 Years Development experience in coding and building Enterprise Solutions using ASP.Net and C#
• 4-5 Years Database Design and Development –experience in writing SQL code and stored procedures
• 3-4 Years UML Exposure - understand sequence and class diagrams
• Reporting Services – experience in creating of transactional reporting
• 4-5 Years Development experience in MVC
• 4-5 Years Development experience in WPF
• 4-5 Years Development experience in WCF
• 4 -5 Years Understanding of OO principles

Knowledge and Skills    
Desireable:

• VSS/TFS exposure
• 4-5 Years SQL Server 2008 – Understand the internals and architecture of SQL Server e.g.: memory usage, in-depth knowledge of indexes and performance tuning
• Good technical understanding of Windows Operating System

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Purpose of the Job    
This is an exciting opportunity for you to join our dynamic team of Business Analysts at Shoprite. You will be part of delivering business and technology solutions across the Shoprite Group to some of the most recognised South Africa Retail brands and you’ll do it by working on the best of breed of technologies.

We’re proud to be publicly recognised as the largest private sector employer in South Africa and leading employer in Africa. We focus on attracting, developing and retaining a loyal and committed workforce, dedicated to the Group’s culture and organisational objectives.
The Business Analyst Team Lead is responsible for leading and coaching a team of Business Analysts, to maximise productivity and increase business delivery within the Business Analysis space. This includes the fostering of cross-discipline relationships to constantly review and improve on ways of work.

Job Objectives    

•  Information Seeking & Analysis
• Align closely with business and delivery stakeholders around strategic roadmaps.
• Assist to shape the demand for the specific area.
• Assist with lean business cases / PAC / Board approvals.
• Perform high-level analysis activities in the CE cycle (assisting to unpack Features, identifiy high-level impacts and dependencies etc)
• Ensures E2E processes are documented, understood & aligned with business and architecture.
• Solid understanding of E2E for area of responsibility.
• Have a deep understanding of the value streams within the domain and products they support, to assist in shaping the roadmap for those products.
• Focus on customer centricity and customer experience throughout all operational processes and value streams and help to create a culture of customer centricity within the BA discipline.
• Surfacing and delivering regular insights to the Business Stakeholders with sound recommendations, allowing our Business Stakeholders to make informed strategic decisions.
• Produces innovative ideas or solutions that challenge traditional assumptions, and approaches ongoing developments from new perspectives.
• Devises, initiates and drives effective change initiatives in own area or department as well as across various disciplines

 Leadership, Facilitation & Influencing

• Collaborating with stakeholders (within IT and Business) to identify and consider opportunities for improvement and efficiency.
• Promote best practices and persuade stakeholders to change practises and consider other alternatives.
• Coaching and mentoring for BA's in BA tools, standards, best practices, processes and delivery.
• Promoting a culture of collaboration and cross-discipline engagement within the team;
• Ensures that the contribution of others is recognised through formal reward processes and also gestures of informal recognition.
• Lead a team of BAs

 Communication, Building & Maintaining Relationships

• Assist with identification of resources to be allocated to work requests based on specific knowledge areas or skills
• Foster a partnership between business stakeholders, delivery teams, architecture and the rest of the BA community;
• Identify business and organisational constraints affecting options for change.
• Align with the PMO and Business on upcoming projects, initiatives and work request, so that we can start planning and communicating this, and anticipate resource requirements to ensure that resources are brought on board / assigned timeously.
• Collaborating with all disciplines and benchmarking value adding solutions.
• Evaluate and improve solution assessment and validation.
• Eliciting and analysing cultural, business and organisational constraints effecting options for change.
• Continuously support the business environment and provide recommendations for improvement
• Thinking partner and ambassador for the business.

 Organising, multitasking & time management

• Strong commitment to organisational objectives and ensuring high quality delivery on work.
• Ensuring costs are monitored and users and the organisation benefit.
• Able to coach the business analysts on organisation and effective time management.

 Knowledge and Application

• Creates and encourages a climate of team-working and collaboration across the organisation, acting as a visible role-model of these values and behaviours.
• Proactively consults with a broad cross-section of stakeholders during all aspects of decision making.
• Able to coach the business analysts in terms of methods used to analyze and benchmark business cases, which will align with the business strategies of the organisation (including feasibility and business benefits).
• Research and identify opportunities to improve the business' offering and add value to our customers through the solutions we provide.
• Able to coach the business analysts to drive / shape input into the scope of solution and ensure understanding of scope by business user.
• Drive the change management barriers impacting User Acceptance Testing.
• Solve & mitigate project risks.
• Liaise with Products Owners and other stakeholders to co-ordinate interdependencies and resolve issues.
• Actively contribute in the development of the BA practice within the organisation.
• Act as an SME in CoPs to share knowledge and expertise with the community.
• Demonstrates detailed and comprehensive knowledge of own area.
• Maintains a comprehensive knowledge of related external issues and knows about research and upcoming developments.
• Seeks to be actively involved in cutting-edge research and development activities.
• Ensures that the necessary organisational structures and processes are in place for others to do so.
• Proactively investigates ways that new technology can support the achievement of organisational objectives and significantly enhance overall performance.
• Demonstrates extensive understanding and in-depth knowledge of the working and overall function of organisational departments.

Qualifications    

•  Degree with 5 to 8 years related experience.
•  Advanced BA certification, CBAP, AAC or similar
•  Facilitation or Coaching qualification / experience

Experience    
5+ years of SAP Planning and Procurement, Merchandise Distribution

•  Previous experience in leading a team including recruitment, resource allocation and people development
•  Experience working within all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
•  Business Process Management experience
•  Excellent communication, both written and verbal
•  Excellent relationship management and collaboration skills
•  Good planning and time management skills
•  Good business and IT acumen
•  Problem solving and decision making
•  Ability to influence
•  Organising, co-ordinating and directing
•  Self-starter, with a can-do attitude
•  Customer focused
•  Analytical thinking
•  Decision making
•  Results driven

Knowledge and Skills    

•  Facilitation or Coaching qualification / experience
•  Business understanding of the broader retail industry
•  SAP experience
•  Aris experience
• Very strong BA background.
• 5+ years of SAP Planning and Procurement, Merchandise Distribution with hands on experience in the business processes in:
• Purchase orders
• Purchase Requisitions
• Collective Purchase orders
• Planning and delivery cycles
• Allocations
• Receipt and management of DC stock
• Order fulfillment from DC

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Purpose of the Job    

• To lead the SAP Authorisation Team. Communicating and managing goals, deadlines, and priorities. Manage critical incidents and drive the collaboration necessary for problem resolution, root cause analysis, and improvements. Optimize team performance via conflict resolution, assessments, training, motivation, tools, and innovation. Assists the Team Manager with planning, roadmaps, budget, and procurement.

Job Objectives    
1. Managing team workload and issues

• Drive problem resolution and root cause analysis of incidents. To be available at all times, within reason, for escalations and to escalate issues in turn where necessary.
• Ensure that tickets raised in the ticketing system are assigned to team members and attended within SLA.
• Log changes in the change control system, obtain approval, and drive deployment.
• Assign, track and ensure delivery within a reasonable time frame for Project work within the team.
• Prioritise the various work items assigned to the team according to management needs and criticality.
• Ensure that deadlines are met or reasonable notice is given, when missing a deadline is unavoidable.
• Conduct Team Meetings to track workload, communicate management needs and share information.

2. Planning

• Assist the Team Manager with creating and tracking roadmaps for the team
• Plan ahead and budget for data centre and team expenses.
• Assist the Team Manager in the procurement of hardware, software, training, and other expenses in the team.
• Track and manage premier support hours and utilization.

3. Reporting

• Keep the Team Manager informed of issues and critical incidents.
• Announce the start, completion, and success or failure status of changes to the appropriate audience.
• Keep project managers informed of the progress of any project work the team is conducting.
• Attend Team Manager's weekly meeting.
• Log and update important work and information in the Team Managers' weekly report.

4. Managing team performance and development

• Identify and book the training and certification the team requires to perform their duties
• Conduct appraisals with team members twice a year to assess performance, highlight improvement areas and develop improvement plans where necessary.
• Motivate team members and resolve conflict

Qualifications    

• Essential
• Grade 12 (Matric) with relevant IT certification

Experience    
Essential

• 5+ years of SAP Authorisations.
• 3+ years GRC (User provisioning and risk management)
• 5+ years Proven history of incident response, diagnostic activities, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Corrective Action Plans, and advanced troubleshooting.
• 3+ years Experience in documenting environment and processes
• 3+ years SAP Complex role design
• 3+ Experience working with auditors

Desirable

• 2+ years experience in CUA
• 2+ years SAP Hana authorizations experience
• 2+ years of SAP Fiori experience

Knowledge and Skills    
Essential

• 5+ Years of In-depth knowledge of SAP Basis and architecture design and implementation
• 2+ Years of Project delivery (New System or design change)
• Fiori Authorisation Role Design
• 3+ Years of Leading a team between 3-6 people
• Excellent communication skills, active listener, ability to adapt communication styles to different audiences with a good balance of IQ and EQ

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Purpose of the Job    
This is an exciting opportunity for you to join our dynamic team of Business Analysts at Shoprite. You will be part of delivering business and technology solutions across the Shoprite Group to some of the most recognised South Africa Retail brands and you’ll do it by working on the best of breed of technologies.

We’re proud to be publicly recognised as a largest private sector employer in South Africa and leading employer in Africa. We focus on attracting, developing and retaining a loyal and committed workforce, dedicated to the Group’s culture and organisational objectives.

The role facilitates effective and competitive business processes by eliciting, analysing, validating and documenting business organisational and/or operational requirements, providing alternatives and making recommendations. This role plays an instrumental role in the delivery teams to ensure that solutions are delivered according to the business requirements

Job Objectives    

•  Information Seeking & Analysis
•  Understand and analyse the current business environment.
•  Operate confidently within business strategy, current trends and developments in the retail industry.
•  Improve and maintain the systems and operational processes within a specific domain.
•  Optimize current and potential integrated systems and E2E business processes.
•  Analyse and understand the customers (Internal and external) that are impacted, through the use of user journeys, research and/or
• spending time in the various operational areas.
•  Analyse and document user requirements and assess the business implication of these to the business process involved.
•  Collaborate with user stakeholders in satisfying these requirements.
•  Propose and document process improvements where appropriate and provide alternatives / options.
•  Assess risks, costs and potential benefits of alternative business process designs.
•  Develop business rules and monitor the implementation of these rules in the development of the various application systems.
•  Devises, initiates and drives effective small to meduim change initiatives in own area or department.

 Facilitation & Influencing

•  Taking ownership to maintain knowledge within a specific area and sharing of that knowledge across the team. This includes
• interviews, presentations and workshop facilitations with both business & IT.
•  Work closely with Architects, Designers and Business stakeholders to design and implement solutions.
•  Research & Advise on alternatives presented by the technical designers and answer detailed questions regarding the business design.
•  Confidently engage the most appropriate business representatives to obtain input and agreement on alternatives (related to best
• practise in the industry) that are presented.
•  Plan, arrange and control meetings, workshops and relations with the user during the investigations, design and development of
• business processes and solutions.
•  Advise stakeholders (within IT and Business) to consider solutions which will work best for the business.
•  Motivate stakeholders to change practises and consider other alternatives.
•  Coaching and mentoring of Junior BA team members.

 Communication, Building & Maintaining Relationships

•  To build and optimize trusting relationships with business users and IT stakeholders by delivering what was promised and providing
• comprehensive knowledge and support.
•  Foster a partnership between business stakeholders, IT disciplines and the delivery teams.
•  Collaborating with all disciplines to drive out value adding solutions, and ensuring quick and efficient delivery.
•  Accurately communicating the business requirements to IT to ensure that business needs are effectively and efficiently addressed. Keep Business Users informed of any changes (also accommodate changes in requirements as they are progressively elaborated).
•  Drive and oversee solution assessment and validation.
•  Identify cultural, business and organisational constraints affecting options for change.
•  To train business users, rendering support and facilitating sessions for end-users.
•  Continuously support the business environment, while maintaining an understanding of enterprise business initiatives and objectives,
• the various line portfolios, current trends and developments in the technology field.
•  Assist with and provide timeous feedback on ad-hoc queries from business stakeholders.
•  Thinking partner and troubleshooter for business problems.

 Organising, multitasking & time management

•  Strong commitment to project objectives and delivering high quality work.
•  Take responsibility for the timelines within the project plan, of the business analysis effort related to a project.
•  Plan and organise own work and deliver on promises.
•  Focus personal efforts on achieving results aligned to organisation objectives

Qualifications    

•  Degree or Diploma with 3 to 5 years related experience.
•  Business Analysis certification at Practitioner level (ECBA, CCBA), FTI certification or similar

Experience    

• 3 years Business analysis in retail processes
• 3 years Retail industry
• Experience working within all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Knowledge and Skills    

•  Good process modelling skills
•  Excellent communication, both written and verbal
•  Effective relationship management and collaboration skills
•  Good business and IT acumen
•  Self-starter, with a can-do attitude
•  Customer focused
•  Analytical thinking
•  Results driven
•  Good planning and time management skills
•  Business understanding of the broader retail industry
•  SAP experience

Knowledge of data management functions , data flow diagrams and meta data knowledge
Exposure to IT Technical , Infrastructure related projects eg. Network services, integration, data backups and restoration.
Basic understanding of cloud computing and deployment solutions.
Understanding of information security , including cyber security

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Purpose of the Job    
Shoprite, Africa’s largest retailer, is embarking on an eCommerce rollout.

As the senior developer you will need to have a deep specialised knowledge beyond your peers in Hybris eCommerce and provide technical solutions to enterprise problems.

As the senior developer you would need to mentor other developers to allow us to create a high performing Hybris team by applying develops principles.

As the senior developer you will be responsible for setting up of the design patterns, libraries, frameworks and processes. You have to be aware how the organization and business partners work and be able to adapt, within the frameworks, to deliver.

Job Objectives    
1. Configuration and creation of technical components and services required to deliver online customer facing features:

• Analyse and understand business requirements in the context of the current business environment in conjunction with Product Manager, Business Analysts and Solution Architects.
• Develop and document design and maintain source base.
• Create conceptual, logical and physical solutions, using appropriate coding techniques and methodologies.
• Identify suitable coding solution(s) and alternatives that address the business needs/requirements of key stakeholders from the business, solution delivery and operations areas.
• Develop solutions according to standards and best practice for front-end, back-end and integration to other solutions.
• Maintain development principles and quality compliance criteria to deliver according to commitments.
• Integrate design for maintainability, scalability and efficiency.
• Coordinate with Architects and business stakeholders to determine functionalities.
• Complete deliverables throughout the system development life cycle for compliance according to the agreed plan.
• Work within the frameworks of both waterfall SDLC and Agile (SCRUM) methodologies.
• Work as part of a team without close supervision.
• Experiencing in designing systems to take advantage of true cloud architecture, preferably AWS.

2. Successful delivery of development projects and changes as required:

• Thoughtful and clear understanding of program and project goals and needs.
• Engagement with different stakeholders.
• Identification and prioritization of project risks.
• Perform code reviews.
• Provide active technical advice to the team, IT and internal stakeholders.
• Detecting critical deficiencies and recommending improvements.
• Provide technical leadership in Hybris technology stack to team.

3. Provide technical input and guidance into online channel evolution by keeping up to date with relevant technology:

• Play a leading role in maintaining best of breed development standards for online technologies and solutions.
• Research, understand and stay up to date with current trends in online channels and related Information Technology.
• Actively share insights and information with relevant stakeholders and team.
• Detecting critical deficiencies and recommending improvements.
• Adhere to best practices and processes for the team.
• Technical competency in SAP Hybris technology stack.

4. Mentoring of development team

• Develop staff skills in SAP Hybris technology stack.
• Setup procedures and processes to facilitate best practice for development.
• Help facilitate leadership and problem solving skills.
• Provide regular feedback, both to team and to management.
• Maintaining technical infrastructure.

Qualifications    

• Diploma/Degree in Information Systems/BSc Computer Science (or similar)

Experience    

• 5 - 8 years eCommerce - especially SAP Hybris Commerce development. (essential)
• 5 - 8 years Hybris Marketing, SAP Cloud 4 Service, SAP Customer Activity Repository, SAP ERP (desirable)
• 5 - 8 years experience in being the senior developer within a development team. (essential)
• 5 - 8 years experience in software development and testing. (essential)
• 5 - 8 years experience of working on projects in both Agile and DevOps (essential)
• 3+ years experience in cloud solutions. (desirable)

Knowledge and Skills    

• 5+ years Agile/Scrum Tool set, preferably Atlassian (desirable)
• 5+ years Ant, Maven or Gradle Build Tools (essential)
• 5+ years experience in distributed source control systems, like GIT (essential)
• 5+ years JSP, JavaScript, XHTML, HTML5, CSS, Java 8 Object Orientation Programming (essential)
• 5+ years Angular JS 4 and Type Script (desirable)
• 5+ years Cloud Services (AWS Lamda) (essential)
• 5+ years strong understanding of web services (SOAP and Rest) (essential)
• 3+ years hands on experience in a DevOps environment (essential)