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The Shoprite Group of Companies, comprising several iconic brands, is the largest retailer in Africa. It started out as a group of eight grocery stores in 1979, and has grown into a technologically-advanced, continent-wide business selling items from food, liquor and medicine, to concert tickets and furniture. Today the Group is at the forefront of retail...
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Job Objectives
- To understand the current business environment:
- Analyse and understand the current business environment
- Analyse and understand the current business strategies
- Understand the current trends and developments in the industry
To identify and understand business requirements:
- Work with user departments in the identification and documentation of user requirements
- Assess and document the business implication of user requirements to the business process involved
- Propose and document process improvements where appropriate
- Define business rules and guide the implementation of these rules in the development of the various application systems
To determine a suitable solution to business needs/requirements:
- Works closely with System Analysts and Project Managers to design and implement solutions
- Provide input on alternatives presented by the technical designers and answer detailed questions regarding the business design
- Engage the most appropriate business representatives to obtain input and agreement on alternatives that are presented
To deliver the required solution:
- Research, document and prepare business cases on appropriate technologies, which will align with the business strategies of the organisation
- Define scope of solution and ensure understanding of scope by business user
- Review technical solutions and business processes against business requirement specification
- Assist in the identification of data conversion and reporting requirements
- Facilitate and co-ordinate User Acceptance Testing
- Understand, document and escalate project risks
- Liaise with other project areas to co-ordinate interdependencies and resolve issues
To train business users:
- Render support and facilitate sessions for end-users, including training where applicable
To continuously support the business environment:
- Maintain an understanding of enterprise business initiatives and objectives, the various line portfolios, and current trends and developments in the technology field
- Assist Senior Business Analyst to monitor portfolio activities
Qualifications
Experience
- 3 years Business analysis in retail processes
- 2-3 years Retail industry
- 3 years working on IT4IT/Enterprise IT type of projects, IT Infrastructure/API/Integration
Knowledge and Skills
- Formal training in business analysis and design methodologies
- Solid track record in successful delivery in the BA environment
- Experience in a global business environment is preferred
- Business understanding of the broader retail industry will be advantageous
- Basic understanding of cloud computing and deployment solutions
- Exposure to IT Technical, infrastructure related projects eg Network services, integration, data backups and restoration
- Understanding of information security, including cyber security
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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 Operations experience in a high-availability environment
- 2+ years experience leading a production infrastructure engineering team
- 2+ years SAP Hana experience
- 5+ years of proven history in incident response, diagnostic activities, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Corrective Action Plans, and advanced troubleshooting
- 3+ years of experience in documenting environment and processes
- 5+ years experience in UNIX, (AIX and SuSe) and in DB2, SQL, and Sysbase.
Desirable
- 3+ Years experience in SAP Single SignOn
- 3+ Years experience in Database high availability design and implementation
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- 5+ Years of In-depth knowledge of SAP Basis and architecture design and implementation
- 5+ Years of Strong knowledge of SAP Netweaver, Java
- 5+ Years of Strong knowledge of working Windows and Unix Clusters
- 5+ Years of Implementation of SAP High Availability.
- 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
- The Architecture Systems Analyst conducts impact analysis in the enterprise architecture repository (ARIS) and solution documentation repository (SOLDOC) of IT projects and initiatives. The analysis includes, but is not limited to, searching for and identifying all systems and system interfaces in the repositories that uses specified data entities or application attributes related to regulations (e.g. POPI data) or needed for project scope determination (e.g. site codes). Analysis results are used as input into project planning activities by the Project Management Office or solution change impact by the solution architects. The role is responsible to conduct data quality checks on the EA Repository and to maintain data currency of key solution attributes.
This role will support the architecture team and the repository manager.
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Job Category
IT
Job Objectives
Perform architecture analysis for projects and IT initiatives
- Run EA Repository queries for specific IT project and initiatives
- Perform impact analysis on solutions / data classifications / capabilities in the EA Repository and produce outputs
- Perform ad-hoc updates to the EA Repository content as and when required
- Do analysis of the SOLDOC Interface Library on Interface Specifications (IFS’s)
- Share analysis outputs with relevant consumers (architects, BA’s etc.) and track progress on subsequent tasks.
- Assist with data collection processes for the EA Repository and work closely with the EA Repository Manager to update the repository.
Assist with quality assurance on the EA Repository and Interface Repository
- Ensure that the data and documentation in the Interface Library is of a high quality
- Perform ad-hoc quality checks of the Interface Library
- Perform quality checks of the EA Repository models as requirements arise
- Assist architects to resolve ARIS quality issues
Qualifications
- Post-matric qualification in IT (diploma or better) - essential
- Diploma or Degree qualification in Information Systems - desirable
Experience
- 6 months working experience with enterprise architecture modeling tools or data modeling tools - essential
- 6 months publishing analysis reports to stakeholders - essential
- 1 year working experience within the IT industry - essential
- 6 months retail industry business processes and systems - desirable
- 6 months working experience with ARIS - desirable
- 6 months administering architecture repository tools - desirable
- 6 months ability to perform analysis on architecture repository tools - desirable
Knowledge and Skills
- Strong analytical skills with attention to detail - essential
- Strong organizational skills - essential
- Excellent team-working and interpersonal skills - desirable
- Strong communication and relationship building skills - desirable
- Development of engaging presentation materials - desirable
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills - desirable
- Good facilitation skills - desirable
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Purpose of the Job
- This role is responsible for providing security for cloud-based digital platforms and plays an integral role in engaging with business units in order to ensure the organisation’s digital platforms are protected. This role involves analysing existing cloud security measures/controls and creating new and enhanced security methods. This role is part of a larger team dedicated to cloud-based management and security. The role is also responsible for the development and execution of large-scale cyber security initiatives and requires a professional with problem-solving abilities who can work in a fast-paced environment and has a clear passion for cloud security and cloud technologies.
Job Objectives
- Provide assurance through collaboration with other stakeholders that all cloud and digital platforms meet the organisation’s security requirements.
- Provide security recommendations on cloud-based data security, platforms and application development.
- Recommend innovative technologies or other methods that will enhance the security of cloud-based environments.
- Serve as the subject matter expert (SME) on cloud security.
- Develop standards, policies and procedures as well as best practices documentation.
- Translate security and technical requirements into business requirements and communicate security risks to different audiences ranging from business leaders to engineers.
- Influence multi-disciplinary teams in implementing and operating cyber security controls.
- Work closely with application developers to deliver creative solutions to complex technology challenges and business requirements.
- Automate security controls, data and processes to provide better metrics and operational support.
- Utilize cloud-based APIs when appropriate to write network/system level tools for securing cloud environments.
- Stay current on emerging security threats, vulnerabilities and controls.
- Identify and implement new security technologies and best practices.
- Create technical and managerial level reports and conduct risk assessments for Cloud-based applications and infrastructure.
- Identify processes/procedures for how to handle cloud security events, including forensic isolation and mitigation with Digital Forensics and Incident Response teams.
- Identify new security threats by conducting continual monitoring, penetration testing, vulnerability assessments and log analysis.
Qualifications
- Academic qualifications in computer science, cybersecurity, or any related field.
- Recognised industry certifications in cloud security- CSA CBK, CCSP, CISSP.
Experience
- At least 5 years of experience in cyber security.
- At least 3 years of experience and hands-on expertise in cloud security.
- Practical knowledge of public cloud offerings such as AWS, Azure and GCP.
- Practical knowledge of services related to cloud computing, network, storage, content delivery, administration and security, deployment and management, automation technologies.
- Robust microservices programming (AWS Lambda, Docker, etc.)
- Good understanding and exposure to cloud standards, architecture and models.
- Experience with PKI, SSL, SSH etc
- Hands on knowledge of automation and DevSecOps skills.
- Good understanding of software development principles, including design patterns, code structure, programming languages, continuous integration, continuous deployment, and deployment orchestration.
- Experience with open-source software security.
- Experience with network protocols and deep packet inspection.
- Knowledge of microservices, Kubernetes, docker etc.
Knowledge and Skills
- Required Skills: strong technical skills, including experience with Linux and Windows operating systems, scripting languages, and cloud provider ecosystems like Amazon AWS,GCP and Azure.
- Excellent attention to detail, as they must constantly monitor systems to ensure there are no external threats.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills will be essential when interacting with team members.
- Strong problem-solving skills in order to swiftly and deal with threats or flaws in cloud environments.
- Skilled in discussing complex security issues in understandable business terms.
- Detailed knowledge of system security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques.
- Ability to recommend solutions based on use cases and business requirements.
- Stay- Abreast with emerging technologies and threats and ability to proactively assess and evaluate the adoption thereof in the organization.
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Purpose of the Job
- To assist the Team Lead in the IT Tools Team with support, engineering and administration of DevSecOps tools used by IT. The candidate will be responsible for providing engineering and administration on DevSecOps tools as well as on other Software Development Lifecycle tools. The candidate will be part of a team of engineers and administrators, supporting assigned systems, applications, and associated technologies in the enterprise.
Job Objectives
1. To assist with the administration and support of DevSecOps tools:
- Responsible for supporting DevSecOps tools such as Jenkins and Bitbucket for any upgrades, user management, implementations, improvements, fixes, and operations, under task-based, SDLC, and Agile methods.
- Have extensive experience working on the Jenkins platform to create, manage and maintain DevSecOps pipelines
- Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure that supports the DevSecOps processes and best practices.
- Assist with the automation of provisioning infrastructure by using scripting languages, such as Terraform, CloudFormation to automate the provisioning of infrastructure on Cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure.
- Assist with the selection and deployment of appropriate CI/CD tools and plugins
- Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevSecOps operation
- Have the technical skill to review, verify, and validate the software code
- developed in various projects
- Monitoring the DevSecOps processes during the entire DevOps lifecycle for its adherence and updating or creating new processes for improvement and minimizing human errors
- Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible using the Enterprise Standard tools such as Jenkins and Bitbucket
- Assistance with incidence management and root cause analysis on DevOps implementations.
2. Implement, maintain and support DevSecOps best practices, development standards, and Software Development Lifecycle tools (SDLC).
- Adopt, customise and implement industry-standard DevSecOps policies and DevSecOps processes.
- Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management on the various DevOps processes within Shoprite
- Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)
- Resolve DevSecOps incidents and fulfill Service Requests using a service management ticket queue and Change Management processes
- Assist in the design, development, implementation, testing and/or modification of computing systems, and associated SDLC tools
- Follow and implement DevSecOps security policies and security principles.
- Create technical specifications and/or support documentation for tools support activity and related products or services.
- Interact and collaborate with other internal IT technical teams or external vendors in resolution or restoration of DevSecOps service as necessary.
Qualifications
Grade 12
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Diploma in Software Engineering or equivalent
Desirable:
- Industry Certification: Jenkins Certification
- Industry Certification: Any AWS or Azure Certification
Experience
- 5 - 10 years Experience in IT, IT operations, and/or software development environment
- 3 - 5 years Extensive Experience using one or more of these DevOps platforms, such as Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipelines, Gitlab, Jenkins and/or Bitbucket for DevSecOps pipeline orchestrations
- 3 - 5 years Experience managing development activities and proficiency in applying the SDLC and DevOps principles
- 3 - 5 years Experience with other DevSecOps tools and plugins(Such as SonarQube, Apache Maven, ANT, Azure DevOps)
- 3 - 5 years Experience using Terraform for infrastructure provisioning.
- 3 - 5 years Experience in a cloud-based environment (AWS and Azure)
- 3 - 5 years Demonstrated expertise in a variety of application development methodologies and practices from Agile, Waterfall
Knowledge and Skills
- Good Understanding and Working knowledge of a collection SDLC tools
- Understanding of SDLC methodologies; Agile; Waterfall; DevOps
- Proficiency in configuring the Jenkins platform, implementing pipelines, and integration with other DevSecOps tools and Cloud providers
- Experience using Terraform for infrastructure provisioning
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Purpose of the Job
- The IT Systems Design Practice Lead is the main steward of Shoprite’s software design practices. This person is responsible for ensuring Shoprite has world class software design resources, practices and standards and that these practices and standards are properly executed when delivering software changes. The IT Systems Design Practice Lead must ensure the continued improvement of the design practice to keep pace with international design standards and practices.
Job Objectives
1. Define the software design standards, processes and tools to be used:
- Define standards and guidelines with templates for software design artifacts in alignment with upstream and downstream disciplines i.e. Architecture and development
- Define the software design processes and activities necessary
- Identify and define the use of software design tools to facilitate the design activities.
2. Ensure adoption of defined software design standards, processes and tools with all stakeholders
- including other software engineering disciplines within Shoprite:
- Identify individuals and forums that will constantly communicate and drive the adoption of the defined and software design standards, process and tools to all stakeholders
- Identify individuals and forums that will conduct quality reviews to ensure adequate adoption of the defined and software design standards, process and tools
- Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure quality reviews are scheduled and executed in line with agreed processes and deliverables.
- Identify adoption issues and escalate to governance team where necessary
- Produce review reports where required.
- Provide oversight and guidance to artifact consumers to ensure high-quality solutions are created that conforms to the set standards
3. Drive the continuous improvement of Software Design standards, processes and tools with alignment to international best practices:
- Ensure the effectiveness of the various software design practices can be measured and that improvement areas can be identified and targeted for improvement.
- Ensure that international software design best practices are evaluated on a regular basis and adopted where appropriate for Shoprite.
- Ensure that new/improved software design tools are evaluated on a regular basis and adopted where appropriate for Shoprite.
- Identify individuals and forums that will constantly communicate the improved software design practices to all stakeholders and drive adoption of the changes.
4. Ensure resources performing software design practices are appropriately skilled:
- Maintain an accurate list of all IT staff performing software design
- Identify skills gaps of IT staff performing software design
- Define training plans for filling any skills gaps identified.
- Ensure execution of training plans to fill any skills gaps.
- Identify new training solutions to enable adoption of new software design practices
- Identify appropriate training providers and negotiate pricing for training
- Ensure recruitment of appropriately skilled staff software design functions.
- Perform capacity planning to ensure we are able to meet demand for software design skills
- Create recruitment strategies that include identifying recruitment partners to ensure we are able to provide appropriately skilled software design resources when required.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, or related; a combination of relevant education and experience will be considered
Experience
- 10 + years working experience within the IT industry
- 4+ years strong experience with Software Design modeling practices (UML, Activity diagrams etc)
- 4+ years Strong Experience with Software Design across all sub-disciplines (UX, Application and Database)
- 3+ years Strong Experience with software development
- 3+ years Experience with evolving and implementing software design practices and tools
- 3+ years Experience in Identification and formulation of Standards, Artifacts, and Processes
- 2+ years Demonstrated expertise in designing solutions to embrace micro services
- 2 + years Demonstrated expertise in designing solutions to embrace the use of containers and container management systems (Docker and Kubernetes)
- 4+ years experience in database design, designing APIs, modeling data flows etc.
Knowledge and Skills
- Strong analytical, problem-solving and logical skills with attention to detail
- Excellent team-working, interpersonal skills
- Delivery of compelling presentations to all levels of stakeholders and excellent communication and relationship-building skills
- Develop proposals and excellent written communication & presentation skills
- Excellent organization and facilitation skills
- Strong conflict management skills
- Software Design tools/suites
- Software Design methodologies and practices
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Purpose of the Job
- Join Shoprite Group, the largest private-sector employer in South Africa and a leading employer in Africa as a Business Analyst. You will be responsible for ensuring that efficient and cost-effective business solutions and processes are in place to address business needs/requirements.
Job Objectives
- To understand the current business environment:
- Analyse and understand the current business environment
- Analyse and understand the current business strategies
- Understand the current trends and developments in the industry
To identify and understand business requirements:
- Work with user departments in the identification and documentation of user requirements
- Assess and document the business implication of user requirements to the business process involved
- Propose and document process improvements where appropriate
- Define business rules and guide the implementation of these rules in the development of the various application systems
To determine a suitable solution to business needs/requirements:
- Works closely with System Analysts and Project Managers to design and implement solutions
- Provide input on alternatives presented by the technical designers and answer detailed questions regarding the business design
- Engage the most appropriate business representatives to obtain input and agreement on alternatives that are presented
To deliver the required solution:
- Research, document and prepare business cases on appropriate technologies, which will align with the business strategies of the organisation
- Define scope of solution and ensure understanding of scope by business user
- Review technical solutions and business processes against business requirement specification
- Assist in the identification of data conversion and reporting requirements
- Facilitate and co-ordinate User Acceptance Testing
- Understand, document and escalate project risks
- Liaise with other project areas to co-ordinate interdependencies and resolve issues
To train business users:
- Render support and facilitate sessions for end-users, including training where applicable
To continuously support the business environment:
- Maintain an understanding of enterprise business initiatives and objectives, the various line portfolios, and current trends and developments in the technology field
- Assist Senior Business Analyst to monitor portfolio activities
Qualifications
Experience
- 3 years Business analysis in retail processes
- 2-3 years Retail industry
- 3 years working on IT4IT/Enterprise IT type of projects, IT Infrastructure/API/Integration
Knowledge and Skills
- Formal training in business analysis and design methodologies
- Solid track record in successful delivery in the BA environment
- Experience in a global business environment is preferred
- Business understanding of the broader retail industry will be advantageous
- Basic understanding of cloud computing and deployment solutions
- Exposure to IT Technical, infrastructure related projects eg Network services, integration, data backups and restoration
- Understanding of information security, including cyber security
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Purpose of the Job
- Dreaming of a career within the retail and pharmaceutical industry? Medirite offers an exciting learnership programme to qualify as a Pharmacist’s Assistant. This position will require you to work and obtain a qualification at the same time. The main purpose of the job is to assist the pharmacist in dispensing under Supervision and to perform pharmacy related administrative duties. The successful candidate must be willing to work retail hours.
Job Objectives
- Stock control
- Dispensing (under supervision of pharmacist)
- Administration
- Housekeeping
- Frontshop service
Qualifications
- Grade 12 - English and Mathematics preferably
Experience
- Experience in a Pharmacy would be advantageous
Knowledge and Skills
- Knowledge of dispensing systems and ordering systems would be advantageous
- Computer literacy – MS Office skills
- Good language skills – fluent in English and at least one other official language would be advantageous
- Very good interpersonal and customer skills
- High level of attention to detail
- Sound numerical skills
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Purpose of the Job
- To assist in the effective management of the warehouse and distribution functions in order to supply goods (schedule 6 medicines, high value, cytostatic and cold chain products (for human and animal use)), management of damaged and expired stock and service to customers whilst conforming to statutory requirements of the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) and South African Pharmacy Council (SAPC).
Key Performance Areas:
1. Manage the warehouse within legal requirement
2. Ensure effective wholesale and distribution management
3. Staff management
Job Objectives
- Assist to ensure that the depot is managed within the legal requirements
- Supervise the wholesale pharmacy
- Assist to ensure safe and effective storage and keeping of medicine or scheduled substances
- Assist to take corrective measures regarding deficiencies with regards to inspection
- Ensure good housekeeping standards are met
- Ensure adherence to occupational health and safety regulations
- Ensure correct and effective record keeping of all legally required products, purchases, sales, possessions, storage, safekeeping and returns
- Accurately and timeously place orders for schedule 6 drugs when required and send to suppliers
- Ensure compliance with all legal requirements regarding the issuing of schedule substances
- Ensure that the quality and integrity of products stored, returned and sold are maintained
- Ensure the correct and timeous receipt, picking, packing and despatch of goods
- Ensure cold chain maintenance
- Ensure batch traceability
- Ensure the correct handling of goods near expiry, removal and destruction of expired stock according to legal requirements
- Ensure that all product complaints and customer queries are investigated, followed up, resolved and recorded within specified timelines
- Ensure that medicine withdrawals or recalls are performed timeously, that batches are traceable and invoices reflect batch numbers
- Ensure that goods returned to the wholesale pharmacy from the retailer and goods due to be rejected are handled as per the policies and procedures
- Decide on accepting and rejecting of goods returned and ensure that necessary actions are taken
- Implement cost control measures regarding breakages, spoilage's, mistakes
- Ensure accurate and timeous filing of acceptable schedule 6 order forms
- Manage performance management within area of responsibility
- Ensure staff competence and regular training regarding the use of systems and processes and legal compliance
- Serve as a tutor by providing training for new Trainee Pharmacist Assistants and/or Technicians
- Identify development needs in collaboration with the Distribution Centre Manager and find ways to address these
- Serve as a Deputy Responsible Pharmacist when needed
- Manage employee relations in area
Qualifications
- BPharm Degree / Equivalent Pharmaceutical qualification
- Registered as a pharmacist at the pharmacy council (SAPC)
Experience
- 5 years’ experience as a Pharmacist of which 2-3 years’ consist of Warehousing and/or Hospital Pharmacy and/or Manufacturing experience (advantageous).
Knowledge and Skills
- Knowledge of legal and statutory requirements
- Sound understanding of Warehouse management
- Computer skills (MS Word, MS Powerpoint, MS Excel, G Suite)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Management skills
- Excellent numerical skills
- Strong accuracy and attention to detail skills
- Ability to work well under pressure
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