Jobs Opportunities at Allan Gray Proprietary Limited

Job Summary

• Allan Gray needs Frontend Developers to help build our next generation of applications. As a key member of our product feature teams, you will work alongside the product owner, business analysts, testers, senior developers and designers in order to deliver highly customer focused applications. We are looking for you to help us build a strong culture of automated testing, progressive application architecture, continuous integration, dev-ops and user experience

Job Responsibilities

• Involved in technical analysis and design new features
• Write elegant robust production code
• Write unit, integration, and acceptance tests for components
• Improve and optimize the performance of existing systems
• Help troubleshoot and debug root-cause errors
• Mentor other developers

Requirements

• As you will be working in multi-technology environment, ability to demonstrate aptitude in learning and self-skilling in different technologies is desired.
• 3+ years’ practical software development experience
• 2+ years’ experience using the following (or similar) client and server tech

Frontend Tech (Client)

• React (or similar modern JavaScript framework) (*latest preferred)
• Webpack
• ES6+, HTML5, CSS3

BackendTech (Server + API)

• Node, Express, Typescript
• Go

Development Tooling

• Git
• Linux
• Docker
• Kubernetes

Active Development Practices

Key Attributes

• Good interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types and deal with conflict in an effective way
• Ability to work individually and with teams within an Agile context
• Experience in influencing best practices within teams

Education

• Degree in computer science, computer engineering, information systems or related technical discipline

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Job Responsibilities

• Work alongside a team of brilliant developers, testers, BA's, Architects in a mature scrum environment
• Help shape the future of the data warehouse and BI space in the organization by contributing ideas to bring in more modern and cutting-edge technologies
• Enhance and maintain the current data warehouse environment, by building high quality solutions
• Adhere to set industry and Allan Gray architecture and development standards
• Build integration solutions using T-SQL, SSIS
• Testing and deployment of new solutions
• Opportunity to mentor junior and graduate developers.
• Contribute towards migration from on-premise to the cloud (AWS)

Requirements

• Solid SQL experience (stored procedures, UDF’s, T-SQL, performance tuning and optimization, RDBMS, error handling and logging, etc.) is essential
• Experience with data integration, validation and reconciliation (SSIS, C#, Scala).
• Expert knowledge of reporting technologies (SSRS, Qlikview or similar)
• Experience with creating and maintaining cubes (SSAS) would be advantageous
• Working experience with relational and dimensional database structures.
• Working experience with design and development of data marts and data warehouses.
• Experience in interacting with business users to understand requirements and producing solutions
• Experience with Jira and GITLab would be an advantage.
• Exposure to PostreSQL and PowerBI would be an advantage

Skills And Competencies

• Attention to detail and quality.
• Problem Solving
• Willingness to take initiative and responsibility.
• Ability to meet deadlines and deal with pressure.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a diverse team and cross-train with team members.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Good communication

Education

• Degree or diploma in information science or related technical discipline.
• Knowledge of financial concepts and terms and interested in attending courses to improve business knowledge.
• Financial Services industry experience would be an advantage.