Job Openings at Betting Entertainment Technologies

The Role

Betting Entertainment Technologies have various exciting opportunities available for Senior Software Developer's based in Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town to work from home.  The purpose of this role is to turn business requirements into robust IT solutions that can be utilized for the improvement of business processes. This must be done by producing software that is both reliable and using experience gained through the industry to ensure that the business risk is minimized.

Minimum requirements:

• 5+ year’s commercial Software Development experience.
• Highly skilled in C#, Entity Framework, MSSQL and MVC – Microsoft stack.
• Skillful in Bootstrap, TDD and Angular JS.
• A leader in setting up Design Patterns.
• Experience in Visual Studio 2015 +, .NET Framework 4+ and ASP. NET.
• Experience with multitier applications with high security.
• Experience with high volume public facing Web applications.
• Valid Driver’s Licence.

Advantageous:

• Completed or studying towards a relevant Degree or Diploma.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement MVC Web based projects.
• Be involved with planning meetings, documentations and testing.
• Use of Entity Framework, Bootstrap, Angular JS.
• Architecting multi-tier applications.
• Take responsibility and understand software security features.
• Create WCF or WebAPI services communicating to web applications.
• Good eye for design and usability.
• Understanding high transactional environments.
• Undertake Code and peer reviews and understanding of design patterns.
• Manage the design, delivery and continuous improvement of software solutions across the organization in support of increasing the organization’s levels of automation and innovation.
• Work closely with Team Leader and Project Manager to achieve business goals.
• Partner with individual operational departments to provide technical solutions to business requirement, manage expectation and ensure the delivered solution is fit for purpose and is delivered on time based on provided deadlines.
• Utilize a variety of the Technical tools that are provided to ensure maximum effectiveness of IT solutions.
• These tools will be based on industry best practices.
• Must be a leader that sets the standard and expectations through example in his/her conduct, work ethic, integrity and character. Must be an inspiration to others and set a level of coding standards that need to be a benchmark for others to follow.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully develop, adapt and deliver Software solutions utilizing skills in software design, program design & development using the latest software development methodologies. Effectively document these solutions for maintenance and hand these over for support.
• Take full responsibility of tasks and projects assigned and make the necessary corrections to bring these projects into alignment with business expectation.
• Lead discussions in the adoption of new technologies and be part of a committee dedicated to the continuous improvement of internal coding standards.
• Ensure that the stakeholders are completely aware of the effectiveness of the solution and are trained in the correct use of the delivered software.
• Create and maintain a positive and professional environment conducive to software development and mentoring.
• Report on Software project deliverables to ensure all stakeholders are kept up to date on progress and ensure that deadlines are met.
• Demonstrate strong communication skills, both verbal and written. Willingness to work overtime to ensure the delivery of projects assigned and communicate effectively when timelines are in danger of not being met.
• Mentor Junior and intermediate developers by periodically reviewing checked in code to ensure that the standards expected are met and the logic within the code base is sound.
• Assist management or the team with any other related ad-hoc duties.

Skills and competencies:

• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Must be dedicated and committed. 
• Demonstrates exceptional attention to detail and enthusiasm.
• Ability to take accountability and impressive problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrates an exceptional level of customer service and high-quality standards.  

Please note that only applicants who meet the stipulated minimum requirements will be considered.

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Job Description:

Communication & Time Management

• Provide adequate day-to-day feedback and information to teams, management and colleagues to ensure that all actions taken are planned, understood and implemented with maximum positive impact to the operational effectiveness to the systems being supported
• Ensure negative impact to the systems being supported are understood, communicated and mitigated as far as possible
• Effectively communicate with the relevant teams as to status, progress and time to resolution when working on systems
• Ensure you schedule and prioritise your area/task of focus so that your limited time provides maximum value
• Ensure when you are unable to undertake, achieve or complete a task the relevant stakeholders are informed, and you suggest alternative solutions
• Write database documentation, including data standards, procedures and definitions
• Document/map out & maintain conceptual design views for the database

Software Installation and Maintenance

• Collaborate and communicate with the System Administrators/Infrastructure/DevOps to determine the hardware required to effectively support the databases you intend to administer
• Verify the relevant operating system, underlying support software and database software is correctly installed, and the environment is delivered successfully and functionally – provide feedback as required
• Collaborate and communicate on the initial installation and configuration of a new system or database, with infra-structure and the development teams involved to ensure the environment is delivered successfully and functionally at first attempt
• Research fit-for-purpose and relevant updates and patches and then ensure all the latest appropriate are installed, and the environment is fully functional without negatively affecting uptime
• Perform relevant trouble shooting and problem solving to ensure the server is always operating at peak efficiency and stability
• Install, test and validate the deployments and maintenance to ensure peak efficiency and stability
• Independently and correctly set-up and maintain replication and availability groups
• Maintain appropriate standards in terms of data protections acts, both locally and internationally

Data Extraction, Transformation, and Loading (ETL)

• Write/Build robust automated solutions to extract large volumes of data from multiple sources/systems into a data warehouse environment/s
• Check the data is extracted correctly, efficiently, timeously and sets the stage for the success of subsequent processes
• Ensure data quality and consistency by performing automated data validation, and provide reporting on errors identified for further analysis
• Correctly convert or transform the data from one format or structure to another where needed
• Correctly insert data into the final target data warehouse for the purposes of querying and analysis
• Ensure the data is appropriately cleansed, and delivered in a proper storage format/structure to facilitate the development team being able to develop applications as quickly as possible

Specialised Data Handling

• Effectively manage very large databases using advanced monitoring and tuning
• Develop the solutions required to manage unstructured data types where required

Database Backup and Recovery

• Create backup and recovery plans and procedures based on industry best practices
• Focus on cost effective automated solutions which require minimal support and monitoring
• Cater for different types of failures with potentially different solutions, so that the most cost and time effective solution is implemented where required
• Take preventative actions to reduce the potential of failure is reduced and the number of actual failures is as near zero as possible
• Ensure these plans are properly reviewed, approved and communicated so that the necessary steps are followed to execute these plans efficiently and effectively
• Ensure there is limited key-man reliance on yourself if an event occurs

Security

• Identify potential weaknesses of the database software and overall system
• Research, plan and implement best practice strategies to mitigate risk
• Ensure audit logs/trails are implement and monitored
• Define, approve and implement plans to manage a security breach or irregularity

Authentication

• Establish the needs of users and set up access to the database to ensure appropriate levels of access/security where needed
• Ensure access to systems is entirely denied where appropriate

Capacity Planning

• Perform short-term and long-term capacity analysis and planning across all systems
• Ensure full understanding of the size of the database/s and estimate growth curves
• Predict and communicate future capacity needs
• Ensure preventative measures are taken to mitigate any stability and efficiency issues related to capacity in advance and taking cost into consideration

Performance Monitoring & Database Tuning

• Perform tracking and on-going monitoring of systems performance ensuring that storage, archiving, backup and recovery processes are functioning effectively
• Take preventative monitoring steps to ensure systems always have adequate capacity for performance, and take steps to prevent future issues
• Apply your advanced knowledge indexes, index management and statistics to ensure the system is performing optimally
• Identify any part of the system which is slowing processing, creating instability or negatively affecting response times and then analyse and communicate with development/IT teams (and management where appropriate)
• Apply agreed configuration changes which improve the systems operational efficiency and effectiveness
• Optimise the physical configuration of the database to improve performance
• Perform pro-active, preventative and relevant and appropriate system maintenance
• Identify, recommend and implement cost-effective monitoring tools which enhance monitoring and thereby improving response times to performance related issues
• Monitor and optimise aspects such as indexing and query execution where appropriate
• Where possible collaborate with the development teams to refine the system design to meet current and future system performance and storage requirements 

Trouble Shooting

• Remain on call for trouble shooting in case of problems
• Quickly understand and respond to problems when they occur
• Restore lost data
• Correct or eliminate an issue to minimise damage to data, financial or reputational

Other Duties

• Provide constructive and timely feedback for performance development
• Assist with recruitment by providing appropriate feedback when required
• Present performance reports and metrics to management
• Provide training gap analysis feedback to improve operational effectiveness of DBA team
• Perform research and compile required reports and papers
• Collaborate with other divisions and departments to carry out BET’s goals and objectives
• Draft reports and correspondence to various third parties or outsources contractors
• Keep updated on emerging technologies and trends in DBA management
• Identify training needs and ensure training is developed and provided 

Qualifications/Certifications:

Required Qualifications/Certifications:

• Engineering or Science Degree
• Microsoft Office - Word, Excel, PowerPoint (Intermediate to Advanced)
• SQL or related certification

Preferred Certifications:

• Windows/Linux
• C# or Java
• NO SQL or equivalent

Advantageous Certifications:

• .NET
• Cloud Technology
• Database Design Skills – OLTP/ Data Warehouse
• Data Base Management System/s
• Database Administration / Data ware housing. Data Analytics
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional  

Required Experience and Skills:

• Minimum 5 years’ experience
• Software Installation and Maintenance
• Data Extraction, Transformation, and Loading (ETL)
• Specialised Data Handling
• Database Backup and Recovery
• Security
• Authentication
• Capacity Planning
• Performance Monitoring & Database Tuning
• Trouble Shooting
• Betting/Gambling 

Required Attributes and Competences:

• Good Communication and Time Management Skills
• High Emotional Intelligence
• High Performance
• Strong Business Acumen and Accountability
• Excellent Problem-Solving Skills
• Quality Focused and Results Driven
• Detail Orientated