Vacancies Available at BBD

• Defining project requirements by identifying project milestones, phases and elements; forming project teams; establishing project budget
• Monitoring project progress by tracking activity, resolving problems, publishing progress reports, recommending actions and identifying problems using data modelling techniques
• Communicating with client stakeholders to assess expectations
• Formulate ways for businesses to improve, based on research
• Determining operational objectives by studying business functions, gathering information, and evaluating output requirements and formats
• Constructing workflow charts and diagrams
• Studying a system’s capabilities
• Writing project specifications 
• Improving systems by studying current practices and designing modifications thereof
• Recommending controls by identifying problems
• Writing improved procedures
• Overseeing implementation of new technology and systems
• Running workshops and training sessions

Requirements

• BSc degree or equivalent qualification 
• Business analysis diploma
• Experience in:
• Software design and analysis
• Software maintenance
• Process Improvement
• Microsoft Access and/ -or SQL

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BBD is looking for JavaScript engineers to assist with:

• Understanding requirements
• Identifying production and non-production application issues
• Contributing to all phases of the development lifecycle
• Writing well-designed, testable, efficient code
• Ensuring designs follow specifications
• Raising concerns with design and identifying areas of improvement in the software delivery process
• Learning from those in your team while sharing your knowledge
• Staying on top of your game by knowing all the latest developments from a coding, methodology and approach perspective  
• Preparing and releasing into production
• Supporting continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and presenting these for architectural review
• Requirements
• JavaScript with a minimum of 4 years of solid exposure at a professional level
• Back-end service integration typically – REST Web Services: Node.js, Java, .NET, Go and Java EE
• Experience using Jira, Git and testing frameworks
• Ability to read and identify issues in back-end code in languages
• Must be based in South Africa, preferably Johannesburg or Cape Town

Tech skills required

• Web frameworks (React, Angular, Vue, Svelte)
• HTML5 and CSS3
• Integrating with REST services
• Package management tools (NPM, Yarn)
• Unit testing frameworks (Jasmine, Jest)
• Mocking frameworks (WireMock)
• Web servers (Nginx, Apache)
• Understanding of application lifecycle, from development to deployment
• Browser debugging

Advantageous

• Full-stack engineer
• Docker and Kubernetes experience
• AWS experience / certification
• DevOps
• Automation tools (Cypress, Protractor, Selenium)
• Webpack
• SCSS, SASS
• Monorepo tooling (Nx, Lerna)

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• Implementing integrations requested by customers
• Deploying updates and fixes
• Providing level 2 technical support
• Building tools to reduce occurrences of errors and improve customer experience
• Developing software to integrate with internal back-end systems
• Performing root cause analysis for production errors
• Investigating and resolving technical issues
• Developing scripts to automate visualisations
• Designing procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance

Requirements:

• BSc degree or equivalent qualification

Knowledge of:

• Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Salt or similar automated build tools
• Either Java or .NET primary competence
• Configuration and setup of Jenkins / Hudson, TeamCity, VSTS experience
• ITIL certification at foundation level is preferable
• AWS and AZURE exposure preferable
• Development background preferred although operations background will be considered

Experience in:

• Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
• System monitoring tools
• System administration of servers and software
• Database management
• Developing database scripts for data extracts, fixes and deployments
• Resolving technical PROD, QA and DEV environment issues
• Investigating and addressing availability, performance and capacity issue

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BBD is looking for C# architects to assist with:

• Functional requirements
• Deployment environment
• Performance requirements
• Expected longevity of solution
• Client budget (provide choices and highlight trade-offs if needed)
• Skillset required to build vs skillset available
• Skillset required to maintain, and support vs skillset available
• Ease of future maintenance and support
• Investigation and resolution of technical challenges, guiding project team members as appropriate and doing it yourself when appropriate

You will ensure quality through:

• Code reviews in a form appropriate to project and individual team members
• Establishing and maintaining an enabling set of technical standards
• Ongoing refinement, revision or establishment of our development delivery processes
• Providing expert opinion on validity of project team or individual effort and time estimates
• Mentoring, or facilitating the appropriate mentoring, of juniors and team members
• Participating in performance management and recruitment processes for technical resources
• Pre-sales design and project proposals
• Participation in marketing activities with relevant writing, presenting and research

Requirements

• BSc Computer Science or similar tertiary qualification
• Strong object-oriented programming skills

Experience in:

• C#
• HTML
• JavaScript
• CSS 
• WPF and WCF proven abilities
• Microsoft Certification

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BBD is looking for Java engineers to assist with:

• Conducting software analysis, programming, testing and debugging
• Identifying production and non-production application issues
• Contributing to all phases of the development lifecycle
• Writing well designed, testable, efficient code
• Ensuring designs follow specifications
• Preparing and producing releases of software components
• Supporting continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review

Requirements

• BSc degree in a technology-related field preferable
• Proficiency in Java with +-3 years solid exposure at an academic or professional level
• Must be interested in pursuing a professional career in Java
• Experience in: (relative to seniority)
• OO Principles – polymorphism, inheritance, encapsulation
• Strong Java and OO development knowledge
• J2EE
• JSP
• JavaScript
• JQuery
• MVC
• CSS and HTML
• JDBC – creating relational databases, queries and updates
• JUnit / Unit Testing Framework
• EJB or Spring Framework
• JPA / Hibernate
• RESTful Framework
• Maven / ANT
• Git
• HTML5 basics