Information Technology

Fri, 06/07/2012 - 10:44 | by madelyn

Oracle Developer

Reference number: 
AW
Employment Equity: 
Only EE
Industry: 
Information Technology, Banking / Financial / Investment
Job type: 
Permanent
Location: 
South Africa›Gauteng›Johannesburg
Position type: 
Senior
Expiry date: 
Fri, 03/08/2012
Description: 

A leading Financial Services company based in Joburg is looking for a Senior Oracle developer to join their team.  The incumbent will be responsible for supporting the Global Market Operations business within the company. This includes the resolution of issues logged by the business, assisting the business in performing various functions as well as testing any changes, enhancements or customizations made to the application

Key Responsibilities:

  • Understanding the business requirements and being able to translate & develop these into a workable solution which meets the business requirements.
  • Day to day support of the business and resolution of any incidents.
  • Development/maintenance of existing applications
  • Provide technical leadership in the team.
  • Liaise with the Business to clarify the functional requirements.
  • Document the technical design specification as per the deliverables stipulated by the SDLC
  • Provide technical assistance to peers/subordinates as needed.
  • Optimised & quality code to ensure no system degradation
  • Ensures source code management practices are adhered to within the team.
  • When on call, provide timely response and resolution of emergency production questions, issues and defects
  • Anticipate users’ future needs when architecting solutions
  • Adhere to the bank’s change management processes
  • Uses standard system methods in the development, enhancement, and maintenance of information technology systems.
  • Assist in ensuring  there are no logical access issues in the applications
  • Share knowledge and have eagerness to learn
  • Work with Project teams to ensure that solutions are migrated to the production environment in a controlled manner with appropriate knowledge transfer undertaken

Qualifications and experience:

  • At least 5 – 7 years in IT industry, with specific Oracle and Oracle Forms development exposure as well as ORACLE in a Unix environment.
  • Banking/financial systems experience
  • Oracle
  • Oracle Forms
  • Oracle Database Design
  • Oracle SQL
  • PL/SQL
  • Unix
  • Thorough knowledge of system development methods used for the development of new systems and enhancements to existing information systems.
  • Visual Basic knowledge would be advantageous
  • MS Sql server knowledge would be advantageous
  • Crystal reports knowledge would be advantageous

 

Fri, 06/07/2012 - 10:37 | by madelyn

Senior Javascript Developer

Reference number: 
AW
Employment Equity: 
Any
Industry: 
Information Technology, Banking / Financial / Investment
Job type: 
Permanent
Location: 
South Africa›Gauteng›Johannesburg
Position type: 
Senior
Expiry date: 
Wed, 08/08/2012
Description: 

A leading financial services company based in Joburg is looking for a dynamic and self-motivated Senior JAVASCRIPT Developer to join their team.  The incumbent will be responsible for leading small teams in an agile environment and have strong web development skills (Javascript, CSS and HTML5).  Experience of other front-end web technologies such as Silverlight, Flex, Java, .NET, C#, and modern build tools such as Maven and Cruise or equivalents would also be an advantage.

 

Job description:

  • Experienced in driving Web development activities and improving practice
  • Used to leading small agile teams of software developers and test engineers
  • Familiar with Agile development approaches e.g. (Scrum XP, Kanban, Lean, Adaptive)
  • A team player, as the role involves liaising closely with other developers and test engineers
  • Proactive and capable of self-prioritizing and managing a task backlog
  • Detail oriented
  • Educated to technical degree level at 2:1 or above
  • Interested in the financial markets

 

Qualification and Experience:

Technical Leadership:

  • Iteration lead in an agile environment
  • Able to understand and balance both technical aspects and business drivers of a project
  • Responsible for the smooth flow of stories through the team
  • Definition and estimation of stories, prioritisation of tasks
  • Design and code review

 

Programming:

  • OO programming – a healthy understanding of polymorphism, aggregation and object lifecycle as applied in C++/Java/C# etc.
  • Unit testing – why testing is important, with reference to some framework (JUnit, NUnit etc.)
  • TDD principles
  • Pairing experience
  • Clean code
  • Build and continuous integration

 

Design:

  • MVC
  • Componentised development, development for re-usability and branding

 

Web Development:

JavaScript:

  • JavaScript – in particular OO style JavaScript
  • JavaScript libraries such as jQuery, ExtJs and Google Closure
  • JavaScript tools such as js-test-driver or JsUnit

Mark-up and Styling:

  • HTML, HTML5
  • Styling web applications using CSS
  • Re-skinning and branding web applications

Server-side technology:

  • Programming in Java/C#
  • Servlets, web-services or RESTful APIs