Qualifications and Experience:

• Grade 12 certificate or equivalent Level 4 qualification issued by SAQA
• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or diploma in Information Technology
• Clear criminal and ITC record
• Experience in PHP Development, MySQL, MS-SQL, JQuery, HTML, XHTML, Web services (XML) & CSS
• Minimum of 3-5 years working experiene

Skills and Abilities:
Customer Care Skills:
• Bilingual
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
• Work under pressure and able to meet deadlines
• Excellent time management
• Quality orientated
• Display a sense of urgency
• Diplomatic & patient
• Problem solving skills
• Display initiative, maturity and a high degree of professionalism
• Liaise and build relationships with clients

Administrative Skills:
• Strong planning and organizational skills
• Detail focused and attention to quality
• Analytical mind
• Excellent numeracy and literary skills

Technical Skills:
• Expert knowledge of computer languages
• Expert knowledge of computer program design methods and techniques
• Experience of object oriented programming (essential)
• Front-end development including jQuery (essential)
• Understanding of Ajax (desirable, not essential)
• Experience of the full software development lifecycle: from requirements gathering and functional specification authoring, to development, testing and delivery (essential)
• Ability to learn new programming languages quickly
• Expert knowledge of used operating systems
• Expert knowledge of standard development tools
• Ability to determine whether a particular problem is caused by hardware, operating systems software, application programs, or network failures
• Good knowledge of security and encryption
• Updates and modifies computer programs to improve efficiency
• Performs work of high difficulty in designing, writing, editing, modifying, and debugging computer programs
• Define functional specifications of the system for the appropriate hardware
• Analysis of system, data and processes
• As new technologies emerge and impact our systems, expected to learn these technologies very quickly and resolve any problems involved in integrating new technologies with our systems
Interpersonal Skills:
• Team player
• Work independently

Health:

• Excellent physical health

Key areas of responsibility:

• Write clean, well-engineered code that comply with accepted standards
• Understand the goals and strategy behind each project from conception through completion
• Identify opportunities for process improvement and make constructive suggestions for change
• Maintaining existing codebase, to include troubleshooting bugs and adding new features
• Write clean object-oriented PHP as well as efficient SQL
• Preliminary testing sites to make sure that it is functioning properly
• Write reusable code preferably using classes and libraries
• Creating reports for management and clients
• Technical support i.e. Backups, Servers and hardware related
• Database Administration
• Ad hoc duties assigned by management from time-to-time