Senior Developer – Johannesburg - Salary – R 540 000 per annum
Summary of Position
The senior developer conducts and participates to varying degrees in the overall analysis of needs, scoping, design, development and support of software development projects. Will primarily be responsible for the development of new solutions to specification against high level technical design, utilizing most of the technologies in the .NET specification. This incumbent will also be responsible to varying degrees for business system enhancements of current systems in accordance with Group and regulatory requirements, provision of supervision, training and quality control of work of subordinates.
Essential Job Functions
• Participate as a member of a development team
• Assist in the design phase of the applications and write technical specifications
• Perform development duties and responsibilities including new development and system enhancements
• Development to defined specification, code standards with paired programming on critical system modules
• Timeous delivery of system requirements according to specification
• Assist in performing code reviews and quality assessment
• Accountability for the quality and delivery of all development aspects of the various systems
• Mentoring juniors and develop skills in the team and ensure the transference of intellectual property
• Work with an existing team to provide solutions that are innovative, scalable, maintainable and efficient
• Use OO principles to design and create code that is robust, simple and clear
• Verbal and written reporting to team leader
Attributes
• Proven track record in software development
• Knowledge of Agile development process and SCRUM
• Strong work ethic and personal accountability
• Strong verbal and written skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Innovative, result driven individual
• Strong attention to detail and problem solving ability / Ability to work under pressure
• Leadership potential and the ability to coach and mentor
Key Requirements
• Educational Qualification: Degree or similar qualification
• Experience: 5+ year’s development experience
• Expert at developing business solutions for Intranet/Internet and Windows applications
• Performance tuning and troubleshooting IIS and ASP.Net applications in production
• Understanding of the architecture design, processes, concepts and best practices
• Knowledge of relational database design
• Experience in Net Framework 4+
• Solid Knowledge and experience in C#
• Strong SharePoint experience
• Knowledge and experience in Oracle and PL/SQL
• Knowledge and experience in ASP .NET MVC 3+(beneficial)
• Knowledge and experience using WCF principles (beneficial)
• Knowledge and experience using TFS (beneficial)
• Knowledge and experience using HTML5
• Software skill set: Object Orientated Design, .NET, JavaScript, C#, SQL, Web Services, XML, JSON, HTML, CSS, Ajax, Proficient on Visual Studio
• Additional useful skills: understanding of n-tier applications and relational database design.
Basic understanding of Active Directory & LDAP.