Senior It Consultant - Johannesburg
Salary Negotiable
Johannesburg, Gauteng
Johannesburg,
Gauteng
more than 14 days ago
09-06-2017 4:00:10 PM
07-07-2017 4:00:10 PM
JOB SUMMARY
- Performs consulting projects, ranging short- to long-term engagements requiring varied interpersonal and technical skills.
- Technical responsibilities include problem identification, implementation, testing, client training, solution design and deployment.
- Assists with system architecture definition, hardware/software specification and/or design.
- Viewed by customers as a product expert and is typically measured by delivery of agreed solutions within budgeted hours.
- Mentors junior personnel.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
- Act as team lead and provide direction in solution design to other consultants at client site.
- Able to train, coach, mentor, and assist others in a team effort.
- Assist and prepare client proposals and participate in the identification and development of sales opportunities in customer organization.
- Creates functional or technical training materials
- Analyses and solves complex problems; considers existing solutions from a new perspective
- Serves as first escalation level if necessary
- Implements technical/ functional architecture for complex IT applications
- Coordinate and lead customer workshops
- Analyse functional requirements and provide detailed technical specification and effort estimation
- Knows the relevant competitors and their distinguishing characteristics in the market
- Technical expert in specialised area/industry
- Manage small projects with manageable risks, requirements and use of resources
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) in Computer Science or a related field
- 7-10 years related work experience
- Three Software AG certifications on current version of the relevant product suite.
- Experience or training with three or more of the following areas:
- Object oriented programming (Java/C++/.NET)
- XML
- RDBMS (Oracle, Informix, DB2, SQL Server, Sybase, MySQL)
- Operating Systems (Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, Windows)
- EAI, middleware, or other integration experience
- Web servers (Netscape, Microsoft) or web application servers
- CRM (Siebel, Clarify, Vantive...)
- ERP (PeopleSoft, SAP, Baan, Oracle Applications, JDE)
- B2B – RosettaNet, EDI, EBXML or industry-specific standards
- Web development (JSF, Servlets, Portlets, JSP)
- webMethods or Software AG products.
- Tibco, SeeBeyond,Vitria, etc. a plus.
Salary: Market Related