Senior It Consultant - Johannesburg Verfied

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

Recruiter: CompuJobs