My client based in Centurion is looking for a Lead PHP Developer to manage a team of PHP Developers that develops and maintain internal workflow management systems that is developed in object orientated PHP. This includes developing new features, maintaining the current code base and fixing bugs.
The Lead PHP Developer will be responsible for managing a team of +/- 4 PHP Developers. This include managing back-end services and the interchange of data between the server and the users. The primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. One of the responsibilities will be integrating the front-end elements built by your other developers into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front- end technologies is necessary as well. This is a “playing captain” role, meaning the Lead PHP Developer will also need to develop where needed.
Qualifications & Experience
• Grade 12 certificate or equivalent Level 4 qualification issued by SAQA
• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or diploma in Information Technology
• Clear criminal and ITC record
• Experience in PHP, OOP, MVC, MySQL, MS-SQL, JavaScript, jQuery, JSON, HTML, CSS, XHTML, Web services
(SOAP/XML), AJAX, Version Control (GIT/SVN), IIS & LINUX experience
• Minimum of 5-10+ years working experience
Skills & 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 (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:
• Able to manage a team effectively
• Team player
• Work independently
Daily
Except for daily management of Developers, writing of code, code reviews, system and business logic assistance, the following tasks must be managed:
• Support Ticket Management
• Checking Daily Automated Client Data Import Jobs
• Manage Windows Server Application Services
• Manage Linux Servers
• Attend Meetings as Scheduled
• Manage Timesheet
• Manage SSIS Packages
• Manage BI Dashboards
• Support to the Chief Information Officer
• Support to the Database Administrator
• Support to the Business Analyst
• Support to the Projects Office
• Support to External Clients
• General Support to fellow co-workers