Senior Software Developer

Job description:

A unique opportunity to join a JSE listed financial organization that continually delivers excellent results and growth that exceed all competitors in the market. Become part of a team working on Key projects

Distribution in Partnership with business stakeholders to deliver great value with an opportunity to make a real impact. The successful candidate will function as the senior developer and Architect of

the Practice management, CRM platform. The development pertains to all those

aspects. The candidate will be a member of the CRM management team.

Responsibilities:

• Align and build capabilities and services in line with strategic projects and architecture.

• Review the architecture of the current software stack and guide the process of improving the current

architecture to utilize micro services.

• Integrate services through cloud native services with the broader Group.

• Provide input for the other developers, BAs and Testers, as well as maintain an excellent working relationship with our external software development partner.

• Review current coding practices, as well as implementing and maintaining improvement.

• Display a customer service approach to the users (Advisers and internal business) of the CRM platform.

• Along with the BAs, assess and validate development requirements received from stakeholders before

submitting for development.

• Closely working with business (pre-development) and testing (post-development) to ensure requirements are

delivered in an expected format.

• Frequently function as the representative of the team in sessions with business.

• Implement processes for gathering, reviewing and analysing development requirements.

Minimum requirements:

• A relevant tertiary qualification, preferably a degree or honours in computer science or computer engineering

• Expert C# development experience

• Strong Angular, Bootstrap, knowledge of jQuery experience

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines in Azure Development

• SQL experience

• Agile / Scrum experience

• Expert understanding of the software development process

• Experience in CRM and client portal solutions

• Strong security principles experience

• Good knowledge of microservice architecture

• Strong integration knowledge (building and consuming API’s)

• Entity framework knowledge

• Ability to effectively translate business requirements in technology terminology

• Ability to explain technical issues back to business for decision making

Recommended requirements:

• Extensive experience in related roles in the financial services industry, preferably with knowledge of wealth

management and adviser value proposition requirements.

• Kubernetes/Docker, virtualization experience

• Cloud vendor experience

• Exposure to Architecture

Competencies required:

• Problem-solving skills

• Business acumen and entrepreneurship

• Analytical thinker

• Negotiating and influencing skills

• IT innovation and acumen

• Attention to detail

• Project Management skills

• Change management and coaching skills