IT Apps Developer - 2 Positions at Britam

Job Purpose: 

Work with other departments within the Group to identify requirements and develop solutions (database design, workflows, user/data interfaces, integrations) and design, development and 3rd line support of business Applications, ranging from user analysis, design and development to implementation and maintenance.

Key responsibilities:

• Configure and/or customize business applications to meet business requirements using various database and software tools.
• Assist in presentations of system functionality to new users and departments. Drives systems adoption by business users. 
• Enhance and create user and system documentation as needed.
• Work directly with the IT support personnel and teams to resolve issues identified and escalated during daily operations. 
• Perform the necessary technical design and development functionality to ensure that business application systems can be effectively developed and implemented.
• Design and development of front-end tier(s), middle tier(s), and /or back-end database tier(s) for business applications. 
• Capturing of business applications information needs and mapping of the same to the software and /or database components. 
• Perform data modelling to analyze and specify data structures within an application system. 
• Developing database objects and structures for data storage, retrieval and reporting according to specifications. 
• Implementing and testing database design and functionality and tuning for performance. 
• Research and provide input on design approach, performance and base functionality improvements for various procedures and applications.
• Generation of ideas to improve efficiency in software and application services offered to the business, and/or generate revenue for business.

Key Performance Measures:

• As described in your Personal Scorecard.

Knowledge, experience and qualifications required:

• Degree in Computer Science or technical-related field.
• Certified Solution Developer e.g. Java, Microsoft etc.
• 4 – 6 years’ experience in applications development, which includes system customization and report designs.
• 2-3 years’ experience in Oracle e-business suite development.
• 2+ years development experience with any modern programming tools/Platforms e.g. .NET, Java, Ruby, PHP.
• 1+ Years development experience with Java EE.
• 2 years’ experience with RDMS preferably MS SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, Sybase, and Informix.

Technical/ Functional competencies:

• Experience with web servers and application servers e.g. Apache, IIS, Apache Tomcat, JBoss, WebSphere, WebLogic.
• Experience in data warehousing, business analytics, knowledge in Business Systems Modelling and data retrieval.
• Have knowledge of Mobile infrastructure, Internet technologies, ecommerce and e-payment technologies.
• Good understanding of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
• Unix user skills.
• Experience in processes and procedures management.
• Thorough understanding of relational database theory and practice.
• Experience on Oracle business suite and Oracle BI development.