Senior Informatics Specialist at Palladium International

You and Your Career:

• If you have a passion for delivering software solutions, working on projects with a global reach, and always taking an interest in emerging technologies in order to bring fresh ideas forward and more productive ways of working we are interested in hearing from you. 
• We are a learning organization and provide growth opportunities from the start.  We pride ourselves on giving you the freedom, resources, and guidance to chart a fulfilling career!

Reporting and Supervision:

• This position will report to the Lead software developer.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

Technical Expertise:

• Participate in development life cycle activities such as design, coding, testing, and production release, delivering high-quality code in an agile team environment
• Champion new technologies and enforce the best development patterns and practices and promote these to the wider Team
• Provide technical guidance and implementation of digital solutions design and development global best practices
• Develop best practices for digital solutions, maintenance, reporting and security
• Develop and execute manual and automated tests to validate software functionality, reliability, and performance
• Collaborate with other developers to ensure that software products are built with testability in mind
• Participate in peer-reviews of solution designs and related code.
• Adhere to high-quality less rework development principles while delivering on time and on scope
• Responsible for maintaining Up-to-date repositories of the assigned systems
• Leverage knowledge and contribute to proper knowledge management within the team
• Keep abreast with emerging technologies in software engineering
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed

Business Development

• Contribute to active proposals through contributions to strategy and preparation of technical approach and capability statements

 Key Competencies Required:

•  Experience developing scalable and secure web and mobile applications
• Experience designing and optimizing database schemas
• Well documented relevant experience in multiple roles in the Information systems domain (application development, data engineering, Data Warehousing, ETL etc.)
• A firm understanding and practical experience in tools and processes to ensure software quality, such as Unit Tests, TDD and Test Automation
• Excellent understanding and deployment of virtualization and containerization technologies.
• Experience in designing solutions incorporating cloud components, including PaaS and SaaS solutions
• Understanding of DevOps pipeline impact on product management and user experience (UX)
• Experience in development and implementation of data analytics and visualization solutions
• Experience with Agile development methodologies and tools such as JIRA and Confluence

Professional Expertise/Competencies Preferred:

• Proficiency in programming languages, libraries, and frameworks such as C#, Java, Python, PHP, Android, React, Node.js, Angular, Vue, and others commonly used for web and mobile applications, APIs, and microservices
• Experience with Selenium, WebDriver, TestNG, JUnit, or other automated testing tools and frameworks
• Should have strong knowledge and experience in CI/CD tools like ANT, Maven and Jenkins