Senior Analyst at Britam

Job Purpose

• Design, development and 3rd line support of business applications, ranging from requirements analysis, solution design and development to solutions implementation and maintenance.
• Design, implementation and operation of a continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) ecosystem to ensure a predictable and reliable software development pipeline

Key responsibilities

• Capturing of business applications information needs and mapping of the same to the software and /or database components;
• 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 application;
• 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;
• Create and/ or enhance user and system documentation as needed
• Work directly with the IT support personnel and teams to resolve issues identified and escalated during daily operations;
• 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;
• Review user requirements documents to ensure that requirements are testable;
• Develop test plans, test cases, test scripts and test reports on multiple projects of varying size; and
• Design, develop and operate automated software build, packaging, testing and deployment tools to ensure predictable and repeatable software migration from development to test and eventually production environments - Continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD).

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+ years development experience with any modern programming tools/Platforms e.g. .NET, Java, Ruby, PHP
• 2+ years’ experience in designing and developing automated repetitive software testing
• 2+ years’ experience in working with modern CI/CD tools e.g. Jenkins, selenium, docker etc
• 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
• Wide knowledge of testing approaches, manual and automated software testing
• Good understanding of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Unix user skills.
• Experience in processes and procedures management.
• Thorough understanding of relational database theory and practice
• Good understanding of automation and orchestration of CI/CD tools