Blaze developer

SUMMARY:
To enable business innovation through the design, implementation, documentation, and maintenance of integration-intensive systems. The incumbent will be a natural polyglot with experience working with both technology and business specialists to define outcomes, and then using fit-for-purpose technology to solve problems.

POSITION INFO:

Solutions aligned with the Enterprise Architecture

• Analyse requirements in the form of specifications, business cases and incidents
• Design solutions to problems
• Participate in design and architecture review
• Generate work breakdown structures
• Plan and sequence work items
• Execute on the plan, drive the delivery and optimise the process

Technology evangelism

• Build business cases for new capabilities
• Define selection and assessment criteria
• Identify candidate technologies that provide desired capabilities
• Engage with technology vendors
• Facilitate Proof of Concept (POC) and Proof of Technology (POT) engagements
• Facilitate Request for Proposal (RFP) engagements

Mentorship

• Identify technological skills weaknesses
• Identify and define approaches to address shortcomings
• Plan the execution of knowledge transfer and knowledge creation initiatives
• Guide team members and promote the personal and professional growth of the team

Service and IT governance

• Adhere to key service and IT governance objectives
• Adhere to service and IT governance policies
• Assess initiatives for governance requirements

IT and business support

• Assess landed systems
• Define and motivate system enhancements
• Align enhancements with Enterprise architecture roadmap
• Design and implement enhancements
• Investigate and identify the root cause of incorrect IT system behaviour
• Design and implement remediation measures for incidents.

Research & Compliance

• Identify topics of potential interest to the organisation such as industry trends and state-of-the-art technology
• Identify topics of interest to the organisation relating to existing technology and processes
• Prepare a proposal for research work
• Research topics, document the results and commit the output to a body of knowledge
• Apply research findings to the analysis phase of upcoming initiatives
• Apply research findings to ongoing implementation efforts
• Apply research findings to planning for future initiatives
• Analyse and interpret regulatory and compliance requirements in the form of specifications and regulations
• Conduct impact analyses
• Advise on impact and approach to mitigate risk

Customer

• Create and maintain productive relationships with internal and external clients by providing advice and assistance
• Create understanding of the ‘real’ versus ‘perceived’ need through experience and expertise while complying with company policies, legislation, and regulations
• Keep the client informed about progress through written communication, telephone communications, and/or face-to-face meetings
• Build a positive image by exceeding client expectations at all times
• Treat internal and external customers fairly at all times

Minimum Education & Experience

• Bachelor''s or a Master''s Degree – IT Related
• Work experience using at least one non-relational database
• Work experience using at least two different operating systems
• Work experience using at least two different programming languages
• Work experience using at least two different relational databases
• Work experience using both client-side and server-side technologies
• Work experience using both JSON- and SOAP-based web services

Technical (COMP)

• Business Acumen
• Infrastructure fundamentals
• Networking fundamentals
• Problem solving
• Software development
• Web technologies

 

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