IT or Engineering Graduate - Junior Software Implementation Engineer

Are you an excellent academic achiever and completed your Degree at one of South Africa’s top Universities? We have an excellent career opportunity available in Rosebank. No experience needed, just your excellent results as a relevant Engineer or IT Graduate.

Qualifications that qualify you to be part of this growing team are as follow:

BEng Computer Engineering, BEng Industrial Engineering, BSc Computer Science, BSc Information Technology.

This well established company in Rosebank, specialize in developing solutions that can integrate disparate systems and automate business processes. They need your expertise to not only join their “master brain” team but also build your career in terms of industries and technologies. These solutions focus on the elimination of manual processes and the enhancement of straight-through processing. These solutions are largely based on in-house developed, industrial strength applications.

This software house provides solutions to the financial industry – locally and abroad and they have extensive experience in retail and wholesale financial services and asset management in back, middle and front office solutions. The company’s human resources are skilled in the building of adapters to CRM and integrating front office and back office systems which include the transfer and translation of data and reconciliation of positions.

Their list of current clients is well known in the market industry.

You will be a solution implementation specialists, responsible for interfacing with clients, understanding their needs and configuring software solutions to meet them.

You will be involved in delivering projects to clients from information gathering, working with a team in designing solutions, solution configuration, system testing, user training, continuous improvement and support.

This is a technical and practical role and will require you to;

Implement and configure our software to our design and client’s specific requirements. Use our ‘low-code’ applications with SQL databases to build integrated and automated back-end processes with web-based UIs. Execute projects in a dynamic, collaborative, and iterative fashion - providing ongoing tangible benefit. Provide superior customer service to internal and external clients. Develop new concepts, approaches and applying best-practice patterns.

Typical daily Tasks are;

• Solution design, build, test, support and improve
• Configure and test solutions with colleagues
• Involved with unit and end-to-end testing of solutions
• Involved in deploying solutions to server environments - Dev, QA, Production
• Provide exceptional production support and ongoing improvement
• Develop technical designs and documentation
• Participate in update, design, requirements and feedback sessions

You should be;

• Comfortable using technology and be able to explain it to others
• Able to solve problems creatively and efficiently
• Quality focussed
• Able to manage time well and handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Able to manage job pressure well
• Detail focussed as we work with sensitive data and critical business systems
• Pedantically accurate
• Able to communicate very well with different people - interpersonal, written and public speaking

Our work is satisfying and challenging.

We will train, help, assist and develop you to best perform your work and develop professionally. You will be trained and mentored.

You will be expected to make judgement calls, show responsibility and act professionally.

You will mostly work at client premises in the Johannesburg area. You are required to have your own transport (valid driver’s license) and be willing to travel.