The Senior RPG Developer contributes to the organisational goals through managed ownership and development and/or design of solutions architecture frameworks/roadmaps, enhances operational productivity through guidance/training, owning the governance and standards, making sure Operational delivery streams deliver responsive and cost effective solutions that enables business’s needs.
Responsible for complete solutions design, analysis and facilitate implementation roadmaps in conjunction with relevant internal stakeholders in order to ensure seamless delivery
On a continuous basis conduct a risk / impact analysis on current or proposed technologies and capabilities to mitigate risk and ensure stability and continuity
To proactively work alongside TTS Internal and / or Business stakeholders in order to identify technology solutions and capabilities which meet and improve operational and business requirements
To ensure efficient documentation and governance of architecture landscape
Drives short & long term architecture strategy and roadmaps for the overall IT project portfolio for key segments and solution domains (short term insurance, life insurance and insurance related products)
Participates in proof of concepts to assist in defining technology direction and enabling business and IT strategy
Communicates and validates program architecture with infrastructure team, software development team, project management team, and IT management team to ensure effective participation in the project management lifecycle
Establish successful working relationships with all relevant internal and external stakeholders
Close collaboration with IT Senior management
Deliver the Telesure Service Way through personal effort and through others
Deliver on Treating Customers Fairly principles in alignment with regulatory requirements
Own and drive the process of impact assessments for all and any change requests and or new projects
Work closely with the head of IT Security to ensure alignment of Infrastructure, applications, capabilities and IT Security
To support the operational teams with the planning of new Infrastructure initiatives on an on-going basis which will include IT Infrastructure architectural planning, design and rollout
To work alongside the TTS Project Management team to assist with the build and the deployment of Infrastructure according to the design on an on-going basis
To proactively work alongside the TTS Monitoring team and identify whether the deployed Infrastructure operates and meets with the original design parameters once implemented and address any possibly capacity constraints thereafter on an on-going basis
Qualification/s:
Essential
- Recognized degree / diploma / certification
- Grade 12 (Standard 10) with University Entrance (NQF4)
Desirable
- Certification in a IT industry standard framework like TOGAF, ITIL
- Project management certification (PMBOK / Prince2)
Required Experience:
- 5+ years’ experience in a production IT environment managing enterprise IT infrastructure, hardware, hosting service and network areas.
- 2 years exposure to application development principles and support
- 2 years exposure to ITIL disciplines
- 2 year exposure to IT security disciplines
- Ability to write architectural design documents or review design documents provided by others
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