Senior Applications Specialist - Natural/ADABAS

SUMMARY:
To lead a team of developers, design/architect, develop, maintain and support IT solutions to meet the business needs within the company

POSITION INFO:

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Define own and others'' work plans using own discretion and in alignment with departmental and functional work plans.
• Conduct analysis and design/architect quality IT solutions according to approved business requirements and in line with governance frameworks.
• Lead the delivery of quality IT solutions through development, integration, testing and deployment according to the approved design specification and within agreed timelines.
• Ensure total quality of an IT solution by contributing to the compilation of standards, improved process and by ensuring that the approved processes and standards are followed.
• Consistently provide IT solution maintenance and support in the designated area thereby ensuring business continuity in line with the agreed service standards.
• Keep abreast of developments of ICT trends and within specialised area of technology in order to develop and design the most appropriate IT solution within the area of responsibility.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree in IT or equivalent
• Eight to ten years’ experience in Natural / ADABAS system development;
• Experience in the installation and configuration of Software AG products in a Unix/Linux environment;
• Eight or more years of experience working with ADABAS databases;
• Experience working with NaturalOne;
• EntireX experience;
• Experience with Unix AIX add-on software:
  • Xi-Text
  • ESP Batch
  • ESP Control

Additional requirements are as follows:

• industry, organisational and business awareness knowledge and skill;
• quality assurance knowledge and skill;
• continuous improvement knowledge and skill;
• continued learning and/or professional development knowledge and skill;
• business continuity planning knowledge and skill;
• IT enablement strategy knowledge and skill;
• IT enablement planning knowledge and skill;
• IT enablement legislation and governance, risk & compliance knowledge and skill;
• IT transformation and innovation knowledge and skill;
• IT enablement project management knowledge and skill;
• release management knowledge and skill;
• application design and development knowledge and skill;
• application support and maintenance knowledge and skill;
• infrastructure design and development knowledge and skill;
• systems integration knowledge and skill;
• systems specialisation knowledge and skill; 
• database administration knowledge and skill; 
• service management knowledge and skill; 
• testing knowledge and skill;
• business intelligence knowledge and skill; 
• operations knowledge and skill knowledge and skill;
• asset and inventory management knowledge and skill;
• IT information storage management knowledge and skill; 
• IT enablement information management knowledge and skill; 
• IT enablement reporting knowledge and skill; and
• Capacity and performance management knowledge and skill. 

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