Senior Software Integration/Backend Developer Specialist

Senior Software Integration/Backend Developer Specialist

Department: Information Technology : IT Development

Job Type: Permanent

Work Level: Skilled

Salary: Market Related

Location: Gauteng - Menlyn

Description

Duties & Responsibilities:

Contribute to organizations objectives for IT Development

• Develop and maintain models that meet end-user requirements, including recommended Domain and Use Case Models (TCF) based on technical specifications.
• Implement the solution within the defined framework for user requirements

Develop and maintain IT Administration Systems (Operational Excellence)

• Gather and analyze business and customer requirements to identify and prioritize opportunities to improve efficiencies and processes through integration.
• Design and implement integration flows and enhancements, including APIs and/or file-based integrations.
• Partner with development and design teams to support and provide oversight in designing and developing integration solutions and prototypes.
• Determine, conduct, and automate integration tests, load tests, and performance tests, including facilitating set-up of test data and accounts.
• Prepare and manage technical documentation and self-service resources on integrations.
• Proactively monitor integration performance and troubleshoot, resolve, and report integration issues to impacted teams and stakeholders.
• Adhere to established development and integration processes, best practices, and standards.
• Use user and stakeholder feedback to guide the development of new products and integration enhancements.
• Participate in integration vendor and tool selection to meet business needs and support development team workflows.
• Promote a collaborative team environment and work closely with colleagues and stakeholders to achieve goals.
• Provide coaching and mentorship to junior integration engineers.
• Provide direction and leadership for a team(s) of integration engineers.
• Incorporate integration requirements into design
• Incorporate security requirements into design
• Serve as a resource to help the teams make appropriate system and component level design decisions during implementation
• Incorporate security requirements into design
• Provide 3rd line support and maintain software functionality
• Review and provide input to technical documentation
• Identify efficiency opportunities
• Regular status updates to Project Management Office and Manager IT Software Development
• Provide assistance to QA/Application Support team
• Provide 3rd line support and maintain software functionality
• Review and provide input to technical documentation
• Identify efficiency opportunities
• Regular status updates to Project Management Office and Manager IT Software Development
• Provide assistance to QA/Application Support team

Requirements

• Formal Education
• BSc or BEng (Computer or Electronic) or equivalent .
• Microsoft certification (MCSD)
• K2 (Advantage); SharePoint (Advantage)
• Kanban systems design (Advantage)
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Experience:

• 5-8 years of experience in software development.
• 3-5 years of experience in integration engineering.
• Experience in industry standards and best practice in software architecture and design
• Software development experience in a financial services/insurance industry (advantage)
• Azure DevOps experience