Intermediate: Oracle Developer

Overview

MiWay is a direct financial services company. We are passionate about service excellence, convenience and offering our clients superior value products. Our Vision is to be a world-class direct financial services business that offers a complete array of services under one convenient umbrella – all managed online. We are positive that with the right people on board, we will continue to grow and give our clients the freedom to do things their way – free from worry and most importantly at peace with all the “what-ifs” of the world.

Company values that every employee subscribes to are:
Energy, Freedom, Accountability and Attitude. The ideal candidate is one who has the courage to be bold and subscribes to MiWay’s core values! Do you have a positive attitude, love a challenge, treat your colleagues with respect and look for solutions, not problems? If yes, then MiWay is the place for you!

• Minimum Qualification Required

• Matric
• Relevant IT degree or diploma will get preference

• 5+ years working experience developing in Oracle SQL and PL/SQL
• Developing and maintaining packages, procedures, functions, views, and other database objects in the Oracle Database
• Solid understanding of database architecture
• Understanding of software systems used in the development process:
  Code versioning (SVN), Release management (Crucible & Bamboo) and Issue Tracking (JIRA)
• Knowledge and/or working experience of the following will be advantageous:
• TIA (The Insurance Application)
• Oracle 12c upwards
• Oracle Forms
• Oracle Reports
• Performance tuning (SQL and PL/SQL)
• Web Logic integration
• Java
• Shell scripting

• Plan, design & develop solutions within a team
• Conduct or assist with code quality reviews of solutions
• Conduct or assist with troubleshooting and debugging of developed solutions in development and production environments
• Attend and provide input in team and stakeholder meetings relating to technical and architecture requirements
• Conduct internal knowledge sharing sessions on developed solutions and best practises
• Contribute towards well documented, quality, tested and reusable code, ensuring development is followed through to completion that is in accordance with team standards and the solution specification

• An intermediate developer should be comfortable working on, and completing tasks on their own
• Should understand and be comfortable asking for guidance, but needs to provide at least one or two possible solutions for a problem
• In-depth understanding of code quality, coding standards and maintainability
• Readiness to understand the system architecture
• Should understand (and try to implement) design patterns and principles (such as the SOLID principles)
• Ability to work on multiple projects (even if it takes you a while to get up to speed)
• Understand the need for, and write relevant tests for methods
• Willing to take accountability and ownership of parts of the system
• Should understand the processes followed by the team/business
• Should understand the business value (and be able to make suggestions) for a feature
• Ability to estimate the scope of a problem, with guidance from other developers if needed
• Cloud Experience is Advantageous.

ERP application development designs

System testing, analysis and reviews

Business Processes and business requirements definition

IT governance and compliance and risk mitigation.

Programming Standards

• Interpersonal savvy - Contributing independently
• Decision quality - Contributing independently
• Plans and aligns - Contributing independently
• Optimises work processes - Contributing independently

We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its five business clusters – Sanlam Fintech, Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Allianz, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and…