Software Developer L2; Talent Pool

Overview

SBV seeks a Software Developer to develop and design products according to industry best practices and standards with a focus on re‑usability, high‑availability, and portability. Responsible for providing in‑depth analysis and technical input on a broad‑based set of challenges across the technology landscape, and providing technical assistance to Level 1 developers.

• Assist in deployment of delivery components of the Development Functional Strategy
• Proactively drive innovation through the generation of new ideas and options made by new technologies

• Research new innovations and solutions (includes new application, database and operating system technologies for mobile, open source and closed source domains)
• Efficiently manage and execute project plans – milestone tracking and communication checkpoints
• Provide input on the Application Roadmap in line with the Technology Strategy
• Collaborate with internal teams and vendors to fix, improve and develop new applications in accordance with SLAs
• Analyse and understand business requirements, architecture and technical documents
• Enhance applications by identifying opportunities for improvement and making recommendations
• Review and apply security principles to all development work performed
• Conduct system and impact analysis of new development changes and remedy them prior to development
• Develop the appropriate software using the relevant development tools (coding)

• Write code according to industry best practice and standards with focus on re‑usability, high availability and portability meeting business requirements using the relevant technologies
• Consistently write, translate, and code software programs and applications according to specifications
• Administer critical analysis of test results and deliver solutions to problem areas
• Generate statistics and prepare and write reports for management and/or team members on the status of the programming process
• Assist in the development and maintenance of user manuals and guidelines
• Install software products for end users as required
• Write programming scripts to enhance functionality and/or appearance of company Web site and/or related Web applications as necessary
• Remove code script from company Web site and/or related Web applications as necessary
• Liaise with network administrators, systems analysts, and software engineers to assist in resolving problems with software products or company software systems
• Implement roll‑out, change control, release management, project and client management

• Strive for zero defects on any code developed from the team
• Assist design and develop unit test cases for any development work
• Perform unit testing on code developed for quality assurance and alignment with requirements
• Conduct and report on code reviews and unit testing on code written by other team members including corrective action identified to meet minimum standards
• Identify, document and manage internal risks controls with reporting into the Technology Risk Register
• Manage code deployment, fixes, updates and related processes through defect tracking in testing and evaluation of error logs
• Ensure that all artefacts are well managed and controlled in the relevant repositories as per the defined policies and procedures
• Run and monitor software performance tests on new and existing programs for the purposes of correcting errors, isolating areas for improvement, and general debugging

• Incident, problem and release management
• Ensure systems up‑time
• Monitor customer support cases
• Assist and provide support to resolve problems
• Deploy proper Help Line protocol and escalation for problem solution
• Monitor adherence to SLAs

• Effectively communicate and regularly engage with key stakeholders at different levels

• Ability to construct policies and processes
• Ability to define the reporting content for the correct audience combined with the ability to scale the presentation of these reports to the appropriate audience

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