SUMMARY:
Systems Integrator - Contract - Onsite
POSITION INFO:
The System Integrator at ICS is in charge of designing, coding, testing, and analyzing software programs and applications and reports to the Senior Manager of Solutions Delivery. Throughout the production lifetime, this entails investigating, designing, documenting, and revising software specifications. The software developer will also promptly and accurately identify and fix any software faults, and when necessary, provide status updates. They design, create, and test programs using a variety of programming languages and development tools. They are also in charge of maintaining and enhancing current software systems.
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
- Help other developers, analysts, and designers come up with ideas for and create new software applications.
- Schedule the various stages of the software development life cycle (SDLC).
- Help with the creation and documenting of software specs and needs.
- Examine and record the needs of software users.
- Perform research on new languages, standards, and software for application
- Development to aid with development and procurement initiatives.
- Suggest, plan, and carry out software upgrades and improvements.
- Consistently create, translate, and code software applications and programs in accordance with requirements.
- Conduct and track software performance tests on both new and current programs to identify problem areas, fix mistakes, and do general debugging.
- Conduct in-depth analyses of test results and provide recommendations for fixing issues.
- Create data and draft reports on the state of the programming process for management and/or team members.
- Participate in the creation and upkeep of user guides and manuals.
- Create programming scripts as needed to improve the operation, interoperability and/or aesthetics of the business applications.
- To aid in the development and procurement processes, conduct research on new application development software packages, languages, and standards.
- Make suggestions for, plan, and carry out software upgrades.
Knowledge, Skills and Attributes:
- Responsible for IPT Voice and Analog Gateways, maintenance, upgrades, refresh, troubleshooting, etc.
- Responsible for technical support of the Organizations Cisco Unified Collaboration related technologies. Updating of as-built documentation of infrastructure and work instructions
- Generation and activation of security certificates for the relevant Cisco products as per vendor best practice
- Identification of any potential risks prior, during and after implementation of solutions
- On time Certification of relevant products supported.
- Knowledge share, coaching and mentoring of L1-L2 engineers on a regular basis.
- Drafting and sharing of best practice documents
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Presentation skills
- The ability to work overtime when required
- The ability to work outside of South Africa for short periods of time when required
Academic Qualifications and Certifications:
- Matric and a tertiary qualification in Information Systems, Computer Science, or equivalent; (NQF level 7)
- Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist
- Microsoft Certified Professional Developer
Required Experience:
- Minimum of 4 years of experience directly related to Systems Integration
- Working technical knowledge of programming languages, including:
- Experience working with enterprise applications
- Experience working with mobile app development
- Hands-on experience working in integrated development environments
- Extensive experience with Windows operating systems.
- Extensive experience with SQL databases
- Solid working knowledge of current Internet technologies.
- Hands-on software troubleshooting experience.
- Knowledge of applicable data privacy practices and laws
- C#
- Asp.net core
- MVC
- CSS
- Bootstrap
- XML
- HTML5
- Entity Framework
- Link
- SSRS
- JQuery
- JavaScript
- MS SQL/Oracle
- Web Service/Windows communication Foundation/API
- Azure DevOps (advantage)
- Git (advantage)
- Agile (advantage)
- AngularJS (advantage)
- Python (advantage)
