Senior Applications Developer

Key Responsibilities:

Management/Administrative Responsibilities

• Assists with the development of the Branch’s operational objectives and budget
• Ensures the implementation of objectives and assesses results
• Ensures employees comply with policies and procedures of the Unit
• Prepares reports on the status and progress of the unit
• Conducts performance appraisal in accordance with established guidelines
• Provides leadership through example and the sharing of knowledge and skills
• Liaises with vendors in respect of system’s support and maintenance
• Assists with the design and delivery of technical training programmes
• Makes recommendations to Manager on matters relating to data management and conversion

Technical/Professional Responsibilities

• Coordinates information systems projects from planning through to implementation and adaptation
• Ensures the development and maintenance of manuals, procedures and other documentation required for the operations of the support team
• Assists in developing tactical plans that support agency-wide strategies for application integration and business data relationships
• Recommends commercially available information technologies or designs customized solutions to satisfy business needs
• Leads/assists with projects and initiatives with a focus on meeting strategic  business objectives
• Coordinates with business unit and technical staff on the defining, writing and testing of technical and functional specifications
• Resolves end-user problems or issues regarding business applications and provides application administrative support
• Coordinates the installation of application patches, releases and enhancements on development, test, disaster recovery and production systems
• Reviews existing procedures and updates as is necessary to improve the effectiveness the operations
• Develops documents and maintains procedures for production and quality control of system data
• Develops user-friendly tools that aids in the management of data

Other Responsibilities

• Keeps abreast of trends and developments in information technology and recommends their incorporation where appropriate
• Performs other related duties assigned from time to time by the Manager.

Required Skills/Competencies

The post-holder should be able to demonstrate:

• Ability to establish business requirements documents as well as testing plans and training plans and materials
• Software programming skills ideally in various languages
• Use of software development standards, structured development environments and methodologies
• Knowledge of relational database architectures, query languages, interfaces, data warehouse concepts, service oriented architecture concepts, reporting tools and standard programming environments
• Strong technical documentation, problem solving and analytical skills
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Tools
• Excellent technical, interpersonal and customer relationship skills and ability to thrive in a team-based environment
• Understanding of business processes
• Excellent business modeling skills
• Ability to conduct structured interviews to gather process and system information
• Working knowledge of client server concepts.
   

Minimum Required Qualifications and Experience:

The following qualification is required:

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Studies or equivalent qualification
• Three (3) years’ experience in developing and maintaining business applications
• Certificate in Supervisory Management
• Knowledge of several programming languages, such as JavaScript, Java, Python, HTML, Visual Studio.net, PHP etc.

We appreciate all responses but only short-listed applicants will be contacted.