GBLCAREERS

· Actively contribute to creating a culture of IT end-users service excellence.

· Other tasks as may be assigned by the Information Technology Manager.

Job Qualifications

· Bachelor’s degree in either Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, BEng. Computer Engineering or other related Sciences.

· A professional certification such as MCSD, MTA, AWS, Oracle APEX, Red Hat, CSTE, CSBA or CSQA is required. If unavailable at the time of selection, the hired candidate must undertake and pass at least a software architecture or related certification within one year.

· At least 3 years of relevant and demonstrated work experience in a software development and integration environment is required (on diverse platforms is an added advantage).

· Required experience with developing application on Microsoft Visual Studio and familiarity with resilient cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure. Experience with Microsoft SharePoint is mandatory

· Demonstrated ability to produce requirement artefacts: Business Requirements, Functional Specifications, data flow diagrams, UML modelling techniques, interface designs, test plans and test cases is required.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities (Essential Functions)

· Review, interpret and respond to detailed business requirements specifications (BRS) to ensure alignment between the program’s expectations and current or future ICT capability

· Provide input to the strategic direction of technology investments of the program to assist in the deployment of the enterprise architecture in managing and streamlining business process.

· Within the agreed enterprise architecture, define and design technology solutions to assist the program in meeting business objectives

· Develop, test and implement technology solutions and report on delivery commitments to ensure solutions are implemented as expected and to set timeframes

· Assist the IT Manager in providing technical advice and guidance on the development of technology strategies and plans in alignment with the overall objective of the program

· Participate as an active member of the information technology team, providing level 1-3 support for simple to complex task involving maintenance, troubleshooting and simplifying technical solutions to end-users.

· Provide a secondary point of contact for program led IT solutions on strategy and architecture topics when the IT Manager is unavailable to ensure efficient decision making processes can occur and reduce any possible delays.

· Collaborate effectively to ensure team goals are achieved by concerted efforts in knowledge sharing and problem solving

· Provide level 2/3 support as may be required from time to time.

· A background in software development with ability to code at some level and knowledge of APIs and SDKs is required

· Knowledge of highly available, highly scalable cloud based infrastructures (AWS or alike) is desirable

· Fluency in English is required