(538) Senior Analyst Developer – 1FinSurv Programme - BSTD at South African Reserve Bank

Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Define own and others’ work plans using own discretion and in alignment with departmental and functional work plans.
• Conduct analysis and design/architect quality IT solutions according to approved business requirements and in line with governance frameworks.
• Develop and deliver quality IT solutions through development, integration, testing and deployment according to the approved design specification and within agreed timelines.
• Ensure total quality of an IT solution by contributing to the compilation of standards and improved process, and by ensuring that the approved processes and standards are followed.
• Consistently provide IT solution maintenance and support in the designated area, thereby ensuring business continuity in line with the agreed service standards.
• Keep abreast of developments of information communications and technology (ICT) trends and within your specialised area of technology in order to develop and design the most appropriate IT solution within the area of responsibility.
• Set the functional discipline standards for the work area and hold others to account in complying with the expected standards and procedures for the completion of the tasks/activities performed.
• Actively participate as a team member and drive the team towards the completion of goals.
• Engage with the internal and external user community to ensure that business benefits are realised.

QUALIFICATIONS

Job requirements

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• An Honours degree in Computer Science, or an equivalent NQF8 qualification; and
• eight years’ working experience as a senior developer or technical resource in a project and support environment.

Technical requirements

• Working experience in building and maintain Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI&CD) pipelines;
• exposure to Gitlab or any other CI tools;
• exposure to building and maintain Angular/Blazor applications;
• experience utilizing Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools (such as AppDynamics, New Relic, or similar) to monitor application performance metrics, including response times, throughput, and resource utilization;
• experience in troubleshooting issues related to networking, storage, and application deployments in OpenShift/Kubernetes;
• strong technical experience with programming languages including Java, C#, XML, YAML, JSON in an enterprise project or support environment;
• experience in design, deployment, configuration, and maintaining RedHat Openshift clusters and OpenShift environments.
• exposure to design, deployment and management of containerized cloud native applications, and Java and C# microservices/rest API’s using Openshift, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.
• experience using an Agile software development methodology with a project or support environments;
• experience in managing development teams to onboard applications onto OpenShift/Kubernetes clusters and integrate with 3Scale and or similar gateways; or
• experience in Linux Operating Systems.

The following would be an added advantage:

• Experience in Financial Surveillance sector for central banking.

Additional requirements include:

• industry, organisational and business awareness; and
• knowledge and skill in:
• continued learning and/or professional development;
• analysis and problem-solving;
• judgement and decision-making;
• team management;
• building and maintaining relationships;
• developing and growing others;
• resilience;
• planning and organising;
• quality assurance;
• stakeholder management; and
• continuous improvement.