Application Developer at Momentum Metropolitan Holdings Limited

About the job

Through our client-facing brands Metropolitan and Momentum, with Multiply (wellness and rewards programme), and our other specialist brands, including Guardrisk and Eris Property Group, the group enables business and people from all walks of life to achieve their financial goals and life aspirations.

We help people grow their savings, protect what matters to them and invest for the future. We help companies and organisations care for and reward their employees and members. Through our own network of advisers or via independent brokers and utilising new platforms Momentum Metropolitan provides practical financial solutions for people, communities and businesses. Visit us at www.momentummetropolitan.co.za #HLTH

About Us

Momentum Thebe Ya Bophelo (MomentumTYB), an entity of Momentum Metropolitan Holdings Limited, delivers sustainable, integrated health solutions that meet the needs of clients in the different segments and maximise lifetime client value. We build and maintain a culture of innovation and create value through unique insights of how to achieve specific outcomes by using a defined set of Health capabilities.

ROLE PURPOSE

Develop, test, deploy, maintain and support a portfolio of new and existing software applications and services, from high-level business requirements and designs, through the Software Development Life Cycle.

What You're Going To Do

INTERNAL PROCESS

• Collaborate with the Scrum Master/Project Manager to deliver quality, effective software, in line with the agreed development process and business needs.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements, conduct analysis and prioritise requests.

• Conduct research and evaluate potential technical solutions to identified business problems.

• Partner with Business and/or System Analysts to translate business requirements into workable solutions and document solutions into technical specifications.

• Design and code new software functionality using code that is readable, maintainable and re-usable.

• Conduct Unit Testing of own code, and System Integration Testing (SIT) of each solution and resolve all issues/queries timeously.

• Collaborate with the testing team to co-create test cases to ensure that features within each application are working as expected.

• Contribute to user acceptance testing (UAT) and training material to ensure that functionality is working correctly.

• Provide stakeholders with regular feedback on the technical design and timelines for solution ensuring that business needs are met.

• Maintain existing programmes according to change requests approved by business as and when needed.

• Diagnose root causes of system issues through problem-solving and recommend potential solutions.

• Monitor performance of solutions and make recommendations to improve the performance and functionality of the solution.

• Log issues found in existing systems as internal change controls and ensure successful resolution of issues.

CLIENT

• Build and maintain collaborative, professional relationships with clients and stakeholders.

• Deliver on service level agreements made with clients and stakeholders in order to ensure that expectations are managed.

• Participate and contribute to a culture which builds rewarding relationships, facilitates feedback and provides exceptional client service.

PEOPLE

• Develop and maintain productive and collaborative working relationships with peers and team members.

• Continuously develop own expertise in terms of industry and subject matter development and application thereof in an area of specialisation.

• Participate and contribute to a culture of work-centric thinking, productivity, service delivery and quality management.

• Contribute to continuous innovation through the development, sharing and implementation of new ideas and involvement of peers.

• Take ownership for driving career development.

What You'll Need

KNOWLEDGE

• Knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

• Knowledge of software testing

• Knowledge of writing test cases

• Microsoft SQL Server 2008/2014 (Compulsory)

• Object Orientated programming skills and principles

• C#

• Web Development (ASP.NET, WEBAPI, CSS, HTML)

• JavaScript

• Web Services

Skills

• Communication skills

• Interpersonal skills

• Problem-solving skills

• Pro-active, organised and strong personal drive

• Analytical skills

Competencies Required

• Examining Information

• Articulating Information

• Managing Tasks

• Interpreting Data

• Challenging Ideas

• Producing Output

• Developing Expertise

• Team Working

Experience

EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

• 3-5 Years development experience (Essential)

Qualifications

• B.Com/Bus Sci (IS); or

• BSc. (Comp); or

• B.Tech IT (Software Development); or

• N.Dip IT (Software Development)

Additional Information

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Shortlisted candidates will be subjected to the following statutory checks: ITC; Criminal; References; Qualifications; Psychometric assessments.

Note that we reserve a right not to fill this vacancy.

Should you not be contacted within two weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.