Junior TIA Oracle Developer at Old Mutual South Africa

Job Description

• This is role includes solutions design, development, implementation, testing, data conversion, documentation, and system enhancements. Accountabilities for this role include software development, systems analysis, interpreting functional requirements, and engaging with relevant stakeholders.

Critical Objectives And Responsibilities

Software development, build, and release management – ensuring high-quality input into the build and release management processes to ensure high availability and predictability of releases:

• Develops, tests, and implements new systems and system changes in accordance with agreed coding standards and principles.
• Contribute to Test Driven Development (TDD) Framework.
• Business analysis knowledge and ability to analyze business requirements to be met by IT solutions and document them.
• Ensures code commit standards and conventions are adhered to by the development team, including but not limited to GIT, using agreed tools.
• Actively contributes to improving the quality of code commit standards and conventions.
• Ensures adherence by the software engineering team with respect to the source code branch strategy.
• Identifies and drives opportunities for continuous improvement and innovation.
• Collaborates with the various teams to enable an efficient, effective release pipeline.
• Provide high-level and detailed design for business and technical solutions.

Quality Management

• Ensures technical integrity of the solution.
• Ensures that all system changes align with coding standards and principles

Continuous improvement to ensure effective service

• Ensure adherence to organizational policies, practices and procedures.
• Identify solutions to enhance cost-effectiveness and increase operational efficiency.

Service delivery to ensure customer satisfaction

• Maintain service, quality and desired outputs across the business process by ensuring compliance to tactical policies, procedures and standards.
• Establish productive operational relationships with key stakeholders in the various channels and administrative teams.
• Share knowledge on, and participate in the creation of new standards, control systems and procedures to maintain service delivery.

Manage quality people practices

• Align own behavior with the organisation's culture and values.
• Share and transfer product, process and systems knowledge to colleagues.
• Collaborate and work with wider business teams to deliver required service levels.
• Actively share information with other team members regarding successes, issues, trends, and ideas.

Experience, Knowledge & Skills Required

• Degree in Computer Science/Engineering (or 1 to 4 years equivalent experience)
• Experience working within an Agile and DevOps team.
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Experience with writing and maintaining unit tests and functional tests.
• Experience in developing distributed, high transactional, and available systems.
• Object-orientated programming knowledge.
• Excellent understanding of theoretical Software Engineering fundamentals, including but not limited to distributed systems, highly scalable systems, algorithms, data structures, design patterns, and programming paradigms is advantageous.

Core Skills: (1 to 4 Years experience)

• TIA
• Oracle ADF/Forms
• SQL and PLSQL experience in a high-load environment
• Strong experience with Oracle functions, procedures, triggers, packages & performance tuning

Competency Descriptors

• Customer: Putting the customer at the heart of business decisions and driving to improve value for customers.
• Collaboration: Creates trust, and respect and builds meaningful relationships. Able to handle a wide range of relational challenges to ensure collaboration across boundaries.
• Innovation: Generates creative/out-of-the-box solutions. Challenges the status quo and/or demonstrates the ability to relate to challenges from a range of diverse but relevant perspectives. Willing to take calculated risks when introducing novel ideas.
• Personal Mastery: Learns and actively works to build self-awareness; develops through experience and feedback from others. Copes effectively with stress and has the resilience to take on stretching and challenging assignments. Adjusts effectively to work within new work structures; processes; requirements and cultures.
• Executing: Displays consistent energy, drive, and perseverance in order to deliver results. Demonstrates a willingness to take calculated risks to achieve stretch performance goals.

Closing Date

04 May 2023