Specialist: Digital Application Developer at Telkom

Core Description    
Responsible for taking high-level business plans, ideas, problems or requirements and translate them into concrete netcentric (internet, intranet, extranet) functional specifications. The specs produced will describe how the solution integrates with both the business processes and products and the existing IT infrastructure. These specs must then be translated into netcentric (internet, intranet extranet) solutions; these solutions must be tested and then implemented. The implemented solutions must be maintained. All bug fixes will be taken through the same process as new requirements.
Participate in every aspect of the development and implementation, working with business/ system analysts to ensure full understanding of the change implications to current business processes. Follow good development practices and software development life cycle methodologies throughout software solution development. Also responsible for Project Management. Some areas will require 2nd level support to be part of core tasks. Set development standards for the Digital development team, with input from the Domain leads and architects. Ensuring that regular code reviews get done to ensure that all developers conform to the development standards. Responsible for application database designs and scripting. Ensuring that best practice in database design is followed to ensure efficient and optimized database access from applications. Doing regular clean-ups on the database structure to ensure optimization. Responsible for the software technology upgrade used for development. Analyzing the new features of the upgraded software and ensuring that developers are informed of new features within software upgrades.
Required Certification    

• None

Qualifications    

• Relevant 3 year Degree/ Diploma (at least NQF level 6).

Experience    

• 5 Years relevant experience in web based solutions, database design, frameworks and languages.

Special Requirements    

• For analysis and design:
• Visio experience
• Enterprise Architect Experience
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Within the Application Architecture, experience in the following technologies is required:

• Java EE
• Java Annotations
• Hibernate
• SQL
• HTML5
• JSP
• JavaScript
• Bootstrap
• JQuery
• Ajax
• DoJo
• Spring
• DWR
• Varlang
• Webservices (e.g WSDL, ws-addressing, Spring WS, etc)
• Comments    

Please note 60% of functions will be functional assistance and experience in a Sales environment will be preferable.