Vacancies at Accenture

Main Responsibilities/Tasks:

Design and Develop

• Work with team members to gather and interpret user/system requirements into design specifications
• Design, build, assemble, and configure application or technical architecture components using business requirements and technical programming standards
• Develop system specifications and interfaces for complex components
• Implement and set security and data direction for the coding work
• Lead code and quality management reviews
• Architect the development strategy for applications and components
• Ensure smooth communication from/ to the technical architect
• Implement and/or maintain
• Create operational documentation for the application
• Provide primary support for installation of application releases into production
• Maintain applications according to SLAs or other business requirements
• Conduct project risks and issues management (status reporting, issue reporting, ETC/budget reporting) for assigned scope of work

Test

• Partner with the testing team to ensure applications/components are fully functional
• Fix any defects or performance problems discovered in testing
• Work across the Service Delivery Lifecycle
• Work across the Service Delivery Lifecycle on engineering solutions for new system rollouts, major/minor enhancements, and/or ongoing maintenance of existing applications
• Analyze, design, build, and/or test new components or enhancements to existing modules
• Manages small to medium teams and/or work efforts
• Requires analysis and solving of moderately complex problems. May create new solutions, leveraging and, where needed, adapting existing methods and procedures
• Requires understanding of the strategic direction set by management as it relates to team goals.
• Provide technical expertise and guidance to production support staff.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Working knowledge of MVC.NET; C#.NET, VB.NET, WCF (Web services), XML, SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), JavaScript, JQuery, SQL, SSIS, SSRS, Team Foundation Server (TFS) or Azure DevOps.
• Application Lifecycle Management skills.
• Team Leadership skills.
• Good oral and written communication skills.
• Innovative, dedicated and committed to achieving results.
• Self-motivated and able to adapt quickly.
• Knowledge of Agile principles and values will be advantageous.
• Willing to skill in Natural Adabas for integration between legacy mainframe back-end and modern web front-end
• Must have Information Technology related degree/diploma (3 years tertiary qualification).
• Must have 6 – 10 years working experience in Microsoft .NET framework.
• Must be a South African Citizen.

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Main Responsibilities/Tasks:

• To efficiently code, debug and unit test simple to moderate to complex programs. This includes new development and / or modifications to existing programs on a Supply Chain system;
• Compile designs for simple to moderate to complex programs;
• To investigate user requests in order to determine and correct root cause of incidents;
• Assist business / system analyst with definition and analysis of enhancements and new developments;
• Work with users to define program and system requirements as required;
• Prepare complete system documentation in the design, programming, testing and release phases of the system development life cycle; and
• Provide documentation support to project team, including maintenance of technical documentation, user manuals, and training materials.

General and administrative tasks

• Submit weekly status report to team leader in agreed format;
• Perform tasks according to project standards and procedures and within pre-defined timelines;
• Work effectively as part of a team and seek to support the team’s goals;
• Deliver the required deliverables as per applicable task assigned;
• Oral and written communication to supervisor/team leader;
• Work according to the-minute rule when solving problems, i.e. a problem is not solved within 15 minutes the supervisor should be involved to provide guidelines;
• Problems should be identified and escalated to the supervisor with sufficient lead-time to avert crises, this includes communication when the target date is not met or when the risk of not meeting the target date exists;
• Identify changes in scope or work effort that could result in budgetary overrun or the missing of delivery dates;
• Broaden own technical, functional (Supply Chain Management and Asset Management) and industry (Government) skill base;
• Engage in formal or informal knowledge transfer;
• Perform related work as per Client's IT and Operations Standards; and
• Adhere to project standards and procedures.
• Other Features of the Job (e.g., location, traveling, shift hours, etc.):
• Professionalism
• Open plan office
• Overtime when required
• 3 years relevant industry related tertiary qualification;

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Job Summary

We are looking for exceptional Front End Developers to work with our cross-functional team, and join our world-class community of talented experts.

Job Requirement

• Work with Project management and solution architects to estimate and scope out projects.
• Work with Creative team during planning, discovery and production phase.
• Work with backend development team to create and optimize solution.
• Optimizing code for performance.
• Comment code and produce documentation to industry standards as needed.
• Produce code to the highest standards while adhering to industry accepted architecture and design pattern techniques and methodologies (e.g., MVC, SOA, OOP, DI etc.)
• Create rapid high-fidelity prototypes using UI Frameworks while working with creative teams.

Ideally you will have

• At least 5+ years of experience with Angular and React
• Good understanding of OOPs concepts.
• Strong hands on knowledge on HTML5, CSS3, ES6+
• Strong understanding of the React Virtual DOM, JSX and API
• Hands on experience on REST APIs, GraphQL and WebSocket
• Experience with a State-management framework like Redux (with middleware) or MobX
• Comfortable with concepts like Container/Presentation components, Higher Order Components
• Worked with UI libraries like Material-UI, Semantic UI, Bootstrap or similar
• Good understanding of CSS in JS, aka scoped-css or Styled Components
• Unit testing with Karma + Mocha or Jest
• Experience working with client-side templating languages like Handlebars, Mustache or similar.
• Experience on working with frontend build systems and automating the same using Grunt / Gulp
• Experience on MVC frameworks (Backbone.js, or similar) and knowledge of common JavaScript design patterns will be good to have
• Experience of working with server-side JavaScript frameworks based on Node.js
• Exposure to Style Guides, Atomic Design
• Exposure to Design tools like Sketch, Adobe Illustrator or Affinity Designer
• Good verbal and written communication in English

Additional Good To Have

• Comfortable with one or more of the following languages: Python, Java, Swift, PHP
• DevOps skills like good understanding of Shell commands, deployment, system updates, security configurations of web servers and Docker configurations.
• Fair understanding of React Native and/or Cordova/PhoneGap/Ionic
• At least 6+ years of experience in building Front End Applications

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What You Will Do

• Create technical concepts and best practices to enable our clients implement intelligent 5G, Open RAN, and LTE networks
• Prototype your proposals with practical hands-on in 5G Labs
• Present your solutions to technology-savvy clients, and promote to global scale with technical impulses for umlaut experts and pre-sales
• Work in emerging technologies, e.g. energy-efficient networks, RAN intelligent controllers, ORAN integration & interoperability, network slicing, telco cloud & orchestration
  Regularly research the market and standards to influence umlaut innovation capabilities, e.g. 3GPP releases, 6G.
• Represent umlaut within standards developing organizations such as NGMN, ORAN Alliance or TIP
• Be part of a technological innovation team, cross-functional in expertise
• Brings at least 4 years of working experience in engineering, design, optimization, or similar position preferably with a network operator or vendor
• Hands-on experience on NR and LTE for traditional and new vendors, e.g. Ericsson, Mavenir, Altiostar, Parallel Wireless, Nokia, Huawei
• Have practical experience with Open RAN architecture and functionalities, with the know-how of ORAN Alliance specifications
• Familiarity with testing tools, e.g. Spirent, Keysight, Viavi, Wireshark
• Knowledge of cloud technologies, e.g. Kubernetes, Dockers, OpenShift, AWS
• Strong knowledge of 3GPP Release 15+ RAN specifications, service requirements, and architecture in both SA and NSA modes
• Strong knowledge of RAN features, interfaces, KPIs, and automation
• You are strongly objective and quality oriented and have very good conceptual, organizational, and presentation skills

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What You Will Do

• Gain an in-depth understanding of functionalities and standards of 2G (GSM) / 3G (UMTS) / 4G (LTE) / 5G Mobile Technologies
• Integrate and commission Open RAN elements (O-RU, O-DU, O-CU) involving RAN and Core network platforms and transport networks in customer projects
• Able to verify conformance, and performance of all main components of the disaggregated architecture
• Able to troubleshoot issues regarding multi-vendor interoperability, manageability, optimization, and end-to-end performance
• Undertake performance improvement (KPIs) and perform design activities
• Undertake system configuration, operational and engineering activities
• Optimise integration procedures, and rollback procedures and assist with creating MOPS for the elements and services
• Diploma or Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field of study
• Experience in network/radio design, performance, optimization, planning
  Experience in network/radio management and L2/L3 support, debugging / troubleshooting of bugs
• Experience with system/radio integration of HW and SW components
• Experience in different cloud deployments (private, public, and hybrid, DOCKER, K8) and basic IP networking experience
• Experience in Fronthaul integration and different OpenRAN deployment scenarios
• Experience in Radio Technology Roadmap Management (Requirements, planning, business case)
• Excellent analytical skills (listening, questioning, challenging etc.)