{"id":2515,"date":"2011-03-18T01:55:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T00:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joblistsouthafrica.com\/?p=2515"},"modified":"2013-10-15T02:01:39","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T00:01:39","slug":"standard-bank-of-south-africa-senior-developer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joblistsouthafrica.com\/standard-bank-of-south-africa-senior-developer.html","title":{"rendered":"Standard Bank of South Africa: Senior Developer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Standard Bank<\/strong> is one of the big four banks in South Africa, and is a top ten company on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.\u00a0Standard Bank is involved in investment and retail banking, and has a substantial shareholding in Liberty Life. Standard Bank has offices in many countries around the world. Standard Bank of South Africa recruits Senior Developer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Position Description<\/strong>
\nMain purpose of the job<\/p>\n

The incumbent will support and develop applications in the Credit Risk IT portfolio. As such, the incumbent will design IT solutions based on specified business requirements, develop the solutions, test the solutions, participate in its release and provide the required documentation.<\/p>\n

Key responsibilities<\/strong><\/p>\n

1.\tEffectively addressing production incidents by:
\na.\tcontaining and mitigating the impact of the incident
\nb.\tdiagnosing cause with multi-disciplinary team
\nc.\tdeveloping a fix (including the elimination of root cause)
\nd.\tengaging relevant parties to deploy the fix.
\n2.\tDelivering system enhancements to continuously improve the system and meet changing business requirements by:
\na.\tidentifying opportunities to improve systems (e.g. robustness, technology upgrades and application of best practice)
\nb.\tdesigning technical solutions for specified requirements
\nc.\tdeveloping the solution
\nd.\tunit and integration testing the developed solution
\ne.\tcontributing to the release of system changes.
\n3.\tDelivering on governance requirements and best practice by:
\na.\tensuring adherence to technology best practice (e.g. soft configuration and virtualisation)
\nb.\tmaintaining appropriate documentation regarding solution
\nc.\tensuring required records are kept (e.g. test approvals) for audit purposes.
\n4.\tDeliver on the service requests (e.g. queries on database) raised by Business from time to time.<\/p>\n

Key performance measures<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022\tStakeholder satisfaction with quality, predictability and rate of delivering solutions as established through 360 degree performance assessments.
\n\u2022\tQuality of support and enhancements as established through peer reviews.
\n\u2022\tDelivery of changes and fixes meet corporate governance requirements.
\n\u2022\tDelivery achieved according to agreed plans.
\n\u2022\t\u201cRight first time\u201d fixes and changes to applications.
\n\u2022\tAppropriate Financial Services and Credit Risk business knowledge.
\n\u2022\tSupport of applications meets Service Level Agreement performance metrics.<\/p>\n

Key dimensions of the job<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022\tAble to work flexible hours when necessary when required (e.g. weekends).
\n\u2022\tSound knowledge of the end-to-end IT processes across various Divisions in the Group required to deliver and support global systems.
\n\u2022\tSupport and enhance a portfolio of 10 applications.<\/p>\n

Important relationships<\/p>\n

\u2022\tInternal relationships:
\n\u2022\t5+ representatives from 5+ different IT areas establishing technical requirements and performing diagnosis and testing.
\n\u2022\tPlanning and managing delivery of changes across the technology stack with 5+ different IT areas.
\n\u2022\tEngage other departmental staff \u2013 management, technical leads, developers and testers \u2013 to participate in planning and delivering support and enhancement requirements.
\n\u2022\tExternal relationships:
\n\u2022\tEngage vendors as sources of information and\/or resources in resolving incidents and delivering enhancements.<\/p>\n

Problem solving, planning and decision making<\/p>\n

Problem solving<\/p>\n

\u2022\tThe ability to identify and understand the business needs and strategies and then to interpret and convert these into operational reality.
\n\u2022\tAnalyse incidents to establish cause, develop and implement fixes, and communicate status fix problems under time pressure.
\n\u2022\tThe incumbent must lead a multi-disciplinary team to establish the root cause of production incidents – across the technology stack (application to infrastructure) – to preventing recurrence by enhancing the solution.
\n\u2022\tEnsure that requirements are completely defined with incomplete knowledge by contributors.
\n\u2022\tThe incumbent will need to be able to constantly challenge established thinking and to facilitate constructive discussions that lead to continuous improvement in systems and processes.<\/p>\n

Planning<\/p>\n

\u2022\tThe incumbent will need to balance demand and capacity (of all contributors to the end to end SDLC) in planning delivery with stakeholders with a 6 month horizon.
\n\u2022\tEnsure change requirements, priorities and solution designs are aligned with the unfolding business and technology architecture (one year view).
\n\u2022\tIncorporate interdependencies with other applications and external resources into planning.<\/p>\n

Decision making<\/p>\n

\u2022\tIdentify and facilitate decision making as and when required during the SDLC.
\n\u2022\tEnsure governance is properly established and adhered to during decision making.<\/p>\n

Click here to view Job and Apply Online<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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