Join one of South Africa's leading short term insurance financial service providers as a RPG Developer.
The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, implementing, and supporting technological solutions to meet business requirements in accordance with specification.
Duties:
Internal Collaboration: Effective and consistent service delivery, teamwork, communication, and customer satisfaction.
Quality Assurance – Technical Solution: Follow standards and best practices of the IT team, maintain a high-quality standard in the work being delivered, ensure maintainability of code, quality of design, elegance of solution, and compliance with system design and architecture.
Quality Assurance – Testing: Conduct necessary developer testing (Stress, Integration, and Unit), pass basic test scenarios and functionality sanity checks, take responsibility for acquiring developer test data, list all impacted areas and database impact to Jira for regression testing, comply with all business requirements, and ensure the tester does not reopen the fixed defect multiple times for the same problem.
Testing: Perform relevant developer testing, update basic test cases with additional impact information and database impact, conduct necessary testing (Stress, Integration, and Unit).
Software Development Efficiency – Business Requirements: Take accountability for understanding business requirements by asking questions, clarifying requirements, researching appropriate solutions/answers, providing analysis and recommendations to meet requirements, demonstrate insight into business requirements, and identify, understand, and communicate critical dependencies, integration, and impact (Internal and external) of requirements.
Planning: Define scope and main pieces of work/tasks (must be logged in Jira), estimate duration of IT solutions based on business requirements (update Jira), provide honest feedback on the progress of tasks irrespective of challenges, and update Jira status when done.
Software Development and Implementation: Take full accountability to deliver work/task within the agreed time period, develop, enhance, and maintain applications for the internal and external clients based on specifications received, write code or parameters to provide software components according to technical specifications, amend any defects within the solution, take responsibility for ensuring successful integration with internal and external systems, migrate applications into applicable environments, conduct implementation checks and testing, and post-implementation monitoring, complete and maintain relevant technical documentation.
Risk / Opportunity Identification Related to Expenses and Revenue/ Innovate: Identify financial and business risks to the company and escalate accordingly, minimize the company's loss by controlling excessive wastage, contain costs within budget parameters, suggest increased productivity/SDLC/Quality, provide suggested improvements/solutions; not just technical, and come forth with ideas on how to marry business and technical.
Performance and Development: Manage own performance and development.
Treating Customers Fairly: Ensure effective and consistent service delivery and support to both internal and external clients in line with the Company Values and Treating Customers Fairly Principles.
Values: Live the Momentum values namely, Accountability, Diversity, Excellence, Integrity, Innovation, and Teamwork.
Competencies:
Deciding & Initiating Action
Adhering to Principles & Values
Applying Expertise & Technology
Analyzing; Learning & Researching
Creating & Innovating
Planning & Organising
Delivering Results & Meeting Customer Expectations
Adapting & Responding to Change
Coping with Pressures & Setback
Achieving Personal Work Goals & Objectives
Qualifications:
Diploma / Degree in Information Technology
Experience:
5 years RPG Development/ILE experience
RPG 7
Embedded SQL
Good communication skills
Be pro-active and take initiative
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