PURPOSE OF THE JOB

Reporting to the Head of ICT, Assistant ICT Manager – Business Applications is responsible for business applications, innovations, improvements of operational processes, directing and coordinating the development, implementation, and maintenance of innovative solutions for business applications.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

•  Leading project teams during development and implementation of ICT Software projects to ensure implementation of applications that meet user requirements.
•  Ensuring timely development and implementation of innovative and effective systems within the organization
•  Ensuring the security of all organizational data to ensure availability and reliability of information, maximum productivity of the organization through the right use of business applications.
•  Ensuring software development standards are followed for maintenance and knowledge transfer to other developers, supervising overall systems documentation for maintenance.
•  Development and implementation of security controls on the organizations Business Applications, maintenance of business applications and effective Change Management in Business Applications to mitigate disruption of systems.
•  Translate business requirements and objectives into technical applications and solutions.
•  Write original code and update existing code, ensuring that all code meets program requirements.
•  Perform intensive testing of all new and existing programs to ensure they are free of errors and functions as intended.
•  Keep up to date the newest technological innovations in the field and be ready to apply relevant innovations to our software systems

REQUIREMENTS

KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

•  Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Information Technology.  ITIL
•  Any Project Management certification, PMP or PRINCE2
•  AWS Cloud Solutions Architect will be an added advantage
•  Three (3) years software development experience, with at least one (1) year in a supervisory role or an equivalent.
•  At least one (1) year experience as a full stack engineer.
•  Excellent understanding of server-side technologies (e.g Java, PHP, Ruby, Node.js)
•  Infrastructure knowledge including RESTful APIs, single sign-on, LDAP, search Technologies (auth), APIgee, GraphQL, Swagger).
•  Experience with relational and NoSQL Databases.
•  Experience in design-driven development, continuous deployment, code refactoring, design patterns, application security, highly scalable applications.

SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

•  People Driven Management
•  Persuasion and negotiation Skills
•  Leadership
•  Results oriented
•  Business Enterprise Knowledge