My client based in Cape Town (Northern Suburbs) is currently looking for a BackEnd Developer to join them on an independent contract basis
What will you do?
– Design, develop and maintain appropriately scaled effective solutions to support data cleansing, migration and reconciliation activity in MS SQL Server T-SQL integration Services and related tools.
– Ensure design and development take into account all aspects of requirements – including data quality, customer experience architecture, security & operations – so that software is fit for the purpose.
– Deliver a robust, testable, repeatable framework of jobs and scripts for migrating data and producing reconciliation reports to confirm success or failure.
– Work with third party suppliers to understand their software APIs and integrate them with SPW solutions to load and extract data.
– Identify and solve performance bottlenecks in SQL Server and database platforms.
– Manage MS SQL Server database environments that support data migration and backups and recoveries in test environments.
– Use approved technologies when developing systems and adhere to department, industry and regulatory standards.
– Provide support for solutions, including analysis, issue tracking and resolution. Take pro-active ownership of support tasks and see them through to completion.
– Report progress on development at daily stand-ups and escalate issues or slippage in a timely fashion, identifying remedial action to keep the project or business as usual on track.
– Demonstrate a logical and structured approach to time management and task prioritisation. Work within project/business as usual timelines and budgets. Be able to organise own time, schedule tasks for completion and deliver work to that schedule.
Qualification & experience
– Bachelor’s degree in computer science or Diploma in IT preferred or equivalent combination of education, training and experience
– 7-10 years solid experience in C# development and the .net framework
– Minimum 7+ years experience in middle tier C# development such as integration services, MVC/MVVM/SAM type patterns
– 7-10 years solid experience in a data environment and development framework.
– Minimum 7+ years of practical experience with SQL Server (e.g. (contact number)).
– Minimum 7+ years scripting, tuning, debugging, troubleshooting and other advanced SQL concepts
– Expert Transact- SQL skills and the ability to create complex queries, stored procedures, user-defined functions, views, and other database objects.
– Exposure to big data.
– Exposure to web frameworks would be advantageous
– Experience in the financial services industry
Knowledge and skills
– Exposure to the MVC pattern
– Deep understanding of C# which you leverage to build all sorts of code in the language
– Ability to transition your understanding of fundamental coding practices to any language
– Proven experience with software design and OOD methodologies
– Implement, test, and bug-fix functionality
– Advanced Excel, OLAP and presentation skills.
– ETL knowledge (SSIS).
– Exposure to MS PowerQuery and PowerBI is an advantage.
– Advanced knowledge of SQL and SQL server skills (SQL 2012 – 2014) is an advantage.
– Experience with HTML, JavaScript and web development frameworks (AngularJS, Bootstrap, jQuery)
Personal qualities
– Strong numerical orientation
– Highly organized with a high level of customer focus
– Accurate and detail orientated
– Critical and analytical capability
– Ability to perform well under pressure and show maturity, confidence and resilience
– Excellent listening, communication and interpersonal skills
– Pro-Active approach to work, clients, problem solving
– Learning agility and curiosity
– Assertive
– Passionate ownership for results