Senior Application Technical Specialist Role

We are looking for Senior Application Technical SpecialistProfessionals with 6- 8 years solid development experience in SharePoint administration and developmentand has a solid knowledge base of the SDLC.

About The Employer:

Key deliverables:
The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

  • To support the BSTD applications by monitoring the underlying environments (databases and application servers) to ensure capacity management, systems availability and optimal performance.
  • maintain the BSTD applications by applying corrective measures (e.g. patches, upgrades, bug fixes).
  • To proactively monitor all application upgrades, new releases and product replacements which would affect the assigned application
  • To configure the application infrastructure to ensure optimal performance and install new features to enable new functionality
  • To investigate and resolve medium-high complexity technical issues by interacting with users, developers, and other stakeholders on allocated applications
  • To provide reporting and recommendations on solution performance and system availability to senior management and relevant stakeholders
  • To proactively manage business and stakeholder relationships with respect to application support.
  • To keep abreast of best practices and technologies related to BSTD as well as ensure application thereof where relevant.
  • To impart knowledge of the technical environment to the system development team.

To maintain compliance to security & application Standards

  • Compile Change Request documentation
  • After hours standby and attendance of business continuity exercises

Competencies:

  • Industry, organisational and business awareness knowledge and skill
  • Quality assurance knowledge and skill
  • Continuous improvement knowledge and skill
  • Continued learning and/or professional development knowledge and skill
  • Business continuity and planning knowledge
  • IT enablement planning knowledge
  • IT transformation and innovation skills
  • Release management knowledge
  • Application design, configuration and development knowledge and skill
  • Application support and maintenance knowledge and skill
  • Infrastructure design and development knowledge and skill
  • Systems integration knowledge and skill
  • Workload Estimation Skills
  • Technical Analysis skills

Minimum qualification Required:

  • A minimum of a Degree (NQF 7) Computer Science, Information Management/Information Technology OR equivalent.
  • A minimum of 6-8 years of experience in SharePoint administration and development.
  • Solid knowledge of Nintex workflow.
  • Solid knowledge of Microsoft Windows Server, IIS, TCP/IP, VLAN.
  • A SharePoint administration certification.
  • Experience with setting up, maintaining and upgrading SharePoint environments

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