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