Senior Programmer

Main Purpose of the job / Experience

To develop and support for the B2B platform.

• AWS Certified Developer with 5+ years of industry experience and more than 2 years as Full Stack AWS Developer comprising of software configuration, design, development, and data lake implementation/support on AWS
• Proficient in various AWS services such as EKS, VPC, EC2, S3, ELB, AutoScalingGroup (ASG), EBS, RDS, IAM, EFS etc.
• Developed data ingestion modules using AWS Step Functions, AWS Glue and Python modules
• Highly result driven, quality and craftmanship focused with good interpersonal skills, linear problem-solving skills, self-motivated, fast learner, good team player.

Key Performance Areas / Outputs

• Business Relationship
• Solution Development
• Service Delivery
• Talent Development

Key Performance Areas and Indicators

Business Relationship

• Analyse and understand the current business environment.
• Analyse and understand the current business strategies.
• Understand the current trends and developments in the industry.
• Liaise with business on regular basis to co-ordinate initiatives, provide feedback, highlight risks and discuss issues.

Solution Development

• Establish and maintain process and technology standards for development lifecycle, coordinating with Architecture teams as needed.
• Oversee solution development from a project/task management perspective.
• Review proposed solutions to ensure strategic alignment, adherence to standards and quality of deliverables.
• Engage with business representatives to obtain review and agreement on solutions that are presented.
• Collaborate with business analysts and solutions architects to develop technical architectures for strategic enterprise projects and initiatives.
• Responsible for design, implementation, and operational support for Cloud-based infrastructure solutions.
• Develop web and client-based decision support systems solutions on the cloud platform including reports, dashboards, self-service channels and data extracts.
• Plan, design and develop data warehouse solutions on cloud platform to enable the team to provide the following (among other deliverables):
  • Extraction & Transformation of data from various data sources
  • Development and implementation of high-volume batch and/or real time data loads

Service Delivery

• Provide strong lead on technical knowledge of programming and analysis.
• Provide leadership in analysis and generation of application and technical requirements for applications.
• Define technical and functional standards and ensure delivered work meets technical, functional, performance and business requirements as well as best practices
• Develop, test and debug code associated with reporting team deliverables.
• Maintain system in accordance with department standards and best practices.
• Organise the support and maintenance of existing database and decision support systems including:
  • Troubleshooting data and system related issues
  • Identify problems and propose changes
  • Liaise with technical and business users to resolve issues
  • Implement changes to existing systems
• Facilitate response to incidents raised within SLA.
• Review incidents and action corrective steps and define root cause remediation’s.

Talent Development

• Check and monitor quality of work produced by staff.
• Coach and mentor both mid-level and junior staff.

Formal Qualification

3-year Degree/ Diploma or equivalent.

Leadership training

Cloud technology certification

Project management training/certification

Job Related Experience

Business Analysis 5+ Years

Data Analysis 3-5 Years

Business Intelligence Development 3-5 Years

Project Management 3-5 Years

Retail Experience 3-5 Years

Job Related Skills

Problem solving skills

Organisational and time management skills

Decision-making skills

Documentation skills

Advanced Excel Skills

Ability to extract data from relational databases and other data sources for analysis purposes.

Ability to analyse data and present findings in an efficient and accurate manner to all levels of the organisation