Environment:

A global innovative finance platform seeks a highly skilled Team Lead: Oracle developer with a relevant degree to lead a team responsible for successful technical project delivery. This person is responsible for project delivery by a team, process efficiencies, team efficiencies and leadership of a team. Must have solid Oracle forms and reports experience together with Team Leadership experience.

Duties:

Provide technical analysis and design –

• Analyse and evaluate the business impact of changes to existing systems as well as the addition of new features.
• Compile designs for various projects, meeting the business and client requirements.
• Carry out sufficient research and development to identify new trends and features that could be incorporated to enhance the current system to improve business processes and productivity.
• Provide input at the technical forum and refine technical documentation enabling the development process to be efficient and meet client requirements.
• Produce the necessary documentation that supports the software development design.
• Provide assistance with the user requirements gathering process and present ideas to the user ensuring all technical and design aspects are understood.
• Provide high-level guidance to internal staff on the whole system.
• Understand 3rd party systems and liaise with 3rd parties ensuring that the application integration works efficiently.
• Liaise with the client to ensure all technical requirements/application concerns are attended to.
• Provide technical direction for design and development to the development team.

Manage Build Process –

• Provide guidance and support to developers in providing the best technical solution that is sustainable and meets the client’s requirements.
• Act in the role of a senior developer to assist with complex coding solutions in accordance with the quality and deadlines required of the project.
• Produce code for a stipulated program and in accordance to the agreed design.
• Provide estimates of effort required to complete the projects, working closely with the project manager. This would include but not be limited to analysis of development time, skills and resources required.
• Assist with the allocation of tasks to resources to ensure that the workload is evenly spread to meet business goals.
• Conduct code and unit testing reviews ensuring quality standards are met.
• Review and maintain coding standards.
• Provide technical trouble shooting guidance to the team to ensure that the project requirements are met within the agreed timeframes.
• Conduct UAT’s on developed system to ensure that the application meets the quality standards.

Manage implementation rollouts –

• Coordinate the rollout of the system on client site ensuring that it is functioning effectively.
• Provide guarantee period support to the client ensuring client issues are dealt with professionally and timeously.
• Provide a comprehensive hand over to the retainer support team allowing them to meet the client’s expectations of quality service.
• Document system manual reviews.

Manage team –

• Manage resources through providing guidance, mentorship, support and developmental opportunities to aid team members to meet project deadlines and quality.
• Provide status reporting inclusive of but not limited to utilisation plans, project updates, process improvements and team initiatives.

Requirements:

Qualification –

• BSc/BCom degree or equivalent.

Experience –

• Eight years’ development experience.
• Detailed and wide range technical knowledge across entire domain systems.
• Expert technical knowledge (Oracle and/or Java platforms).
• Must have Tranquillity ERP and sugar industry knowledge.
• Proven process improvement experience.
• Advanced design and analysis skills (includes database design).
• High-level understanding

Posted on 16 Aug 11:56