Business Applications Developer at Tezza Business Solutions Ltd

Job Description

• Interface with Head, IT Applications in definition of IT initiatives and strategy
• Take lead in the delivery and support of business solutions
• Review and analyze existing application effectiveness and efficiency, and contribute to the development of strategies for improving or leveraging these systems.
• Ensure that development projects meet business requirements and goals, fulfil end-user requirements, and identify and resolve systems issues.
• Take ownership in developing, maintaining, supporting, and upgrading existing systems and applications
• Manage the development and deployment of new applications, systems software, and/or enhancements to existing applications enterprise wide.
• Prepare technical system design documentation and ensure it is maintained and up-to-date
• Ensure that any new software integration into company systems meets functional requirements, system compliance, and interface specifications.
• Collaborate with vendors and in-house stakeholders in the testing of new software programs and applications prior to production deployment
• Assist with quality assurance (i.e. test script creation and execution), program logic, and data processing.
• Develop, disseminate, and enforce functional policies, procedures, and quality assurance best practices.
• Deploy mission-critical information and software systems
• Identify/resolve program errors and management of release into production
• Design, develop and deliver training programmes and user guidance notes for systems Manage and provide direction for the application development team (vendor) to support business operations.
• Ensure tools development are secure in line with the internal security policy
• Participate in ensuring the application related security of data from internal and external attack
• Keep abreast of new technologies
• Where necessary, prepare, establish, and monitor project related budgets.
• Ensure maintenance of Service Level Agreements between various service providers and the bank

Requirements

• First degree in Computer Science and related disciplines with Strong IT technical background
• ITILv3: IT Service Management foundation
• Recently certified Microsoft Certificated Application Developer or Oracle Certified Master Java Developer
• Must have a minimum of 8 years cognate experience in similar roles within the financial services industry
• Specific IT experience within investment banking and asset management will be an added advantage

Specific development experience in following would be required/ or of advantage:

• C# 3-4 years’ experience
• SQL Server
• Reporting Services
• Ajax, JQuery, Bootstrap ,JavaScript
• ASMX Web Services
• ASPNET MVC
• WEB API
• Angular JS
• PHP
• MYSQL
• ETL
• SSAS
• .NET Framework
• Visual Studio
• GIT/TSS/ TFS/ Tortoise SVN
• Design/Development of enterprise wide SharePoint 2010 and Salesforce.com
• Solid OOP development (C# or Java)
• Single and multi-threaded application dev exp
• Workflow modelling at both the application and integration level
• Data analysis and report creation
• System/software quality assurance best practices
• File management techniques
• Proven systems integration experiencewith Webservices, Biztalk, TIBCO, Websphere MQ or equivalent,SOAP,Web APIs
• Disaster recovery & Business continuity awareness
• Modelling notation such as UML to illustrate concepts
• Solid relational database expertise grounded in MS SQL or Oracle Database
• Business Intelligence (Microsoft)
• Experience of ‘Big Data’ solutions like Hadoop for use as high distributed data warehouse.

Cross Functional:

• Windows Exchange 2010
• Windows Active Directory
• Incident/problem Management
• Change Management.
• Release Management
• Business Performance Management.
• Financial Analysis
• Leadership skills.
• Requirement Gathering.
• Interpersonal skills
• Business analysis
• Application programming language
• Data base analysis/design
• Vendor management
• Strategic thinking and planning awareness
• Supervisory skills

Salary
N300,000