Application Developer at Lafarge Cement

Summary 

Primary responsibility is be to design and develop applications and coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure.

Responsibilties

• Interface with the business for requirement gathering and act as first-level support for all user escalations
• Building new applications, maintaining the existing software platforms
• First Level Support for user escalation with response to applications developed locally
• Participate in requirement gathering and documentation of software application
• Interface with business to ensure their requirements are met
• Database Administration - Data Backup
• Analyze user data needs and determine needs resolved through an automated repeatable process.
• Decompose high-level business needs into functional needs by understanding problems and determining data needs.
• Generate reports using QlikView and QlikSense based on data analysis and presenting to management
• Supporting the data warehouse team in identifying and revising reporting requirements
• Training end-users on how to develop new reports and dashboards

Education & Experience

• A Bachelor’s degree or Higher National Diploma in Computer Science or other relevant field
• Minimum of 3-5 years directly related work experience in Software Development
• Proficient in C#, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems
• Familiarity with the .NET framework (C#, ASP.NET Core, Web API, WCF, ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework, XAML, Xamarin, MVVM, MVVMCross)
• Familiarity with React JS or Vue JS
• Familiarity with the Mono framework 
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming
• Skill for writing reusable C# libraries
• Familiar with various design and architectural patterns
• Knowledge of concurrency patterns in C#
• Familiarity with Microsoft SQL Server, Sqlite, MySQL
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Basic understanding of Common Language Runtime (CLR), its limitations, weaknesses, and workarounds
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools

Behavioral competence:

• Ability to work in and constructively contribute to team work environment and meet stringent deadlines
• Ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks simultaneously
• Knack for writing clean, readable C# code
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills

Leadership and Managerial abilities:

• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Good communication skills (both written and spoken) in articulating and presenting choices

Job Dimensions

• Key interfaces, stakeholders and relationships:

Internal

• IT Operations 
• End User Support
• Network Engineer
• Internal Control 
• Business Units (to assist with system requirements and encourage use of Group standards)