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)