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VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT ENGINEER
Leading Financial Institution seek an experienced VM Engineer with the following skills:
- Is able to configure different types of scans, for Vulnerability and Asset Subsets, on the Scanning tools
- Knows how to install and configure Scan agents in various environments
- Is able to monitor the performance of the Scanning tools so as to identify and report on
- How optimally the tools are performing
- When capacity upgrades will be required, and to what levels capacity should be upgraded (Storage and performance related capacity)
- Problems experienced during scan operations
- Is able to resolve problems with and without Vendor assistance
- Is able to download and install Scanning tool upgrades (software and content)
- Can manage the relationships and licensing issues with the Vendors
- Is able to extract scan result reports in different formats
kenneth@premier.co.za Ref. 044
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VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT ANALYST
Leading Financial institution seek the services of an experienced Vulnerability Management Analyst with the following skills and experience
- Experience with the use of multiple Vulnerability scanning tools
- Ability to correlate findings from different Vulnerability scanning tools
- Is able to identify false positives, and, can identify the Business impact of Vulnerabilities based on his knowledge of Information Security Threat attack patterns
- Has experience with the use of controls to remediate Vulnerabilities
- Has experience in dealing with both Business and Technical resources and will so be able to negotiate both Vulnerability scanning schedules and remediation activities
kenneth@premier.co.za Ref. 044
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WEB DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
Leading Financial Institution require an experienced Web Development Manager who will manage a team of web developers so as to deliver the web development requirements of the business including all websites as well as marketing related applications. Relevant 3 year degree essential. 7 years experience in an IT / Online / application -development environment of which 3 years in a management / Team Lead role
kenneth@premier.co.za Ref. 044
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JAVA DEVELOPERS
Various opportunities available for Java developers to develop, integrate & maintain the IT area as well as develop software solutions. Degree essential with 3-5 years Java development experience. Financial service background advantageous. Knowledge of Calypso or SWIFT advantageous.
nmuskat@premier.co.za Ref. 036
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TESTERS
Leading bank seeks a Tester to ensure functional & technical changes are working according to business requirements. Relevant technical certification with 5 years testing exposure essential. Financial services experience essential.
nmuskat@premier.co.za Ref. 036
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PROJECT MANAGER
Opportunities for Project Managers, with 2-5 years experience. •To successfully manage and deliver projects within approved budget, timelines & quality. •Alignment of projects to the business, IT strategies and objectives. •To achieve the desired outcomes through best practices in project management and to manage & grow relationship with business and solution providers.
justines@premier.co.za Ref. 007
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SENIOR IT ARCHITECT
R Negotiable, depending on experience. International consulting company requires Senior IT Architect with a solid background in enterprise architecture. Minimum 3 year degree + 5 years IT Architecture experience gained interacting at executive level.
kenneth@premier.co.za Ref. 044
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IT AUDITOR
Academic qualifications and Work Experience:
- Degree in Commerce or Science
- Minimum 2 years audit experience
- Experience in CAATs
Preferences:
- ACL experience
- Financial services and banking experience
- CISA
- Experience in integrated Application reviews
Core skills:
- Experience in performing IT technical, application and GCCR audits from scoping to submitting reports
- Solid experience performing audits using CAATs, preferably ACL
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with all levels of IT and business management
- Knowledge and understanding of Internal Audit and IT Risk Management/Governance standards and frameworks, IT principles and concepts
Core task responsibilities:
- Participate in the development of IT audit strategy
- Perform audit reviews as per the IT audit strategy within predetermined time frames with a focus on technology and security
- Plan assignments including risk identification and interaction with business process auditors
- Make appropriate recommendations regarding improvements of controls to manage risks or improve the effectiveness and efficiency of IT service delivery
- Build and maintain relationships with the business units and IT teams to understand management needs and deliver value
- Share knowledge with the team
- Communicate with external audit as appropriate
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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE BUSINESS ANALYST
Leading consulting company seeks Business Intelligence Business Analyst to work on a project basis. Degree essential with 2 – 4 years Business Analysis exposure. Must have strong technical knowledge of the SDLC, Business Intelligence and data warehouse deployments. SQL essential. Consulting company exposure advantageous.
nmuskat@premier.co.za Ref. 036
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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE DEVELOPER
Leading bank seeks BI developer. Degree essential with 4-5 years experience with SQL. Must have knowledge of Microsoft reporting services and analysis services. Financial services exposure advantageous.
nmuskat@premier.co.za Ref. 036
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TESTER
Leading bank seeks a Tester to ensure functional and technical changes are working according to business requirements. Relevant technical certification with 5 years testing exposure essential. Financial services experience essential.
nmuskat@premier.co.za Ref. 036
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CRM SYSTEMS ANALYST
Opportunity available for CRM Systems Analyst to facilitate the use of Microsoft Dynamics to support the digitization and optimization of workflow processes and client relationship management. Relevant IT qualification with 2 years MSFT Dynamics CRM 4.0 and knowledge of SQL databases. Financial services experience advantageous.
nmuskat@premier.co.za Ref. 036
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BUSINESS SUPPORT ANALYST
Exciting opportunity available within Investment Banking for a Business Support Analyst to provide first line support to treasury business and applications. IT Qualification essential with minimum 2 years exposure to Business Analysis. Experience with treasury applications and treasury processes in each of the areas from front, middle and back office.
nmuskat@premier.co.za Ref. 036
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DATABASE ANALYST
Leading Investment Bank seeks Database Analyst to manage system functioning and administration, and ensure data quality and integrity. Degree/Diploma essential with exposure to financial services data providers. Preference given to candidates from designated groups.
nmuskat@premier.co.za Ref. 036
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TEST MANAGER
Leading bank seeks Test Manager to plan, direct and coordinate test activities of medium to large sized testing projects. Relevant technical certification with 6-8 years experience including management exposure. Financial services background advantageous. Preference given to candidates from designated groups.
nmuskat@premier.co.za Ref. 036
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SENIOR ECM BUSINESS ANALYST
Leading bank requires a candidate to be responsible for project initiatives, business as usual tasks, support & maintenance of existing implementation, driving and maintaining development standards and effective use across all ECM initiatives throughout the business. BSC or equivalent degree required plus a minimum of 3-5 years experience in delivering medium to large scale projects, experience in configuration and development of Documentum and Captiva or have worked with similar ECM applications, be able to demonstrate a wide practical knowledge of the current development environments available for application integration with specific reference to applications servers (J2EE & .NET) as well as RDBMS, have hands on development experience in Java/XML/XSL applications, strong background in business analysis and workflow configuration, an understanding of IT and project methodologies, and knowledge of UML and formal specification methodologies
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SYSTEMS SUPPORT ANALYST
Job Purpose
- Be responsible for the efficient and effective running and functioning of the funds’ systems
Key Result Areas
- Oversee the effective functioning of all applications and systems
- Develop thorough understanding of the Architectural landscape of the Fund
- Develop and co-ordinate relationship with all IT related vendors
- Provide day-to-day technical support to accredited agents and head office
- Track and log technical issues with the vendor
- Perform and assist with system and regression testing on new releases
- Understand database design
- Understand and have the ability to use PL/SQL
- Provide required MIS for all operational activities
- Perform ad hoc tasks as and when required by the Chief Information officer
- Efficiency and effectiveness
- Quality of relationships gained or sustained % of positive stakeholder feedback
- Quality of the work
- Cost of the work Implementation with minimal errors and down time
- Cost benefit derived from the outputs of the job
- Customer satisfaction
- Processing efficiency
- Number of complaints decreased due to effective root cause analysis
- Develops, enhances and manages IT and data relationships with
- Head Office Team
- Accredited Agents
- All IT related vendors
Qualifications
- Relevant IT related degree or diploma
Experience
- At least 2-4 years in any IT related role
- Financial systems experience will be an advantage
- Stakeholder management experience
- Facilitation experience
- Business Intelligence experience
- Previous system support experience
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IT DEVELOPER
Purpose
- Provide Java back-end and front-end (not web based) applications tailor made for specific Department needs
- Maintain and support existing and new applications (all Java5 as well as some VB/Access)
- Be required to communicate clearly in English, verbally and in writing, with all clients in a professional manner
- The role operates within the context of the global IT Development organisation, demanding efficient communication and teamwork
- The successful applicant will have a strong focus on local delivery to the business, with considerable exposure to internal client-facing situations
- The successful candidate will be an individual with a quality broad range of IT skills who is capable of working in an environment that requires flexibility and high productivity, either within a team or on their own with a strong focus on delivery to the business
- Some flexibility around working hours may be required
Qualifications and experience
- Min 2 yr Diploma (with significant IT element) , IT related Degree an advantage
- Experience / knowledge in J2EE / J5EE a definite advantage
- Current and recent use of the following for min. 3 years required: Knowledge of Java5 syntax and features essential
- Experience in working with the collections framework a must
- Experience in Java File IO and other basic application development
- Experience in Java networking and basic threaded applications
- Experience in Java Swing based GUI Development. Experience in SQL a must - Database user management an advantage
- Experience in XML, Ant, CVS, JUnit, JMS and Netbeans preferable but not required
- Minimum of 5 years experience in software development in Java, any others an advantage. Investment banking experience preferable
nmuskat@premier.co.za Ref. 036
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SENIOR MICROSOFT BI SPECIALIST
Purpose: Exercise judgement within defined standard practice and procedures to analyze, design, program, debug, modify and implement business solutions
- Conduct analysis of solution specifications and use diagramming tools to represent business and technical processes
- Recommend changes in support practices, maintenance and standards, and cross training required to better share support responsibilities across the team and with the solution owners
- Provide guidance and training to less experienced support personnel
- Be responsible for advising and directing on application strategy and implementation, maintenance and support of the most appropriate solutions by keeping abreast of what is happening in the market and making recommendations
- Manage the relationship with the supported User base
- Coordinate efforts across territories to ensure consistency in standards for appropriate applications (e.g. JDE)
Additional Details
- Bachelor’s degree – Commerce with Information Systems and / or Accounting would be preferable
- 5 years banking experience with an IT accounting / financial background
- Been in a leadership role
- 4+ years experience with SQL Server technologies
- 4+ years experience with development of executive dashboards and scorecards
- Demonstrated experience in the use of Excel Services, PowerPivot Services and Performance Point Services
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SENIOR DEVELOPER
Job Purpose
This person’s responsibilities will cover the full application life cycle and will include evaluating business requirements, system analysis and design, writing of technical specifications, programming, testing, maintenance and technical support of our client's applications. Mentoring of junior staff may be required
Qualifications and expertise:
- Software development related certification or Tertiary degree in the relevant field
- Matric
- + 5 Years development experience in a cross section of application environments including the following:
- MS SQL
- C#
- Exposure to web services
- Extensive system analysis and design expertise
- Ability to provide creative and innovative solutions while recognising where we can leverage off existing solutions
- Provide valued feedback on both business and technical specifications
- Ability to conceptualise the big picture while retaining a high level of attention to detail
- Have the ability to assess how a given technology can contribute to the overall functioning of a system
- Compile detailed technical specifications
- Provide accurate development estimates
- Program efficiently according to predefined standards
- Conduct thorough systems testing
- Excellent database design and programming skills
- Provide technical support and maintenance
- Create and maintain system documentation
- Ability to work under pressure and manage tasks accordingly
- Mentoring and guidance to junior staff
- Excellent communication skills
Advantageous:
- Compliance knowledge
- Workflow knowledge
- SharePoint exposure
Responsibilities and duties:
- Follow the appropriate application life cycle to ensure that delivery to the business is of a high standard
- Ensure that business requirements are transformed into technical requirements and design
- Ensure that development items are delivered within the required timelines using the appropriate technology
- Ensure standards and good coding practices are followed
- Implement a sound testing approach to ensure that business and technical requirements are met
- Ensure that technical support and queries are handled timeously
- Ensure that technical knowledge is shared within the team
- Ensure that knowledge of relevant technologies is built and enhanced in order to make informed decisions
nmuskat@premier.co.za Ref. 036
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SAP PORTAL DEVELOPER
Job Purpose
The installation, configuration and maintenance of the Portals component of SAP systems
Key Result Areas
- Design of internal facing and external facing integration solutions with SAP Portal development
- Play an active role in solution design, solution development, infrastructure enhancement and production support while working closely with other developers, solution architects, project managers, functional consultants and infrastructure/network administrators
- Provide ongoing development and systems support in the SAP Portal environment for the SAP HR and SAP Knowledge Centre
- Functionality provided via the portal (ESS and MSS) includes viewing and updating personal information, leave processing (requesting and approving), overtime and mileage claims, travel management, appraisals and performance management, access to payslips and tax certificates, and more recently spouse life cover and parents funeral plan. The Manager Self Service (MSS) allows managers to approve all relevant requests, to update appropriate salary review detail, as well as access to various HR reports and the HR dashboard
- To maintain and do problem resolution within existing processes
- The development, maintenance, and enhancement quality ABAP and Portal objects
- Configure and develop portal iViews and webdynpro objects
- Ensuring management of project deliverables and governance
- Ensure integrity and delivery of data from the source systems to the target system/s
- Provide assistance in the formulation of test cases and implementation approach
- To liaise with Users, Business Analysts and supporting staff
- To provide written and verbal feedback to users, team members and management
- Use SharePoint for document management process
- Use Mercury Quality Centre to generate and execute unit test cases
Qualifications
- A formal degree/diploma either in Information technology, engineering or business and/or appropriate vendor certifications or experience
Experience
- 4 - 6 years of SAP HR ABAP experience and SAP HR project implementation
- 3 - 5 years of SAP Portal development tools such as ABAP and Java Web Dynpro, Guided Procedure, Visual Composer, NWDI and SAP Portal Development Kit
- Good knowledge for both ABAP and Java programming languages
- 2 -4 years of SAP HR ABAP and JAVA webdynpro and iViews including ESS and MSS
- SAP Portal administration and configuration
- Experience in the following would be a distinct advantage but is not essential
- Having worked with various SAP Portal versions in various SAP modules
- Experience in the Financial/Insurance industry
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JAVA VIGNETTE DEVELOPER
Purpose of job Provide software Development Services for JAVA and VIGNETTE based applications Qualifications Relevant IT degree or IT diploma + experience in designing and testing Java & n-tier J2EE applications (JSP, Servlets, EJB) essential. Relevant Vignette experience essential. Experience required Must have at least: • Minimum 4 years programming experience in Vignette, Java J2EE and JavaBeans, JSP, HTML and other web technologies. • JavaScript, Web Services, SQL, HTML, XML, CSS, Servlets with any DBMS. BeanShell experience is essential
nmuskat@premier.co.za Ref. 036
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SAP BW DEVELOPER
Purpose of the job
Participate in the functional development , maintenance and support of reporting solutions within for Group HR, primarily using SAP Business Warehouse/Business Intelligence (BW/BI) application.
Key responsibilities
- Work from functional/business requirements to design and configure datasources (install standard datasources, enhance existing datasources and create custom datasources)
- Work from functional/business requirements to design and configure BW objects (installation of standard objects, enhance existing objects and create custom objects) like info objects, info sources, data targets, transfer rules, update rules etc
- Work from functional/business specifications to design and configure BW reports primarily using BEx. Integration / BOBJ of SAP BW queries developed using Business Explorer (BEx) / BOBJ and Web Application Designer may be required
- Work with the SAP BW business team to meet reporting requirements and test the project deliverables
- Document test plans and complete Unit Testing of developed objects and reports
- Work with Quality Assurance business resources to complete System and Integration Testing
- Communicate with users for business questions, project updates, follow ups, data and report validations, sign offs and for overall support
- Analyze and communicate report development issues, including problems with data integrity, data design, and functional and technical software issues
- Prepare project related documentation (object designs, business rules, technical information etc) during the different stages of the project
- Provide support and maintenance of the existing BW environments (development, quality assurance and production)
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science OR appropriate combination of education and experience
- 8-10 years IT experience, a minimum of 5 years with SAP R3 and SAP HCM modules is essential
- Current certification in SAP BW
Experience:
- 3-5 years experience with SAP BW 3.5 and 7.0 is required
- Experience with BOBJ is required
- Experience of HR Business processes and key metric reporting within HR
- Knowledge of an ETL tool is a plus
- Experience with SAP BW BEx Query Configuring and SAP BW Web development, is required
- Financial Services or Insurance experience
nmuskat@premier.co.za Ref. 036
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ETL DEVELOPER
Key Result Areas
- To translate Functional Requirements into technical ETL solutions following a best practice development methodology with all associated documentation and governance requirements
- Building robust, scalable technical ETL solution to meet business requirements
- To code ETL solutions in line with business requirements (including enhancements and incidents to existing processes and procedures, development of new functionality, etc) within broader vision
- Converting the physical data integration models and other design specifications to source code
- Assists in development and maintenance of ETL technical functionality
- Performing unit testing on developed ETL functionality
- Performing performance tuning on existing ETL functionality
- Ensure integrity and delivery of data from the source systems to the target system/s
- Provide assistance in the formulation of test cases and implementation approach
- To maintain and do problem resolution within existing processes
- To liaise with Users, Business Analysts and supporting staff
- To provide written and verbal feedback to users, team members and management
Qualifications
- A formal degree/diploma either in Information technology, engineering or business and/or appropriate technology vendor certifications
Experience:
- At least 3-5 years of ETL experience (Datastage 7.5 EE / IIS Datastage v8.x EE)
- Proficient in SQL programming experience
- Proficient experience in technologies like Cognos, Bobj, SAS, Qlikview etc
- Experience in the following would be a distinct advantage but is not essential:
- Having worked with various databases and data at all levels e.g.modeling (Data architecture), profiling, quality, warehousing, reporting (i.e.Business Intelligence)
- Mainframe
- Experience in the Financial/Insurance industry
nmuskat@premier.co.za Ref. 036
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C# DEVELOPER
Duties, responsibilities and Accountabilities
- Follow the appropriate application life cycle to ensure that delivery to the business is of a high standard
- Ensure that business requirements are transformed into technical requirements and design
- Ensure that development items are delivered within the required timelines using the appropriate technology
- Ensure standards and good coding practices are followed
- Implement a sound testing approach to ensure that business and technical requirements are met
- Ensure that technical support and queries are handled timeously
- Ensure that technical knowledge is shared within the team
- Ensure that knowledge of relevant technologies is built and enhanced in order to make informed decisions
Education, skills & specialist knowledge required
- Software development related certification or Tertiary degree in the relevant field
- Matric
- + 5 Years development experience in a cross section of application environments including the following:
- MS SQL
- C#
- Web services
- SharePoint
- Extensive system analysis and design expertise
- Ability to provide creative and innovative solutions while recognising where we can leverage off existing solutions
- Provide valued feedback on both business and technical specifications
- Ability to conceptualise the big picture while retaining a high level of attention to detail
- Have the ability to assess how a given technology can contribute to the overall functioning of a system
- Compile detailed technical specifications
- Provide accurate development estimates
- Program efficiently according to predefined standards
- Conduct thorough systems testing
- Excellent database design and programming skills
- Provide technical support and maintenance
- Create and maintain system documentation
- Ability to work under pressure and manage tasks accordingly
- Mentoring and guidance to junior staff
- Excellent communication skills
nmuskat@premier.co.za Ref. 036
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ALGORITHMIC DEVELOPER
Top investment bank seeks Algorithmic Developer to assist in the design, testing & implementation of trading & executing algorithms. Postgraduate degree essential with experience in core C++/Java & experience on major project development, preferably within a Capital Markets operation.
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JUNIOR AND SENIOR BUSINESS SUPPORT ANALYSTS
Description of role and responsibilities, overall job Objective
The candidate will fulfill the role as a first line support to the business and to work on treasury business and applications. This will also include support on the e-Commerce applications for both internal and external clients
Core competencies
- Good understanding of treasury processes in each of the areas from front, middle and back office
- An in-depth understanding of financial instruments, especially foreign exchange (e.g.Spots, Forwards, Swaps) and equity derivative products
- Experience on treasury systems would be beneficial
- An understanding of treasury accounting would be beneficial
- Ability to interpret and write SQL
- An understanding of IT and project methodologies
- Experience on financial exchanges, JSE, SAFEX, Yield X would be beneficial
- Analytical ability to problem solve and provide suggestions on treasury issues
Skills/Education
- IT or Business qualification with emphasis on Finance
- 2 – 5 years experience required
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BUSINESS ANALYSTS
Exciting opportunities available for Junior – intermediate IT Business Analysts who will resolve business issues and ensure that business rules are defined and adhered to when making changes to existing systems or any new systems. Degree essential with 2-5 years experience. Financial services experience advantageous. Preference given to candidates from designated groups.
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SENIOR MICROSOFT INFRASTRUCTURE SUPPORT ENGINEER
Duties, Responsibilities and Accountabilities
- Candidate will fulfill the role of a senior Microsoft Support engineer
- The role has many facets to it and the candidate will be expected to be able to adapt to anything expected of him/her
- The role entails the support of core infrastructure services as well as Microsoft Application Server Support
- Candidate will be expected to learn the vast majority of these and ensure the highest level of support is offered to our business users
- In addition to Microsoft Application server support the Candidate must be highly proficient in Microsoft Infrastructure Services Support. Candidate will be expected to be able to support all infrastructure services including but not limited to: WINS, DNS, DHCP, Active Directory, WSUS, IPSEC and IIS
- The Server Support team, for which the candidate will be working, is a highly motivated and highly skilled team
- All Individuals in the team are self-motivated and are fanatical about client support and delivery
Education, skills & specialist knowledge required
- 6+ years experience in Microsoft Server Administration in a medium to large Corporate organization
- 2+ Year experience in Desktop Support in a medium to large Corporate organization
- Combined 8+ years’ experience in IT must include advanced experience in the following disciplines:
1. Active Directory Support
2. Infrastructure Services including DNS, WINS, DHCP
3. Group Policy Management
4. Patch Management
5. Backup Management
6. Networking and Firewalls
7. Microsoft Server Security Management 8. Hardware Management including Server Installations and fault resolution
Preferred
- VMware ESX3 or vSphere4 support experience
- Project Management
- Process Management including Problem, Change and Incident Management
- Application support of both in-house and off the shelf products
- Design and Documentation experience
Essential
- Matric with University Exemption
- MCSE 2003/2008 or MCP Preferred
- VCP
- ITIL Foundations
- SCCM/SMS
- SCOM
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ETL DEVELOPER
Job Purpose
Develop and enhance the ETL layer of the data warehouse and the current MOD/CMOD system to satisfy specified and agreed user requirements in conformance with standards, time and cost parameters agreed for each project/request.
Key Result Areas:
- Identifying data sources
- Develop extract, transformation and load processes through the ETL tool
- Documentation done using ETL and according to standards
- Monitoring the load process in terms of performance and tune accordingly
- Searching out the cause of incompatibility between the MOD/CMOD/DW system and other systems
- Source to Target mapping using the STTM template
- Test according to project specific criteria
- Provide quality output from ETL process that is of high standard required
- Designing Warehouse/MOD applications and the development and implementation thereof
- Testing and correcting applications
- Conforming to Architectures and standards
- Maintaining and adhering to quality assurance procedures
- Adhering to budget and schedules
- Assisting the users in finding the right information
- Adhering to Change Management services
- Comply to Production procedures
Data Analysis responsibilities:
- Liaising with business analysts and other stakeholders (source, business or internal resources) in terms of defining business requirements and their solutions
- Setting up and running various JAD sessions
- Creating business models (ERD’s) to understand business requirements with their related business rules
- Data mapping, which includes performing an extensive gap analysis and ensuring that the necessary metadata is captured
- Data profiling
- Analyse existing applications and models to establish whether they meet business requirements
Experience
- Minimum 4 years IT experience
- In-depth knowledge of ETL tools
- Data, Systems and Business knowledge
- Knowledge of Data Modelling and Design
- Structured Programming
Skills and Competencies:
- Minimum 2 years experience of using ETL tools
- Java (Minimum 1 years experience). • SSIS, SQL server 2005, TSQL (Minimum 2 years experience)
- Data stage (Advantage)
- .net C# / ASP (Advantage)
- Oracle ( Advantage)
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FX DEVELOPER
Purpose of the Job
Development, integration and maintenance of FX trading systems from front to back. This will include work across the full life cycle, from inception and analysis right through to implementation and delivery
Responsibilities
- Help to maintain, develop and deliver innovative, cost-effective solutions for the foreign exchange business
- Develop and retain an in-depth understanding of all the technology in the Foreign Exchange space, in a hands-on fashion
- Help to develop technical best practices within the team
- Provide high quality technical support and guidance to the business
Knowledge and Skills
- Strong technologist with distributed development experience
- Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal)
- Able to perform under pressure in a fast changing environment
- Strong analytical skills
- Initiative / Self-Starter
- Broad-based knowledge of distributed technology platforms, databases, operating systems and programming languages
- Strong C#.NET development skills
- Strong MS SQL Server knowledge, with data modelling an advantage
- Foreign Exchange Sales and Trading business knowledge
- Investment Banking Industry Experience
Experience
- 3 – 5 years or more overall Developer experience
- 2 - 3 years in an investment bank or similar environment preferred
Education
- University degree, preferably in a numerate subject (i.e. Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, etc.) or equivalent relevant NQF5 qualification
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SENIOR PROJECT ADMINISTRATOR
Brief Description of role / Overall job objective
Take ownership and continually add value through improvement of administrative tasks in the Project Office by performing general, project/program specific, and knowledge management administration.
Duties, Responsibilities and Accountabilities
Client Delivery
Deliver appropriate value in terms of Project Office - with regard to projects, priority, time,cost, quality and scope. General administrative tasks (not exhaustive list):
- Gather, understand, and suggests improvements on requirements from various stakeholders in terms of administrative tasks
- Schedule meetings/sessions and ensure all required participants can attend and that the venue adheres to the meeting requirements
- Assist in managing diary conflicts
- Update action lists for meetings with other teams within the Project Office or where a project management service is provided for
- Ensure that financial information such as invoices and timesheets are managed according to agreed standards
- Arrange team functions where required
- Ensure EPM is kept up to date with all project documentation
- Seek opportunities to improve efficiency of your own regular tasks
- Work to reduce dependency on yourself
Project/program related administrative tasks (involvement on projects will be agreed upfront according to workload):
- Participate in documentation of project deliverables including project plans where required
- Update action lists as required
- Make sure all documentation is kept up to date on EPM
- Update and enhance lay-out of presentations and reports where required
- Manage stakeholder expectations and priorities effectively
- Understand your stakeholders and their expectations and priorities for every task assigned
- Assist the project team by following up on tasks and provide regular feedback on progress
- Strive to understand the relative importance of tasks across teams and business areas and ensure any conflicts of interests are addressed immediately, including diary conflicts
- propose changes where you feel it will increase efficiency
Education, Skills & Specialist Knowledge Required Essential
- Sound working knowledge of MS Office specifically Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
- Very strong administration skills
- Very strong time management skills
- Strong communication skills (written and spoken)
- Strong interpersonal skills
Preferred
- Experience in the following tools will be an advantage: MS Project, Sharepoint Portal and Visio
- Previous experience in quality process will be an advantage
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DATA ANALYST
Core Skills Competencies:
- Problem solving & analysis
- Resilience
- Planning & Organising
- Specialist knowledge and skills
- Quality Orientated
- Cross Functional Awareness
- Transforming
- Consolidating
- Analysing and manipulating the data to fit business needs etc
Knowledge and Skills:
- Data Warehouse Architecture Knowledge
- Data Architecture
- Data Modelling and Database Design skills
- Source System Analysis and ETL architecture skills
- Proficiency in common Data Warehouse technologies
Experience:
- Data modelling and database design experience
- Previous data warehouse architecture & data warehouse implementation experience
- Exposure to data modelling and database design in a SAS environment would be an advantage
- Exposure to Erwin Modeling Suite would be an advantage
Education
- Tertiary qualification, either B.Sc Computer Science or B.Com Informatics
Criteria and Experience
- SAS Base (1 - 2 years) (Programming 1 and Programming 2)
- SAS Macro (Programming 3)
- Be a self starter with a strong “can do” ethic
- Be results driven
- Able to communicate with both business and technical personnel
- SAS Warehouse
- SAS ETL and or IAB and Transformation Generation Wizard
- SAS Prog III and SQL
- SAS Connect to DB2 and Postgres
- DWH Principles and Knowledge
- Knowledge of best practices in BI and ETL using the SAS9 technology is essential
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CARD 400 DEVELOPER
Description
iSeries RPG developer responsible for the evaluation of requirements, system analysis and design, technical specifications, programming and unit testing in the Card400 system for projects, enhancements, maintenance and support work. Close communication with the Card400 technical team lead and team members, business analysts, technical analysts, test team, project managers and system owner will be required. Delivery of projects, enhancements and support items to the environment within priority, time, quality, and scope constraints. Initially the role as a developer joining the team introduces the individual to support work for a period of time to orientate and gain experience on the Card400 system and processes in the day to day activities. Once the developer has the necessary understanding and knowledge the developer will be assigned to project work. Projects encompass small, medium and large projects with dependencies across other systems. Responsible for after hour’s support on a rotational basis.
Duties, Responsibilities and Accountabilities
- Responsible for the development of Card400 projects, enhancements and support requirements which may interface with other systems
- Participate and contribute in the requirements gathering phases and workshops with stakeholders as required
- Analysis of system requirements and development of solution designs
- Participate and contribute in the design impact and test impact meetings as required
- Creation of technical requirement specifications, effort estimations and impact analysis documentation from the business requirement documentation
- Communication of development and unit testing progress and update of relevant progress documentation
- Follow change control procedures and complete relevant change control documentation
- Prioritise and manage time affectively thereby meeting milestones agreed upon
- Manage and communicate development and environment risks and impacts relating to direct and indirect development in progress
- Adhere to agreed development standards
- Technically contribute on projects and enhancements to assist in delivering cost-effective, easy-to-use, innovative solutions (business processes, systems and technology)
- Participate in the full SDLC depending on the scope of the initiative including post implementation activities
- Ensure that stakeholders receive quality solutions and service
- Ensure prompt response to user queries
- Be aware and Identify risks and issues which should be escalated to persons within the IT team
- Availability concerning standby issues and implementation weekends
Expertise
- Adoption of modern design and development procedures and principles
- Demonstrate the appropriate level of technical competency required on the systems
- Continually grow technical and system knowledge
- Identify and communicate areas of self development
- Identify and transfer knowledge of key strengths
- Continually build and enhance relevant knowledge of the business
- Ensure that appropriate system knowledge is retained and transferred within the specialisation
Education, skills & specialist knowledge required
- Minimum of 3 years RPG ILE and CL programming, query and report writing experience
- Object orientation and modernization experience (modules , procedures etc)
- XML experience
- MQ Messaging and file transfer protocol experience
- Entry level project management preferred
- AS400 architecture understanding
- Technical design/analysis and impact analysis experience
- Experience in Banking or financial industry preferred
- Client service and delivery focus
- Ability to create and implement innovative technology based solutions
- Ability to work within a project specific team and in isolation
- Experience in waterfall and agile methodology
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DATA ANALYST
Overall job objective
Perform the role of a Data Analyst in the Business Intelligence team Objective of the role is to design and implement the infrastructure required for Information Management goals including the production and maintenance of all architectural artifacts at a project and enhancement level Experience
Duties, Responsibilities and Accountabilities
Data / Information architecture:
- Manage stakeholders expectation and drive the implementation the information strategy within identified areas
- Working with the data architect in the development and maintenance of business data dictionaries, master data strategies and conceptual / logical data models for transaction and analytical systems
- Detailed analysis for the design of reporting data marts; what data is required, where this information should be sourced and all functional and non functional requirements
- Initiating and driving projects that will influence the flow of how / where / when and who captures data through the business processes to improve data quality
- Identify inconsistent data or data gaps and driving appropriate change
Business / Data Analysis:
- Develop specifications for interfaces, reports and dashboards as required
- Perform any testing required on interfaces, reports and dashboards to ensure business requirements are accurately met with the data provided
- Review business and technical system specifications and ensure that information requirements have been considered
- Liaise with IT resources in developing system data models
- Assist in testing of data post any system enhancements as required
- Provide guidance to project teams on data clean-up and data migrations initiatives
- Manage the process of applying any changes and enhancements that may be required to automated interfaces
Business Intelligence:
- Gain thorough understanding of business reporting objectives and provide input into the solution deign that will best meet these requirements in a sustainable fashion
Skills and Experience
- Relevant tertiary qualification
- Min 4 years experience in working in an information management role
- Business intelligence experience preferable
- Previous banking industry experience an advantage
- Technical expertise
- Knowledge data architecture principles and methods
- Excellent SQL skills
- Knowledge of XML advantageous
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VARIOUS IT DEVELOPERS
Exciting opportunities available in banking & consulting for junior to senior developers – Java, C#, .Net, ETL. Minimum 1-5 years experience. Degree essential. Financial services background advantageous.
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SENIOR SERVICE DELIVERY ENGINEER
Brief Description
The Senior Service Delivery Engineer is responsible for overseeing and assisting all in-scope support services, including break-fix, desktop support, new system installation, move/add/change and asset tracking activities
Duties, Responsibilities and Accountabilities
The Senior Service Delivery Engineer is responsible for overseeing and assisting all in-scope support services, including break-fix, desktop support, new system installation, move/add/change and asset tracking activities. This position will need in-depth knowledge of technical hardware and software support for all desktop and laptop platforms supported as required in a Microsoft Windows XP and Windows 7, Office 2003 / 2007, and Active Directory environment
Education and Experience
Minimum of 4 years of experience providing desktop and service support in a corporate network environment - A+, MCDST, or MCP certification
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TREASURY TEAM SUPPORT ANALYST
Brief Description
Taking ownership of operational support delivery within the specialisation by developing an intimate knowledge of the business area and systems; and the core competencies of problem management, incident management, disaster recovery, testing and change management
Duties, Responsibilities and Accountabilities
Client Delivery (70%)
- Provide daily operational support functions including problem investigation and reporting
- Deliver appropriate value in terms of the constraints of the enhancement budget
- Manage operational stakeholder expectations and priorities effectively
- Deliver operational efficiency through turnaround time, client service, incident management and problem resolution
- Provide after hours support according to a roster schedule
- Perform disaster recovery testing as required
- Provide post implementation testing and signoff as required
- Deliver cost-effective, easy-to-use, innovative solutions (business processes, systems and technology)
- Participate in the full SDLC depending on the scope of the initiative including post implementation activities
- Ensure that processes, business rules, application configuration etc are accurately and completely documented in line with agreed project and specialisation area standards and internal audit controls
- Facilitate the rollout of processes and other training within IT and business operations
Expertise (10%)
- Demonstrate the appropriate level of competency in support analysis and testing, managing stakeholder expectations, change and process management
- Continually build and enhance relevant knowledge of the business with a view to achieving thought leadership demonstrated through value in support improvements
- Demonstrate through attending all knowledge transfer sessions offered within the IT team
- Demonstrate though asking questions and building relationships with key knowledgeable stakeholders
People (10%)
- Subscribe to and promote culture and values in the team
- Demonstrate the ability to work in a team
- Ensure that appropriate system knowledge is retained and transferred with in the specialisation
Business Development (10%)
- Ensure that the system meets the changing business requirements in terms of functionality, capacity, reliability and useful life
- Maximise business benefit from the system through support activities according to agreed business priority
Education and Experience Essential
- B.Com / B.Sc. degree in IT, or equivalent qualification
- Sound working knowledge of MS Office specifically Excel, MS Project
- Excellent communication skills (written and spoken)
- Strong conflict management skills
- Strong administration skills
- Strong time management skills
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Strong facilitation skills
- Experience in supporting application system
Preferred
- Min 3 years experience in Banking or Financial Industry
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SYSTEMS DEVELOPER
Responsibilities:
The specific objectives and responsibilities associated with this position are the following:
- MS Windows Application development and maintenance, including basic problem analysis, solution design, testing, and documentation
- Apply and participate in delivery methodology as prescribed
- Adherence to programming standards
- Code re-use through object orientated design, and use of patterns
- Pro-active sharing of knowledge to all parties involved in project implementation
- Learn new skills and gain knowledge related to the project
- Apply specialist knowledge and skill within the scope of the project
- Introduce best (industry and product) practices and benchmarks to the project
- Propose constructive changes or improvements
- Exhibit and encourage good judgement, in order to reduce risk
Knowledge and skills
- Process design and re-engineering
- Experience with SDLC
- In depth knowledge of one of C#, VB.Net, C++, or Java, with C# preferred
- Report building using Crystal Reports, Business Objects, SQL Server Reporting Services and/or other Business Intelligence Technologies preferred
- Exposure to at least one relational database, with MS-SQL preferred
- Exposure to data integration between systems
- Exposure to web technologies advantageous
- Logical thinking and analytical ability
- Personal organisation and time management discipline
- Good communication skills
- Basic software testing skills
- Basic solution documentation skills
- Experience One of the following: • 3 to 5 years experience developing Microsoft Windows applications in one of C#, VB.Net, C++, Delphi.Net, or Java, with C# preferred
Education
- A University degree in Computer Science, that includes practical programming, algorithm and data structure theory, modules
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JAVA DEVELOPER
Role Purpose
Designs, codes, tests, debugs and corrects sections of code and programs.Produces complex program specifications and implements system enhancements.
Responsibilities:
- Follow all the development standards set by Centre of Excellence to ensure delivery of the projects and / or business requirements
- Escalate live errors and service problems to the relevant stakeholders to limit downtime and resolve the problems immediately
- Design, code , unit test and document the relevant specifications for medium to large projects
- Ensure that all work performed and decisions made has taken all the technical guidelines into consideration
- Work on solving incoherencies in the detailed technical specifications and asks for, or proposes changes
- Write codes or parameters to provide software components according to technical specifications
- Meet all deliverables and objective set out by the business within time, quality and budget
Knowledge and Experience:
- Technical strength in Java, J2EE, C#, .NET, C++, SQL, Unix, Version Control, Test driven development
- Knowledge of Excel, VBA, MATLAB would be useful
- Experience gained developing enterprise applications, preferably within a Financial/Investment Banking environment
- Knowledge of Fixed Income, Money Market, FX or Derivative products would be beneficial
Experience with any of the following financial software products would be advantageous
- Calypso
- Murex
- SunGard Front Arena
- NumeriX
Qualifications and Experience
- The successful candidate must have a Degree (or equivalent IT qualification)
- 3 Years post qualification development experience
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SERVICE DESK TEAM LEADER
Provide service delivery and first/second line support on line of business applications Provide service delivery and limited first/second line support on technology related queries (Hardware, OS, Productivity tools, network) Must be able to coordinate service delivery across multiple teams Strong communication skills Defining and implementing Service Desk Dashboards and Monitors Manage standard call logging process Own and manage User Access lists across multiple applications Manage system administration across multiple applications Participate in the CSIT Business Continuity planning and coordination Leadership team responsibilities
Core Competencies Compulsory
- 3-5 years service desk experience in the IT industry
- Min 2 years experience as a team leader
- MCSE or MCP qualification
- ITIL Foundation
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INTERMEDIATE .NET DEVELOPER
The candidate will be responsible for maintenance, operational and procedural functions and all system and surrounding interface development. The role will involve the resolution of user issues and requests as well as maintenance of the system and related interfaces.
Core competencies
- 3-4 years experience in a similar role
- Knowledge/experience in WPF, WCF, C#, MS/SQL, PL/SQL, Visual Studio 2008 or higher, XML, XSLT
- An understanding of IT and project methodologies
- Knowledge of W3C guidelines and best practices
- Knowledge of UML and formal specification methodologies Skills/Education BSC or equivalent degree
Personality
- Ability to multi-task and prioritize and deliver to milestones
- Ability to report to a senior developer and work independently once given tasks
- Ability to interact with people from all areas of treasury
- Take ownership of tasks assigned
- Customer-focused attitude
- Team player and good interpersonal and communication skills
- Follow issues/concerns through to delivery/solution
- Analytical, with excellent problem-solving skills
- Assertive contributor to discussions with a collaborative approach
- Attention to detail
- Ability to bridge gap between theory and practice and document findings professionally
- Ability to work and perform in an unstructured environment/flexibility to change
- Ability to deal with pressure and remain level-headed
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JAVA DEVELOPER
In this role, you will be responsible for:
- A thorough understanding of the complex front-to-back real-time trading and cash management platform
- Contributing to design discussions
- Taking a hands-on role in implementing solutions
- Work in a global team environment
- Providing timely communication of status
- Implementing automated unit tests to ensure a robust and rapid release cycle
- Undertaking peer reviews and lead best-practice development methods across the team
- Working closely with the IT Operations and Environments teams to ensure system stability and reliability
To be successful in this role, you will possess:
- Relative Degree
- Excellent communication skills
- Good problem solving skills
- Ability to work effectively in a dynamic environment with changing priorities
- Experience delivering solutions to very tight timeframes
- Experience with test driven and Agile development methodologies
- Dedicated, hard working and delivery focused
Required Technical Skills:
- Excellent knowledge of Java and object oriented software development
- Experience in open source technologies (Eclipse / Spring / Hibernate / JUnit)
- Sound understanding of Java application development and J2EE framework / distributed architecture, in particular large scale transactional systems
- Experience with JMS, MQ Series, XML, XSLT and application integration frameworks in Java
- Experience with JBoss or equivalent enterprise application server
- Experience with the Liferay and the FIX messaging protocol is required for some of the roles
- Strong relational database experience (ideally Sybase)
- Good development knowledge on UNIX (ideally Solaris)
- Experience delivering solutions to very tight timeframes
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PROJECT ADMINISTRATOR
Description of role and key responsibilities
The project administrator is responsible for the successful delivery of defined projects. This includes full project lifecycle plus the necessary preparation before and post project. The incumbent will also be responsible for general ad hoc administration within the division, including but not limited to filing, data capturing etc.
Core Skills and Knowledge
- Experience and knowledge of structured project methodologies- Sound understanding of project management methodologies and their application, ensuring that customer satisfaction is maintained at all times
- Leadership Skills- Ability to communicate with and manage the project team in an effective way. Capable of making sound decisions under pressure and prioritizing and delegating work load effectively
- Knowledge of the financial services industry- A basic understanding of the industry including any relevant regulations and their impact on projects undertaken
- Analytical Skills- Used to diagnose customers’ issues and recommend effective solutions, whilst examining and assessing risk/reward of the proposals
- Technical and Communication skill - Must be able to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing. Attention to detail in vital in this role. • Must be familiar with IT terminology as the minutes are predominantly IT focused
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain consistency of activities, standards and processes across projects
- Support and document workshops/facilitated sessions/meetings
- Create and administer relevant project artifacts
- Ensure all projects are appropriately categorized, numbered and named
- Produce monthly reports
- Create and keep updated appropriate distribution list
- Document and follow up action on action items
- Identify general issues, risk, trends for improvement of project support office
- Manage issues lists
- Manage conflicting/competing demands
- Interface with stakeholders
- Create project plans and administer project plan portfolio.
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JAVA DEVELOPER
Description
- The main responsibilities will be development of software interfaces and development of custom extensions within the Risk applications
- The role will involve interaction with the business and other IT teams
- Becoming familiar with the requirements and procedures of the business
- Assisting with systems, integration and user acceptance testing
Academic Qualifications
- Appropriate IT qualification
- Technical diploma or degree
- A qualification in banking or financial markets & instruments will be an advantage
Technical knowledge and experience:
- J2EE
- XML
- XSLT
- Web Services
- JDBC
- SQL
- Tomcat
- Oracle PL SQL Advantage
- JMS
- Websphere MQ v5.3 or 6
- EJB 3
- Swing
- Python
- Working knowledge of Risk, Financial and Capital calculation engines
- Exposure to a banking environment (specifically Risk, Finance and Capital)
- Exposure to working within the framework of accepted Systems Development Life Cycle methodologies
- Software configuration management experience (such as Version Control, Change Control, etc.)
- Experience in application integration
- Experience in database design
- Ability to provide input into technical architecture decisions
- Ability to identify shortcoming and improve on current processes and standards
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INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR C# DEVELOPERS
Technical Knowledge Required:
- Intermediate C# Developer
- Working knowledge of web services and net pipe services for .Net – WCF
- Working knowledge of the configuration of service hosts and service endpoints for .Net – WCF and security configuration and integration
- Working knowledge of .Net ASP and basic setup of web applications
- Ability to write simple unit tests
- Senior C# Developer (includes the above and the following)
- All of the above technical experience is required
- Solid knowledge of .Net WCF security settings and transaction settings
- Experience in all binding types and understanding the implication of different configuration options
- Understanding of extension via customer behaviours , hosting options and cross platform integration on .Net – WCF
- Working knowledge of IIS and configuration thereof
Qualifications and Experience
- B degree, diploma or related qualification
- Matric Maths on higher grade
- 2-5 years of C# 3.5 experience
- Knowledge of CSS
- Solid HTML/XML
- MSSQL DBMS 2008 or 2005, including DBA functions such as replication and maintenance
- The intermediate role requires at least one other DBMS such as MySQL, Postgres, Oracle or DB@
- In addition an understanding of all SQL constructs and the ability to construct investigative queries and working knowledge of index optimisation
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C# DEVELOPER
Various opportunities available in the financial and consulting environments for experienced (2 to 5 years) C# developers. Must have a relevant degree with strong SQL and Python skills.
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SOLUTION SALES SPECIALIST
Variety of exciting opportunities, for seasoned Solution/Technology Sales Specialists. Minimum 5 years high-level technology sales experience at C suite level required. Multinational complex solution sales experience. Top achiever with evidence of achieving and exceeding annual targets essential. Relevant qualification required.
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SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYSTS
High performance team requires individuals with minimum 4-5 years’ process & business analysis experience, specifically within supply chain, billings or customer experience streams. Demonstrated experience performing complex process mapping, financial/cost analysis & relevant valuation methodologies, systems & quantitative business based analyses req. Management consulting/corporate experience required. Relevant degree (Engineering, Business Science, Commerce) and 1-2 years leadership experience required.
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TELECOMS STRATEGISTS
Various junior & senior level positions within an internal strategy team available for a top achiever, with leadership and previous consulting experience in telecoms. Excellent opportunity for analytically minded individual with strong mathematical and quantitative ability wanting to move from consulting or large corporate into an internal strategy team. Ability to identify new business opportunities and partners within the telecoms/technology arena is critical. Degree (BEng/BusSc/BCom) required, MBA highly desirable. Senior position requires advanced modelling skills and telecoms experience.
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TELECOMS STRATEGY CONSULTANT – AA
Several exciting opportunities available for professionals with 3-7 years experience in telecoms consulting. Top academics, highly analytical and numerical skills with the ability to model data essential. BBus Sc/BEng/BSc or similar degree required. MBA highly advantageous.
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