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Date: 20 Apr 2024

Location: Johannesburg GAU ZA, GT, ZA

Company: Liberty Group Limited

At Liberty, we employ more than 6 000 people across 7 businesses in 18 African countries. Every day, our employees grow their knowledge by working with diverse groups of people who specialise in a wide range of skills across insurance, asset management, investment and health products. We continually seek to engage, develop, recognise and reward the people who make our business great.

Purpose

The purpose of the role is to analyse, design, develop, test, and implement appropriate and efficient solutions that integrate with the core Compass application. These solutions must be efficient and delivered according to provided specifications, standards, and procedures, using various tools and languages but within the architectural standards and guidelines.

Key Responsibilities

  • Analyse, design, build, test and implement solutions for the Compass Interfaces based on requirements.
  • Communicates effectively with stakeholders to identify needs and evaluate alternative business solutions with project management/Agile Release Trains (ART's).
  • Facilitates/participates in code/design review sessions.
  • Investigate system problems and support the Application Managed Services (AMS) team in remediating production issues.
  • Creating functional and technical specifications/user stories.

Additional Key Responsibilities

  • Provide technical support for the team and business users.
  • Review test plans and the test book for each project release before User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
  • Conduct unit/integration testing to ensure that the design was aligned and designed according to the technology business requirement specifications.
  • Provide support for the quality assurance testing team.
  • Play an active role in supporting of other Compass Developers.
  • Collaborate with other developers/architects and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyse trade-offs between usability and performance needs.
  • Gain a deep understanding of the Compass Retail product offering.
  • Multi-tasking, be a collaborator and have an attitude of "owning" a problem or task.

Minimum Experience

  • Must have a minimum of 5 years Oracle PL/SQL experience.
  • Must have Oracle forms experience.
  • Micro Focus Cobol experience would be an advantage.
  • Compass experience would be advantageous.
  • Experience in the finance/insurance industry preferable.
  • Working knowledge of AGILE.
  • Compass application knowledge.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Tertiary education, preferably BCom (IS) or B.Sc. (Computer Science) or IT diploma in Software Development would be advantageous.

Liberty Group Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 and the group's Transformation Strategy, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards the achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the organisation.

 

The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply. 


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