Specialist: System Development

at  Datafin IT Recruitment

REQUIREMENTS:

• 4+ years of professional work experience in systems development.
• NQF 6 (National Diploma) or higher in Computer Science or a related field.

• Consult with data curation and data science teams, and internal and external stakeholders, as needed, to understand and capture system requirements.
• Analyse and understand the functioning of existing production and legacy systems.
• Conduct research into available tools, technologies and best practices in formulating an approach to system design and development.
• Create and maintain system design diagrams (UML, ERD, etc) using online diagramming tools.
• Create and maintain system documentation using GitHub.
• Develop system features and enhancements.
• Create unit tests for services and APIs.
• Fix bugs.
• Participate in code reviews.
• Maintain source code using git and GitHub.
• Work with the systems development lead to establish scope and timelines for deliverables.
• Provide progress updates during weekly development team meetings.
• Engage with team mates to discuss and evaluate system designs, technology choices, etc.
• Give presentations and demonstrations of work, at intervals, for review and feedback by team leads and stakeholders.
• Liaise with the infrastructure team to coordinate server provisioning and system deployment.
• Configure runtime environments, databases, web servers and proxy servers, as needed, in respect of system deployments.
• Apply library updates and security patches to deployed systems.
• Monitor production systems operations and performance.