Job Description

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Role Purpose/Business Unit:

Are you ready to join Vodacom's exciting world of Digital IT and become part of a high performing, dynamic technology team? With our customers at the heart of our purpose, you will be part of the evolution of our IT technology landscape, harnessing the latest technical innovations available.The reporting developer is responsible for creating prototypes, designing and building reports, and configuring within the commission management system in an iterative agile cycle, developing, maintaining, and optimizing the business outcome. This role is responsible for estimating user and technical stories, designing and developing reports, writing and executing unit and integration tests, and supporting testing of deliverables against the user and technical story acceptance tests. The incumbent is responsible for performing peer reviews, collaborating with architects and other developers to produce just enough design, and ensuring that enough technical documentation and training is provided for reference and operational support. This role is responsible for providing report creation, and operations support, including managing level two and level three incident and problem management.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Estimate user and technical stories to help inform and prioritize the backlog
• Design modules according to user stories, commission management designs, and technical stories
• Develop solutions according to module designs and deploy them using the delivery pipeline
• Develop and execute unit and integration tests; support testing against the user and technical story acceptance tests
• Manage technical debt as part of daily activities
• Conduct peer reviews and maintain coding standards
• Manage incidents as level two and level three support
• Manage problems as level two and level three support

The Ideal candiddate for this role will have:

Must have technical/professional qualifications:

• 3 years Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field (Essential)
• At least 3 -5 years of relevant working experience. (Essential)
• A minimum of three years is in strong crystal development. (Essential)
• Strong Informatica knowledge is preferred.
• Experience working with agile methodologies, such as SAFE, Scrum, Kanban, XP, LSD, and FDD
• A solid working experience with SQL. (Essential)
• Some understanding of working with markup languages, such as Python
• Some knowledge of software architecture principles
• Knowledge of working in cloud-native environments, preferably AWS
• Soft skills:
• Team player, self-motivated, trustworthy, well-spoken, enthusiastic about technology and learning, and resourceful.

Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:

• Agile and lean programming and development of crystal reports.
• Backlog item estimation
• Unit, integration, smoke, and static code analysis testing
• Automated testing and Code reviewing
• Incident and problem management
• Continuous integration and continuous delivery methodologies and tools
• DevOps culture, processes, and tools
• Highly cross-functional and able to swap and perform adjacent roles at short notice
• Flexibility to deal with changing projects and priorities in a short space of time
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to learn new methods and processes
• Strong relationship-building, persuasion, and collaboration skills that drive internal cross-team constructive feedback and support

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• Strong communication skills, with the ability to distill difficult technical concepts into simple and actionable outputs.
• Strong time-management skills, with the ability to juggle multiple balls, and comfortable working under pressure.
• Willingness to track, assess, and incorporate practice and technology developments into day-to-day working
• Good understanding of the business capability/user journey, wider organizational goals, and desired product business outcomes
• Understanding of both the current Telecommunications and digital services market and emerging business and technology trends

We make an impact by offering:

• Enticing incentive programs, competitive benefit packages, and an exclusive 13th cheque
• Retirement funds, risk benefits, and medical aid benefits.
• Cell phone and data benefits, advantages fibre connection discounts, and exclusive staff discounts offered in collaboration with partner companies.

The closing date for applications: 15 March 2024

The base location for this role is Vodacom Campus, Midrand.

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.

Commitment from Vodacom

Vodacom is committed to attracting, developing and retaining the very best people by offering a flexible, motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognized, developed and rewarded. We believe that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business and we are committed to creating an inclusive work environment which respects, values, celebrates and makes the most of peoples individual differences - we are not only multinational but multicultural too. At Vodacom you will have access to our excellent flexible benefits programme that you would expect from any global company.

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