Senior Unix Oracle Systems Developer / Architect

Responsible for the design, development and maintenance of existing Pensions Administration System as well as external client facing self-service administration system. Apply your skills as a member of a focused, technically competent development team that prides themselves on excellence. This position requires a passion for technical design, development, problem solving, and the ability to learn new concepts quickly.

The role involves:-

• Building a comprehensive understanding of applications, systems and infrastructure across the organisation.
• Communication with clients, key stakeholders and development teams on technical solutions.
• Perform application and systems development duties using technologies such as Python, Django, Java, C and PL/SQL.
• Provide level 3 technical support on Oracle, UNIX and application issues.
• Installation and configuration of software.
• Taking a lead on new technical integration projects such as web service integration and single sign on.
• Aptly manages team demands on his/her time and shows willingness/ability to delegate technical execution or responsibilities when appropriate.
• Acts as a liaison or primary point of contact for communicating with client side technical expertise and client contacts.
• Participates in the evolution of company level best practices, standards, and policies as it relates to software development.

The successful candidate will have considerable experience in Unix and Oracle and will have a background in software development. The candidate will need to understand the whole stack from operating systems, databases, web servers, configuration management and software development.

The Requirements:
• Must be able to manage time and prioritise an individual open case queue.
• Oracle development database administration experience (DBA).
• Thoroughly document all technical design and solutions following company’s Professional Excellence Model for Software Development.
• Participates in technical training programs and self-directed learning. Stays informed of new technology.
• Coaches / mentors others.
• Performance tuning.
• Web application security.
• Java containers such as Weblogic/Tomcat
• OBIEE
• Scripting languages e.g. Python, PHP and Perl.
• Django web framework.
• JQuery
• Git
• Jenkins
• Memcached

The essential skills/experience for this position are:
• Bachelor’s degree or at least 5+ years’ experience as a senior developer.
• Strong Unix (Linux/AIX), Oracle, HTML and JavaScript skills.
• Understands and can communicate well on all aspects of the software development lifecycle e.g. requirements, analysis, design, implementation, testing, documentation and associated methods (Waterfall, Agile, Iterative Development, etc.).
• Experience of web concepts and web servers (e.g. Apache, Nginx).

Other highly desirable skills are;

• Language Knowledge – C and/or Pro*C