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Job Title: Application Developer
Employer: DFCU Bank
Location: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Senior Application Developer
Duties:
The jobholder will design and/or customize existing software solutions by studying information needs; systems flow, data usage, and work processes while adhering to the software development lifecycle.
Offer timely support in the development of an interoperability framework between the core banking application and its interfacing applications in order to develop automated interfaces for existing and new requirements.
Participate in the gathering of user requirements and write software programs to develop automated solutions based on clear functional requirements derived from approved user/business requirement documents. Conduct other required implementations such as installation, configuration, customization, integration and data migration.
Carry out the technical analysis, design and documentation required for new changes and projects.
Investigate, analyze and make recommendations to management regarding technology improvements, upgrades and modifications.
Develop, direct software system testing & validation procedures, programming and documentation. Testing including defining/supporting acceptance testing and gathering feedback from pre-release testers.
Education:
The applicant for the DFCU Bank Application Developer job opportunity must hold a bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering or Information systems.
Experience
At least four years’ experience as a software developer or engineer; demonstrable success in developing a variety of software systems while taking on increasing responsibility for analysis, design, implementation and development tasks using varying SDLC methodologies like Waterfall and RUP, J2EE, Visual Basic, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSP, XML, C++, PL/SQL, and Oracle/SQL Server databases.
Advanced experience developing data-driven applications utilizing significant relational database engines as part of the overall application architecture (experience with either PostgreSQL or MySQL is required and any of the following highly desirable; Oracle, MS SQL Server, H2 SQL).
Previous experience using the following: Spring, Hibernate, JQuery, Subversion, VB.net, C#, SOAP and Restful web services, agile methodology, Maven, Jasper server, android SDK.
Advanced knowledge and skill with popular open source programming languages JAVA and PHP 5.
Proficiency in developing and troubleshooting complex software systems that run in mixed-environments including Linux, Unix and/or Windows on desktop, server, tablet, and mobile systems.
Proven skills in enterprise application integration.
Ability to work successfully as a member of a team.
Excellent report writing and communication skills.
How to Apply:
All candidates who so wish to join the banking sector in the aforementioned capacity are encouraged to send their applications with detailed CVs including present position and copies of relevant professional/academic certificates to: Vacanciesbank@dfcugroup.com
Deadline: 12th May 2017
