Friday, 13 March 2020

Systems Developer at Daystar University

Daystar University is a chartered interdenominational and evangelical Christian University. Its mission is the development of Christian Servant Leaders for the expansion of God’s kingdom in Africa and the world. We invite applications from suitably qualified candidates to fill the following vacant positions.

Participating in the creation of new products and enhancements to existing products from concept to launch as part of a cross-functional project team to achieve compelling easy to use ICT products.

Responsibilities

  • Analysing user requirements, researching, designing and writing new software programs
  • Develop software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle.
  • Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.
  • Documenting and demonstrating solutions by developing the documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments, and clear code.
  • Responding promptly and professionally to bug reports.
  • Improve operations by conducting systems analysis recommending changes in policies and procedures.
  • Obtains and licenses software by obtaining required information from vendors; recommending purchases; testing and approving products
  • Evaluating the software and systems that make computers and hardware work.
  • Writing operational documentation with technical authors.
  • Maintaining systems by monitoring and correcting software defects.
  • Working closely with other staff, such as project managers, graphic designers, developers, systems analysts, among others.
  • Protect operations by keeping the information confidential.
  • Preparation of training manuals and training users.
  • Continually updating technical knowledge and skills by attending in-house and/or external courses, reading manuals and accessing new applications.
  • Ensuring Christian and appropriate behaviour, both internal and external, in line with the institution’s Strategy
  • Implementing change initiatives to achieve desired business plans and culture

Qualifications

  • Bachelors’ degree in Computer Science or its equivalent from an accredited University.
  • Five (5) years relevant experience.
  • Experience in academic institution of higher learning is an added advantage.
  • Experience in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, NAVISION and related integrations with Library, HR & Payroll systems.
  • Working knowledge of JAVA, SQL, Javascript, Nodejs, Angular, PostgreSQL, Linux, Python.
  • Certificate in ITIL, Project Management will be an added advantage.
  • Masters’ degree in Computer Science will be an added advantage
  • Registered with the relevant professional bodies
  • Christian commitment and practice

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