A large financial Service Company based in Sandton, seeks a Senior Programmer with:

Minimum requirements

• Matric
• Diploma/Degree in IT / Programming.
• Minimum 4 years’ experience in SAS, advanced macros, and SQL

Skills:

• Advise management on the technical readiness, risk and impact of the proposed implementation to production (including effective change management)
• Interpret the business requirements in order to create technical specifications across projects
• Deliver and coordinate coding work tasks according to technical specifications
• Accountability to ensure end to end testing through to sign off to ensure fault free production implementation
• Good knowledge of SAS, including advanced macros, and SQL
• Exposure to scheduling tools
• Advanced debugging ability
• Advance understanding of testing practices
• Good understanding of data warehouse concepts
• Knowledge of appliance technology such as Netezza will be a big plus
• Exposure to IBM Banking Data Warehouse Model – preferably
• Problem solving skills

Culture:

• Group Technology wants to become Company Business Cluster favourite partner providing technology, leadership and service excellence with the best people.
• The ideal candidate will be a team player that can handle ambiguity, pressure and have a strong will to succeed
• Continuously improvement: self, process, environment
• Successful candidate must be a self-starter
• Able to work independently, and follow instructions given

Responsibilities:

• Registration of files in the Data Warehouse Dev, QA and production environments
• Develop, test and implement programs from supplied specifications to extract, transform and load data into various data warehouse marts using predominantly SAS, SQL and Netezza tools.
• Perform root cause analysis and impact assessments and implement solutions
• Peer review and Quality assure the output of colleagues
• Optimisation of programs and applications
• Perform a technical lead role and mentor and coach junior staff
• Support all production-related incidents to ensure that tight daily SLAs are met
• Professional application and demonstration of acquired knowledge across technologies, and/or in-depth speciality in a specific technology – e.g. SAS, and SQL
• Actively participate in project teams as a core project member (incl cross functional forums and external parties)
• Take responsibility for incident fixes and manage to closure (focus on live environment)

For more information please contact Pamela 011 234 7680, alternatively email your updated CV to Pamela@esmartgroup.co.za

If you do not receive a response within 2 weeks please consider your application declined.

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