Strategy & Planning 

• Works with other software developers, the software architect and designers in conceptualising and  developing new software programs and applications 

• Plans own work in phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC) for a variety of projects

• Assists in the preparation and documentation of software requirements and specifications

• Performs research on the requirements of software users and documents findings to serve 

• Works closely with the Team Leader, Business Analyst and Product Owner for understanding the  functional and system requirements 

Acquisition & Deployment 

• Conducts research on emerging application development software products, languages, and standards in  support of procurement and development efforts 

• Recommends, schedule, and performs software improvements and upgrades 

Operational Management 

• Consistently writes, translate, and code software programs and applications according to specifications  and PCIDSS standards 

• Integrate software components into a fully functional software application. 

• Write and execute unit tests for developed software applications. 

• Perform peer to peer code reviews. 

• Participate and contribute to software architectural design sessions. 

• Maintain and implement source control & version management. 

• Create technical documentation for all software applications. 

• Deploy all developed application to the development environment for QA and Testing.

• Guide & follow through on developed software applications to ensure successful UAT and subsequent  shipment. 

• Works closely with the QA team to ensure quality and timely software development within his/her  responsibilities 

• Runs and monitors software performance tests on new and existing programs for the purposes of  correcting errors, isolating areas for improvement, and general debugging 

• Administers critical analysis of test results and delivers solutions to problem areas 

• Generates statistics and prepare and write reports for management and/or team members on the status of  the programming process

• Monitor & manage project lifecycle on popular work management tool. 

• Updates tasks on work management tool 

• Ensures robust and sustainable enterprise social collaboration architecture for software development by  monitoring matrices of the SOA, and fixing complaints/bugs logged by customers 

• Assists in the development and maintenance of user manuals and guidelines for ease of use by the  client/customers 

• Installs software products for end users as required 

• Creates and manages Application Programming Interface (API) 

• Writes programming scripts to enhance functionality and/or appearance of company Web site and/or  related Web applications as necessary 

• Removes code script from company Web site and/or related Web applications as necessary

• Liaises with network administrators, systems analysts, and software engineers to assist in resolving  problems with software products or company software systems

Key Performance Indicators/ Performance Goals: 

• Expert level in Java Programming using Java 8 and above 

• Understand how to develop Enterprise Solutions  

• Understanding of Microservices Architecture 

• Hands-on experience using Spring Boot Framework 

• Hands-On experience using Ci/CD 

• Hands-on experience with building cloud solutions 

• Experience using ISO 8583 

• Experience using ISO 20022 

• Experience in development of Payment Solutions 

• Understanding of Domain-Driven Architecture 

• Should be able to guide and Mentor Junior Developers 

• Hands-on experience with BDD Testing Framework 

• Hands-on experience with Junit, Mockito, Hamcrest and AssertJ

EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATION

• Minimum of bachelor’s degree / HND in Computer/System/ Electrical/ Electronic  Engineering/ Applied physics/ Computer Science or a related discipline
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience using Java and related technologies.