Application Developer IT Jobs – DFCU Bank

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Job Title:            Application Developer
Organisation: DFCU Bank
Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda
Reports to: Senior
Application Developer
About US:
DFCU bank is a fast growing commercial bank offering a variety of
innovative products and services. DFCU Limited was started by the Commonwealth
Development Corporation (CDC) of the United Kingdom and the Government of Uganda
through the Uganda Development Corporation (UDC) under the name of Development
Finance Company of Uganda Limited. Later restructuring brought in DEG (of
Germany) and International Finance Corporation (IFC) as equal partners with CDC
and UDC, each having a 25% stake in the company. Its objective was to support
long-term development projects whose financing needs and risk did not appeal to
the then existing financial commercial lending institutions.
Job Summary:  The Application Developer will be
responsible for designing, developing, implementing and maintaining the
existing information systems as well as new business application products. The
role requires the job holder to manage the entire process of building
applications, from the design process, to creating, testing and rolling out the
software. The developer shall also ensure that the different software developed
conforms to the software development standards by conducting rigorous
diagnosis, tests, code debugging, and documenting reference manuals.
Key Duties and
Responsibilities:   
  • 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.
  • Support
    the development and update of reference materials such as operating
    instructions, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments
    and clear code.
  • Maintaining
    the systems in production once they are up and running.
  • Perform
    any other tasks within the scope of the role as directed by management
    from time to time.
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience:
  • The applicant for the DFCU Bank Application
    Developer job opportunity must hold a bachelor’s degree in computer science, software
    engineering or Information systems.
  • 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
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