Software Developers – Female at Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners

Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners is a business advisory and market intelligence services firm. Our objectives are to assist organizations to achieve their growth aspirations by providing market intelligence, strategy blueprint, IT solution delivery expertise and business operation improvement capabilities.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Software Developer – Female

Location: Lagos

Job Description

The Application Developer role is a technology focused role intended to provide software development and analysis services to the company.
The role would suit someone with proven experience building production, commercial-quality web based applications (in C# 3.0 and above) that also has proven in depth SQL-Server development experience.
Applicants must be comfortable with advanced SQL syntax, SQL Server Business Intelligence development and SQL Server (additional experience with Oracle is highly desirable).
The job holder needs to be flexible and open to new ideas or change with the passion and drive to excel in their career.
The job holder must be self-directed, organized, and extremely attentive to details.
The job holder must recognize the value of agile, iterative development processes, SDLC and have strong OOD and OOA skills.

Problem Solving:

The Application Developer will often be challenged with new problems to which they will need to rely on strong problem solving skills to resolve:
The ability to accurately identify the cause of a system/application malfunction, interpret that to management and their colleagues, document and propose resolutions
Fully understand structured methodologies (e.g. Agile) for using programming code to solve business problems
Ensure all changes and implementations are well tested and managed in a controlled manner with full rollback plans
Correctly identify when assistance is required and request it accordingly
Collaborate with the wider team in matters where their support is required

People Management and Development:

The post holder will need to show evidence of the following:
The ability to work well within a team and as part of a larger overall technology team
They should display strong collaborative characteristics.

Qualifications

The Application Developer will be expected to have aptitudes, skills, knowledge and experience on the following areas:
Demonstrable analytical skills with regard to specifying and detailing business processes and requirements
Delivery experience with .NET framework, including C#, ADO.NET, LINQ and ASP.NET
Extensive experience with SQL Server (2005/2008/2012)
Experience with SQL data business intelligence (OLAP, etc…) preferred
Advanced knowledge and experience in HTML and DHTML, JavaScript, CSS
Practical experience in Agile development methodologies
Ability to work both in a collaborative team environment and independently.
Proficient verbal and written communication skills.
Experience with implementation and testing of DB backups, restores and recovery models.
Database server deployment design, processes, and day-to-day operations, including monitoring and Performance Tuning and Optimization (PTO) using native monitoring and troubleshooting tools.
Formulation, management and execution of data test strategies, plans and delivery commitments in concert with business and project management efforts.
Mobile and web service development experience.
Experience with ticketing systems (e.g.; JIRA, Bugzilla) and managed workflows
Experience with SharePoint 2010 and above preferred
Strong familiarity with source control systems (e.g. Team Suite)

Job Specification:

Bachelor’s degree (B.S./B.A.), Computer Science or similar
3+ years of application and web application development experience (using the .Net Framework 3.0 and above)
Other fields of study are acceptable when combined with strong background or work experience within the financial sector.

KPI’s:

95% on-time delivery of projects/tasks
97% uptime on all supported tier-1 applications
100% assurance that all code for deployed applications is written to industry standard employing best practice code patterns at all junctions
80% automated test code coverage on all production deployed code
Suggest and assist in proposals, business cases and designs of services aimed improving process automation firm wide
Implement 100% of projects in line with SDLC principles
Ensure full user and technical documentation of all systems in production
Ensure all code that the application developer is responsible for is delivered with complete and detailed documentation
Ensure security is built into all organizational processes and development work
Ensure working and up to date disaster recovery versions exist for all production deployed modules
Display strong collaborative characteristics and work with wider division and company to reach stated divisional and departmental goals