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 support the Manager Applications & IT Service in 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 application. 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:
· 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.
· Technically support 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 to user requirement and write software programs to develop automated solutions based on clear functional requirements derived from approved user/business requirements.
· Conduct other required implementations such as installation, configuration, customization, integration and data migration.
· Conduct 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 and 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.
· In charge of maintaining the systems in production once they are up and running.
· Undertake such other tasks within the scope of the role as directed by management from time to time.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
· The ideal candidate should preferably 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 in 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).
· Working experience using most of the following: Spring, Hibernate, JQuery, Subversion, 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.
· Demonstrated ability to work successfully as a member of a team.
· Good 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: 4th January 2016