SITA SOC Ltd. (State Information Technology Agency SOC Ltd) is a South African state-owned company that acts as the information and communications technology (ICT) business for the South African government. Its mission is to provide efficient and value-added ICT services to the public sector in a secure, cost-effective, and integrated manner.

Purpose of the job

• To lead the design, implementation, debugging, documentation, release and maintenance of software-based  solutions, write code and enhance software/systems in accordance with ICT standards and the enterprise architecture for Government.

Key Responsibility Areas

• Lead the design and development of new features for the software systems, and improvement of the existing ones;
• Implementation, debugging, documentation and release of the software solutions;
• Provide maintenance and enhancement support of the existing systems;
• Perform software systems coding assignments; and
• Supervision of the Software development team.

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum: 3 years National Higher Diploma/ Bachelor’s degree in ICT (Computer Science, Information Systems, Technology and Engineering) or related field.
• Experience: 6 – 7 years’ experience with full software development lifecycle (SLDC), including solution development, operational responsibility in a large corporate/public sector organisation. The experience must include Experience in solution analysis, and development for the development, implementation and maintenance/enhancements of systems within the corporate/public sector, including: Successfully developed and implemented applications Software development team leadership competency Software development deliverable efford planning, estimations and execution management Developed efficient and effective IT solutions to diverse and complex business problems. Extensive experience with a wide variety of database management systems and maintenance. Extensive experience with a wide variety of programming languages and technologies. Extensive experience with working on multiple tasks and report status. Experience in interacting with customers. Knowledge and experience with one or more of the major programming languages: Java, C-Sharp (C#), Python, Javascript, HTML, etc. Experience with one or more of the major database systems: Oracle, MySQL, MsSQL, etc.