Senior HOGAN Developer

Introduction

Role Description: The HOGAN Developer would need to have minimum of 8 years of experience. This Candidate will extensively use HOGAN and ensure that software meets or exceed specified standards and end-user requirements.

Duties & Responsibilities

Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle including

Analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development & provide recommendations to enable the operational feasibility of solutions

Quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions on Hogan application

Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organisation principles  repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience

Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions

Debug existing source code

Unit and system testing, both positive & negative testing AND with a technical as well as business slant.

Work with integrated teams and other developers to improve and evolve technical products and services

Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture & Infrastructure guidelines

Provide input into project & program teams (when required) to plan & manage the development lifecycle e.g. releases, risk management, testing, integration etc.

Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on Hogan applications

Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices and continuously evolve existing knowledge & skill in preparation for cross domain and other experiences

Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post release)

Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks

Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents.

• Participate in planned activities that are appropriate for own and employee development.

• Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving, knowledge sharing within and across the broader team.

• Ability to communicate at both a technical and non-technical level.

• Strong communications skills to effectively communicate at different levels of management.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

• Excellent organizational and coordination skills.

• Ability to work both independently and with a team.

Desired Experience & Qualification

• Schemes experience (Acquiring)

• Card and Payment’s industry (Acquiring) experience

• Analysis of Schemes articles

• Mastercard and Visa knowledge

• PDS

• Edits

• Clearing and Settlement

• Easytrieve

• Batch development expertise – TWS

• ISPW – Program versioning

• Agile methodology

• Azure Devops

• Service Now

Essential  (8 years +)

• Hogan COBOL IMS Mainframe development

• JCL

• SQL

• DB2

• IMS

• TSO

Education

Bachelor’s Degree