Natural Adabas Developer

Title: Natural Adabas Developer

Position Overview:

Minimum Experience:

• Minimum 5 years relevant experience.

• NATURAL/ADABAS with BATCH and Online processing experience.

• Experience in all phases of systems development and implementation.

• Write and maintain documentation instruction and procedure guides.

• Strong knowledge of NATURAL programming language.

• Must have worked with NATURALOne.

• Exposure to EntireX.

• Proficiency in developing software using NATURAL/ADABAS development tools in a Linux

  environment.

  Minimum Qualification and Certification:

• Relevant tertiary certification.

• A relevant 3year diploma or degree in the Information Technology space preferred.

• NATURAL development certification.

• NATURALOne development certification.

• ITIL and COBIT certification.

  Minimum Requirements:

• Unendorsed valid drivers license and own vehicle.

• Understanding of IT governance essential.

• Understanding of relevant industry knowledge desirable.

  Job Outputs:

• Maintenance and support of existing NATURAL/ADABAS system.

• Development of new applications throughout the entire project lifecycle (SDLC).

• Ensure adherence to standards procedures and methods for the development and

  maintenance of the applicable applications.

• Working from requirements and specifications unsupervised.

• Maintain application software by coding testing debugging and documenting application

  features and changes.

• Participating in activities that ensure the successful use of systems.

• Design develop and implement enhancements.

• Assist with support and incident management.

• Assist in providing documentation of enhancements and modifications.

• Assist with the integration and implementation of systems.

Responsible for developing NATURAL ADABASbased software solutions to do maintenance and enhancements/changes to existing software applications.
This entails performing effective evaluations of requirements technical feasibility studies and analysis of systems with a view to designing building documenting and implementing application systems as well as enhancing existing systems.

• Provide user training where necessary.

• Provide assistance with regards to the identification of procedures processes and the

  information flow required for the maintenance of systems in line with both business

  strategies and information requirements.

• Execute technical investigations impact analysis and compilation of technical solutions and

  action plans.

• Perform standby and maintenance duties as required.

  Competencies:

• Good communication skills

• Knowledge and understanding of various IT systems and related configurations as applied

  within a specified business environment.

• Competency in application of knowledge techniques and skills of End User Computing

  applications in the workplace.

• Good problem solving

• Team and customer orientated

• Be able to work on multiple projects.

• Develop innovative and creative output.

• Quality assurance skills

• Attention to detail

• Solid analysis skills

  Personal Attributes:

• Committed

• Professional

• Resilient

• Logic and sound judgement to solve complex system challenges.

• Proactive

• Adaptable

• Building partnerships and strategic working relationships.

• Be eager to continuously learn

• Consistently maintaining high levels of activity or productivity.

• Quality Orientated

• Stress Tolerant