Developer

Transnet Company; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Transnet Rail Infrastructure Manager (TRIM) is seeking an experienced ICT professional to develop innovative, digitally driven solutions that meet business requirements with strong quality assurance. You will design, develop and implement digital software within the ICT environment, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive modernization using DevOps practices.

The role requires extensive SDLC knowledge, Agile/DevOps familiarity, and the ability to work with stakeholders to ensure

Qualifications

• National Diploma Or Equivalent/Related Qualification in Information Technology / Computer Science / Engineering.
• TOGAF certification is beneficial.
• COBIT certification is beneficial.
• ISO 20000 certification is beneficial.
• Agile certification is beneficial.
• DevOps certification is beneficial.
• ITIL Foundation/Service Management/Intermediate — beneficial.
• 2 years in direct development, system integration or related.

Responsibilities

• Develop innovative ICT solutions to meet business requirements with quality assurance.
• Develop and implement new digital solutions within the ICT environment.
• Work with developers to build and rewrite digital solutions per specifications.
• Adopt best practices, ensure lifecycle management of applications, and ensure QA and testing.
• Enable CI/CD using DevOps principles and support production incidents.
• Collaborate with business users and teams to understand requirements and architecture.

Skills

SDLC knowledge

Agile / DevOps

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Communication skills

Presentation skills

Railway domain knowledge

Technical leadership

Education

National Diploma or equivalent in IT/CS/Engineering

Tools

Oracle Maximo

Oracle PL/SQL

WebSphere/Tomcat

Angular/JQuery

Job description

Job Details

• Operating Division: Transnet Rail Infrastructure Manager (TRIM)


• Employee Group: Permanent


• Department: TR-ICT-Innovation & Digital Transfor-PKT


• Location: Johannesburg


• Reporting To: Function Specialist: Innovation & Digita


• Grade: G


• Reference: req5247

The closing date is on 03/09/2026. It is the responsibility of the applicant to ensure that HR has received the application before the closing date of the advertisement.

Position Purpose

• 1. To develop innovative and digitally driven ICT solutions to meet business requirements effectively, efficiently, on time and with the required quality assurance standards in accordance with specific business requirements.


• 2. Develop and implement the new approved digital solutions within the ICT environment.

Position Outputs

• Implement Planned Activities


• Working with other developers and Team Members to develop and implement new digital software solutions to meet business needs.


• Develop, build and re-write new and existing digital solutions in accordance to the specifications and ICT roadmap.


• Implementing emerging software development best practices, technologies and standards.


• Participation in the Management of the digital application and software life cycle management.


• Application Development environment by: Adopt and follow application development best practices.


• Produce high standard and quality digital software solutions that aligns to both the business requirement specifications and the architectural standards.


• Developing optimised digital and mobile solutions based on technical specifications.


• Enhancing and improve existing solutions to become more digitally focused.


• Ensuring quality assurance on work delivered.


• Performing unit testing.


• Participating in integration testing and User Acceptance Testing.


• Enabling continuous Integration and Deployment of Digital solutions using DevOps Principles.


• Adhering to Best Practice Standards.


• Performing Production support of solutions (24/7).


• Performing incident analysis and resolution.


• Performing analysis on incidents to identify trends and improvements required.


• Adhering to ICT system development processes (SDLC) Train, mentor, manage and provide guidance to Junior Staff.


• Producing relevant reports aligned to Outputs.


• Working according to Agile, DevOps and Other Supported Methodologies.


• Working in Adhere to governance and best practice processes across ICT SDLC methodology.


• Fixing, troubleshooting and improving existing software.


• Integrating software components based on specifications.


• Implementing automation on/in software components to improve business process efficiency.


• Assist project managers with software developmental reports relating to projects.


• Architectures and required functionality.


• Participating in workshops with business users and departmental team members to understand business needs and requirements.

Qualifications and Experience

• National Diploma Or Equivalent/Related Qualification in Information Technology / Computer Science / Engineering.


• Certification in TOGAF – Beneficial


• Certification in COBIT – Beneficial


• Certification in ISO 20000 – Beneficial


• Certification in Agile – Beneficial


• Certification in DevOps – Beneficial


• Certification in Lean – Beneficial


• Certification in ITIL Foundation/Certification in ITIL Service Management/ Certification in ITIL intermediate levels – Beneficial


• 2 years in direct specialised Development field, System Integration or related.


• Valid Driver’s License


• Willing to Travel


• Willing to work extended and after hours in support of project deadlines where needed.

Competencies

• Excellent understanding of development life cycle.


• Knowledge of Agile SDLC methodologies (Scrum and KANBAN) is required.


• Knowledge of DevOps would be beneficial


• An excellent understanding of SDLC processes, tools and techniques.


• Excellent communication skills.


• Excellent problem-solving skills.


• Excellent presentation skills.


• Knowledge of railway environment.


• Knowledge of Governance and Best Practice Processes relevant to environment (COBIT/ITIL/ISO 200000).

• Solid grasp of Agile and Lean practices.


• Drive relentless improvement.


• Collaboration with other teams, departments and operating divisions


• Embedding of Quality Practices.


• Embedding Automation capabilities.

• Oracle 11c, 19c Experience (P)


• Oracle PL/SQL Experience (P)


• SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases. (P)

• JAVA 1.7+.


• JEE (J2EE) server-side technologies (P).


• RESTful Services (P).


• Spring framework (P).


• Experience with an application server (i.e. Tomcat, WebSphere) (P).


• Javascript/Typescript (JQuery and Angular) (P).


• Good understanding of OOP Programming (P).


• Good understanding of browser compatibility (P).


• Knowledge of Source Control (commits, Merges, Pull Requests) (P).


• Micro services beneficial (P).

• Working knowledge of Maximo Enterprise Asset Management (P).


• Ability to analyse problem and provide clear recommendations. (P).


• Understanding of Business processes. (P).


• Database Administration (Oracle) (P).


• SQL optimization skills (P).


• WebSphere administration for Maximo. (P).


• Understanding of the Software development process. (P).

Equity Statement

Preference will be given to suitably qualified Applicants who are members of the designated groups in line with the Employment Equity Plan and Targets of the Organisation/Operating Division.

Disclaimer

If you have not heard from Transnet within 90 days, please consider your application as unsuccessful.

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