Principal Developer: Customised Platform

Road Accident Fund; Centurion; On-site; ZAR 695,000 - 849,000; Full time

Job summary

Road Accident Fund in Centurion, Gauteng, SA is seeking a Software Development professional within the Division: Strategy and Transformation. The role reports to the Technical Product Owner: Customised Platforms and focuses on developing new applications and maintaining existing systems according to business requirements.

Key duties include analysing requirements, designing solutions, collaborating with UX/UI, ensuring quality through testing, integrating automated workflows, and contributing to

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree/Advanced Diploma in IT related qualification.
• Microsoft Certified Application Developer is an added advantage.
• Certificate in ITIL is an added advantage.
• Cloud Certification is an added advantage.
• Java Certification is an added advantage.
• 5-7 years’ experience in the SDLC environment and integration programs.

Responsibilities

• Analyse business requirements and convert them into technical specifications.
• Design databases structures in line with relational databases principles.
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers to create intuitive interfaces.
• Conduct unit testing and quality assurance activities.
• Develop interfaces and automated workflows; contribute to mobile deployments.
• Provide technical support and maintain source control with CI/CD practices.

Skills

Resilience

Network and alliance

Employee engagement

Ethics and values

Change management

Critical and innovative thinking

Policy conceptualisation and formation

Risk Management

Stakeholder development and relations

Reporting

Client Server and Object-Oriented

Cloud Platforms

Power Platforms

HTML/XML/RDBMS

Web Services

Service Oriented Architecture

Relational databases

Education

Bachelor’s Degree/ Advanced Diploma in IT

Microsoft Certified Application Developer

Certificate in ITIL

Cloud Certification

Java Certification

Tools

UML

HTML

XML

RDBMS

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

Job description

Division: Strategy and Transformation

Reference No: 6545

Location:

Centurion, Gauteng, ZA

Employment Type: Permanent

Disability (EE targeted role): No

T.A.S.K Grade: 14

Job Posting Salary: R771,969.00

Job Posting End Date: 27 Oct 2026

The Road Accident Fund’s mission is to provide timely and equitable assistance to those affected by motor vehicle accidents through the provision of appropriate social benefits to ensure financial relief and recovery for qualifying individuals.

Purpose of the Job: Reporting to the Technical Product Owner: Customised Platforms, the successful incumbent is accountable for developing new applications/ systems as well as enhancing and maintaining existing application applications/ systems in accordance with the business requirements.

Key Performance Areas

Application Development Management

• Acceptance of requirements from analysts.
• Analyse business requirements and convert them into technical specifications for solutions.
• Design the system in accordance with architectural standards.
• Keep records of all programs in application register and configuration management.
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers to create intuitive and engaging user interfaces.
• Compile help procedures for all coded applications.
• Conduct thorough unit testing and debugging of applications to ensure quality and performance.
• Facilitate software testing and quality assurance activities.
• Fix the identified bugs defects as reported by the testing process.
• Provide technical support and troubleshooting for issues related to developed applications.
• Ensure that the source code is stored safely in the repository and that proper version control measures are in place.
• Ensure alignment with DevOps, CI/CD Documentation and processes.
• Design databases structures in line with relational databases principles.

Integration

• Develop the interfaces (coding) as described in the development activities category.
• Build and maintain automated workflows using suitable solutions.
• Contribute to the development and deployment of native or cross-platform mobile applications.

Policy Review and Implementation

• Contribute to the development and implementation of departmental policy, procedures and processes.
• Keep up to date with effective policy and practice execution strategies.

Reporting

• Track and prepare the activity status report on the progress of the implementation of received requirements.
• Prepare proposals, briefings, presentations, reports, and other documentation and provide management information both verbally and in report format.

Stakeholder Management

• Actively participate in knowledge-sharing sessions or team learning initiatives.
• Facilitate and manage communication with relevant internal and external stakeholders and proactively and progressively manage the relationships.
• Deal with enquiries and requests for information from both internal and external stakeholders.

Qualifications And Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree/ Advanced Diploma in IT related qualification.
• Microsoft Certified Application Developer is an added advantage.
• Certificate in ITIL is an added advantage.
• Cloud Certification is an added advantage.
• Java Certification is an added advantage.
• Relevant 5 - 7 years’ experience in the entire Software Development (SDLC) environment.
• Experience in writing Application Integration Programs.
• Experience in Unified Modelling Language (UML).

Technical And Behavioral Competencies Required

• Resilience.
• Network and alliance.
• Employee engagement.
• Ethics and values.
• Change management.
• Critical and innovative thinking
• Policy conceptualisation and formulation.
• Risk Management.
• Stakeholder development and relations.
• Reporting.
• Thorough understanding of Client Server and Object-Oriented environments.
• Understanding of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.
• Understanding Cloud Platforms (AWS, MS Azure) and Power Platforms.
• Understanding of HTML, XML and RDBMS.
• Knowledge of Web Services.
• Understanding of Service Oriented Architecture.
• Exposure to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.
• Understanding of relational databases.

NB: “RAF offers Total Employment Cost packages with no additional contributions from the Employer, successful candidates are required to structure their packages in a manner that will suit their needs”.

The Road Accident Fund subscribes to the principles of employment equity and preference will be given to People with Disabilities.

Security Vetting shall be conducted on all prospective employees.

It is the applicants’ responsibility to have foreign qualification evaluated by the South African Qualification Authority (SAQA) and to provide proof of such evaluation.