Senior Software EngineerDe Beers GroupInformation Management

The incumbent will manage the software engineering section and solutions for De Beers Technology Business units to ensure continuous improvement in operational efficiency through optimizing current or implementing new technologies according to client’s and organization’s needs.

Key tasks:

• Financial Effectiveness: Compile the budget by providing information based on operational, security, project and organizational requirements.
• Software Research and Technology Acquisition Effectiveness: Establish and maintain a competency knowledge base and keep abreast with new technological developments identifying opportunities to ensure continuous improvement. Disseminates information on the changes in technology according to organizational requirements with knowledge management.
• Effective business requirement definitions: Document the requirements to establish an agreed basis for evaluating alternative business and systems solutions. Establish the business requirements through interaction with the users and with reference to the business models.
• Business Process Enhancements: Identify the high-level business problems and opportunities to determine inefficiencies, gaps and overlaps in business processes by referencing the generic business process models and discipline-specific key performance areas and benchmarking, feedback from various stakeholders, and comparison to existing and potential models for business excellence.
• Engineering Design and Analysis Effectiveness: Validate economic effectiveness of systems or solutions and new technology. Manage and execute software design through to documentation and data-pack management.
• Systems Build and Project Management Implementation: Responsible for the design and implementation of technical exploration and production software systems/databases, coding systems with company standard development tools, deployment systems, user training, control system development and implementation, IM Technical systems (Including Geological Logging, Image databases, On-board sampling databases, Consignment and Tracking systems), Positioning and Visualization Systems, Project System integration. Manage software and control system requirements and deliverables. Total project management and execution of technical software systems acquisitions and projects including schedule, cost and technical specification delivery.
• Systems Maintenance: Responsible to maintain exploration and production systems/databases according to agreed Service Level Agreements.
• Governance: Manage Change Control procedures according to agreed standards and practices.
• Mine safety, security and environmental effectiveness: Ensure adherence to the company's environmental management programme and that objectives are implemented according to statutory legislation and the Strategic Management Plan.
• Software Engineering Effectiveness: Manage, develop and maintain the organization’s software, information and systems standards. Audit the implementation of the above standards.
• People Management: Manage resource allocation to ensure effective staffing levels and utilization according to organizational needs. Manage key performance areas for the department and prepare development plans for progression of subordinates.
• Client Relationships: Build relationships across the De Beers Marine pipeline by sharing business information and knowledge across the value chain. Maintain stakeholder relationships by implementing and managing service level agreements.

Qualifications:

• 4 year Engineering or Computer Science Degree / BTech.
• BSc. or equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electronics, or related discipline.
• Minimum 10 years in Software engineering and Systems Integration.
• Strong analytical abilities.
• Cross business information systems integration.
• Database modelling, design, implementation, programming and administration MS SQL Server and other database management systems.
• Change Management.

Role specific Knowledge required:

• Knowledge of software development languages and tools such as C#, ASP.NET, Angular, Visual Studio.
• Knowledge of technical risk identification and management.
• Knowledge of organizational best practice software development methods.
• Knowledge of organizational software development standards.
• Electronic and software systems integration.

Successful candidates will be required to complete background screening which may include a criminal check and validation of qualifications.

This role is open to all individuals, and we will support employees who might need to relocate.