AppZone IT Job Vacancies in Lagos, September 2014

AppZone is Africa's leading provider of Integrated Banking and Payment software platforms and incidentally creator of BankOne; the world's leading cloud infrastructure for Banking and Payment processing targeted at Small and Medium financial Institutions.


AppZone is recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: System Integrator
Location: Lagos
Job Description

• Ensuring that the client's server environment meets the application deployment requirements.
• Deployment of applications on client's server environment for both test and production.
• Integration of applications to client's infrastructure that require the application to work seamlessly (e.g. Active Directory, Exchange Server, FEP, CBA etc.)
• Responsible for all client site engagements during the life time of project implementation.
• Responsible for stabilizing application in pilot stage.
• Responsible for data migration if required during project implementation.
• To articulate and implement on-premise application deployment plans during the implementation phase of software projects.
• To ensure the timely integration of software solutions to the relevant applications third party systems.
• To contribute directly to the achievement of daily, weekly, monthly and long term integration system objectives and diagnosis.
• Troubleshoot third party integration issues.
• Articulate and document system integration procedures.
• Adopt and adhere to approved system integration and pilot support policies.

• Provision of second level client support to troubleshoot and resolve all non-code-related technical problems including Database, operating system, web-server, integration, networking, and hardware issues, amongst others.
• Involvement in all application administration activities relating to preventive maintenance including re-deployment, database management, Data scripting, Infrastructure Monitoring and Management amongst others.
• Detection of code-related application problems and its resolution or escalation as at when required.
• Provision of a reliable interface between client IT support personnel and business units during implementation, maintenance, and support engagements by giving regular and timely work progress updates.
• Other support interactions with clients to ensure client satisfaction in line with the company's business goals.

• Execution of the project life cycle from initial planning/documentation, to successful project completion and sign-off within agreed timelines
• Execution of project planning/documentation, requirements analysis/documentation, project tracking, solution testing, solution implementation and post implementation maintenance and support.
• Execution of client side activities including integration testing, application business configuration, User acceptance exercises, user training, stakeholder reviews and project sign-off engagements.
• Involvement in the audit of prospective client systems and the gathering of Business requirements for solution design purposes
• Analysis of client requirements and development of suitable solution designs and architectures
• Preparation of technical and business related documentation for pre and post-sales client interactions

• Modelling, Design, Implementation/Development of Software Products and Solutions with a Software Development Team.
• Articulation of Deployment Procedure Documents.
• Deployment & Integration of Developed or Packaged Solutions in Production Environments or Live Service Systems.
• Provision of Technical Support (bug fixing, functional extensions or documentation) for deployed Solutions.
• Develop, test, debug, implement and maintain applications for documentation and meetings management.
• Develop, test, debug, implement and maintain applications using the standard Web-based and client server development frameworks and technologies ASP.NET, C#, C++, MS SQL Server.
• Develop, test, debug and implement applications using standard development methodology and tools Scrum, Agile, TFS.
• Develop applications with optimized code within the .NET framework using ORM tools such as NHibernate to carry out database transactions efficiently.
• Carry out all required testing and quality assurance and ensure that deliverables meet software requirements based on agreed time frames and milestones.
• Provide assistance, training to the end users and write comprehensive technical documentation using the standard tools TFS and ensure that the application code is described clearly.