SITA SOC is the State Information Technology Agency, a South African government-owned company (SOC stands for “State-Owned Company”). Established in 1999, it was created to consolidate and coordinate the state’s information technology resources. SITA’s mandate is to manage the procurement and delivery of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) services for the South African government. Its mission is to provide efficient, cost-effective, and integrated ICT services to the public sector to improve service delivery and citizen convenience. 

Purpose of the job

• To research, design, install, test and maintain and enhance software systems write and coding of individual programmes in accordance with ICT standards and the enterprise architecture for Government.

Key Responsibility Areas

• Develop/ Design software or customize software for client use with the aim of optimizing operational efficiency using SITAs software development stack/ development framework;
• Coordinate software system installation and monitor equipment functioning to ensure specifications are met;
• Produce detailed specifications and writing the programme codes;
• Maintain the integrated IT software components systems once they are up and running; and
• Develop integrated technical service specifications for single or multiple software components to clearly set direction for procuring or building software components.

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum: 3 years Diploma / Degree in ICT (Computer Science, Information Systems, Technology and Engineering) or related field.
• Experience: 3 – 5 years’ experience with full software development lifecycle (SLDC), within systems development, implementation and maintenance / enhancements of solutions in the corporate sector organisation.

Technical Competencies Description

• Understanding of computer science including algorithms, data structures, operating systems and databases. Understanding of the user requirement process. Understand various tools and techniques in identifying functional requirements of software. Knowledge of Governance e.g. Cobit and ITIL Knowledge of the software development process and its technologies Knowledge to design and develop test plans and software simulator to facilitate different levels of testing. Knowledge to report the results of different levels of testing report, the discrepancies between the software and its related documents. Knowledge of design techniques, tools and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings and models. Understand the requirements for verification and validation of design documentations, verify and validate different levels of software/system design. Development methodologies (e.g. RUP, OpenUp, Agile), SDLC COTS (Commercial of the Shelf) Products Security (Software and Technologies). Software Development Fundamentals. Software Requirements. Comprehensive knowledge of software testing techniques and tools, Comprehensive knowledge and experience in Java programming language, and one or more of the following programming languages: HTML, JavaScript, C-Sharp, Python, PHP, Net etc. Comprehensive knowledge and experience with one or more of the major database systems, MySQL, MsSQL, Oracle, Mongo, etc Comprehensive Team-working experience.