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About the Division

Today’s business challenges present a new wave of HR, talent and organisation priorities. Deloitte’s Human Capital services leverage research, analytics, and industry insights to help design and execute critical programs from business-driven HR to innovative talent, leadership, and change programs.

There’s no single path to driving value through Human Resources (HR) - not every HR initiative is transformative.  However, every HR investment can point the way to value. That’s where Deloitte’s HRT practitioners excel: Forging a direct path to High Impact. The success of any HR Transformation initiative extends beyond the creation of capacity and focuses on building the capability, credibility and community to deliver High Impact for the business. For three decades, our practitioners have focused exclusively on the HR function. We will never stop investing in the future of HR. We are the leader today because we are always thinking about tomorrow. 

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We are looking for a curious mind – an individual who finds opportunities in the hidden business challenges that our clients need us to solve.

Enterprising, solution oriented and always seeing the commercial opportunity in our offerings as a leading HR Technology Division. 

We are searching for a motivated Intermediate to senior Software Developer to join our software design team. You will collaborate with the management team and consultants and support all software coding and design tasks. The creation and improvement of functionality across the current platforms will be your main priority, along with driving innovation for new development requirements.

To ensure success as a new team member, you will also assist with client support queries, issue resolution and solution deployments. This will assist in enhancing your understanding of both the systems and environments they are used in.

You should have exceptionally good understanding of programming across multiple languages, the ability to learn modern technology quickly, and the ability to work in a team environment.

Responsibilities:

• Develops information systems by designing, developing, and installing software solutions.
• Determines operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.
• Develops software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, and studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes.
• Investigates problem areas.
• Follows the software development lifecycle.
• Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code.
• Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming.
• Improves operations by conducting systems analysis and recommending changes in policies and procedures.
• Obtains and licenses software by obtaining required information from vendors, recommending purchases, and testing and approving products.
• Protects operations by keeping information confidential.
• Provides information by collecting, analysing, and summarizing development and service issues.
• Accomplishes engineering and organization mission by completing related results as needed.
• Provide exceptional client service in person, phone and email as appropriate.
• Appropriately managing all client issues including troubleshooting and providing feedback to the customer.
• Supports clients per the details contained in the client maintenance and support contracts.
• Provides Level 2/3 Support to clients - resolving technical issues / error encountered by clients in a live production environment.
• Technical quality control on new software/solutions. Testing - perform any necessary software / hardware / device testing (internal and external) and documenting outcomes/specifications of these testing/UAT session.
• Attending design sessions (internal and external) and documenting specifications of these sessions.
• Occasional travel to clients.

Required qualifications and experience:

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline.
• 7-10 years of professional software development experience.
• Highly proficient in database design and SQL.
• Highly proficient in language such as C#, Java, KnockoutJS, PHP, Angular, Typescript and NodeJS.
• Highly proficient with JavaScript.
• Experience with .NET.
• Experience with CSS/HTML.
• Application architecture and design patterns.
• Experience serving as developer lead throughout the full software development lifecycle, from conception, architecture definition, detailed design, scoping, planning, implementation, testing to documentation, delivery and maintenance is preferred.
• Knowledge of professional software engineering and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Azure Devops

Software Engineer Qualifications / Skills:

• Analysing information
• General programming skills
• Software design
• Software debugging
• Software documentation
• Software testing
• Problem solving
• Software development fundamentals
• Software development process
• Software requirements

Key Competencies required / Talent Standards Capabilities:

Leadership / Behavioural Capabilities

• Living our Purpose - Identifies and embraces our purpose and values and puts these into practice in their professional life
• Influence - Builds relationships and communicates effectively in order to positively influence peers and other stakeholders
• Performance drive - Seeks opportunities to challenge self; teams with others across businesses and borders to deliver and takes accountability for own and team results
• Strategic direction - Understands objectives for clients and Deloitte, aligns own work to objectives and sets personal priorities
• Talent development - Develops self by actively seeking opportunities for growth, shares knowledge and experiences with others, and acts as a strong brand ambassador

Cross-Consulting Capabilities

• Delivery Excellence - Ability to manage own work against the project plan to ensure a superior client experience
• Knows the Business and Sector - Ability to understand the client’s business, follow sector trends and learn leading practices
• Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Ability to diagnose a problem, conduct analysis, and develop solutions for client problems
• Financial Acumen - Ability to gather and interpret financial information to help strengthen proposed recommendations
• Executive Presence - Ability to articulate thoughts and ideas in a clear and composed manner to instill confidence in team and clients
• Logical Structuring - Ability to present a cogent idea or case using clear and concise messaging, and support using appropriate data and tools
• Global Mindset - Ability to interact effectively with colleagues and clients of varying backgrounds to effectively serve clients
• Business-Technology Acumen - Ability to recognize technology as a business enabler
• Accesses the Organization - Ability to develop and share reusable assets that can be readily applied to new projects

Service Line Capabilities

• HR Function Fluency - Ability to apply relevant HR functional knowledge to inform process and/or technology solutioning

*Please note that this job advertisement provides a summary of the capabilities required and all candidates shortlisted will receive a full list of capabilities. 

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