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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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About the job:

Deloitte Human Capital invites you to join our talent community who apply their experience to project-based work with us. 

Consulting in one word? Multifaceted. No two days are ever the same. If you’re an outside-the-box thinker who enjoys exploring the myriad ways people, strategy, operations, and process improvement help shape the future of our clients’ organizations, then Consulting may be the right fit for you. At Deloitte, we work hand-in-hand with our clients from across almost every industry to improve business performance, drive shareholder value, and create competitive advantage. Our consultants have a deep interest in business and talent trends, and provide solutions to clients’ most complex issues. So get inspired by the talented people around you.

We are looking for an enthusiastic Intermediate Software Developer to join our software engineering team. You will report directly to the Development Manager and assist with all functions of software development and design. Your primary focus will be to develop and enhance functionality across the current platforms, resolve any issues and defects, test development updates and also drive innovation for new development requirements.

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

You should have a very good understanding of programming principles and best practices with languages such as Java, JavaScript and C# as well as the ability to learn new technologies quickly, and the ability to work in a fast paced, team environment, across multiple projects.

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 handling 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 1/2 Support to clients - resolving technical issues / error messages 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.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline
• 3-5 years of professional software development experience
• Experience working in software development teams
• Experience working on multiple projects concurrently.
• Highly proficient in database design and SQL
• Highly proficient in a server-side languages such as C#, Java, Python
• Highly proficient with JavaScript
• Highly Proficient with CSS/HTML
• Application architecture and design patterns
• Experience serving as technical 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
• Experience in development of distributed/scalable systems and high-volume transaction applications

Software Engineer Qualifications / Skills:

• Analysing information
• Excellent 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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