IT Programmer
Company Profile: One of the largest manufacturers of high quality edible vegetable oils & fats, margarine, and laundry & toilet soaps in the East and Central African region
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provide technical expertise and recommendations in assessing new IT software projects and initiatives to support and enhance our existing systems.
- Make recommendations on custom applications which include a number of MS-Access data capture systems for Stewardship and other databases which need to be moved into a central SQL repository.
- Identify opportunities that can improve efficiency of business processes.
- Coordinate application development for multiple projects.
- Assist in troubleshooting software application issues.
- Assist in managing an outsource relationship for 3rd party application development and programming consultants.
- Assist network administrator with application installation and testing.
- Troubleshoot technical issues and identify modifications needed in existing applications to meet changing user requirements.
- Analyze data contained in the corporate database and identify data integrity issues with existing and proposed systems and implement solutions.
- Provides assistance and advice to business users in the effective use of applications and information technology.
- Provide minor programming for some in-house IT projects.
- Provide SQL administration in live and test environments.
- Write technical procedures and documentation for the applications including operations, user guide, etc.
- Produce technical documentation for new and existing applications.
- Verify database and data integrity.
- Participate on IT project steering committees and be involved in the design phase of any new IT software development projects.
- Assist in the creation of the system design and functional specifications for all new development projects.
- Serve as a liaison and facilitator between all business units to assist in addressing and resolving IT software issues.
Desired
Qualifications:
- A Bachelor’s degree in computer science/information technology or equivalent from a recognized university
- Minimum 2 years hands-on working programming experience using SQL, VBA and MS Excel/MS Access
- Experience of Systems Administration, data base development/management, Report Writing
- Familiarity with ICT policy development and implementation
- Experience with working with application support centersCore skills & Competencies
- Programming skills esp. in SQL, VBA
- Software Installation skills
- Database management skills
- Broad ICT knowledge & the capacity to keep up with the ever challenging technology
- User training & support skills
- Project Management skills
- Reporting & Presentation skills
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