Lead - Software Developer at Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners

Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners is a business advisory and market intelligence services firm. Our objectives are to assist organizations to achieve their growth aspirations by providing market intelligence, strategy blueprint, IT solution delivery expertise and business operation improvement capabilities.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Lead - Software Developer

Location: Lagos

Job Descriptions

• An exciting opportunity exists for a LEAD, SOFTWARE DEVELOPER to join a dynamic project team. The role would suit someone with proven experience building production, commercial-quality web based applications that also has proven in depth SQL-Server development experience.
• Applicants must be comfortable with advanced SQL syntax, SQL Server Business Intelligence development and SQL Server (additional experience with Oracle is highly desirable).
• The job holder needs to be flexible and open to new ideas or change with the passion and drive to excel in their career.
• The job holder must be self-directed, organized, and extremely attentive to details.
• The job holder must recognize the value of agile, iterative development processes, SDLC and have strong OOD and OOA skills.

Responsibilities
The Application Developer will be expected to have aptitudes, skills, knowledge and experience on the following areas:

• Demonstrable analytical skills with regard to specifying and detailing business processes and requirements
• Delivery experience with .NET framework, including C#, ADO.NET, LINQ and ASP.NET
• Extensive experience with SQL Server (2005/2008/2012)
• Experience with SQL data business intelligence (OLAP, etc…) preferred
• Advanced knowledge and experience in HTML and DHTML, JavaScript, CSS
• Practical experience in Agile development methodologies
• Ability to work both in a collaborative team environment and independently.
• Proficient verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience with implementation and testing of DB backups, restores and recovery models.
• Database server deployment design, processes, and day-to-day operations, including monitoring and Performance Tuning and Optimization (PTO) using native monitoring and troubleshooting tools.
• Formulation, management and execution of data test strategies, plans and delivery commitments in concert with business and project management efforts.
• Mobile and web service development experience
• Experience with ticketing systems (e.g.; JIRA, Bugzilla) and managed workflows
• Experience with SharePoint 2010 and above preferred
• Strong familiarity with source control systems (e.g. Team Suite)

Problem Solving:
The Application Developer will often be challenged with new problems to which they will need to rely on strong problem solving skills to resolve:

• The ability to accurately identify the cause of a system/application malfunction, interpret that to management and their colleagues, document and propose resolutions
• Fully understand structured methodologies (e.g. Agile) for using programming code to solve business problems
• Ensure all changes and implementations are well tested and managed in a controlled manner with full rollback plans
• Correctly identify when assistance is required and request it accordingly
• Collaborate with the wider team in matters where their support is required

Job Requirements
Experience/Technical skills:

• Bachelor’s Degree (B.S./B.A.), Computer Science or similar (Minimum 2:2)
• 5+ years experience as an application developer.
• Highly proficient with the following: Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and XML, Spring MVC, Angular JS, Bootstrap, SOAP and Restful Services
• Must have NYSC certificate or exemption certificate
• Must list hands-on building and direct responsibility of projects worked on
• Experience in the use and Administration of MSSQL Database and Oracle Database using Stored Procedures, Functions, Views and so on.
• Efficient and effective use of NetBeans, Eclipse, SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), PLSQL Developer.
• Sound knowledge of application deployment on Apache Tomcat Server, WildFly Server/JBOSS.
• A team-player with good interpersonal skill.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV (in MS Word not PDF), current and expected salary to: contact@gvapartners.com , idriso@gvapartners.com , umoe@gvapartners.com and folakemio@gvapartners.com with the "Job title" as subject of the email.