Business Application Support (Non-Core) at a General and Special Risk Insurance Company

We are a major player in the General and Special Risk Insurance underwriting business in Nigeria. We maintain leadership role in key transactions in Aviation, Oil & Gas, Marine Cargo and Hull Business as well as in Motor insurance business.

With commitment to serving the Nigerian public and corporate world better, we invite applications from young talented people willing to join our team of technology, future looking and progressive family to fill the position below:

Job Title: Business Application Support (Non-Core)

Location: Nigeria

Job Objective

• To ensure that Business Applications are continually enhanced and available to Support the organization’s Business and effectively implement the automation of new processes and support the availability, usability and enhancement of existing processes that sustains the organizations growth and core operations.

Job Responsibilities

• Assist in planning, coordinating, and supervising all activities related to the design, development and implementation of systems and software applications.
• Assist in developing integration services using API’s as interface between 3rd party applications and the business applications.
• Design technical solutions including high level (entity- relationship, data flow) to low level (field structures, database schemas) design on MySQL and MSSQL database platforms.
• Build, configure or customize t he technical solution (technical code components and services)
• Ensure compilation of code and components into application and manage automation and monitor application integration as code iteratively goes through assembly and product testing.
• Assist in developing service acceptance criteria. Propose performance levels for new service.
• Review and verify service requirements with users.
• Assist in developing prototypes (to improve envisioning and communication) and proof-of concept systems (to test technology) to validate potential solutions.
• Management and Delivery of application services while t racking and ensuring all application defects and requirement are promptly resolved.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in IT / Computer Science, Numerate Science or related field.
• 2+ years’ Experience in supporting business critical applications.
• Experience on .NET, PL/SQL, SQL database programming languages.
• Familiarity with JavaScript, CSS and HTML and XML.
• Familiarity with REST and Soap Web services.
• Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills including technical writing skills.
• Experience creating detailed reports and giving presentations.
• Excellent planning, organizational, and time management skills.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.