Senior Analyst Developer (12-Month Contract)

Position - Senior Analyst Developer

Employment Type - 12-Month Fixed-Term Contract

Work Model - 100% Onsite (Non-Negotiable) Location - Pretoria, Gauteng

About The Role Our client is seeking an experienced Senior Analyst Developer to join a large-scale Payment Ecosystem Modernisation Programme. The successful candidate will play a key role in developing, maintaining, supporting, and enhancing critical national payment solutions while ensuring the stability, performance, and ongoing sustainability of enterprise payment platforms.

This position requires a highly skilled professional who combines strong business analysis capabilities with hands-on software development experience within enterprise environments.

Key Responsibilities

Business Analysis

• Engage with business stakeholders and business analysts to understand business requirements.
• Analyse existing business processes and identify opportunities for system improvements.
• Translate business requirements into functional and technical specifications.
• Conduct impact assessments for new developments and system enhancements.

Solution Design

• Design scalable, maintainable enterprise applications.
• Produce technical and functional design documentation.
• Participate in architecture discussions and technical design reviews.
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture standards and best practices.

Software Development

• Design, develop and maintain enterprise applications.
• Build new functionality and implement system enhancements.
• Resolve software defects and production issues.
• Follow secure coding standards and development best practices.
• Perform code reviews and unit testing.

Testing & Quality Assurance

• Support System Integration Testing (SIT).
• Participate in User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Resolve testing defects.
• Assist with test planning and execution.
• Ensure applications meet quality, security and performance standards.

Production Support

• Provide second- and third-line application support.
• Investigate and resolve production incidents.
• Perform preventative application maintenance.
• Support change, incident and problem management processes.
• Ensure system availability and operational stability.

Documentation

• Maintain technical documentation.
• Produce functional specifications.
• Develop technical manuals and user guides.
• Prepare deployment documentation and release notes.
• Participate in knowledge transfer sessions with technical teams.

Key Deliverables

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

• Developing and maintaining enterprise payment applications.
• Building solutions according to approved technical designs.
• Supporting IBM MQ integrations and web applications.
• Producing high-quality technical and functional documentation.
• Participating in requirements workshops.
• Maintaining architecture documentation and operating procedures.
• Preparing deployment documents, release notes and change requests.
• Supporting application maintenance, upgrades and security patching.
• Delivering solutions that comply with governance, change control and release management standards.
• Maintaining service levels of 98% or higher.

Qualifications Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or an equivalent tertiary qualification.

Experience

• Minimum 8 years' experience as a Senior Developer or Technical Specialist.
• Proven experience within enterprise software development and application support environments.
• Experience across the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Essential Technical Skills Candidates must have strong experience with:

Programming Languages

• Java
• C#

Frameworks & Technologies

• Spring Boot
• Java EE / Jakarta EE
• Angular
• REST APIs
• Microservices

Integration Technologies

• IBM MQ (JMS)
• JDBC
• JPA

Data Formats

• XML
• XSD
• XSL

DevOps & CI/CD

• GitLab or similar CI/CD tools

Operating Systems

• Unix
• Linux

Monitoring

• Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools

Advantageous Experience

Experience in the following environments will be highly advantageous:

• Banking
• Financial Services
• National Payment Systems
• Cross-border Payment Systems
• ISO 15022 Messaging Standards
• ISO 20022 Messaging Standards

Competencies

The ideal candidate should demonstrate:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Technical analysis and solution design expertise
• Excellent documentation skills
• Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Relationship management skills
• Time management and organisational skills
• Presentation skills
• Ability to work collaboratively within cross-functional teams
• Self-motivated with a proactive approach
• High attention to detail

What's on Offer

• 12-month contract opportunity.
• Exposure to a large-scale enterprise modernisation programme.
• Opportunity to work on critical payment infrastructure projects.
• Collaborative environment with experienced technical and business teams.
• Market-related hourly rate (approximately R550–R600 per hour, depending on experience and suitability).