Senior Specialist: Business Integration (Natural ADABAS) x 2 (Fixed Term Contract)
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Position Reports to: Manager: Information Technology Service
Division: Strategy Enab & Modernisation
Location: Head Office
Advert Closing Date: 11 February 2026
About the Position
SARS is looking for a skilled, suitably experienced, and results-driven Software Developer, specializing in Natural ADABAS Development with a particular emphasis on NaturalOne.
The candidate must have strong communication skills and be able demonstrate the ability to conceptualize ideas and turn these into practical solutions.
Experience in implementing systems both independently and as part of a software development team is required.
Job Purpose
To provide expertise, advice and support to deliver on operational implementation plans and / or associated service delivery processes, ensuring effective and efficient development, enhancements, implementation, maintenance and optimisation of application modules/subsystems, in order to continuously enhance service delivery.
Education and Experience
Minimum Qualification & Experience Required
OR
ALTERNATIVE #
Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND 15 years development experience in a Natural / ADABAS environment, of which 3-4 years is at junior specialist level.
Minimum Functional Requirements
- Natural ADABAS
- NaturalONE
- IBM Mainframe (z/OS)
- Job Control Language (JCL)
- Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and IBM MQ
Job Outputs:
Process
- Analyse and make recommendations about improvements to specialist systems, procedures and associated area's practice.
- Contribute to IT business planning with regards to interface applications.
- Contribute to the optimum utilisation of org. resources, advising on effective planning and development of area of specialisation resource plans.
- Design, plan and implement all the integration, design and development activities that relate to the portfolio of business integration in conjunction with all relevant stakeholders.
- Develop a single practice area in alignment with operational activity and procedural frameworks and ensure tactical implementation.
- Draw on own technical or professional expertise, knowledge and experience to identify and recommend tactical solutions to defined problems in practices.
- Ensure proper project planning and execution as well as overall change control.
- Integrate business information, compare, analyse and produce reports to identify trends, discrepancies and inconsistencies for decision making purposes.
- Optimise goal achievement through tactical strategy implementation and optimisation of practises, processes and systems across an internal value chain.
- Plan for value-added, continuous practice and system improvements to deliver on objectives to enhance tactical implementation and excellence.
- Proactively identify interconnected problems, determine its impact and use to develop best fit alternatives; best practice implementation solutions.
- Provide support to integration projects by applying the required specialised skills in terms of data, design, services, processes, monitoring and patterns.
- Recommend changes to optimise processes, systems, practice areas and associated procedures and execute the implementation of change and innovation.
- Translate top-down policy, apply modification in relation to own practice area and communicate impact to relevant stakeholders.
- Troubleshoot and methodically identify research and resolve complex issues in the IT environment.
- Introduce best practices and influence the divisions to change and adopt accordingly.
Governance
- Develop and /or align governance and compliance policies for own practice area to identify and manage risk exposure liability.
People
- Integrate new knowledge and transfer skills attained through formal and informal learning opportunities in the execution of your job.
- Provide specialist know-how, support, advice and practice thought leadership in area of expertise.
Finance
- Implement and monitor financial control, management of costs and corporate governance in area of specialisation.
Client
- Develop & ensure implementation of a practice that builds service delivery excellence & encourage others to provide exceptional stakeholder service.
- Participate in the specialist practice community and contribute positively to organisation knowledge management.
- Provide authoritative, specialist expertise and advice to internal and external stakeholders
Behavioural competencies
- Accountability
- Analytical Thinking
- Attention to Detail
- Building Sustainability
- Commitment to Continuous Learning
- Conceptual Ability
- Fairness and Transparency
- Honesty and Integrity
- Organisational Awareness
- Problem Solving and Analysis
- Respect
- Trust
Technical competencies
- Application Development and Maintenance
- Business Knowledge
- Database Design and Management
- Efficiency improvement
- Functional Policies and Procedures
- IT Knowledge
- Reporting and Interpretation
- System Thinking
Compliance Competency
- GOC Confidential
- System Development Lifecycle (SDLC) (IT)
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