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R105558 Consulting Principal Software Engineer

LexisNexis South Africa|Posted 1 month ago

Skills and experience

Role:Engineering lead
Other roles:Full stack engineer, Software architect
Experience in role:8+ years
Must-have skills:
    .NET
    Angular
    Microservices Architecture Design
    C#

Location and salary

Remote policy:Hybrid
Location of job:Durban, South Africa
Visa requirements:Authorised to work in South Africa With status of citizen/passport holder
Visa sponsorship:Unable to sponsor visa
Employment type:Permanent

Role description

**Do you want to drive strategic solutions with cutting edge technologies?

Are you looking to leverage your expertise to influence major projects and drive innovation?**

About our Team

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. Our company has been a long-time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market to improve productivity and transform the overall business and practice of law, deploying ethical and powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible, multi-model approach that prioritizes using the best model from today’s top model creators for each individual legal use case.

About the Role

As a Consulting Principal Software Engineer, you will provide assistance and input to management. You will develop and lead large multifunctional development activities. You will also solve complex technical problems, write complex code for computer systems. In addition, you will serve as a senior source of expertise and possibly provide sizing or budget recommendations to management.

Responsibilities

•    Serving as a primary technical point of contact for external technology resources including coding and technical issues.

•    Providing design input across a product and work directly with customers and end users.

•    Collaborating with other technical personnel or team members to finalize requirements.

•    Writing and reviewing portions of detailed specifications for the development of system components of moderate complexity.

•    Completing complex bug fixes as well as designing and working with complex data models.

•    Mentoring and leading software developers interested in consultancy on development methodologies and optimization techniques including ad-hoc duties assigned.

Requirements

•    Have a BS Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent experience required; advanced degree preferred

•   Have experience in the following technologies: Angular, .Net, SQL, C# .

•    Be an expert in test-driven development and maintenance including techniques for applying best practices for overall project.

•    Have proven expertise in the use and development of applicable desktop tool sets.

•    Have experience partnering and leading internal and external technology resources in solving complex business needs.

•    Have solid knowledge of architectural principles.

•    Have exceptional project planning skills, including delegation skills involving prioritizing projects and managing projects of various size and complexity.

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

•    Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive

Working for you

We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

•    Medical Aid

•    Retirement Plan inclusive of Risk Benefits (Disability, Critical Illness, Life Cover & Funeral Cover)

•    Modern family benefits, including adoption and surrogacy

•    Study Leave

About the Business

LexisNexis Legal & Professional® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services.

About LexisNexis South Africa

1000+ employees

LexisNexis South Africa is a leading provider of content and technology solutions, and part of RELX, a major publisher and information provider that serves customers in more than 175 countries with more than 30,000 employees worldwide. Our purpose is to advance the rule of law around the world. Publishing laws and enabling access to justice is at our core.

In November 2015 LexisNexis® South Africa established itself as a leader in conveyancing solutions in the South African legal market with its acquisition of a 100% stake in Korbitec (Pty) Ltd, a provider of content-enabled workflow solutions for South African property professionals. Korbitec’s offering includes two industry leaders, GhostConvey and Windeed.

The most important part of our business is its people, who are diverse in culture and possess unique skills that help drive our projects from one success to another.

At the core of our information technology operation is a team of software engineers, who constitute a third of our total staff complement. They carry out software research and development that keeps LexisNexis at the cutting edge of IT innovation, building the products that support our operations in South Africa as well as internationally.

Perks at LexisNexis South Africa

2 days Corporate Responsibility leave per annum
Annual profit and performance based bonuses
Provident Fund
Group Life and Disability benefits
Sponsored team outings
Development opportunities in CPT/JHB/PE/DBN
Leave starts at 20 days, increasing every 5 years to a maximum of 30 days per annum
Sponsored Microsoft exam and further IT qualifications
Medical Aid
Wellness Day
Quarterly company updates
Market related salaries
Work in SCRUM teams with other experienced developers
Flexible working hours
Work from home options

Tech Stack

application and data

AngularJS
AngularJS
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
Javascript
Javascript
Node.js
Node.js
Python
Python
React
React
Redis
Redis
RabbitMQ
RabbitMQ
jQuery
jQuery
HTML5
HTML5
C#
C#
Bootstrap
Bootstrap
ASP.NET
ASP.NET
MS SQL
MS SQL
Xamarin
Xamarin
.Net Core 2.0
.Net Core 2.0
TypeScript
TypeScript
Vue.js
Vue.js
Angular
Angular

utilities

Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch
Google Analytics
Google Analytics

dev ops

Grunt
Grunt
Jenkins
Jenkins
Git
Git
Docker
Docker
Selenium
Selenium
npm
npm
TeamCity
TeamCity
Subversion
Subversion
Team Foundation Server
Team Foundation Server
Octopus Deploy
Octopus Deploy

business tool

Slack
Slack
Trello
Trello
JIRA
JIRA
Microsoft Sharepoint
Microsoft Sharepoint

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