.Net Architect at DataFin Recruitment

Location: South Africa

Environment:

A Cape Town based IT company requires a .Net Architect for their Johannesburg branch with solid project experience and 5+ years relevant work experience.
Must be knowledgeable in a wide range of technologies and have experience in leading a team.

Duties:

• Successful delivery of projects.
• Productive development teams.
• Must be able to engage senior business and technology stakeholders, including discussions, presentations and negotiations.
• Role will entail architecture consulting as well as delivery solution architecture (i.e. within build projects).

Requirements:

• Degree/diploma.
• Solid project experience (exposure to full project lifecycle) and 5+ years relevant work experience.
• Experience in a wide range of technologies, methodologies and environments and most importantly making decisions around these.
• Experience in leading a team.
• Frameworks and related: .NET (1.0 – 3.0), ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Windows Forms, .NET Web Services, Windows Workflow Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation, Enterprise Library.
• Server Technologies: SharePoint, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, IIS, BizTalk.
• Persistence: ADO.NET, ORM (e.g. NHibernate).
• Databases: Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, MySQL.
• Communication: XML, XSLT, HTTP, Sockets, SOAP, REST, RMI.
• Development tools: Visual Studio 2005 Professional, Team System & Foundation Server, CruiseControl.NET, NUnit, Subversion. 11. Methodologies: Agile, XP, RUP, Prince 2, Test Driven Development (TDD).
• UML.

Attributes:

• Good spoken and written communication skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Proactive.
• Responsible decision maker.
• Accountable.
• Efficient.
• Focused.
• Thorough.
• Passionate (about architecture and coding).
• Open.
• Delivery focused.
• Practical.
• Collaborative.
• Patient and empathetic.
• Reliable.
• Trustworthy.
• Objective.
• Team player.
• Anticipates & predicts problems & risks.
• Professional.

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