Analyst Programmer – LIMS Developer - Re-Advertisement

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Description

The overall responsibilities of the successful candidate in this position are to ensure that the maintenance of the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) and new solutions are addressed proactively, available, stable and satisfy business needs to assist Management in decision making. Furthermore, ensure that all LIMS systems comply with all regulatory and audit requirements.

Responsibilities

• Identifying, gathering / extracting, analyzing and documenting business information requirements and problems reported, from business representatives
• LIMS solutions to meet Business Process / Data Owner expectations by following SDLC methodology
• Analyse issues that have been raised and implement fixes for the issues
• Database data integrity and basic database administration
• Project administration and management
• Support and participate in the disaster recovery and redundancy protocols of the LIMS system and database
• Conduct technology research to stay abreast of developments in LIMS and database management
• Mentoring and development of Scientific Services (SS) application users
• Development of training programmes for SS application users
• Fulfil a role within the SHEQ systems e
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• , Fire Fighter, First Aider, SHE Rep when required to do so following an engagement and an agreement with the employer as outlined in the act

Qualifications

• NQF 7: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems or equivalent
• 5 years relevant experience covering the following areas: LIMS and Microsoft SQL environment
• Application and Report development at both tactical (LIMS Management & Analysis reports
• Data flow and information analysis
• Information dissemination \ publication
• Functional and Technical system and report design \ specification
• System analysis, design, development, implement, maintain applications and integration
• Developing test scenarios and carry out unit, integration and user acceptance testing
• Writing detailed functional and technical specifications, system documentation or manuals
• Compiling system and training documentation
• System maintenance and end-user support
• Data Extraction and 3rd party product integration
• Application change management principles, procedures and controls
• Version control or software configuration control procedures
• Investigation and proposing of solutions to business problems
• Laboratory Instrument Interfacing with LIMS
• Data quality management (Data ownership and custodianship)
• Providing end-user training
• 3 years Water Quality Laboratory Environment 3 years project Management experience
• 2 years cloud computing experience

Application instructions:

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