ICT Officer (Harare)

Job Description

Homelink Group which has interests in financial services and property development is offering a challenging and unique career opportunity to a highly talented, self-driven and results oriented individual to take up the role of ICT Officer.

Duties and Responsibilities

Reporting to the Senior ICT Officer, the position will provide support in the following:

• Gathers business requirements from users.
• Performs cost-benefit analysis to assess the value for money of systems.
• Formulates requirements and functional specifications.
• Performs impact analysis to assess pitfalls and advantages for introducing a system.
• Conducts supplier evaluation.
• Ascertains application software suitability.
• Design implementation strategy for a new system.
• Develops/ customizes application software and web development.
• Conducts system testing of new systems and upgrades.
• Performs data conversion, migration and mining.
• Deploys application systems.
• Conducts user training.
• Provides first line application systems support.
• Analyses system performance and conducts system tuning.
• Defines application access rights, permissions and privileges.
• Reviews disaster recovery and business continuity plans for assigned systems.
• Investigate and correct system inconsistencies.
• Ensure data integrity of captured data.
• Ensure system logic meets business requirements.
• Assesses existing application systems against user requirements.
• Liaises with application vendors, on how to fix all system deficiencies, errors and bugs.
• Develops prototypes, which will be used for both in-house application development and addressing system shortcomings.
• Develops customized reports.
• Assists with hardware & Operating System support.
• Troubleshoots issues to do with access to assigned systems.