Job Description

Job Requisition ID: 147107

Established in the 1930s as a trading business, Al-Futtaim Group today is one of the most diversified and progressive, privately held regional businesses headquartered in Dubai, United A"rab Emirates. Structured into five operating divisions; automotive, financial services, real estate, retail and healthcare; employing more than 35,000 employees across more than 20 countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, Al-Futtaim Group partners with over 200 of the world's most admired and innovative brands. Al-Futtaim Group's entrepreneurship and relentless customer focus enables the organisation to continue to grow and expand; responding to the changing needs of our customers within the societies in which we operate.

By upholding our values of respect, excellence, collaboration and integrity; Al-Futtaim Group continues to enrich the lives and aspirations of our customers each and every day.

IT Application Developer (POWERSCHOOL) | Universal American School | Dubai

About the Role:

To define, Lead and manage the application development, architecture, security and recoverability of all application services on apple and windows platform.

Key Responsibilities.

• Plan, schedule and coordinate till completion for the new application development
• Understand client requirements and how they translate in application features
• Devise an effective design prototypes according to specifications
• Support an IT security strategy while ensuring compliance with internal policies and country regulations
• Write high quality source code program and complete applications within deadlines
• Perform unit integration testing before launch
• Conduct functional and non-functional testing
• Develop and maintain agile, high speed, secure offshore communication systems
• Evaluate existing applications to reprogram update and add new features
• Develop technical documents and handbooks to accurately represent application design and code
• Design, develop and install - application/reporting enhancements and upgrades
• Evaluate existing applications to reprogram update and add new features
• Develop technical documents and handbooks to accurately represent application design and code
• Design, develop and install - application/reporting enhancements and upgrades
• Responsible for creating and updating the school data dashboard

About the Person:

• Degree educated in IT or a related discipline
• Minimum 2-year experience managing IT Application and development

Job-specific skills

• Specialist developer and IT functional analyst user of Powerschool
• Development environment (.Net, ASP.Net, VB Net and C# Programming/coding)
• MS SQL 2008/2012, MS Access
• SharePoint development and integration
• Programming knowledge
• Software designing and programming principles
• Strong Communicator to both Business and technical users
• Analytical Thinking and problem-solving capability
• Great attention to detail and time-management skills

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