Senior IT Specialist, Healthcare

**DSV - Global transport and logistics**

Location: Gauteng
Job Posting Title: Senior IT Specialist, Healthcare
Time Type: Full Time

**Main Purpose of the Role**

**Job-Related Requirements**
- A Bachelor or Post grad in IT
- An education or certification or demonstrable experience in enterprise integration platforms (BizTalk, IBM MQ, Sterling Integrator etc.)
- An education or certification or solid demonstrable experience in systems architecture
- 5+ years’ experience in the IT industry of which minimum 3 years in a Technical Specialist / Integration Specialist / Software Architect role.
- Experience with logistics related IT systems (TMS, WMS)
- Demonstrable experience with project management and project management methodologies
- Solid track record of implementations of integration projects (E.g.Prince2 and Agile/SCRUM)
- Demonstrable experience with IT Architecture methodologies (E.g. TOGAF)
- Knowledge and/or practical experience within the Transportation/Courier sector is preferable
- An education or certification in Windows Server management/maintenance (Advance level support)
- Demonstrable experience with VMWare (includes Installation, Support, Backup, and maintenance knowledge) and other Virtualization products
- Infrastructure installation, support, and maintenance (including Fiber Switches, SAN, Physical servers) and the ability to scope, plan and deploy services as required.

**Other minimum requirements**
- Own vehicle & drivers license
- Ability and willingness to work long hours when required
- Ability to work under pressure
- Excellent verbal & written communication skills
- Excellent administrative and organizational skills
- Excellent analytical skills to understand and breakdown a problem into its components

**Added Advantages**
- An education or certification in Windows Server management/maintenance (Advance level support)
- An education or certification in ITIL
- Experience working with Linux/Unix and Windows scripting (Powershell - Windows, bash and korn - Unix/Linux)

**Electives**
- A personality with Drive, Ownership and Proactiveness
- Assertiveness, especially to ensure we remain within DSV enterprise guiderails
- Ability to multitask and work under pressure
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
- Ability to manage stakeholders that you depend on to complete your work
- Solid understanding of logistics, preferably 3PL and parcel distribution
- Ability to lead people towards meeting the organization’s vision, mission and goals
- Deep understanding and experience implementing synchronous and asynchronous integration solutions.
- Well versed in hardware architecture, network design principles and IT security.
- Strong IT infrastructure experience
- Thinking both creatively and logically to resolve design and development problems
- Complex problem solving and critical thinking
- Fluent in English, both oral and written
- Ability to comply with governance processes and structure
- A very strong aptitude for detail and willingness to get involved in the detail when required

**Duties and Responsibilities**
- Advance Support/Maintenance skills on Operating systems and the physical hardware surround it.
- Work closely with the product vendors and business clients and customers and ensure that solutions deployed are a sufficient as possible.
- Responsible for IT systems and services provided to both business and other parties within the organization
- Assist with Integration projects and ensure all WMS/ERP system integrations run as efficiently as possible (scripting/monitoring/upgrading/support)
- Effectively and efficiently outline, deploy and maintain solutions as per business and IT needs (also constantly strive to improve services offered to the business)
- Role will require afterhours standby services two weeks out of a month.