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Digital Marketing All-Rounder (Cape Town)
Remuneration: | R13000 – R15000 per month Basic salary |
Location: | Cape Town |
Education level: | Diploma |
Job level: | Junior |
Type: | Permanent |
Company: | Trusted Interns |
We are on the hunt for the next digital marketing maven. The digital marketing all-rounder will predominantly assist with the rollout, management and analyses of paid media campaigns. This fantastic opportunity is perfectly suited for a self-motivated individual who will thrive under pressure, who has a keen eye for detail, a guru with numbers, and better multitasking abilities than a circus juggler.
Sounds like fun, well you will be sure to work with equally awesome, passionate people who will not only support your journey but also make it a fun and adventurous one. This is a great opportunity to learn and grow quickly in what is a dynamic and flexible company.
If you have what it takes to join an a-class team, we’d love to hear from you!
Responsibilities
- Manage day-to-day and monthly paid ads
- Assist with daily and monthly paid media reporting
- Manage relationships with paid media partners
- Assist with the roll-out of new paid media initiatives
- Assist with tracking and reporting on all digital marketing pushes
- Manage social media platforms
- Conduct competitive research
Personal skills and attributes
- Methodical and diligent
- Excellent planning skills
- Analytical thinker
- Great attention to detail
- Hard worker
- Ability to learn quickly
- Ability to multitask
- Works well under pressure and sticks to tight deadlines – able to deal with stress
Experience
- Tertiary qualification in Marketing
- Google Skillshop certificate
- Facebook Blueprint certificate
- Twitter Flight School certificate
- Six months – one year experience in a paid media role
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel and Word
- Well-spoken and able to communicate clearly (in English)
- Social media savvy: Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube
Super advantageous
- Knowledge on Google Analytics and SEO
- Copywriting skills
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Senior Business Intelligence Engineer (Johannesburg)
Remuneration: | R450000 – R500000 per year Cost to company |
Location: | Johannesburg |
Education level: | Degree |
Job level: | Senior |
Type: | Permanent |
Reference: | #KB49270 |
Company: | E-merge IT Recruitment |
Job description
Are you inspired to bring the future of payments to life? Do you work with big data?
A market leader in the world of evolving payment solutions with a data-driven culture is looking for a BI analyst.
In this role, you will have to be fascinated with payment trends to meet the demands of modern commerce.
Overview:
- Work closely with technical partners in the data platform engineering team on designing and developing robust data structures and highly reliable data pipelines
- Develop, deploy and maintain ETL jobs and visualisations
- Work closely with technical partners in the data platform engineering team on designing and developing robust data structures and highly reliable data pipelines
Reference number for this position is KB49270 which is a permanent position based in JHB North offering a cost to company salary of R450k – R500k Per Annum negotiable on experience and ability. Contact Kavisha Bissessar on
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Are you ready for a change of scenery? E-Merge IT Recruitment is a specialist niche recruitment agency. We offer our candidates options so that we can successfully place the right developers with the right companies in the right roles. Check out the e-Merge website www.e-merge.co.za for more great positions.
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Requirements
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, statistics or related field
- Three+ years of experience working in business intelligence, analytics, data engineering, or a similar role
- Expert in SQL and ETL
- Strong knowledge of machine learning
- Experience with big data technologies and BI tools
Posted on 21 May 11:21
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Cloud Expert (Pretoria)
Remuneration: | R650 – R750 per hour |
Location: | Pretoria |
Job level: | Senior |
Type: | Contract |
Reference: | #KB49130 |
Company: | E-Merge IT Recruitment |
Unlock your career with us, explore this opportunity as a Cloud expert for one of the best luxury car manufacturers in the world. You can be a pioneer in the transformation of the automotive industry.
If you are Cloud geek and have hands-on experience in cloud-related work, we want to chat with you!
Requirements:
- Degree in IT
- Willing to travel internationally
- Five+ years’ experience in designing Cloud software systems
- Familiarity with Microservices Architectures, Cloud Architectures or Container Architectures
- Experience with Container Orchestration Platforms preferably OpenShift or Kubernetes
- Sound experience in developing backend applications
- Experience of agile methodologies, particularly Scrum
- Proficient in using; Java, front-end and back-end technologies, continuous integration, and delivery tools
Overview of the role:
- Collaborate with feature teams and service providers and help them fix their impediments
- Work on solution designs, define and refine Jira Issues and document solutions
- Contribute to refinement of user stories
- Take part in regular Scrum meetings
- Support existing solutions, DevOps technical/functional skills
Does this sound cool to you? Are you keen to potentially explore this?
Reference number for this position is KB49130 which is a Contract position based in Pretoria offering a cost to company salary of R650 to R750 per hour negotiable on experience and ability. Contact Kavisha Bissessar on
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Posted on 21 May 11:20
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Senior Front-End Developer – Angular (Midrand)
Remuneration: | R800000 – R1200000 per year |
Location: | Midrand |
Education level: | Diploma |
Job level: | Senior |
Type: | Contract |
Reference: | #DM44481 |
Company: | E-Merge IT Recruitment |
A leading German manufacturer based in Midrand is looking for a senior front-end developer (Angular).
We need a passionate developer to join a team of cloud specialists in order to develop the next generation of exciting system software for this German giant using the latest technology and trends taking a lead role into the fourth industrial revolution.
Requirements:
- At least five years’ experience using front end technologies such as JavaScript, HTML and CSS
- Must be proficient in Angular framework (Version 6 or higher)
- Solid experience with testing tools Karma, Jasmine, Postman and Selenium
- Must have previous experience in team based software development
- Well versed in agile methodologies, scrum in particular
- Previous experience with mobile application development
- Continuous integration and delivery tools experience is essential
Duties/responsibilities:
- Design and develop production ready business applications within an already existing team of developers
- Take part in regular Scrum meeting
- Write and maintain test cases to keep up test cover
- Liaise with stakeholders and team members
- Present results to stakeholders
- Creation and updating of documents with regards to all system changes
Qualifications:
- Relevant Degree or Diploma
If you think this Job is what you looking for please give me a shout.
Reference Number for this position is DM44481; this is a contract position based in Midrand with continuous travel to the US and eventual relocation offering a salary of up to 1.2m per annum CTC, negotiable on experience + benefits. Contact Dominic on [dominicm@e-merge.co.za]] at www.e-merge.co.za or call her on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.
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Posted on 21 May 09:28
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Front-End Developer – Angular (Pretoria)
Remuneration: | R800000 – R1200000 per year |
Location: | Pretoria |
Education level: | Diploma |
Job level: | Senior |
Type: | Contract |
Reference: | #DM44481 |
Company: | E-Merge IT Recruitment |
A world’s leading automotive brand is looking for a Senior Front end developer to join their team.
With a focus on Angular, someone with passion and drive is needed to join an existing team of cloud specialists in order to develop a brand new system using the latest technology for this world leader.
Requirements:
- Atleast five years’ experience using front end technologies such as Javascript, HTML and CSS
- Must be proficient in Angular framework (Version 6 or higher)
- Solid experience with testing tools Karma, Jasmine, Postman and Selenium
- Must have previous experience in team based software development
- Well versed in agile methodologies, scrum in particular
- Previous experience with mobile application development
- Continuous integration and delivery tools experience is essential
Duties/responsibilities:
- Design and develop production ready business applications within an already existing team of developers
- Take part in regular Scrum meeting
- Write and maintain test cases to keep up test cover
- Liaise with stakeholders and team members
- Present results to stakeholders
- Creation and updating of documents with regards to all system changes
Qualifications:
- Relevant degree or diploma
If you think this job is what you looking for please give me a shout.
Reference number for this position is DM44481; this is a contract position based in Pretoria with continuous travel to the US and eventual relocation offering a salary of up to 1.2mil per annum CTC, negotiable on experience + benefits. Contact Dominic on
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Intermediate/Senior C# .Net Developer (Johannesburg)
Remuneration: | R500000 – R600000 per year |
Location: | Johannesburg, North Riding |
Education level: | Degree |
Type: | Permanent |
Reference: | #DZ49254 |
Company: | E-Merge IT Recruitment |
Job description
There are plenty of imitators out there but only one considered the best. This client specialises in e-sports and gambling platforms. They are looking for great C# software developers.
With more international sports than any other platform you will be working on over 1,000 offerings spanning the globe. Based in North Riding, they are looking for skilled Full Stack C# developers to get involved in end-to-end Solutions. Develop and design front end web architecture, as well as back end website applications.
If you are a confident software coder and enjoy mentoring juniors this is the place for you.
Reference number for this position is DZ49254 which is a permanent position based in North Riding offering a salary up to R600K per annum cost to company. Contact Dudley on
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Requirements
Required:
- Minimum five years of solid C# development
- Solid experience on Database tools
- Experience on React
- Three+ years’ experience in JavaScript tools
Duties and responsibilities:
- Web application development in C#, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, MS SQL, ASP.Net
- Coding, testing, debugging, documenting and monitoring
- Integration experience
- Designing databases for applications
- Ensuring cross-platform optimization for mobile phones
- Recommending changes and enhancements to software applications
- Contributing to the development of project schedules and workflows
Qualifications:
- Relevant degree or qualifications
Posted on 21 May 09:16
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Experts have painted a grim forecast of South Africa’s battle with Covid-19, with a death toll of as many as 45 000 dying as soon as November. The projections also say that the country will soon struggle to meet the demands of people needing ICU beds. The death toll by the end of the month is expected to rise to 500 and the number of cases will hit one million by between June and November.
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