Senior JAVA Developer

Recruiter:

MECS Africa

Job Ref:

CPT000124/RT

Date posted:

Friday, April 23, 2021

Location:

Johannesburg, South Africa

SUMMARY:
We are looking to employ a Senior JAVA developer for a leading Medical Insurance Provider based in Johannesburg, Gauteng.

POSITION INFO:

Key Purpose

To fulfil a pivotal role within a software development team that designs, develops and maintains the systems.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

Perform a high-level impact analysis, establish Scope and provide estimates based on technical requirements.
Create required planning tasks in SDLC tool and set due dates according to agreed milestones.
Perform an analysis of the business requirement and clarify any unknowns with the Business Analyst, User and technical lead.
Translate technical requirements into executable code without errors.
Ensure optimally performing system code in line with technical specifications, following prescribed process, architecture standards and procedures.
Assist the Test Analyst in ensuring that a comprehensive test pack is produced, which includes all the required scenarios.
Ensure that the root cause of system errors are effectively analysed and prioritized for fixing.
Proactively bring issues and problems to the attention of the team and propose solutions to solve them.
Assist system users and the infrastructure teams with technical support issues.

Education and Experience

Essential:

Matric (minimum C symbol pass advantageous)
IT related Degree or Diploma (BSc/BTech or similar).
At least 7 or more years’ experience in software development
Java EE knowledge and experience.

Advantageous:

Formal Java qualification(s), Object-Oriented Analysis & Design, etc…

Technical Skills and Knowledge

Excellent communication skills
Java systems development.
Object-oriented design and development.
Design patterns
Unit Testing
Systems Integration testing
XML/XSD/JAXB and Web Services.
JSF
HTML 5.0
Industry standard Application Servers (preferably JBoss).
PL/SQL and RDBMS
UML
SDLC methodologies

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