Senior Java Developer

Recruiter:

MECS Africa

Job Ref:

JHB008808/LB

Date posted:

Thursday, September 30, 2021

Location:

Johannesburg, South Africa

Salary:

Negotiable

SUMMARY:

My client is seeking a Senior Java Developer to work together with the team to understand the overall business needs and requirements, as well as work with Agile design methodology to develop high quality source code. The Senior Java Developer will support the projects throughout the project life cycle, including requirements, design, implementation, release and post release support. The Senior Java Developer in the Digital Channels area must be technically able support and maintain the deployed applications on dev, test and production.

POSITION INFO:

Qualifications and Experience:

Honours degree IT or
IT related Degree or Diploma (BSc/BTech or similar) and formal Java qualifications.
At least 6 years Java systems development experience
Proven Java EE knowledge and experience
DevOps/Continuous integration
Exposure to the Atlassian tool suite (Jira, Confluence, Bamboo and Bitbucket)
At least Angular 2 (or higher) Framework experience
Experience with SOAP and REST services
Unit testing and mocking frameworks
Source control, experience with GIT
Experience with industry standard Application Servers (preferably WebLogic)
Knowledge of OO design principles and development pattern
Understanding and application of Agile Methodology, including Continuous Integration and Test-Driven Development

Technical Skills:

Spring Framework
ORM/Hibernate/JPA experience
JMS, Tibco EMS experience
Oracle and PL/SQL knowledge
SOAP and REST (XML/JSON)
Presentation layer development (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, GWT, Spring MVC)
Experience with Business Rules Management Frameworks
Experience using formal modelling languages (UML, etc) and modelling tools (Enterprise Architect, Visual Paradigm etc.)

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to:

Develop, test, and maintain the deployed application software with high quality
Analyse, maintain and enhance existing application and troubleshoot issues with efficiency
Perform accurate development estimation
Produce technical specifications and designs
Analytical and problem-solving skills
Self-starter who takes ownership, is accountable, and can work under minimum supervision
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Can help with quality assurance and provide comments
Present to senior stakeholders
Offer support and guidance to peers
Perform analysis at a strategic level and understand principles of business, technical and enterprise architecture

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