Senior Java Developer

Centurion

Role Purpose
Develop, maintain and support mission-critical, enterprise-grade software applications that improve business efficiency and are aligned to the enterprise architecture and business strategy.

Responsibilities and work outputs

• Develop software based on technical design (Internal Process)
• Keep abreast of new technologies/methodologies, business changes and internal system changes in order to align system development with best practices and system architecture
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements, conduct analysis and prioritise requests
• Contribute to the design of scalable solutions that supports the system architecture
• Translate business requirements into workable solutions and document solution into technical specifications
• Design and code new software functionality using codes that is scalable, readable, maintainable and re-usable
• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with peers and organisational role players to achieve effective collaboration
• Provide stakeholder with regular feedback on the technical design and timelines for solution in order to manage expectations
• Collaborate with business analysts and testing team in developing, testing and deploying new software system components or software system enhancements
• Collaborate with testing team to co-create test cases
• Conduct System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and resolve all issues/queries.
• Contribute to user acceptance testing (UAT) and training material.
• Once the solution has been successfully tested, prepare and produce releases of software components into production/live environment.
• Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review.
• Maintain existing programmes, ensuring all errors are resolved and documented.
• Advise and guide colleagues regarding effective business system analysis approaches and techniques
• Review and quality assure deliverables of junior team members in accordance with IT Strategy, architecture and best practice.
• Mentor team members and provide insight to effective and efficient Java development practices.
• Design solutions that eliminate reoccurrence of errors.
• Provide technical guidance to the operations and support team.
• Monitor performance of solutions and make recommendations to improve the performance and functionality of the solution.
• Engage with clients in a client centric manner(Client Services)
• Provide authoritative, expertise and advice to clients and stakeholders
• Build and maintain relationships with clients and internal and external stakeholders
• Deliver on service level agreements made with clients and internal and external stakeholders in order to ensure that client expectations are managed
• Make recommendations to improve client service and fair treatment of clients within area of responsibility
• Participate and contribute to a culture which builds rewarding relationships, facilitates feedback and provides exceptional client service Self-management and teamwork (People)
• Develop and maintain productive and collaborative working relationships with peers and stakeholders
• Positively influence and participate in change initiatives
• Continuously develop own expertise in terms of professional, industry and legislation knowledge
• Contribute to continuous innovation through the development, sharing and implementation of new ideas
• Take ownership for driving career development Contribute to financial controls and planning (Finance)
• Identify solutions to enhance cost effectiveness and increase operational efficiency
• Manage financial and other company resources under your control with due respect
• Provide input into the risk identification processes and communicate recommendations in the appropriate forum.

Skills Required

• Senior Java Developer
• Java Developer
• Java
• GIT
• Software Development
• Back end
• Back End Development

Experience and Qualifications

• 5-7 years'' intermediate/senior java development experience
• Relevant IT qualification
• Relevant post graduate IT qualification

JAVA:

• 5years Software Development experience in a distributed computing environment using Java.
• Solid (Java) back-end development experience.
• Containerisation understanding and experience advantageous (Openshift).
• Advanced understanding and everyday use of OO principles such as inheritance, interfaces, abstract lasses, etc.
• Good systems and code design skills including good documentations skills where necessary.
• Working knowledge of spring framework, architectural and development best practices (e.g. SOA, dependency injection, ORM, EJB3, JPA etc.) as well as J2EE application server environment will be an added advantage.
• Understanding and experience with micro-services.
• Strong knowledge of REST API designs.
• JBPM experience advantageous.
• Strong knowledge with CI/CD principles.
• Experience with Apache Camel.
• GIT Lab experience.
• Strong Linux experience advantageous