Our well-established client in the financial industry based in Centurion is looking for a Java Developer for a 12-month contract position. Must be Skilled in J2EE and Application servers.
Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain and support mission-critical, enterprise-grade software applications that improve business efficiency and are aligned to the enterprise architecture and business strategy.
- 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.
- Maintain existing programmes, ensuring all errors are resolved and documented
- 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)
- 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
Experience and education required
- IT related degree/diploma (BSc or B.Com, BSc (Hons) Computer Science, B.Tech)
- 4 – 6 years of relevant coding & development experience
- JAVA v6-8
- JEE v5 -7
- Familiarity with JEE application servers (Wildfly, Payara, Glassfish, etc.)
- JPA (Hibernate/Eclipselink)
- Maven
- Experience in Web Services and IBM WebSphere Application Server will be advantageous
Please note that if you do not hear from us within 3 weeks, consider your application unsuccessful.
Desired Skills:
- Java EE
- Maven
- Jenkins CI
- Docker
- Amazon Web Services
- Oracle
- WebSphere Liberty
- Angular
- AIX and Linux