Job Description

Feature Architect (Contract) - Gauteng/Hybrid - ISB4122162

About the job Feature Architect (Contract) - Gauteng/Hybrid - ISB4122162

Our client requires the services of a Technology Integrator (Expert) - Midrand/Menlyn/Rosslyn/Home Office rotation

• Amazing brand with cutting edge technology
• Excellent teams in Global team collaboration
• High work-life balance with Flexible hours
• Agile working environment

POSITION: Contract until December 2026

EXPERIENCE: 8+ Years related working experience.

COMMENCEMENT: As soon as possible

QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE

• South African citizens/residents are preferred.
• Work experience, diploma / degree in business / IT environment.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS:

• Experience with software design patterns and object-oriented design
• Ability to read, interpret and follow Java code
• Experience with the following technologies:
• AWS Cloud (migration of applications to the cloud, deployment on AWS, development on AWS, other cloud knowledge and experience, e.g. Azure, Openshift)
• Serverless
• Microservice Architecture Minimum of 7 years working experience in Java environments
• Minimum of 3 years working experience as a Technical Solutions Architect
• Backend & Frontend experience and knowledge
• Java 7 & 8+
• JEE 7
• CI/CD
• REST services, RESTful APIs
• Java Logging frameworks
• Java Persistence Framework
• JAX-RS (Jersey RESTful Web Services Framework)
• Functional Java
• JMS / JMS 2
• JSON and XML with Schema
• HTTP Authentication, and Encryption with SSL
• HTTP Session management and persistence
• SQL with DB2, Postgres and Oracle
• EJB2/3/CLI
• HTML
• CSS
• Continuous integration
• Payara / Glassfish
• Linux server admin for above
• Knowledge of Apache & WebLogic 12.1.3 Server
• Maven multi module project setup and development
• IntelliJ & Eclipse IDE
• Postman / SoapUI
• Git with Bitbucket, Code versioning (Git/SVN)
• Jenkins with Build Pipelines
• Code quality with Sonar
• Nexus
• Junit with unit and integration tests
• Integration with 3rd party systems
• Performing production and integration deployments
• Logging and tracking tickets to external support
• Troubleshooting deployments
• Agile development methodology
• Atlassian tools: Jira, Confluence
• DevOps

ADVANTAGEOUS TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Kubernetes (advantageous)
• Angular (advantageous)
• Apigee (advantageous)
• Kafka (advantageous)
• Event driven Architecture (advantageous)
• JavaScript, Typescript (advantageous)
• Flyway (advantageous)
• Eclipselink (advantageous)
• Terraform (advantageous)
• SOAP services (advantageous)
• Environment management (highly advantageous)
• Spring Boot (highly advantageous)
• Quarkus (highly advantageous)
• Docker (highly advantageous)
• Knowledge of other programming languages and tools (advantageous)

SOFT SKILLS REQUIREMENTS:

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Strong ability to understand and interpret Business needs and requirements with the ability to move concepts through to proposal and finally successful implementation.
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills with ability to communicate effectively (both verbally and written) with both technical and non-technical colleagues / users.
• Should be willing to deal with (talk to) our customers. In most cases they will be foreign customers and language barriers might exist.
• Ability to work as part of a team, inter dependant as well as independently and submit deliverables on time and in excellent quality. SELF STARTER.
• Above board work ethics this is of utmost importance.
• Flexibility to take up different tasks in the project.
• Ability and willingness to coach and give training to fellow colleagues and users when required.
• Willing and able to travel extensively, for up to 2 weeks at a time (international).
• DevOps

ROLE:

• Solution design involving all stakeholders (Business/Developers/QA).
• Design solutions that are scalable, catering for requirements for various international markets (80% standard and 20% customizable), with functionality encapsulated in APIs that can be integrated with legacy/other systems, and frontends that are expandable.
• Participate in stand-ups and meet with end users and other stakeholders and gather requirements.
• Analyse and implement new system requirements specifications.
• Ensure that all processes are investigated / considered in obtaining the specifications of the user requirements.
• Propose and review system designs and evaluate alternatives.
• Review and present proposals / system solutions to IT Project Lead, DevOps Team, QA Team, and Product Owner / Business team.
• Detailed documentation relevant to all stakeholders (Business/Developers/QA).
• Assist with generating a work breakdown structure to estimate technical delivery and manage those deliverables with the technical team.
• Assist developers in developing systems/solutions in line with quality and delivery requirements.
• Code review of developer outputs.
• Assist with identifying and mitigating risks on the project.
• System testing /parallel runs assist QA in testing systems/solutions.
• Troubleshoot technical issues, provide guidance and direction to technical team when required.
• Analyse, troubleshoot and fix Production Known Errors.
• Preparation of system/technical documentation (as per ISO standards).
• Preparation/Updating of user and operation manuals and other Confluence documentation.
• User training.
• System implementation / deployment & release activities.
• Production support & hyper-care after production deployments.
• System audits/quality assurance.

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