Job Description

Our client requires the services of a Software Engineer (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 Relevant Experience COMMENCEMENT: As soon as possible QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE

• IT Degree or equivalent.
• Qualification/Certification in cloud technologies. 8
• to 10+ years Development Experience (Expert)
• Agile working experience (Mandatory)
• Problem solving capabilities.
• Ability to work as part of a team.
• Ability to work interdependently as well as independently and to submit deliverables on time and with excellent quality.
• Self-Managed.
• Exceptional Time Management.
• Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills with the ability to communicate effectively (both verbally and in writing) with both technical and non-technical colleagues / users.
• Strong ability to understand and interpret business needs and requirements with an aptitude to move concepts through to proposal and successful implementation.
• Strong presentation skills
• Above-board work ethics.
• Flexibility to take up different tasks in the project.
• Ability and willingness to coach and give training to fellow colleagues and users when required.
• Ability and willingness to upskill, train and certify to remain relevant with latest technology.
• Willing and able to travel internationally.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

• Java 8 and above
• JEE, JPA (Hibernate) & JSF (Rich Faces)
• AWS, Docker
• Junit
• Mockito
• REST & Microservice Architecture
• HTML, CSS, & JavaScript / Typescript Angular 8/9/10
• Node.js 10
• NPM
• Maven
• Git & Bitbucket
• Jenkins, SonarQube & Nexus
• CI/CD
• Linux
• IntelliJ

ADVANTAGEOUS SKILLS:

• Oracle, DB2 and Glassfish (Payara)
• German speaking (Advantageous)
• Understanding of BI Tools
• Understanding of integration between different technologies
• Coordination between development and support environments
• Object Oriented Programming
• Spring MVC and Spring Boot (highly advantageous)
• Quarkus, Kubernetes (highly advantageous)

ROLE

• Development and maintenance on platform/application.
• Review and present proposed system solution to IT Project Manager / Leader and User Management or System owner.
• Develop systems solutions in line with quality and delivery requirements.
• Preparation of system/technical documentation (as per ISO standards)
• Meet with end users and gather requirements when required.
• User training & User sign off.
• Compiling of user and operational manuals when required.
• Planning and Collaborating with Delivery Assurance Manager.
• Adherence to the ZA IT HUB rules, policy and regulations. Technical Lead Responsibilities:
• Oversee daily technical operations of the feature team.
• Maintain clients coding, security, and delivery standards at all times.
• Identify technical debt, providing solutions and tracking of the technical debt.
• Analysis of product requirements and deliverables and ensuring that the feature team understands the product increment.
• Planning and executing of technical deliveries in Sprints.
• Assigning work and tasks to the feature team on the backlog where necessary.
• Providing feedback to stakeholders on the technical status and delivery.
• Identifying risks and impediments, communicating with the relevant stakeholders and pro-actively drive for a solution to ensure the feature team can remain productive.
• Ensuring that technical training and development of the feature team is identified and scheduled. Updating systems and software continuously.
• Conducting security checks and audits on the product.
• Ensuring the development of high-quality code by the feature team
• Ensuring peer review testing and quality is delivered.
• Ensuring that coding standards and best practices are adhered to by the feature team.
• Delivery of product demonstrations to stakeholders and other feature teams when required.
• Ensure feature team cohesion, collaboration, and wellbeing always.
• Providing status and delivery updates to the Delivery Assurance Manager daily.
• Setting up of relevant meetings, workshops etc to collaborate on technical topics with the feature team and other technical teams as well as Stakeholders.
• Backlog grooming of the technical user stories and tasks.
• Managing and overseeing the technical progress of the feature team.
• Deep understanding of the entire/overall code base to guide and provide solutions and assistance to the feature team.
• Responsible for delivery of the Product Increment with the Delivery Assurance Manager.
• Taking ownership of the delivery of the technical feature team.
• Identifying when a team member excels and highlights these achievements to management for recognition.
• Identifying issues in the team dynamic and address accordingly with the Delivery Assurance Manager.
• Mentoring and upskilling of the feature team by leading by example.
• Negotiate with stakeholders on releases and management of the release life cycle where necessary.
• Review all pull requests and created documentation to ensure quality and transparency.
• Ensuring that the feature team adheres to the software development lifecycle and standards.
• Collaborate with QA on any system or requirement issues that needs to be addressed.
• Collaborate with EO on any operational system requirements and set up.
• Collaborate with the Business Analyst to ensure requirements and priority is understood.
• Collaborate with Delivery Assurance Manager to ensure timelines and committed features are met.
• Attending of all Agile ceremonies and actively taking part in the ceremonies.