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

COMMENCEMENT: As soon as possible

QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE

• Degree in IT or relevant experience
• Qualification/Certification in backend development technologies.
• 8 to 10+ years Development Experience (Expert)
• Agile working experience (Mandatory)

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

• Java 1.6, 1.7 & 8+
• Functional Java
• REST Easy JAX RS
• J2EE
• JEE 5 +
• Context and Dependency Injection
• Java Logging frameworks (Log4j, Jboss, SLF4J)
• Junit with unit and integration tests
• Maven multi module project setup and development
• CI/CD
• Jenkins with Build Pipelines
• Bitbucket
• AWS Code Pipeline
• AWS ECS
• AWS S3
• AWS DynamoDB
• AWS Lambda

ADVANTAGEOUS SKILLS

• Knowledge of design patterns, DAO pattern
• Decent Level of Mathematical Knowledge
• OOP (Object Oriented Programming and Design)
• JSON
• XML with Schema (XSD, XSLT and pure XML)
• Postman / SoapUI
• EJB2/3 / CLI
• SOAP
• API Development, Calling and creating REST services, RESTful APIs
• Servlets
• Event Driven Beans, JMS / JMS 2
• Struts, Facelets, JSF, Primefaces, JSP, and/or Spring MVC
• HTML
• CSS 2, CSS3
• Angular
• JavaScript, Typescript
• JQuery
• HTTP Authentication, and Encryption with SSL
• Role Based Auth
• OAuth2
• HTTP Session management and persistence
• IntelliJ & Eclipse IDE
• Payara / Glassfish
• Linux server admin for above
• Linux & VM setup and operation
• Ant
• Git with Bitbucket, Code versioning (Git/SVN)
• Code quality with Sonar
• Nexus
• Knowledge of Apache 2.4 & WebLogic 12.1.3 / 12.2 Server and above
• Integration with 3rd party systems and interfaces
• Performing production and integration deployments
• Logging and tracking tickets to external support.
• Troubleshooting deployments
• Debugging remote services
• Knowledge of Connect Direct
• Knowledge of PIX
• Microservice Architecture and Domain Driven Design concepts (highly advantageous)
• AWS and/or other cloud services and Serverless development technologies (highly advantageous)
• DB admin, design, development, stored procedures, patching, etc (highly advantageous)
• QlikView/QlikSense and/or other Qlik and BI technologies (highly advantageous)
• Informatica and/or other ETL tools (highly advantageous)
• Spring Boot (highly advantageous)
• Quarkus (highly advantageous)
• DevOps

ROLE:

• Develop and maintain critical internal offer calculators used in the VPC product.
• Cloud, API, Java, Microservice and other Serverless development, deployment, support, and maintenance.
• Meet with end users and gather requirements.
• Participate in daily stand-ups.
• Follow cloud security and GROUP security best practices.
• 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.
• Develop systems solutions in line with IT Security standards and other compliance topics, quality standards and delivery requirements.
• Develop code that is readable, testable, extendable, re-usable, scalable, and optimized for performance.
• Ensure that all implementations can be passed over to other developers, mid development, with minimum of handover.
• Mandatory attendance of all agile ceremonies.
• Ensure compliance & adherence to standards for audit adherence and quality assurance.
• Actively participate and contribute to sprint planning, backlog refinement, story size estimation, sprint reviews and retrospectives.
• Update user stories in Jira and documentation in Confluence.
• Perform Code & Peer Reviews.
• Perform demos of user stories in Agile ceremonies.
• Analyse and fix Production Known Errors.
• System testing/parallel runs.
• User training.
• Ensure user sign-off.
• Prepare Production deployment artefacts.
• Prepare Production deployment plan documents.
• Preparation of system/technical documentation (as per ISO standards).
• Preparation/Updating of user and operation manuals.
• System implementation / deployment & release activities.
• Production support & hyper-care after production deployments.
• 2nd and 3rd level support of the system/product.
• Technical Lifecycle Management of the product.
• Regular upskilling and training.
• Maintenance and monitoring of microservices.
• Microservice performance analysis (advantageous)

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