Job Description

What will make you successful in this role?

• Works on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
• Analysis of change requests received for own systems and interfaces with other systems
• Analysis and documentation of changes required to systems (functional and or technical specifications)
• Interpretation of specifications received (includes data models), if applicable
• Exercises judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
• Maintenance of existing programs according to change requests
• Development of new programs according to change requests
• Testing of own programs to ensure correctness and testing of interfaces to other systems
• Debugging of programs
• Implementation of changes into the production environment, as part of the change management process
• Documentation of changes in programs implemented
• Updates of data model documentation and functional specifications
• Publishing of documentation as required to a central point
• Problem solving and user assistance for own systems supported (functional, not technical)
• Provision of hands-on training for own system and changes being implemented
• Provision of standby time or support when required
• Provision of batch support and standby when required
• Support and assistance with DRP (Disaster Recovery Process)
• Management of own time and delivery of tasks according to deadlines
• Network with key contacts outside own area of expertise.

• Matric
• Any IT Degree or relevant tertiary qualification
• Java Certification will be advantageous
• AWS Certification will be an added advantage.

• Minimum of 4 years experience within application development in Java Minimum of 3 years working experience in J2EE
• Practical experience with Java Server Pages, Servlets, Stateless Session Beans, JDBC, Java Messaging Service Experience with the following tools will be an advantage: IBM WebSphere, IBM MQ Series, Eclipse or WebSphere Application Developer
• Experience in web service Technologies (Design and development i.e. RESTful APIs and API modelling and testing tools
• Relational database Experience i.e. IBM DB2, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server and etc.
• AWS Experience will be an added advantage
• Scaled Agile Framework will be advantageous
• Exposure to GIT, Gradle, Nexus, JIRA and Confluence will be advantageous.
• Experience in Microservices architecture
• UML or EA experience will be an advantage
• Relational Database experience (Experience with SQL Server development will be an advantage
• Experience with RCP development will be an advantage
• Experience in working with life insurance financial applications highly recommended

• Using Eclipse Enterprise IDE, or IBMs Rational Application Developer (RAD) or IntelliJ IDEA
• Designing and architecting Java applications
• Spring Boot knowledge
• DevOps concepts such as CI or CD, and using tools like Bitbucket etc.
• Containerisation with Docker and Kubernetes will be an advantage

• Action orientated - Contributing independently
• Collaborates - Contributing independently
• Cultivates innovation - Contributing independently
• Nimble learning - Contributing independently
• Optimises work processes - Contributing independently

• Being resilient - Contributing through others
• Collaborates - Contributing through others
• Cultivates innovation - Contributing through others
• Customer focus - Contributing through others
• Drives results - Contributing through others