Senior UI Java Developer at Discovery Limited

Job description

Key Purpose of the role

Within the Acquisitions, Billing and Admin Systems, the Senior UI/Java Developer must work together with Business Analyst, UX, System Architect and managers tunderstand the overall business need and the requirements, design the system solution using various approaches and technologies, implement the designed solution in the system with high quality source codes.
The Senior UI/Java Developer will support the projects throughout the project life-cycle, including requirements, design, implementation, release and post release support.
The Senior UI/Java Developer in the Acquisitions, Billing and Admin Systems area must be technically able support and maintain the deployed applications on dev, test and production environments.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Design architectural solutions
• Research and development of best practices and frameworks
• Develop, test, and maintain the deployed application software with high quality
• Analyse, maintain and enhance existing application and troubleshoot issues with efficiency
• Perform accurate development estimation
• Produce technical specifications and designs
• Analytical and problem solving skills
• Self-starter whtakes ownership, is accountable, and is able twork under minimum supervision
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Can help with quality assurance and provide comments
• Present tsenior stakeholders
• Offer support and guidance tpeers
• Perform analysis at a strategic level and understand principles of business, technical and enterprise architecture

Qualifications & Experience

Minimum

• Matric/Grade 12 and formal Java qualifications.
• 6 years Java systems development experience
• Java EE knowledge and experience
• Experience with SOAP and REST services
• Unit testing and mocking frameworks
• Source control, experience with GIT
• Experience with industry standard Application Servers (preferably WebLogic)
• Knowledge of Odesign principles and development patterns

Preferred

• IT related Degree or Diploma (BSc/BTech or similar).
• Angular 2+ Framework
• Spring Framework
• ORM/Hibernate/JPA experience
• JMS, TibcEMS experience
• Oracle and PL/SQL knowledge
• SOAP and REST (XML/JSON)
• Presentation layer development (HTML5, Bootstrap 3 or 4, CSS3, JavaScript ES5+, jQuery, GWT, Spring MVC)
• TypeScript 2+
• Protractor, Karma and Jasmin
• Experience with Business Rules Management Frameworks
• Experience using formal modelling languages (UML, etc) and modelling tools (Enterprise Architect, Visual Paradigm etc.)
• Exposure tAgile principles and methodologies, including Continuous Integration and Test Driven Development

Advantageous

• Exposure tthe Atlassian tool suite (Jira, Confluence, Bamboand Bitbucket)
• Redux
• Rxjs
• JWT
• Webpack
• Angular CLI
• SASS
• Experience with large SPA
• JQuery
• Honours degree
• DevOps/Continuous integration