Analyst Programmer/Designer II at Nedbank

Job Purpose

• To translate macro design into detailed micro designs which will realise the business solution in their relevant areas of focus. Translate and communicate the required changes to the programmer community. Develop critical component parts.

Job Responsibilities

• Make and validate recommendations based on cost and userabilty (feasibility).
• Deliver work products according to the agreed timelines and within agreed budget.
• Deliver proof of concepts to customers and obtain the necessary sign-off.
• Communicate new features to stakeholders through forums.
• Engage business stakeholders as per stakeholder lists as well as senior programmers, architecture delivering hardware, software and firmware support across domains (including production environments).
• Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals by participating in Nedbank Culture building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc.).
• Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy (e.g.. Green Strategy).
• Seek opportunities to improve business processes and systems by identifying and recommending effective ways to operate and adding value to Nedbank.
• Participate in research that will enable recommendations related to system software.
• Advise and make recommendation on what king of software and availability will be required (medium to high projects).
• Key Responsibilities
• Consultation on projects and quick wins
• Mentoring junior team members
• High Level Design and Detailed Design
• Development
• Full accountability of deliverables end-to-end – managing all stakeholders and impacts.
• Set and enforce coding and design standards.
• Code Quality reviews
• Quality Assurance support and reviews
• Feedback on progress to Scrum Master / project manager
• Timesheet capture
• Self-management of capacity and deliverables in alignment with Sprint planning / chosen methodology
• Continuously monitor the product environment and enhance/streamline where appropriate.
• Stand-by, Support and Maintenance of existing systems

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

• Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
• Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

Preferred Qualification

• Proven experience or Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees
• Java Spring Certificate - Added Advantage

Type of Exposure/Experience

• Extensive high-level design experience
• Detail Design and mentoring to developers
• Consultation experience – projects, business (all stakeholders)
• Banking
• Exposure to agile delivery Scrum, Kanban and / or SAFe
• Cloud development (Azure or AWS) an advantage
• SOA / API
• SOAP and Rest
• Devops toolsets for software releases
• JWT / Java Web Tokens
• SSL’s
• Swaggers / service development
• Pricing and Billing
• Banking

Minimum Experience Level

• 5+ year experience in programming of which at least 3 years design experience.

Technical Knowledge

• Core Java & Java EE (Medium to Advanced)
• Spring/Spring Boot
• Webservices AS(WAS) and SOAP & REST
• Kafka
• Mongo DB(preferable)
• WebSphere
• ORM-Hibernate
• DB2 & Medium to Advanced SQL skills
• JMS, MQ Queues & Topics (Preferably IBM MQ)
• Maven
• XML,XSD,JSON etc.
• Acquaintance with Cloud & Containerization( Nice to have)

Behavioural Competencies

• Decision Making
• Influencing
• Innovation
• Building partnerships
• Compelling Communication
• Driving for Results
• Quality Orientation