Developer at Altron Bytes Systems Integration

Job Description
Job Function:
Developer

• JSE-listed Altron, founded in 1965 has a direct presence in South Africa, Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Australia, employing more than 8 500 employees globally.
• Altron combines technical expertise with in-depth customer understanding to provide end-to-end holistic technology solutions.Altron Bytes Systems Integration, a division of Altron (Pty) Ltd, is an end-to-end ICT service provider of consulting, implementation and outsourcing services, that partners to help clients in two main ways: Driving value and optimizing client investment in current and legacy systems, applications and infrastructure.Most organizations are planning or have embarked on a digital transformation journey. This journey is certainly more than deploying technology – it is a shift in the entire business model and talks to the ‘pace of change’ that an organisation must go through, driven by the rapid adoption of technology. Altron Bytes Systems Integration has a clear go-to-market strategy in key industries covering: Financial Services, Telecommunications, Media & Entertainment, Public Sector, Retail, Mining & Manufacturing, Travel & Transport, Energy & Utilities.We are currently expanding a project team that is responsible for designing, building and operating a large CRM system for one of the large telecommunications companies within South Africa and Africa. This successful will work in our development teams with integration and implementation of new services across a multitude of systems within the telco landscape.

Job Function

• We are looking for highly skilled full stack developers with experience working in a team and building applications with a JAVA backend and a HTML5 based frontend. Responsible for analyzing user requirements and business objectives, determining application features and functionality as well as recommending and implementing changes to existing Java-based applications and frontends, among other duties. Compile detailed technical documentation and user assistance material, requiring excellent written communication.

Responsibilities

• Analysis and development of new features and products in a manner that is functional, understandable, maintainable and testable
• Support, problem solving and analysis for helpdesk & production
• Automated testing of features developed or where necessary deliver test harnesses that enable the testing of the system
• Actively participate in team ceremonies such as peer reviews, sprint planning, backlog grooming, etc.

Job Requirements

Education Required:

• N. Diploma in Information Technology
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering

Experience Required

• 2+ years’ JAVA development experience

Essential Competencies

• Proven experience in the ability to lead a team
• Analytical mindset and good problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• OO Analysis, Design and Programming Techniques
• Java (JSE) 7 and above
• Web services (SOAP, REST)
• React Web Framework

Advantageous Competencies

• Database exposure (Oracle PLSQL, MS SQLServer, MySQL)
• Experience in Spring (Cloud, Boot, etc.)
• Experience in telecommunications industry
• An understanding of SOA, Microservices and Design Patterns
• Familiarity with unit testing frameworks (JaCoCo, JUnit) and TDD
• XAML / XML Design Patterns
• Deployment Tools – Jenkins, TeamCity, etc.
• Cloud exposure (Amazon, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
• Container deployment, scaling, management, etc. (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.)
• Agile Methodologies