Developer at FNB South Africa

Job Description

• To provide IT expertise and advice in the design, creation, testing and documentation of new and enhanced applications and systems in accordance with agreed framework of programming standards.
• To produce logical and technical specifications from functional specifications and to write the code for medium to large applications.

Are you someone who can:

• Increase operational efficiency and suggest solutions to enhance cost effectiveness.
• Deliver exceptional service that exceeds customers’ expectations through proactive,
• Cultivate and manage objective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including end-users, SME’s, project managers and senior staff members by providing input to business requirements and being able to present and sell concepts to clients.
• Produce program specifications and implement system enhancements by addressing specific business needs and resolving queries.
• Code, compile, test and implement applications in compliance with the Systems.
• Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Support development environments.
• Responsible for coding standards and peer reviews.
• Comply, understand, and implement all steps within IT development and meet governance in terms of legislative and audit requirements during programming execution
• Assess, identify, and mitigate potential risks within the IT programming environment by complying with technology business policy and process requirements (SDLC and change / release management process definition) to ensue operational performance.
• Produce technical specifications and architecture that is in accordance to agreed standards.
• Design, code, test, and debug to obtain a robust solution with supporting documentation.
• Minimize system downtime through pro-active identification of potential issues and ensure. Minimization of recurring problems by managing defects and performing code reviews.
• Monitor systems post change and pro-actively do performance analysis to ensure there is no system failure due to capacity
• Maintain maximum system availability by ensuring that incidents are recorded for future.
• Manage own development to increase own competencies and develop technical and business skill
• Proactively engage with business units and colleagues to understand underlying needs and opportunities and identify Information Technology (IT) innovative solutions in a timely manner.
• Supervises the work of other developers. Provides technical assistance to fellow developers and other Information Technology (IT) team members.

You’ll be an ideal candidate if you meet the following requirements:

• BSc Eng, BSc Informatics degree or any other related qualification
• 3+ years’ solid experience in Java 8 or latest version
• SOAP and Restful Services
• JPA framework like Hibernate
• Docker and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes
• Gitlab, Spring boot, Microservices, Maven, CI/CD, NLP, Atlassian tools, Jira, Confluence, etc.
• SQL and Relational database experience
• Agile Development Methodology

End Date: October 26, 2025