Engineering Lead I - Johannesburg at Nedbank

Job Responsibilities

• Strong technical/ software engineering background (‘hands-on’)
• Strong application/software development or programming background in Java
• Good experience in system, application architecture, design, development, implementation and deployment (end-to-end).
• Ability to work on different tiers of the application
• Object oriented Design and MVC-pattern
• Experience on web technologies (Web Development JavaScript Frameworks - preferably Angular 4, JavaScript, CSS, HTML5, Etc.)
• Expert experience on J2EE (Servlet, JSP, JDBC, JMS, EJB), Spring Framework, JPA, Hibernate, Open Source Frameworks
• Expert experience with SOA-Architecture with the related integration protocols (e.g. Web Services (SOAP/XML), REST & JSON, and MQ), as well as the related SOA-security requirements/models.
• Expert application database management practices in a high volume Java environment (SQL, DB2, and NoSql – Cassandra/MongoDB). 
• Expert JEE/WebSphere Foundation experience, especially on WebSphere Application Server, JBOSS, Linux, Virtualisation technologies and Caching technologies.
• Design, build and run of IBM Websphere Application Server Infrastructure Solutions
• Migration from proprietary Application Servers to WAS
• Performance and troubleshooting of WAS Infrastructure
• Solid experience with integrated system environments
• Practical experience in a high volume banking environment. (E.g. application clustering, scaling, multi-threading, session management, etc.)
• Experience with re-use and standardisation, security considerations, deployment architecture like automated application builds, software configuration management & tools, etc.
• Experience with Application Integration challenges in a big corporate environment with ESB’s e.g. WebSphere MessageBroker, DataPower, MQ-Series, and API-Connect.
• Proven ability as a problem-solver
• Self-driven, self-starter, technology leader, and able to work independently.
• Must have working experience on the following tools/IDEs
• Eclipse
• InteliJ
• Git
• Maven
• Jenkins
• SonarQube
• Nexus
• Debugging & troubleshooting.
• Write well documented and maintainable code.
• Passion for software excellence and be quality driven.
• You must be prepared to bring new ideas to the workplace, but also to accept how things have been done and the reasons for doing things this way.

Preferred Qualification

• BSc (Computer Science), BCom (Information Systems). Professional Qualification Level 6 (Look at new degree naming conventions)

Preferred Certifications

• Togaf Certification, ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) or equivalent

Minimum Experience Level

• B-Degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 10+ years Java application programming/development experience
• 8+ years JEE-Experience
• 5+ years Application Server experience i.e. Websphere Application Server
• 5+ years relational database experience (DB2 preferred)

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• IT Architecture
• IT Concepts
• Systems Analysis and design