Integration Developer at Mr Price Group

We’re looking for a passionate developer to join our brand-new integration team within our technology family!

If you have experience specialising in the development of business integration systems, you might just integrate into our team with ease…

what experience we’re looking for?

• Relevant IT Diploma or Degree  

• 5+ years’ experience with & understanding of:

• • A mainstream coding language (Java or C#)

  • Integration database experience (SQL - T-SQL or PL/SQL)

  • SSIS and data migration packages

  • Data interchange formats such as XML and JSON, and technologies related to processing, transformation and validation of them (i.e. XSD and XSLT)

  • API Integration Code Development

  • Basic Linux/Unix scripting

  • integration platforms such as WSO2, Tibco, Talend, Mulesoft

  • Messaging concepts – Channels, Routing, Endpoints, Queues, Topics (ActiveMQ, Rabbit, JMS)

  • Understanding of an Enterprise Service Bus and its capabilities

  • Understanding of integration patterns – Synchronous versus Asynchronous, Publish-Subscribe

  • Understanding of RESTful and SOAP protocols

a day in your life?

• Solving technical problems and defects based on knowledge and industry best practices    

• Creating a Technical Specifications based on design requirements. Specifications should consider the reuse of existing frameworks, methodologies and procedures to ensure efficient maintenance 

• Develop, enhance and maintain technical solutions/artefacts in accordance to Architectural Design/Technical Specifications/Standards & Procedures with minimal supervision     

• Create documentation for technical aspects of integration

• Create communication to inform stakeholders (testers, project managers, support teams) of changes to integrations          

• Create support handover documentation        

• Design and write test cases for unit testing to ensure that both functional (in relation to integration) as well as non-functional(stress, integration) are catered for.          

• Conduct necessary unit testing (Stress, Integration and Unit)

• Conduct testing in scenarios where a dedicated testing team may not be available due to various factors.

• Complete and maintain version control disciplines to maintain source code

• Ensure that deployments follow the agreed release process management

• Review code from junior developers and provide guidance & mentorship

• Mentor Junior and Support team members.

• Provide estimates on design and development timelines                             

• Conduct post implementation monitoring & support

• Level 3 Support

• Working with all levels of the project teams (Project Managers, Business Analysts, Managers etc.) and 3rd party technical vendors