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  • Posted: Dec 9, 2021
    Deadline: Not specified
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    Imagine a world where people live healthier, more enhanced and protected lives… A world in which each organisation is a powerful influencer and responsible corporate citizen, committed to being a force for social good. As a leading innovator in healthcare, wellness, insurance, investments, financial and life planning, Discovery works ceaselessly to...
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    Java Developer (Senior) - Digital Messaging

    Key Purpose

    Within the Digital Messaging Services team, the Senior Java Developer must work together with Business Analyst, UX & Content Teams, System Architects and Managers to understand the overall business needs and requirements, as well as work with Agile design methodology to develop high quality source code.

    The Senior Java Developer will support the projects throughout the project life-cycle, including requirements, design, implementation, release and post release support.

    The Senior Java Developer in the Digital Channels area must be technically able support and maintain the deployed applications on dev, test and production environments.

    Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

    1. Develop, test, and maintain the deployed application software with high quality

    2. Analyse, maintain and enhance existing application and troubleshoot issues with efficiency

    3. Perform accurate development estimation

    4. Produce technical specifications and designs

    5. Analytical and problem solving skills

    6. Self-starter who takes ownership, is accountable, and is able to work under minimum supervision

    7. Excellent written and verbal communication skills

    8. Can help with quality assurance and provide comments

    9. Present to senior stakeholders

    10. Offer support and guidance to peers

    11. Perform analysis at a strategic level and understand principles of business, technical and enterprise architecture

    Personal Attributes and Skills

    1. Passionate about technology and development.

    2. Results oriented with the ability to work under pressure and juggle multiple concurrent projects with changing priorities and deadlines

    3. Analytical thinking and attention to detail

    4. Personal organisation and time management skills

    5. Technical and business writing skills

    6. Presentation and facilitation skills

    7. Communication skills (written, verbal/presenting and listening)

    8. Stress management

    9. Customer focused

    10. Results oriented

    11. Able to resolve conflict

    12. Creative

    13. Innovative

    14. Self-driven

    15. Ability to build relationships with people from all different backgrounds and at different job levels

     

    Education and Experience

    • Minimum

      • IT related Degree or Diploma (BSc/BTech or similar) and formal Java qualifications.

      • At least 6 years Java systems development experience

      • Proven Java EE knowledge and experience

      • At least Angular 2 (or higher) Framework experience

      • Experience with SOAP and REST services

      • Unit testing and mocking frameworks

      • Source control, experience with GIT

      • Experience with industry standard Application Servers (preferably WebLogic)

      • Knowledge of OO design principles and development pattern

      • Understanding and application of Agile Methodology, including Continuous Integration and Test-Driven Development

     

    • Preferred

      • Spring Framework

      • ORM/Hibernate/JPA experience

      • JMS, Tibco EMS experience

      • Oracle and PL/SQL knowledge

      • SOAP and REST (XML/JSON)

      • Presentation layer development (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, GWT, Spring MVC)

      • Experience with Business Rules Management Frameworks

      • Experience using formal modelling languages (UML, etc) and modelling tools (Enterprise Architect, Visual Paradigm etc.)

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    • Advantageous

      • Honours degree

      • DevOps/Continuous integration

      • Exposure to the Atlassian tool suite (Jira, Confluence, Bamboo and Bitbucket)

    EMPLOYMENT EQUITY   
                                 
    The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to Discovery Limited on careers.discovery.co.za to apply

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