Java Developer (Senior) - Health Systems at Discovery Limited

Key Purpose
Work closely with a passionate development team to design, develop and maintain Java based solutions for a dynamic, multi-national company that sets the benchmark in its industry. The DHS Acquisition & Billing and Admin Dev team translates the customer requirements into executable code without errors; finding effective software solutions to technical issues. The role of the Java Developer (Senior) is to provide the most effective solutions and designs to ensure the application performs the functions as required by business releasing source code with zero defects. The role also extends to the coaching and development of other Developers during the code review process to understand and apply the DHS coding standards.

Areas Of Responsibility May Include But Not Limited To
The successful candidate will be required to perform but not limited to the following key outputs in respect of the Enterprise Architecture portfolio:

• Implement the technical specification using the relevant development language
• Produce source code by applying the DHS technical standards and referencing systems exposed
• Develop, test, and maintain high quality application software
• Analyse, maintain and enhance existing application and troubleshoot issues.
• Assist with the production of technical specifications and designs
• Promote new technologies and share knowledge within the team.
• Recommend improvements to development processes, contribute to implementation plans, and assist in rollout
• Perform code reviews.
• Consulting with the BA and Architect teams on technical issues encountered
• Document logic and comments inside code
• Documentation of database structure, rule changes and updating configuration files
• Conduct unit testing, review error logs as well as review and correct defects found
• Participate in the process of reviewing code for consistent application of standards, logic and effective use of libraries as well as reusable aspects of the application
• Coaching and team collaboration with other Developers to instill an understanding and application of the DHS coding standards
• Perform defect root cause analysis by responding to the Incidents team, logging issues appropriately and conducting preliminary analysis
• Integrate with internal legacy systems and 3rd party of the shelf systems and ensure the end to end solution is effective
• Performance testing
• Implement the security standards based on the DHS policies



 

Competencies

The successful candidate must demonstrate the following competencies

• Self-starter who takes ownership, is accountable, and is able to work with minimal supervision.
• Passionate about technology and development.
• Results oriented with the ability to work under pressure and juggle multiple concurrent projects with changing priorities and deadlines
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Able to deal with complexity and migrate between detailed and high level requirements.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

 

Education And Experience

• Exposure to both Agile and Waterfall methodologies
• Minimum IT degree level education (BCom or BSc in information systems or computer science)
• Matric with English and Mathematics
• Minimum of 6+ years’ Java experience systems development experience.
• Experience with XML/XSD/JAXB and Web Services
• Experience in Spring, Hibernate, Spring Cloud, Spring boot, JPA, Jenkins, Maven
• Strong experience in SOAP, REST, JSON and KAFKA
• Strong documentation skills in technical and architecture specifications
• Process knowledge of SDLC, Unit testing, database structure design, technical change control
• Unit testing and mocking frameworks.
• Experience with industry standard Application Servers (preferably WebLogic).
• Knowledge of OO design principles and development patterns
• Experience using formal modelling notation (UML, BPMN,
• DMN, CMN, ArchiMate etc) and modelling tools (Enterprise Architect, Visual Paradigm etc.)
• Experience in DevOps tooling like Atlassian Suite,
• DevOps, automation, CI/CD, Bamboo, Bitbucket, Ansible.
• Exposure to Agile methodology
• Presentation layer development (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Angular, NGXS, Nebular, Nrwl).
• Beneficial experience working with containers (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Beneficial experience in Angular 6+, JavaScript, Bootstrap
• Beneficial experience in Security (SAML, OAuth2, JWT, encryption