Lead Architect - Java at Progressive Edge

Johannesburg

A software Development with offices in 5 countries creates value by drawing on their domain expertise to deliver transformative solutions to various sectors. With projects and offices around the globe, the teams lead with innovation to develop, integrate and optimize resilient systems and processes that work for businesses.

This established organisation has a new position available for a Java Architect to join their Senior Team

The Role: We are looking for Java architects to assist with:

• Functional requirements
• Deployment environments
• Performance requirements
• Expected longevity of solution
• Client budget (provide choices and highlight trade-offs if needed)
• Skill set required to build vs skill set available
• Skill set required to maintain, and support vs skill set available
• Ease of future maintenance and support

You will ensure quality through:

• Code reviews in a form appropriate to project and individual team members
• Establishing and maintaining an enabling set of technical standards
• On-going refinement, revision or establishment of our development delivery processes
• Providing expert opinion on validity of project team or individual effort and time estimates
• Mentoring, or facilitating the appropriate mentoring, of juniors and team members
• Participating in performance management and recruitment processes for technical resources
• Pre-sales design and project proposals
• Participation in PR and marketing activities with relevant writing, presenting and research

Requirements:

• BSc Computer Science or similar tertiary qualification
• Strong object-oriented programming skills

Experience in:

• Java and JEE knowledge
• Web Services
• REST
• JPA, Jira and Git
• Microservices, Docker and Kubernetes would be advantageous