Senior Java Developer (KG) - Johannesburg at Mediro Recruitment

Description

Key Responsibilities:

• To engage in technical scoping sessions with a clear mandate of defining and agreeing the technology, design & tools.
• Responsible for producing working implementation (code) from functional / technical documents like a functional specification.
• To ensure appropriate use of tools and applications that is in place to support the development process and SDLC.
• Interacting and maintaining good relationships with business stakeholders (business users, project management resources, testing and training teams).
• Database administration & manipulation to create PostgreSQL / SQL statement, etc.
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting.
• Demonstration of knowledge of best practice and project standards for Coding.
• Remain current on new technologies and available vendor packages; evaluate and make recommendations as necessary.
• Support and develop Java developers by providing advice, coaching and educational opportunities.

Minimum Requirements

Education:

• An Engineering degree; BSc Computer Science; BCom Informatics; BIT; BIS degree or relevant qualification
• A postgraduate qualification will be an advantage

Knowledge and Experience

• Minimum 6 Years’ experience on Java 6, Java 7 and JEE (Servlets, JSP, EJB, REST and SOAP, JPA/Hibernate), JBOSS, MS SQL Server and NginX
• Frontend development on any of these technologies (Web: Angular, HTML, HTML5, XML, CSS)
• Minimum 3 years’ experience on PostgreSQL and MSSQL (MongoDB would be advantages)
• Linux operating environment is an advantage.
• Web: HTML, HTML5, XML, CSS is an added advantage.
• 2 years of working experience using  XML, LDAP, Design tools like XDE, Servlets, Internet development.
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies
• Working knowledge of DevOps tools (Git, Jenkins, SonarQube, Nexus …)
• Worked in a multi-project environment
• Knowledge of and exposure to SDLC / Change Control / Release

Management

• Solid understanding of versioning software - Git
• 4 - 6 years’ experience with Maven

Technologies

• Java programming language (Java 6, 7 or later)
• JBoss/Weblogic EAP (or similar Application Server)
• Data layer (JPA, Domain Object Model, XML/XSD, JAXB, ORM frameworks, RDBMS – Oracle – and PL/SQL beneficial)
• Business services (EJB, RMI)
• Integration services (JMS, Apache Camel, REST / SOAP web services)
• Messaging systems (Apache Kafka, Tibco EMS, MQ)
• Presentation layer technologies (Java Server Faces, Java Server Pages, HTML 5, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS3)
• Angular Framework
• Design patterns (DAO, Command pattern, MVC, etc)
• Spring Framework ( Spring Boot , Spring Batch, Spring MVC)
• Hibernate
• JUnit and JMock
• XML knowledge
• JSON knowledge
• SonarQube
• Build tools (Apache Ant, Maven, Jenkins, etc)
• IDE (Eclipse, Spring Tool Suite, IntelliJ
• GitHub / GitLab

Strategic Orientation:

• High standard of integrity, service excellence and a passion for the industry.
• Ability to think strategically, execute quality proposals under multiple and competing deadlines.
• High level of creativity, inspiration, innovation and ability to think "outside the box".
• You will be a driven and ambitious experienced self-starter with excellent negotiation skills and business acumen.

Communication:

• Is articulate and communicates in a logical way and structures information to meet the needs and understanding of the stakeholders.

Industry:

• Information Technology & Services

Experience:Between 5 - 7 Years

Closing Date:2023-08-26