Senior Programmer at Nedbank

Job Purpose

To fulfil the Role of a Senior Developer having the skill set mentioned below. Duties will involve code development for innovative projects, support and maintenance of systems within the value stream and standby duties

Job Responsibilities

• Meet all due dates and standards by delivering programme designs as agreed

• Deliver programme designs by adhering to programming standards in accordance with risk and compliance requirements and by using the appropriate programming language

• Deliver programme design by being cost aware and through adhering to agreed project budget

• Meet existing standards and project requirements through documenting programme specification, applied learning, and all work relating documents

• Meet all targets, due dates and service level agreements by coding according to specifications and timelines

• Build effective relationships by liaising with impacted teams to provide progress reports

• Ensure stakeholders are aware of impact and risk analysis results by effectively communicating and collaborating with stakeholders

• Ensure client needs are understood and met by obtaining sign-off from stakeholders on changes

• Comply with work standards by reviewing requirements document

• Comply with risk standards by analysing and assigning level of impact and risk

• Identified and resolved work obstacles by delivering impact analysis artefact including effort estimation and time lines

• Comply with effective change management practices by ensuring change migration through all relevant environments before implementation into production

• Delivered agreed results by reviewing technical design of other programmers within their product area and across impacted areas

• Identified and resolved work problems by participating in quantifying the expected effort of development projects

• Effectively used resources by monitoring task delivery against project plan and escalating non delivery

• Adhere to company practices and standards by chairing code reviews and participating in project forums

• Comply with technical standards by reviewing and signing off all test packs plans and all testing related artefacts and integrated test plans

• Ensure technical standards are met by participating in implementation forums

• Ensure obstacles are minimised through the management of priorities of workload

• Provide updates to service Centre manager and business by scheduling up progress update meeting

• Ensure best practice are applied  for optimal performance by overseeing the delivery of work tasks assigned as per project requirements

• Provide suggested solutions by conducting effective root cause identification

• Adhere to project plan by completing required change management document's timeously

• Deliver agreed results by creating technical design relevant to own product area and area of responsibility as agreed with the analyst programmer

• Understand and embrace the Nedbank vision and demonstrate the values through interaction with team and stakeholders

• Improve personal capability and stay abreast of developments in field of expertise by identifying training courses and career progression opportunities for self with input from management

• Support personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities by ensuring all learning activities are completed, experience gained and certifications obtained within specified time frames

• Create and manage own career through guidance and support of management, department and colleagues

• Achieve team goals by ensuring own contribution and participation

Key Responsibilities

• Analysis of APIs and existing Java code

• Test driven development using Spring Boot, Hibernate, JPA.

• Writing hibernates mapping files and maintain database.

• Designing Controller, Services, Utility and Dao specific classes

• Identifying the bugs introduced and fixing those

• Unit test using JUnit and Mockito

• Integration testing

• Follow dev-ops practices

• After hours support for the applications post deployment

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

• Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate

• Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

Preferred Qualification

• Diploma: COBOL Programming , Diploma: Computer Programming

Skills (Technologies, systems or software knowledge etc.):

• Cor Java and Advanced java development skills

• Spring, Spring MVC, Spring boot framework

• Git

• Dev-ops pipelines

• Hibernate and JPA

• REST API and SOAP services

• Cloud services

• Kubernetes

• Docker

Type of Exposure

• Achieved transformation and innovation results

• Designed Workforce Planning Solutions

• Manage internal process

• Managed Transformation & Innovation

• Managed Process Results

Minimum Experience Level

• 5 years Programming experience

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• Administrative procedures and systems

• Banking knowledge

• Business principles

• Business terms and definitions

• Governance, Risk and Controls

• Microsoft Office

• Principles of project management

• Relevant regulatory knowledge

• Relevant software and systems knowledge

• Business writing skills

• Cluster Specific Operational Knowledge

• Information Technology concepts

• System Development Life cycle(SDLC)

• Service orientated Architecture (SOA)

• Single Operating system

• Basic computer concepts

• Software Development

• IT Data structures

• Single programming language

• Joint application development

• Relevant development tools

• Systems application Design

• Batch

• User interface

• Application systems

• Banking procedures Technical

• Multiple programming language

Behavioural Competencies

• Continuous Learning

• Collaborating

• Customer Focus

• Initiating Action

• Work Standards

• Managing Work

• Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills