Senior Technical Specialist: Java Developer at Sanlam Group

What will you do?

As part of the development team, you would be responsible to produce quality software according to business requirements. You need to assist with the deployment and monitoring of the developed systems in development, testing and production environments.

What will make you successful in this role?

• Provide recommendations and cost/man-day estimates for implementing changes
• Maintain existing systems according to change requests
• Produce appropriate software programs that satisfy the specifications 
• Test own programs and  artefacts to ensure correctness
• Debugging of programs
• Provide:
• Test information to Testers
• Progress to the project manager or team lead
• Recommendations and cost or man-day estimates for implementing changes
• Standby or support (if and when applicable)
• Assist with the implementation of changes into the Production environment
• Document changes implemented and programs
• Problem solving, root cause analysis and user assistance (functional)
• Technical support and assistance to others on own programs or systems
• Mentorship of junior team members
• Quality Assurance of junior team members’ code
• System application and performance benchmarking information
• Implement updates and releases of 3rd party software packages
• Execution of disaster recovery processes

Qualification

• Grade 12
• Relevant IT Degree or Diploma will be a strong recommendation

Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience within application development

Experience in:

• System Analysis (advantageous)
• Writing web services (SOAP/XML) and (REST/JSON)
• Web development (Javascript, PHP, CSS, HTML)

Skills:

• Java Standard Edition (J2SE)
• Java Enterprise Edition (JEE)
• JEE application servers
• Tooling
• JEE application frameworks
• IBM AIX or Unix skills
• Database skills and SQL

Knowledge:

• Agile methodology 
• SDLC methodology
• Relevant program languages
• Problem analysis and problem solving techniques
• Impact Analysis Techniques
• Documentation frameworks, tools and standards
• Project management principles
• Deployment process in the development phase
• Financial product knowledge (advantageous)
• Knowledge of Identity and Access Management systems (advantageous)

Personal Attributes

• Optimises work processes - Contributing through others
• Action orientated - Contributing independently
• Collaborates - Contributing independently
• Cultivates innovation - Contributing independently