Jobs at SUMMIT Africa Recruitment

Purpose:

• To develop functionality for a JEE (J2EE) based product. The backend is a service oriented Spring based application. It provides a service layer for different user channels ranging from web, rich clients and batch users integrating via JMS and web services. The work contains a portion of support and refactoring of existing code as well as new development (extend it for new functionality) and add extra integration points.

Responsibilities/Tasks:

• Support existing and develop new functionality and components.
• Understand existing product and domain elements and work with business analysts to refine and implement new requirements.
• Refactor and improve the code to keep the product maintainable and adaptable to new requirements.
• Evaluate and improve application performance, and high availability features.
• Create unit and integrated system tests to show that the developed functionality works as intended.
• Create technical documentation that explains how the various components of the system work and how to use them.
• Do root cause analysis on bugs to find and fix the cause of a problem in an integrated system.
• Build and deploy the system on an application server.
• Create and execute functional test scenarios (dev testing).
• Work effectively in a team environment, actively collaborating to improve software development processes and standards.

Requirements:

• Relevant tertiary qualification in Information Technology or Computer/Engineering Sciences.
• A strong knowledge of Java is essential.
• 2-3 years relevant experience as a senior back-end developer in a multi-tiered Java application development.
• Experience in scripting languages is preferred (e.g. JavaScript, Angular, Python/Jython).
• Ability to work in a team environment and collaborate on a common (UML) design model.
• A thorough understanding of SDLC processes, tools and techniques.

Skills and Knowledge Requirements:

Experience with team development tools: Use of source control applications (preferably GIT); Use of a UML tool for documentation.

Experience of the following technologies:

1. JEE (J2EE) server side technologies, SOAP and Services
2. Spring framework (preferable)
3. JPA /Hibernate
4. Experience with an application server (IBM Websphere - preferable)
5. Integration experience (Web/RESTful services, JMS)
6. JAXB and XML Schema
7. Maven
8. SQL and experience with a relational database (i.e. Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, DB2)
9. SoapUI/Postman

• Ability to deliver production quality software by e.g. paying attention to detail, do extensive unit testing and support quality testing phases.
• Knowledge and experience of the following would be a plus:

1. Business process/workflow layers e.g. JBPM, BPEL (Activiti)
2. Rules engines (i.e. Drools)
3. Design patterns (Object Oriented, SOLID, GRASP)
4. Continuous integration tools (i.e. Jenkins, Bamboo, Docker)

Personal Profile:

• Self-starter, self-motivated, team player
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Finisher

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The Job

• The ideal candidate for this role will be responsible to support, enhance and optimise the current data warehouse environment by extracting, transforming and loading data from various sources using TSQL & SSIS and will develop and enhance reporting and analytical capabilities/solutions, using SSRS, Power-BI and SSAS, delivering projects that support the business’ requirements in an agile manner.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Interpret and understand business data and information requirements as per technical specifications
• Deliver data and information to the business in line with business priorities, according to quality standards, within the agreed time constraints and according to departmental coding practice & standards as well as user expectations 
• Be involved in the process of populating new data within the Data Warehouse
• Understand and offer support to the current production environment and relevant processes  
• Support the BI Team in maintaining the production environment, ensuring delivery of current information to the business on time, effectively collected, correctly transformed, audited, accurately published
• Ensure efficient and effective resolution of production issues
• Monitor the environment to proactively engage in prevention activities and to maintain an environment that is easy to understand and troubleshoot
• Recurring standby to support and resolve operational issues encountered in the day to day operations of the data warehouse production environment
• Provide support service to users on data and information to satisfy user needs
• Lead and mentor a team of BI Developers

Experience

• Relevant 3 year IT degree / diploma
• A minimum of 5 years’ data warehousing experience with a working understanding of dimensional modelling
• At least 5 years’ experience in ETL processes using SSIS
• Previous experience leading teams (more than one)
• Intermediate to Advanced skill level in using MS-SQL/T-SQL
• Intermediate to Advanced skill level in developing reports using SSRS
• Experience in building and maintaining Tabular Cubes (DAX) using SSAS will be an added advantage
• Exposure to Self-Service BI using Power-BI will be an added advantage
• Exposure in using TFS or SVN will be an added advantage
• Exposure in working within an agile project environment will be an added advantage

Benefits 

• Provident fud (included in your CTC)
• Flexible working hours
• Café and lounge area
• Staff restaurant with a variety of healthy meal options