Senior Java Developer at Santam Insurance

THE ROLE
Santam's Outsourced Business team has a position available for a Java Team Leader, based in Bellville, Cape Town.  The team provides software development, maintenance and support services to Santam’s Commercial & Personal Outsourced Business. 

This role is required to work under broad direction with the responsibility to:

• Act as a senior developer on one or more Java based development initiatives
• Implement appropriate software engineering techniques and processes within the Outsourced Business IT team
• Manage the technical processes and the quality of technical outputs of a number of developers deployed in various agile project teams
• Manage the technical evolution of a number of Java based components and associated technical enablers and tools
• Use and improve DevOps capabilities as appropriate
• Ensure that security patches are applied to the affected applications 
• Ensure that application changes are taken through the production change control process and successfully deployed to production
• Provide effective operational support for the applications, including:
  • Doing emergency program and data fixes to recover from production defects or service outages, 
  • Providing after-hours support for applications
  • Participating in disaster recovery testing
• This is a “hands on” role, giving the incumbent the opportunity to continue to develop technical skills while increasing the impact of their expertise by leading and growing others.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Must have a relevant tertiary IT qualification or qualification through experience 
• Experience in Java/JEE/JSE, Java Web Services is essential 
• Minimum of 5 years systems development experience 
• Minimum of 3 years developing in Java
• Financial systems knowledge and experience will be an advantage
• .Net and the associated Microsoft development ecosystem an added advantage

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE/SKILL LEVEL

• Fully competent in use of developer’s tool kits 
• Familiar with the Atlassian and related software engineering toolsets (Jira, Confluence, GIT, XRay, bamboo etc.)
• Debugging and troubleshooting 
• OO analysis and design 
• Design patterns 
• UML 
• SQL 
• Application Server technologies (Jboss or other) 
• Agile software development 
• System architectures 
• Emerging software engineering best practices 

GENERAL COMPETENCIES

The successful candidate must have the following abilities:

• Self-directed, organized and motivated to accomplish goals 
• Ability to multi-task and work in a fast paced challenging environment 
• Excellent communication skills and a team player