Intermediate Java Developer

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver exceptional service that exceeds customers' expectations through proactive, innovative and appropriate solutions.

• Resolve all customer queries efficiently, and within agreed timelines.

• Provide an efficient administration service through careful and timeous planning, reporting and updating of all related information.

• Comply with governance in terms of legislative and audit requirements.

• Work closely with the team / allocated individual in order to upskill knowledge and skills in Operations and Administration.

• Manage own development to increase own competencies.

• Increase operational efficiency and suggest solutions to enhance cost effectiveness.

• Deliver exceptional service that exceeds customers' expectations by resolving queries fast and effectively.

• Cultivate and manage objective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders — including end-users, SMEs, project managers and senior staff — by providing input to business requirements and being able to present and sell concepts to clients.

• Produce program specifications and implement system enhancements by addressing specific business needs and resolving queries.

• Code, compile, test and implement applications in compliance with the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Support development environments, and take responsibility for coding standards and peer reviews.

• Comply with, understand and implement all steps within IT development, and meet governance in terms of legislative and audit requirements during programming execution.

• Assess, identify and mitigate potential risks within the IT programming environment by complying with technology business policy and process requirements (SDLC and change / release management process definitions) to ensure operational performance.

• Produce technical specifications and architecture in accordance with agreed standards. Design, code, test and debug to obtain a robust solution with supporting documentation.

• Minimise system downtime through pro-active identification of potential issues, and ensure minimisation of recurring problems by managing defects and performing code reviews.

• Monitor systems post-change and pro-actively perform performance analysis to ensure there is no system failure due to capacity.

• Maintain maximum system availability by ensuring incidents are recorded for future reference and adequate root cause analysis is done to eliminate the risk of recurrence.

• Manage own development to increase own competencies and develop technical and business skills.

• Proactively engage with business units and colleagues to understand underlying needs and opportunities, and identify innovative IT solutions in a timely manner.

• Supervise the work of other developers, and provide technical assistance to fellow developers and other IT team members.