Java Developer (Contract) - Midrand/Hybrid - ISB4402621/2622/2623/0905

Introduction

Our client requires the services of a Software Engineer (Advanced) – Midrand/Menlyn/Rosslyn/Home Office rotation.

• Amazing brand with innovative technology
• Excellent teams in Global team collaboration
• High work-life balance with Flexible hours
• Agile working environment

EXPERIENCE: 4-6 Years related working experience.

COMMENCEMENT: As soon as possible.

Duties & Responsibilities

ROLE:

• Understand the business requirements, preparing AS-IS, and TO-BE documents and get sign-off from users for functional and/or technical design document(s).
• Proactively propose solutions to improve the support of (new) business processes.
• Executing the required changes through configuration.
• Interact with consultants of other modules for Integration requirements.
• Preparing test data and documentation, Conducting Unit tests, Regression tests, System Integration security tests including recording of results and change management (transport) activities.
• Preparing User manuals and conducting training to business process owners.
• Planning of go live milestones, planning, preparation and execution of migration, cutover and Go-Live as well as post Go-Live support activities.
• Interaction with clients through meetings, calls and emails.
• Support the troubleshooting, resolving and closing of Production Support tickets (Incidents & Problems tickets) within defined SLA’s (Service Level Agreements).
• User interface transactional solutions.
• Analyse and scope End-user authorisation roles.
• Update and maintain documentation as an existing system’s functionality is changed.
• Willing and able to travel.
• Execution according to the Agile Methodology and attending of all team meetings, including Stand-ups, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospectives, Sprint Planning meetings etc.
• Ensure availability to work on weekends and public holidays when required.
• Daily use of the Agile Tool Chain, as per the updates required by the respective feature team(s).

Desired Experience & Qualification

QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE

• Relevant IT / Business Degree or equivalent experience
• 4+ years’ experience

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

• Strong conceptual skills
• Advanced knowledge in software engineering with a focus on cloud architectures
• Advanced knowledge in JAVA, LINUX, AWS technologies and relational databases
• Solid knowledge in version control systems and branching models
• Solid knowledge of X.509 certificates and trust chains

ADVANTAGEOUS SKILLS

• Advanced knowledge in multithreaded concepts
• Advanced knowledge in DB optimization
• Experience in API and performance testing
• Typescript.
• REST / (OData / Graph QL) (advantageous).
• Understanding ESB Integration Skill (IIB, Tibco, Oracle fusion, MQS, Messaging concepts).
• Working with Queues, Flows, Execution Groups.
• Docker/AWS
• Jira, Confluence.
• JAVA/Spring Boot.
• HTML5, CSS3.
• Test Driven Development/Automated Testing (Jasmine/Karma/Selenium/Cucumber/Wire)
• German language skills will be advantageous.