JAVA Developer - Joblink Placement

Contact person for this position:  Amori Prinsloo

amori@joblinkplacement.co.za

Website: www.joblinkplacement.co.za

Our client in the Banking Sector is seeking an experienced Java Developer to join their team on a 12-month contract, with a strong possibility of extension based on business requirements.

Key Critical Tasks

• Support & Maintenance
• Development of good quality software
• Unit testing
• Deployments
• Full accountability of deliverables end-to-end – managing all stakeholders and impacts
• Align to coding and design standards.
• Submit code for Code Quality reviews
• Quality Assurance support
• Feedback on progress to Scrum Master / project manager
• Timesheet capture
• Self-management of capacity and deliverables in alignment with Sprint planning
• Stand-by, Support and Maintenance of systems

Technical Knowledge – Non-Negotiable

• Strong technical/ software engineering background (‘hands-on’)
• Strong application/software development or programming background in Java
• Good experience in system, application architecture, design, development, implementation and deployment (end-to-end), development automation.
• Ability to work on different tiers of the application
• Object oriented Design
• Solid experience on Spring Framework, Sprint Boot, JPA, Hibernate, Micronaut Frameworks
• Solid experience with SOA-Architectures, Microservices Architectures and related integration protocols (e.g. Web Services (SOAP/XML), REST & JSON, and MQ), as well as the related security requirements/models.
• Experience with application database management practices in a high-volume Java environment (SQL, DB2, and NoSQL – Cassandra/MongoDB).
• Java Application Servers experience.
• Experience with deploying and running Java applications in orchestrated container environments (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/Azure)
• Solid CI, CD, DevOps and related tooling experience, build/test/deploy through automation
• Performance and troubleshooting of Java Applications
• Good experience with integrated system environments
• Practical experience in a high-volume environment. (E.g. application clustering, scaling, multi-threading, session management, etc.)
• Proven ability as a problem-solver
• Self-driven, self-starter, technology leader, and able to work independently.

Must have working experience on the following tools/IDEs

• Eclipse or InteliJ
• Git
• Maven
• Code quality tools e.g. SonarQube
• Experience with artefact repository e.g. Nexus
• Azure DevOps

Required Exposure/Experience

• 5 Years +
• Development experience
• Exposure to agile delivery Scrum, Kanban and or SAFe
• SOA / API
• SOAP and Rest
• HTML & CSS
• DevOps toolsets for software releases
• JWT / Java Web Tokens
• SSL’s
• Solid experience on Spring Framework, Sprint Boot, JPA, Hibernate, Micronaut Frameworks
• Solid experience with SOA-Architectures, Microservices Architectures and related integration protocols (e.g. Web Services (SOAP/XML), REST & JSON, and MQ), as well as the related security requirements/models.
• Experience with application database management practices in a high-volume Java environment (SQL, DB2, and NoSQL – Cassandra/MongoDB).
• Develop, deploy and test automation
• Performance monitoring and optimisation tools

Interaction with

• Scrum Master
• Delivery Lead
• Product Owner
• Tech SME lead