Requisition Details & Talent Acquisition Consultant

REQ 133912 Thembi Mtshali

Job Family

Information Technology

Career Stream

Application Development

Leadership Pipeline

Manage Self: Technical

Job Purpose

We are looking for an exceptional individual to build Java integration services and applications using Nedbank Framework with an enthusiasm for solving interesting technical challenges in a Banking environment. Be involved in all aspects of development playing a critical role in design, planning, development and deployment. The ideal candidate will not just be an outstanding Java developer, but will bring a mindset of creativity, innovation and balanced bleeding edge technology development with a relentless pursuit of timely product engineering delivery. The role requires ownership, logical thinking, and estimation of your own work, coding, testing, trouble shooting and performance optimizations. The candidate will work in an Agile (SCRUM) environment and will be allocated and co-located to a small agile development team (squad) – Tribe and Chapter Model. The candidate will collaborate with team members to understand the problem & define, design, and ship new features through the development lifecycle. This includes brainstorm, contribution to new ideas, conceive innovative strategies, and implement solutions to difficult problems. Must be able to work independently, effectively and efficiently in a collaborative agile environment with scrum masters, solution engineers, designers, and developers.

Job Responsibilities

•    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 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 deploying and running Java applications in orchestrated container environments (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
•    Solid CI, CD, DevOps and related tooling experience, build/test/deploy through automation 
•    Good experience with integrated system environments
•    Practical experience in a high-volume banking environment. (E.g. application clustering, scaling, multi-threading, session management, etc.)
•    Experience with Application Integration challenges in a big corporate environment with ESB’s e.g. WebSphere MessageBroker, DataPower, MQ-Series, and API-Connect.
•    Proven ability as a problem-solver
•    Self-driven, self-starter, technology leader, and able to work independently.

 

Critical outputs

•    Be involved in detailed design of API implementations.
•    Development of APIs in dotnet (latest version).
•    Writing of unit tests.
•    Documenting of APIs.
•    Debugging and troubleshooting sessions for when things don't go as planned.
•    Definition of swaggers.
•    Be able to work with devops personnel and perform some devops operations.
•    Collaborate with API consumers (aka, front-end or other)
 

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate Preferred Qualification

•    B-Degree in Computer Science or related technical field.

Minimum Experience Level

•    10+ years Java application programming/development experience
•    5+ years Spring Framework, JEE-Experience
•    3+ CI,CD, DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes Experience 
 

Types of exposures

•    dotnet 8 Development skills.
•    Kubernetes knowledge will be advantages
 

Technical / Professional Knowledge

•    Eclipse
•    InteliJ
•    Git
•    Maven
•    Jenkins
•    SonarQube
•    Nexus
•    Debugging & troubleshooting.
•    Write well documented and maintainable code.
•    Passion for software excellence and be quality driven.
•    Knowledge of Java Frameworks and Libraries - Spring Framework (Spring Boot, Spring Batch).
•    MVS experience, file structures, z/OS File structure (JZOS API), Control-M & Running Batch job on MVS (not a must but a bonus).
•    Database knowledge like optimising queries, DB2 database, Relational Databases.
•    Design Patterns- Microservices design and implementation.
•    Performance Optimization.
•    Cloud Experience (preferable AWS/AZURE).
•    DevOps Experience- CI\CD, Deployment Pipelines.
•    Testing experience including all levels and types of testing and testing support.  
•    SOA experience with an understanding of Swaggers, RESTful APIs, SOAP services.
•    Security knowledge.
•    Extensive Maintenance & Support experience, Disaster Recovery.
 

Behavioural Competencies Managing Work Collaborating Quality Orientation Applied Learning Initiating Action Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills

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Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566