What will make you successful in this role?

• Works on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.Â
• Analysis of change requests received for own systems and interfaces with other systems
• Analysis and documentation of changes required to systems (functional and or technical specifications)
• Interpretation of specifications received (includes data models), if applicable
• Exercises judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
• Maintenance of existing programs according to change requests
• Development of new programs according to change requests
• Testing of own programs to ensure correctness and testing of interfaces to other systems
• Debugging of programsÂ
• Implementation of changes into the production environment, as part of the change management process
• Documentation of changes in programs implemented
• Updates of data model documentation and functional specifications
• Publishing of documentation as required to a central point
• Problem solving and user assistance for own systems supported (functional, not technical)
• Provision of hands-on training for own system and changes being implemented
• Provision of standby time or support when required
• Provision of batch support and standby when required
• Support and assistance with DRP(Disaster Recovery Process)
• Management of own time and delivery of tasks according to deadlines
• Network with key contacts outside own area of expertise.

Qualification

• Matric
• Any IT Degree or relevant tertiary qualificationÂ
• Java Certification will be advantageous
• AWS Certification will de an added advantage.

Experience:

• Minimum of 4 years’ experience within application development in Java Minimum of 3 years working experience in J2EE
• Practical experience with Java Server Pages, Servlets, Stateless Session Beans, JDBC, Java Messaging Service Experience with the following tools will be an advantage: IBM WebSphere, IBM MQ Series, Eclipse or WebSphere Application Developer
• Experience in web service Technologies (Design and development i.e. RESTful API’s and API modelling and testing tools
• Relational database Experience i.e. IBM DB2, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server and etc.
• AWS Experience will be an added advantage
• Scaled Agile Framework will be advantageous
• Exposure to GIT, Gradle, Nexus, JIRA and Confluence will be advantageous.
• Experience in Microservices architecture
• UML or EA experience will be an advantage
• Relational Database experience (Experience with SQL Server development will be an advantageÂ
• Experience with RCP development will be an advantage
• Experience in working with life insurance financial applications highly recommended