Our client, one of South Africa’s Largest Bank’s is looking for an experienced Senior Developer within the Java space to join their fast growing team.

Purpose: 
To be responsible for project design, development, implementation and maintenance of java based initiatives on the Bancs platform.

• Focus on integration and new solutions, scaling and integration points; achieving the design, including breaking down the technical work packets and building the architecture.
• Obtain technical knowledge related to the Back-End (BANCS) development environments and platform architecture.
• Independently create solution design documentation (technical specifications) from book of work initiatives and escalated investigations of bugs in Production

Execute the design:

• Understand the requirement (business need and purpose)
• Understand the existing systems that will be affected by new requirements
• Understand the impact on other systems (i.e. Front-End)
• Set-up a functional description (FD)  handover/ technical specification (TS) high-level design meeting
• Ensure the design is simple, easy maintainable, user orientated & user friendly, efficient and adhere to the Bank’s Enterprises design standards, tooling and methodologies.
• Develop major performance efficient enhancements in the production environment according to the provided technical specifications.
• Ensure the application of simplistic and effective Java code
• Understand the impact of code: engage with Bancs Core technical and Business Analysts for specific scenarios to be tested & impact of code changes on other parts of the BANCS system
• Develop new requirements for specific projects under leadership of Project Team Leader
• Fix major and minor bugs in the Production environment
• Fix escalated bugs for existing Back-End products in the Production environment
• Conduct investigations based on requests  
• Provide feedback to investigation requester and Team Leader of relevant Business Analyst
• Perform unit and integration testing on existing environments and new developments
• Provide testing assistance to developer(s)
• Update / amend test plans according to solution development to ensure coverage of all areas
• Provide implementation instructions for new development
• Provide support to the Development / QA / Production environment(s)
• Take and perform a lead role in projects
• Design and develop new products for specific projects as per the book of work initiatives; unpack what exactly needs to be done at a technical level and break it down into work packets for the developer to complete

Qualifications: 

• Matric 
• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or similiar degree

Knowledge:
Minimum:

• IT systems development processes
• Application development
• Standards and governance
• Testing practices
• Banking systems environment
• System architecture (technical design and implementation processes)
• Agile development life cycle

Ideal Knowledge:

• UML
• Systems analysis and design
• System architecture (technical design and implementation processes)

Solid understanding of:

• Banking systems environment
• Banking business model
• Best practices for Quality Assurance (QA)
• Object Orientated Development environment (i.e. Java, Spring Framework, JBoss, Hibernate)

Should you not receive a response from us within one week of your application, your application has unfortunately not been successful.
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