Our client in the IT sector is seeking to employ a Java Developer with a minimum of 5 years experience to join their global team.

The role of the Java Developer has the following job objectives:

• Ensure correctness of business requirements and functional specifications
• Ensure that their components integrate smoothly with the rest of the system
• Participate in code and design reviews of other components
• Perform basic unit testing as defined by the test specification
• Coding with TDD, XP approach
• Correct errors as identified by the unit program tests
• Providing expertise in software development lifecycle phases from concept and design to testing
• Analyses, designs and builds component-based applications in a Web/internet delivery environment, including:

-       Introduction of an application layer

-       Modelling techniques

-       Component and object-oriented design

-       Complex algorithmic coding

-       Systematic approaches to application integration

• Works on new and existing applications and web applications
• Serves as liaison to internal customers, research groups and various business support areas
• Expertise in server-side web presentation technologies
• Software Development based on systems requirement
• Ensuring high quality software releases to the QA environment
• Producing technical documentation
• Assisting with production deployments
• Assisting with 3rd level software support

What do you need?

• 5+ years of Java experience in application design, software development, maintenance and delivery.
• Strong experience with Web architecture and Web design and development tools and languages, e.g. JSP, JDBC, Java Servlets, Javabeans/EJBs, SQL, JavaScript, HTML
• Strong relational database experience (DB2, Sybase, MS SQL server, Oracle 8i/9i/10g/11i)

Specific Skills and Experience:

• Java (version -1.7 , 1.8)
• J2EE
• Unit test case framework (e.g. Junit, Mockito)
• Integration (MQ, Flat files, XML, Restful webservices)
• Service Orientated Architecture(SOAP based webservices)
• JPA 2.0 Persistence
• DBMS  - Oracle/DB2/SQL Server databases
• Application Servers and Web Containers (Tomcat, JBOSS, IBM Websphere, BEA Weblogic, Apache)
• UI -JSF 2, Primefaces, HTML5 web development, Scripting technologies
• Build tool (Maven, Gradle, Ant)
• Continuous Integration Tool (Jenkins, TeamCity)
• Repo (e.g. SVN, Git)

Ref: JHB000186/BS