Our client is a financial services group in South Africa offering wholesale and retail banking services as well as insurance, asset management, and wealth management. The successful candidate will be integrated into an organisation whose values are integrity, respect, accountability, client-driven and people-centred, and passionate and motivated staff members are key to attract and retain clients that are key to the delivery of sustainable profits for their shareholders.

What are we looking for:
Support & Maintenance
Development
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

Key Responsibilities:
Produce working quality software that meets the design under supervision
Trouble shoot and problem solve of software issues with guidance
Consult with vendors identifying technical requirements for implementing technical solutions and knowledge
Proficient in SQL query writing, database design and data modelling
Strong skills in Power BI for advanced reporting and data visualization.
Expertise in database performance tuning, optimization and troubleshooting.
Good experience in system, application architecture, design, development, implementation and deployment (end-to-end), development 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.)
Debugging & troubleshooting.
Write well documented and maintainable code.
Passion for software excellence and be quality driven.
Skills in C#, .Net, Azure, Microservices and REST APIs
Experience with DevOps practices
Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.
Continuously monitor the performance of the API’s.
Must have working experience on the following tools/IDEs

Eclipse, InteliJ, Git, Maven, Jenkins, SonarQube, Nexus
Experience with application database management practices in a high volume Java environment (SQL, DB2, and NoSql – Cassandra/MongoDB).

Non-negotiable requirements:
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).

Location & Type
Gauteng/ Hybrid working model