Java Developer

SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:

PURPOSE OF THE JOB

Modifies, develops, tests and maintains applications. Helps evaluate application systems, processes and requirements, makes changes to those systems and maintains them where necessary.

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work as part of a project team to develop and test enterprise-ready business applications in a variety of configurations (e.g. web-based, desktop-based, service-based or scheduled processes).
• Help produce brand new solutions, solutions based upon third-party applications, or solutions that interact with existing
• Is aware of, prepared to learn and follow industry best-practice when developing
• Use programming languages and tools (generally) around the Java
• Work with Business Analysts to specify business requirements and help translate these requirements into technical specifications (including Class, Sequence and other UML diagrams).
• Help Database Developers write efficient and effective database access
• Work with QA Analysts to implement testing plans and write the necessary code to automate testing in line with our Test-Driven Development methodology.
• Work with customers and project managers to deliver quality, effective software, in line with our Agile Development process.
• Help diagnose the root causes of systems issues using their problem-solving
• Help research and evaluate potential technical solutions to business problems

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CORE SKILLS/COMPETENCIES:

• Strong communication skills, both written and
• Good judgement and experience of prioritising and working to tight deadlines.
• Ability to learn fast and share knowledge, experience and best practices with team mates
• Willingness to take responsibility and ownership of their
• Empathise with customers and communicate at the appropriate level
• Appreciation of their position within the wider roles & responsibilities of the DPS community
• Ability to work under pressure
• Practical approach to problem solving
• Able to document information and share knowledge with colleagues
• Follows a structured approach to their work
• Personal drive to succeed

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MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• IT Diploma or related Degree will be an advantage but is not essential
• Proven Java experience of at least 3 - 5 years professional development experience
• Candidates with more or deeper development experience are welcome to apply
• Remuneration package will be tailored according to relevant technical experience
• Development experience in a Scrum based Agile environment will be an advantage
• Exposure to BDD/TDD will be a definite advantage
• Exposure to object-oriented design concepts will be an advantage

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TECHNICAL SKILLS REQUIRED:

The following represents a list of the technologies the incumbent will be required to operate in. Being proficient in a good deal of these technologies will qualify you to apply for this position as knowledge of the complete stack will be an advantage but is not essential.

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Java

Basic JSE API (to v7)

GUI Development (Swing / SWT)

JAVA 8.0

JDBC

J2EE

Servlets

JAXP / JAXB

Logging frameworks (SLF4J, Log4J)

EJB (MDBs)

JSP & HTML (incl v5.0)

JSP Custom Tags

JavaScript / AJAX

AOP

Caching mechanisms (ehCache)

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Frameworks

Web Frameworks (Struts/JSF,PrimeFaces)

Spring (Core, Web, Remoting, Security etc.)

ORM Concepts and Frameworks (Specifically myBatis)

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XML

Core Concepts

DTD/XSD

XSL (XSL:FO)

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Databases

Core RDBMS Concepts

Oracle

DB/2

SQL

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App Design

OOA/D

Design Patterns (GoF)

Enterprise Patterns

Application Architecture

Technical Architecture

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O/S

Windows - Desktop & server

Linux

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App Servers

Tomcat

Websphere (including Admin)

Integration Frameworks (Apache Camel)

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General Dev.

Unit Testing Concepts (JUnit, Mockito etc.)

Maven

Retail Business Domain Knowledge

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Scripting

Python / Jython

Shell Scripting

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Process

Agile - SCRUM

TDD/BDD/Specification-by-Example

Distributor Source Management Processes

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Certifications

Oracle Entry-Level Java Programmer

Oracle Java Professional Programmer

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