Java Developer (Cape Town)

My client, an enterprise software developer with a decade of experience in developing customised software for the retail and financial industry is looking for a Java Developer (Cape Town or Gauteng).

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.

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 systems.
• Is aware of, prepared to learn and follow industry best-practice when developing applications.
• Use programming languages and tools (generally) around the Java platform.
• 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 code.
• 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 skills.
• Help research and evaluate potential technical solutions to business problems

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

TECHNICAL SKILLS REQUIRED:

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)

Frameworks
Web Frameworks (Struts/JSF,PrimeFaces)
Spring (Core, Web, Remoting, Security etc.)
ORM Concepts and Frameworks (Specifically myBatis)

Databases
Core RDBMS Concepts
Oracle
DB/2
SQL

Certifications
Oracle Entry-Level Java Programmer
Oracle Java Professional Programmer

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