THE ROLE:

• Part of a team working as a Java developer to enable IT to support Group’s Central Ordering processes within the project.
• Strong working knowledge of software development tools, techniques and approaches to build application solutions in collaboration with partners in Munich.
• Travel international
• Meet with end users and gather requirements.
• Propose and review system design and evaluate alternatives.
• Review and present proposed system solution to IT Project Manager / Leader and User Management or System owner.
• Develop systems solutions in line with quality and delivery requirements
• Preparation of system/technical documentation (as per ISO standards)
• Facilitate stand-up’s
• User training
• System testing/parallel runs
• System implementation
• System audits/quality assurance
• Penetration testing and compliance
• Manage application incidents, problems and incidents in line with Group Operations policies and standards.

REQUIREMENTS:

• At least 8-10 years JAVA development experience
• Extensive experience in implementing and monitoring solutions
• Experience in testing (manual or automated testing)
• Agile working experience advantageous
• Relevant IT / Business Degree

• Open to SA Citizens / Permanent Residents
• Willing and able to travel internationally

Technical / Functional Skills

• Working in an Agile environment
• Understanding of integration between different technologies
• Understanding of Kafka architecture, operations, scaling, performance optimization and tuning.
• Implement customer Kafka event clients on java, topics, producers and consumers. • Partitioning of Kafka messages and setting up the replication factors in Kafka Cluster.
• Coordination between development and support environments
• Assisting with the business case
• Planning and monitoring
• Eliciting requirements
• Requirements organisation
• Translating and simplifying requirements
• Requirements management and communication
• Requirements analysis
• Document requirements in appropriate format depending on methodology followed
• Provide expertise in Kafka brokers, zookeepers, Kafka connect, schema registry, KSQL,
• Assist with identification and management of risks

Experience with the following technologies:

• Angular
• JAVA EE / JAVA
• Developing on AWS
• EJB
• RESTful and SOAP services
• SQL (Oracle, Postgres)
• TDD / Test Driven Development
• IntelliJ / WebStorm
• KAFKA
• Build Tools (Maven/ Gradle/ Gulp/grunt/ webpack)
• Jenkins (CI (Continuous Integration) / DevOps)
• GIT
• Node.JS
• Jira, Confluence

Advantageous:

• Working on Agile Environment (Jira, Confluence)
• Micro Services
• DevOps
• PaaS Knowledge (Cloud)
• Java EE Container (Glassfish (Payara), Tomcat, JBoss, Websphere)
• Git, Bitbucket, SVN
• IoC / Dependency Injection
• JavaScript + JS UI frameworks (ReactJS / Angular 5, NodeJS)
• HTML5, CSS3