Key Purpose

To fulfil a pivotal role within a software development team that designs, develops and maintains the systems for Discovery’s dynamic Life Insurance business.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Perform a high-level impact analysis, establish Scope and provide estimates based on technical requirements.
• Create required planning tasks in SDLC tool and set due dates according to agreed milestones.
• Perform an analysis of the business requirement and clarify any unknowns with the Business Analyst, User and technical lead.
• Translate technical requirements into executable code without errors.
• Ensure optimally performing system code in line with technical specifications, following prescribed process, architecture standards and procedures.
• Assist the Test Analyst in ensuring that a comprehensive test pack is produced, which includes all the required scenarios.
• Ensure that the root cause of system errors are effectively analysed and prioritized for fixing.
• Proactively bring issues and problems to the attention of the team and propose solutions to solve them.
• Assist system users and the infrastructure teams with technical support issues.

Essential

Education and Experience

• Matric (minimum C symbol pass advantageous)
• IT related Degree or Diploma (BSc/BTech or similar).
• 4 years of experience in software development
• Java EE knowledge and experience.

Advantageous

• Formal Java qualification(s), Object-Oriented Analysis & Design, etcƒ

Technical Skills And Knowledge

• Excellent communication skills
• Java systems development.
• Object-oriented design and development.
• Design patterns
• Unit Testing
• Systems Integration testing
• XML/XSD/JAXB and Web Services.
• JSF
• HTML 5.0
• Industry standard Application Servers (preferably JBoss).
• PL/SQL and RDBMS
• UML
• SDLC methodologies