Engineering Lead I - Johannesburg, South Africa - Nedbank

    Nedbank
    Nedbank Johannesburg, South Africa

    3 weeks ago

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    Description

    Job Classification


    Mobile)

    Closing Date: 22 April 2024

    Job Family


    Information Technology

    Career Stream


    Application Development

    Leadership Pipeline


    Manage Self: Professional

    Job Purpose


    Building Java integration services and applications using Nedbank Framework with an enthusiasm for solving interesting technical challenges in a Banking environment. Involvement in all aspects of development playing a critical role in design, planning, development and deployment. Balanced bleeding edge technology development with a relentless pursuit of timely product engineering delivery. Ownership, logical thinking, and estimation of your own work, coding, unit testing, trouble shooting and performance optimizations. Function confidently in an Agile (SCRUM) environment and will be allocated and co-located to a small agile development team (squad) – Tribe and Chapter Model. Collaborate with team members to understand the problem & define, design, and ship new features through the development lifecycle. This includes brainstorm, contribution to new ideas, conceive innovative strategies, and implement solutions to difficult problems.

    Job Responsibilities



    • Strong technical/ software engineering background ('hands-on')

    • Strong application/software development or programming background in Java

    • Good experience in system, application architecture, design, development, implementation and deployment (end-to-end).

    • Ability to work on different tiers of the application

    • Object oriented Design and MVC-pattern

    • Experience on web technologies (Web Development JavaScript Frameworks - preferably Angular 4, JavaScript, CSS, HTML5, Etc.)

    • Expert experience on J2EE (Servlet, JSP, JDBC, JMS, EJB), Spring Framework, JPA, Hibernate, Open Source Frameworks

    • Expert experience with SOA-Architecture with the related integration protocols (e.g. Web Services (SOAP/XML), REST & JSON, and MQ), as well as the related SOA-security requirements/models.

    • Expert application database management practices in a high volume Java environment (SQL, DB2, and NoSql – Cassandra/MongoDB).

    • Expert JEE/WebSphere Foundation experience, especially on WebSphere Application Server, JBOSS, Linux, Virtualisation technologies and Caching technologies.

    • Design, build and run of IBM Websphere Application Server Infrastructure Solutions

    • Migration from proprietary Application Servers to WAS

    • Performance and troubleshooting of WAS Infrastructure

    • Solid experience with integrated system environments

    • Practical experience in a high volume banking environment. (E.g. application clustering, scaling, multi-threading, session management, etc.)

    • Experience with re-use and standardisation, security considerations, deployment architecture like automated application builds, software configuration management & tools, etc.

    • Experience with Application Integration challenges in a big corporate environment with ESB's e.g. WebSphere MessageBroker, DataPower, MQ-Series, and API-Connect.

    • Proven ability as a problem-solver

    • Self-driven, self-starter, technology leader, and able to work independently.

    • Must have working experience on the following tools/IDEs

    • Eclipse

    • InteliJ

    • Git

    • Maven

    • Jenkins

    • SonarQube

    • Nexus

    • Debugging & troubleshooting.

    • Write well documented and maintainable code.

    • Passion for software excellence and be quality driven.

    • You must be prepared to bring new ideas to the workplace, but also to accept how things have been done and the reasons for doing things this way.

    Preferred Qualification


    BSc (Computer Science), BCom (Information Systems). Professional Qualification Level 6 (Look at new degree naming conventions)

    Preferred Certifications


    Togaf Certification, ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) or equivalent

    Minimum Experience Level



    • B-Degree in Computer Science or related technical field.

    • 10+ years Java application programming/development experience (Juristic NBH Mobile)

    • 8+ years JEE-Experience

    • 5+ years Application Server experience i.e. Websphere Application Server

    • 5+ years relational database experience (DB2 preferred)

    Technical / Professional Knowledge

    • IT Architecture
    • IT Concepts
    • Systems Analysis and design

    Behavioural Competencies

    • Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills
    • Decision Making
    • Collaborating
    • Innovation
    • Influencing
    • Managing Work
    • Continuous Learning

    Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at