Discovery Health Systems – Healthcare and Digital

Solutions (HDS) / Business to Business (B2B)

Intermediate Java (Integration) Developer

About Discovery

Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.

About Healthcare and Digital Solutions – B2B

The B2B team forms part of Discovery Health Systems and delivers business process integration within the Discovery group as well as to external organisations. Key Purpose

Successful candidates will work closely with a passionate development team to design, develop and maintain Java based integration solutions for our dynamic multi-national company that sets the benchmark in its industry.

We require strong Java developers who understand and can apply the fundamentals of SOA- and OO principles and methodologies, and have experience considering non-functional requirements including security and performance considerations.

Applicants must be team players with the ability to work with both vertical and horizontal colleagues in formal and informal settings.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Develop, test, deploy and maintain high quality applications
• Analyse, maintain and enhance existing applications
• Assist with the production of technical specifications and designs
• Promote new technologies and share knowledge within the team
• Recommend improvements to development processes, contribute to implementation plans, and assist in rollout
• Perform code reviews

Personal Attributes and Skills

• Passionate about technology and development
• Results oriented with the ability to work under pressure and cope with multiple concurrent projects with changing priorities and deadlines
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to deal with complexity and shift / translate between detailed- and high level requirements
• Self-starter who takes ownership and accountability, and is able to work with minimal supervision
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Education

Minimum:

• Grade 12 and formal Java qualifications Preferred:
• IT related Degree or Diploma (BSc/BTech or similar)

Experience

Minimum:

• 3 years Java systems development experience
• Java EE
• Spring framework / Spring Boot knowledge and experience
• Extensive Web service experience (RESTful & SOAP)
• XML, XSD, JSON, Swagger
• Enterprise security concepts e.g., SSL, TLS, OAUTH etc.
• Unit testing and mocking frameworks e.g. Junit & Mockito
• Experience with industry standard Application Servers (preferably WebLogic) Knowledge of OO design principles and development patterns Preferred:
• 3+ years Java systems development experience
• Spring/Spring Boot
• Maven
• Hibernate/JPA experience
• JMS, Tibco EMS experience
• Oracle and PL/SQL knowledge
• Enterprise Integration Patterns
• Formal modelling languages (UML, etc.) and modelling tools (Enterprise Architect)
• Agile principles and methodologies, including Continuous Integration and Test Driven Development
• Atlassian product stack (BitBucket, JIRA, Confluence etc.)
• Scaling experience e.g. load balancing, clustering, concurrency, etc.

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY   
                             
The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.