Discovery – Group Information Services: Systems of Engagement: Data Management

Java Developer (Intermediate)

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.

Systems of Engagement: Data Management

Working in a high-performance organisation that prides itself in attracting the finest talent, we challenge ourselves to find solutions that make a difference in the world. Our environment is always buzzing with energy and smart, motivated people working on finding the best way to move forward.

The Systems of Engagement team champions the use of digital approaches and technologies across Discovery, designing and delivering the organisational roadmap for digital transformation, in order to achieve market leading customer experience, employee satisfaction and operational efficiency.

The data management team supports and enables this vision by providing exceptional data services and building world class data products.

Key Purpose

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

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Develop, test, and maintain high quality application software.
• Analyse, maintain and enhance existing application and troubleshoot issues. 
• 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 juggle multiple concurrent projects with changing priorities and deadlines 
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Able to deal with complexity and migrate between detailed and high level requirements.
• IMPORTANT: Self-starter who takes ownership, is accountable, and is able to work with minimal supervision.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Education and Experience

Minimum 

• Matric/Grade 12
• IT related Degree or Diploma (BSc/BTech or similar).

Preferred

• Formal Java qualifications.
• AWS certifications

Minimum

• 3 years Java systems development experience.
• Java EE knowledge and experience.
• Experience with XML/XSD/JAXB and Web Services. 
• Unit testing and mocking frameworks.
• Knowledge of OO design principles and development patterns.

• Spring/Springboot Framework. 
• ORM/Hibernate/JPA experience.
• JMS, Tibco EMS, Kafka experience.
• SQL knowledge.
• SOAP and REST (XML/JSON)
• AWS experience

Preferred

• Experience with Business Rules Management Frameworks.
• Experience using formal modelling languages (UML, etc.) and modelling tools (Enterprise Architect, Figma)
• Exposure to Agile principles and methodologies, including Continuous Integration and Test Driven Development.
• Python experience.

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.