JEE Technology Specialist (Developer) – Permanent position – Johannesburg Sandton - Salary Highly Negotiable
Job Description:
The JEE Framework Developer will collaborate with the overall company JEE Framework Specialist and will be responsible for the creation and establishment of one or a group of JEE-sub frameworks

Skills Requirements:
• Specialist, ‘hands-on’-expertise, knowledge and proven experience of WebSphere & Java Foundations is essential for this role – Expert Level
• Ability to work on different tiers of the application
• J2EE (Servlet, JSP, JDBC, JMS), Struts, Hibernate, Eclipse, Open Source Frameworks
• Object oriented JavaScript/jQuery
• Solid experience on integration protocols (e.g. Web Services (SOAP/XML), REST & JSON, and MQ), and the related SOA-security requirements/models
• Solid application database management practices in a high volume Java environment (SQL, DB2, NoSql – Cassandra/Mongodb)
• Solid JEE/WebSphere Foundation experience, especially on WebSphere Application Server, Virtualisation technologies and Caching technologies
• Software development methods (Waterfall, V-Model, Scrum, Agile)
• Methodological skills (e.g. Requirements Management, risk-based testing, Scrum, etc.)
• Strong technical background (‘hands-on’)
• Excellent experience with integrated system environments
• Excellent experience in system & application architecture, design & infrastructure
• Excellent application/software development or programming background in Java
• Solid experience with the architecture and provisioning of enterprise mature Java Development Frameworks to Java Application Development Teams (best practices & patterns, scalability in a high volume, multi-treading, banking environment, re-use and standardisation, security considerations, deployment architecture like automated application builds, software configuration management & tools, etc.)
• Solid practical experience in a high volume banking environment; e.g. application clustering, scaling, mutli-threading, session management, etc.
• Solid Open Source experience and the knowledge and experience in harvesting and hardening some of these capabilities on an enterprise level
• Strong practical integration experience of WebSphere Foundation technologies, and WebSphere Application Server – topologies, platform considerations
• Solid understanding of the SOA and Application Integration challenges in a big corporate environment with ESB’s e.g. WebSphere MessageBroker, DataPower and MQ-Series)
• Solid experience of the practical challenges that exist in an integrated project delivery environment
• Proven ability as a problem-solver
• Self-driven, self-starter, technology leader, work independent, respected for technical capabilities

Educational Requirements:
• Grade 12/ Standard 10.
• Bachelor’s degree (preferred)
• Certification, accreditation, or equivalent experience within the JEE/WebSphere and/or Integration discipline will be advantageous.
• 6+ years’ hands-on experience in an IT environment
• 6+ year’s hands-on specialisation with JEE-Application Development Frameworks, Application Servers and IBM Integration technologies.
• If you are ready to take your career to the next level, then this may be the right opportunity for you!

Reference Number for this position is LV37543-2016 which is a permanent position based in Johannesburg offering a salary negotiable on experience.
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