Systems Analyst/ Junior Architect

3 weeks ago


Sandton, South Africa Malander Placements Full time

**Design**:

- Translate business requirements into technical designs adhering to Vitality’s processes, standards and guidelines, taking cognisance of performance, security and scalability requirements. Deliver within agreed timeframes. Complexity = complex interactions between a number of interacting systems.
- Liaise with relevant parties where clarification of business requirements or resolution to technical issues is needed.
- Research and find effective solutions to technical issues that arise
- Estimate development timelines based on business requirements

**Solutioning**:

- Be called upon to join Solutioning sessions with various stakeholders as well as other teams.
- Provide insights to steer the selection of the right Solution for the business or technical problem at hand

**Development**:

- Construct robust, maintainable, scalable, optimally performing system code in line with technical specifications, following prescribed process, standards and procedures. Deliver within agreed timeframes.
- Conduct unit testing and fix any defects found
- Work with the Automation testing team in order to build out our automation capability.

**Testing**:

- Verify build stability and quality with development team before releasing to test team, aiming to release with zero defects.
- Consult and assist in reviewing risk / impact of defects found in testing, and assist with fixing where necessary

**Support / Troubleshooting / Technical**:

- Assist system users with technical support issues and handle according to defined procedures.
- Ability to effectively analyse root cause of system errors (front end and data errors, performance and stability issues);
- Setting up of new infrastructure, provisioning servers, changing load balancer setups, etc. as directed by the Architecture Team.

**Mentoring / Team development**:

- Actively coach and mentor Developers in the space in order for them to also rise to the challenge of writing and maintaining a quality codebase.
- Perform code reviews to ensure logical correctness, maintainability, scalability, performance, compliance with architectural standards and frameworks.
- Assist in identifying training needs of team members.
- Present on topics of interest in the Developer meetings.
- Contribute to the Training material and Confluence knowledge bases in place

**Personal development**:

- Keep abreast of current technological trends and how these might be applied in the Discovery environment.
- Willingness to research new technologies needed as well as present PoCs to the Architecture Forums and Developer Forums

**General**:

- Ability to communicate clearly, constructively and effectively. Easily able to follow and participate in technical, business process, and other discussions.
- Able to build business relationships with other members of the team and the business areas we support and integrate with

**Personal Attributes and Skills**
**Technical Skills**:

- Excellent understanding of Object Orientated principals and Java language fundamentals.
- Knowledge of commonly used design patterns.
- Broad understanding of how to put together complex systems solutions from scratch which have various interactions from Partner facing to other internal systems and Business units

**Essential**:

- Java 8+, Spring Framework, SOAP Web services, REST Web services, Message Driven beans, SpringJMS, SpringBatch, SpringBoot, XML/XSD,JSON, SQL, HTML5, CSS, Jenkins, Maven, Oracle DB, SQL, Basics of Application Security

**Advantageous**:

- Weblogic Application server configuration and tuning, Angular (willingness to learn the front-end technologies that we use), Apache Kafka, Spring Cloud Data Flow, Harbor, Docker, Advanced Security (Tokens, Mutual TLS, etc.), Consul, Spring Cloud Gateway

**Behavioural Skills**:

- Highly adaptable and resilient (Able to work under pressure).
- Ability to work both independently and participate as a member of a cross-functional team.
- Ability to prioritize and work on multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Able to work in conditions of change, flexible and open to learn new languages and architecture.
- Recognise unique demands of IT of non-conventional working hours.
- Structured and analytical problem solver - Obsessive about finding solutions to problems: action oriented problem solver.
- Team player - reliable, works actively with others towards a common goal, communicates constructively, shares information, knowledge and experience, treats others in a respectful and supportive manner.
- Drives Results.
- Problem Solver

**Education and Experience**
**Qualification**:

- BSc Computer Sciences/ BSc Information Systems or equivalent IT tertiary qualification.
- Formal Java qualification(s) (Advantageous)

**Experience**:

- At least 5 - 8 years’ experience in Java development with exposure to core competencies listed in the SDLC (Essential).
- Some mentoring of junior team members.
- Some knowledge of designing and architecting large interacting s


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