Senior Technology Trainer

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 Discovery Health Systems

Discovery Health Systems delivers business process orchestration as well as focusing on innovative initiatives that help propel the business forward.

Key Purpose

Successful candidates will work closely with our passionate Snr Developers and System Architects to develop and impart technical training with primary focus on Java technologies. The level of training will range from introductory to advanced. It will include learners from Graduate up to Snr Developers. In parallel to the training activities there will always be at least one technology research topic that will enable organizational technology innovation.

We require strong trainers who understand and can apply the fundamentals of SOA and microservice architectures, demonstrable understanding of OO principles and methodologies.

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 training materials and prepare for sessions
• Deliver lectures, seminars, practical demonstrations and fieldwork
• Define and mark assignments
• Check and assess work
• Act as a personal tutor to a number of learners
• Supervise learners research
• Taking part in organizational training and continuous professional development
• Carry out administrative tasks such as learners curriculum, schedule, etc…
• Read academic and technology leaders journals
• Write research proposals, papers and other publications
• Attend and contribute to professional conferences and seminars
• Learn continuously on the edge new technologies
• Lead the design and development of one (at a time) complex software engineering project
• Collaborate with senior technical professionals in building new technologies modules
• Provide training reports to Discovery management
• Participate in at least one technical project as a technical lead

Personal Attributes and Skills

• Passionate about upskilling and couching people, technology and development
• Results oriented with the ability to work under pressure and cope with multiple concurrent training activities
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to deal with complexity and migrate between detailed and high level requirements
• Self-starter who takes ownership and accountability, and is able to work with minimal supervision
• Strategic thinker
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Education

• Computer Science Master's Degree (Doctor's degree advantageous)
• Additional Certification / Degree for Instructional design or related qualification

Programming or Training  Experience with

• Part or full time lecturing / instructing experience for at least 5 years ( 5+ years Java systems development experience advantageous)
• Technologies knowledge: Java version 11 to 21, Spring/Spring Boot 3, Spring AI, Hibernate/JPA experience, Oracle and PL/SQL knowledge (or similar SQL knowledge), Atlassian product stack, GitLab and related technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Nexus, Harbor, HashiCorp), Monitoring (monitoring (Dynatrace, Prometheus))
• Formal modelling languages (UML, ArchiMate etc.) , modelling tools (Enterprise Architect),
• Methodologies: Agile including Continuous Integration and Test Driven Development
• Advantageous: programming AND training 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.