Website Discovery Limited
Discovery Limited is a major South African financial services company that operates in the healthcare, life and short-term insurance, banking, savings, and wellness markets.
Discovery Limited is a major South African financial services company that operates in the healthcare, life and short-term insurance, banking, savings, and wellness markets
. It is publicly traded on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) under the ticker symbol DSY. Discovery aims to improve health and protect lives. Their business model, “Shared-value Insurance,” uses behavioral science to reward clients for healthy living, safe driving, and good financial habits. By reducing client risk, Discovery experiences fewer claims and can offer incentives and rewards, creating mutual benefits.
Job Purpose
- The Java Developer generates technical designs and BRS into executable code without errors.
- The incumbent also translates business requirements into basic technical designs adhering to Discovery Bank Architecture standards.
Key Outcomes may include but are not limited to:
- Ensures that the application performs the functions as required by business.
- Ensures that the applications are maintainable and consider reuse, configurability, data footprints, processing speed, volumes and any other applicable non-functional requirements.
- Releases source code with zero defects.
- Leads and mentor’s junior developers during the code review process to ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices.
- Provides technical support, resolves production queries, and conducts root cause analysis.
- Participates in Business Requirement Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions.
- Analyze business requirements and clarify any unknowns with the Business Analyst or Business User.
- Formulates technical solutions and review them with the development team.
- Produces Technical Design documents using the standard template and in accordance with Discovery Bank standards.
- Set up Technical Analysis JAD sessions with all stakeholders to ensure alignment with business requirements.
- Implements Technical Specifications within the systems framework.
- Produces source code by applying technical standards and referencing existing components.
- Participates in the process of reviewing code for consistent application of standards, logic, and effective use of libraries and reusable aspects of the application.
- Responds to incidents escalated by the Incidents team.
Education and Experience:
- BSc Computer Science/Information Systems degree or other relevant degree from a recognised tertiary institution
- Formal Java qualification
- At least 6 years’ experience in source code development.
- At least 4 years’ experience in backend Java development
- Experience working with event driven systems
- Experience working with large data volumes
- Experience working in transactional systems
Technical skills or knowledge:
- Knowledge of SDLC, Unit Testing, Database structures, Technical Change Control
- Technical Stack
- Java 8 / 11
- Spring
- Spring Boot
- Spring Web MVC (REST)
- Spring Expression Language (SpEL)
- Spring JMS
- Spring Kafka
- MyBatis
- HANA (ANSI SQL)
- JSON / Jackson
- XML / JAXB
- JUnit /Mockito
- Swagger
- Docker
- Openshift
- Jenkins
- Maven
- Git / Bitbucket
- IBM MQ
- Linux / Windows
- Ability to do Business Writing, Software development within SDLC, Data modelling and UML Design abilities
