Application Developer

The Applications Developer reports to the Manager Technology (Applications) and the Assistant Vice President, Technology (Applications). As part of the Applications team, the developer’s responsibility is to analyse, design, develop, review, and deploy J2EE/PL-SQL applications.

Responsibilities:

• The design, development, and implementation of application-related changes to agreed timeframes and standards.
• Responsible for peer code reviews to ensure the quality of the code deployed in the NEMS systems.
• Working closely with the Applications team and internal business users to ensure changes are developed in a way that provides maximum benefit to the company, in a cost-effective, secure, and operationally “risk-free” manner.
• Providing assessments on the impact and risk of potential changes to the systems and the business as a whole.
• Creation of concise, detailed system specifications for changes that solve business needs and implementing changes to these agreed specifications.
• Following strict change control and version control processes to ensure quality changes are implemented in an auditable manner.
• Be outspoken in providing “best practice” recommendations.
• Proactively suggest ways to reduce operational overhead by “streamlining” manual tasks into automated procedures.
• Providing application support to the Operations team whenever necessary.

Requirements:

• Degree (IT) or Equivalent Formal Training.
• Strong application development experience with the following tools and technologies:
• J2EE, Java, JSP, Servlets, JMS, Oracle ADF, PL/SQL, XML, XSL, EJB, Struts, Hibernate, J2EE Design Patterns, Java Security, Oracle Weblogic/DB11g and 12C, JBoss EAP 7.0, Eclipse
• Experience on Applications security throughout the development lifecycle and ability to enhance applications to meet the security best practices.
• Highly motivated to provide complete solutions to customers. Being able to talk to users and understand their requirements is essential.
• The ability to manage oneself during projects from start to finish, throughout the whole development lifecycle.
• Experience with software configuration management principles and systems.
• Experience with test methodologies and tools.
• Experience with implementing medium- to large-scale projects. (i.e., projects that span at least 6 calendar months with at least 5 full developers or more)