Johannesburg: Software Development Team Lead [Greenfields] posted by Deka Minas (Pty) Ltd
Posted on 2025-09-21 00:00:00
| Employer | Deka Minas (Pty) Ltd |
|---|---|
| Category | Development |
| Location | Gauteng / Johannesburg |
Job Summary
One of our leading banking and financial services clients is looking for a SDM/ Senior Java Developer to join their team. Their ideal candidate should be ethical, driven and creative. You would be working on delivering exceptional services and products.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Increase operational efficiency and suggest solutions to enhance cost effectiveness.
- Deliver exceptional service that exceeds customers expectations through proactive, innovative and appropriate solutions by resolving queries fast and effectively.
- Cultivate and manage objective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including end-users, SMEs, project managers and senior staff members by providing input to business requirements and being able to present and sell concepts to clients.
- Produce program specifications and implement system enhancements by addressing specific business needs and resolving queries.
- Code, compile, test and implement applications in compliance with the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Support development environments. Responsible for coding standards and peer reviews.
- Comply, understand and implement all steps within IT development and meet governance in terms of legislative and audit requirements during programming execution.
- Assess, identify and mitigate potential risks within the IT programming environment by complying with technology business policy and process requirements (SDLC and change / release management process definition) to ensure operational performance.
- Produce technical specifications and architecture that is in accordance to agreed standards. Design, code, test and debug to obtain a robust solution with supporting documentation.
- Minimize system downtime through pro-active identification of potential issues and ensure minimisation of recurring problems by managing defects and performing code reviews.
- Monitor systems post change and pro-actively do performance analysis to ensure there is no system failure due to capacity.
- Maintain maximum system availability by ensuring that incidents are recorded for future reference and adequate root cause analysis is done to eliminate the risk of a recurrence.
- Manage own development to increase own competencies and develop technical and business skills.
- Proactively engage with business units and colleagues to understand underlying needs and opportunities, and identify Information Technology (IT) innovative solutions in a timely manner.
Desired Qualifications and Experience:
- Minimum: B.Comm, B.Eng, BSC Eng, BSC Informatics or related degree
- 5-8 years experience in programming
- Familiar with one or more programming languages as appropriate for the specific requirements of the department related to the field
- System Design and Architecture experience advantageous
- 2 Years Experience in Leading a Team
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