AI Developer

Job Description About the Role

Discovery – Group Information Services – The Digital Lab

Responsibilities

• The incumbent is also responsible for supporting, maintaining, and troubleshooting applications across development, testing, and production environments to ensure optimal system performance and reliability.
• Participate in new business development through ideation, prototype development, and project estimates
• Develop, test, and maintain the deployed application software with high quality and standards
• Usability testing new features to incorporate feedback into the digital product development process
• Research new techniques, tools, and best practices and share that knowledge with the team and community
• Perform analysis at a strategic level and understand principles of business, technical and enterprise architecture
• Distinguish between business, functional and non-functional requirements and how to implement them
• Collaborate with product managers and designers to ensure a successful, high-quality product and great user experience
• Analyse, maintain and enhance existing application and troubleshoot issues with efficiency
• Perform accurate development estimation
• Produce technical specifications and designs
• Present to senior stakeholders
• Offer support and guidance to junior staff and peers

Requirements

• Understanding of the evolving digital world on both the demand side (how people/ companies are using technology) and the supply side (extensive hardware and software knowledge).
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to integrate AI into applications, APIs, automation, and data workflows
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to explain digital concepts and technologies to business leaders, as well as business concepts to technologists.
• Experience analysing and interpreting data, presenting that data and executing necessary improvements, and monitoring and evaluating KPIs and digital metrics.
• IT related Degree or Diploma (BSc/BTech or similar).
• Relevant Cloud platform certification (GCP, Azure etc.) and Java certification
• 3+ years systems development experience
• Experience with SOAP and REST services
• Unit testing and mocking frameworks
• Source control, experience with GIT
• Experience with industry standard Application Servers (preferably WebLogic)
• Knowledge of OO design principles and development patterns
• Development of solutions using cloud platform services (Azure, GCP)
• DevOps/Continuous integration
• Exposure to the Atlassian tool suite (Jira, Confluence, Bamboo and Bitbucket)