Job Description
Role Purpose:
This role is established to onboard and develop Tamheer trainees within the Development Team as part of the approved plan. The purpose of this role is to equip trainees with foundational technical and professional skills through supervised, hands on involvement in API development, secure coding, database operations, testing, DevOps practices, and documentation activities. The trainee will contribute to real project tasks while gaining structured learning aligned with the department's objectives and capability building roadmap.
Key Accountabilities:
1- API Development Fundamentals;
- Learn Java, OOP, and basic programming concepts
- Develop simple REST APIs using Spring Boot
- Understand controllers, services, and request/response flow
2- Application Security Basics;
- Learn API authentication & authorization concepts
- Implement basic Spring Security
- Follow secure coding practices to avoid common vulnerabilities
3- Database & Persistence Learning;
- Learn SQL (CRUD queries) and relational database basics
- Implement JPA entities and repositories
- Understand basic NoSQL operations
4- Testing & Code Quality;
- Write unit tests using JUnit and Mockito
- Perform basic integration tests
- Follow clean coding and TDD basics
5- DevOps & Version Control Foundations;
- Learn Git (branches, commits, merges)
- Understand CI/CD basics (Jenkins/GitLab)
- Learn Docker fundamentals
6- Documentation & Collaboration;
- Write basic API documentation using Swagger/notes
- Create technical documentation and flow diagrams
- Communicate progress in meetings
Skills
Technical Skills:
- Basic Java programming
- Object-Oriented Programming fundamentals
- Understanding of Spring Boot basics
- Knowledge of REST API concepts
- Basic SQL and database fundamentals
- Familiarity with JPA and simple data access
- Awareness of API security fundamentals
- Basic understanding of Git and version control
- Awareness of CI/CD and DevOps concepts
- Ability to write simple unit tests
Soft Skills:
- Effective communication
- Willingness to learn and adapt
- Attention to detail
- Problem solving mindset
- Ability to follow instructions and work within a team
- Time management
- Accountability and task ownership
- Professional behavior and workplace ethics
Education
Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or related field.
