(1638) Core Banking Technical Specialist - BSTD at South African Reserve Bank

Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Provide technical solutions to the SARB’s financial cluster through the analysis of requirements and enhancements to the current banking services solution.
• Monitor infrastructure and optimise the Flexcube system to ensure the stability and availability of the application.
• Provide daily technical support through troubleshooting and problem-solving.
• Work closely with the Enterprise Integration Centre of Excellence (EICOE) to ensure that all integrations to and from the Flexcube application are monitored and are available and secured.
• Monitor and execute end-of-cycle runs to ensure payment settlements and general ledger reconciliations are completed timeously and accurately.
• Engage with the Oracle support team to ensure the quality of implementations through testing and code reviews.
• Ensure compliance with the Business Solutions and Technology Department’s (BSTD) backup, recovery, restore, change-control, release-management and continuity procedures and policies.
• Perform periodic systems maintenance to ensure systems availability.

Qualifications

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• a Bachelors degree (NQF 7) in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) or an equivalent qualification; 
• two to five years’ experience in PL/SQL programming and application server/WebLogic administration; and 
• experience in Java programming.