Analyst Programmer at BankservAfrica

What You Will Do

• You will be joining the RPP - Technical Stream reporting into the Development Lead Modernization. Your primary focus as an Analyst Programmer in the RPP - Technical Stream is being responsible for developing, enhancing, and supporting BankservAfrica applications using automated continuous deployment methodologies. You will be engaged in designing, implementing, testing, and deploying applications through change management processes and post-monitoring of application deployments. This role further requires you to understand cloud platforms as well as to maintain and deploy new existing services to the cloud. Good communication skills, being a team player, a background in using a variety of programming languages and protocols, being self-motivated and being able to be on call 24/7 in the event of emergencies are key attributes for this role.

You will engage with the following key stakeholders:
Internal:

• Product Managers
• Enterprise Project Management Office
• BankservAfrica’ s Service Centre
• Internal technical teams

External:

• Financial institutions
• Payment processors
• External technical teams

Your key responsibilities include:

• Analyse and solve problems and incidents on production, UAT and development environments
• Develops, modifies, maintains, and deploys assigned microservices. Test existing and new code. (TDD) Write Unit Test and Integration Test for microservices. Source code must adhere to Standard coding principles and design patterns (GOF).
• Maintain monitoring and alerting application.
• Firm understanding of CICD pipelines, Containerization, and automation.
• Effectively manage the delivery of short to medium term goals
• Analyse and solve problems and incidents on production, UAT and development environments
• Monitor the operation of assigned programs and respond to problems by diagnosing and correcting errors in logic and coding.
• Provide 24/7 support of applicable systems
• Plan and organise work activities according to timelines and targets
• Demonstrate innovative thinking in area of expertise and translate this into business process / solutions / working practice improvements
• Provide feedback on work within own area of expertise and proactively seek out feedback
• Display professional discipline (punctuality, etc.)

Qualifications / Knowledge

• BSc Computer science or relevant experience
• Knowledge of development and analysis SQL knowledge, C-based (OO language) i.e., JAVA, etc. Preferred Language Golang

Experience

• Minimum 5 years’ experience working as a Programmer
• Experience in financial services preferable
• 1 year experience – Cloud Platform
• 1 year experience – K8s
• 2 years’ experience – Docker
• 2-3 years’ experience – Software Development
• 2 years’ experience – Cloud based CI/CD