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Job Summary

• Apply critical thinking & problem solving skills to contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle & quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications.

Job Description

Role Description

• This role provides an exciting opportunity within the Chief Technology Office - Artificial Intelligence team. The Fullstack Engineer / Developer serves as a development and support expert with a responsibility for the design, development, automation, testing, on-going support and administration, along with documentation of their delivery. The position balances a fast-paced work environment with the expectation of the completion of work activities meticulously and effectively; working independently within our highly collaborative integrated teams; creating new code with ensuring it doesn't disrupt previous versions. The ideal candidate is required to be passionate about solving complex technical problems across all levels of software architecture, development, and debugging.

Technologies/skills:

• 4+ years' relevant experience
• C#.NET, ASP.NET MVC 4+ (dotnet core a plus)
• WEB API
• Angular
• RESTful services
• SCSS/LESS/TypeScript - having worked with preprocessor languages
• UI charting (D3/highcharts/etc.)
• Experience with material design is a plus
• Experience with application dev in AWS is a plus
• Attention to detail for UI design
• Understanding large scale systems
• Familiar with Agile methodologies
• Experience and knowledge on CI/CD and tooling used ¡V Azure DevOps, Jenkins
• Preferred: Experience with some of the following: SQL, Apache Hadoop, Spark, AWS, Kubernetes, Linux, Bash, version control tools, continuous integration tools

You will have the opportunity of working directly across the firm with developers, operations staff, data scientists, architects and business constituents to develop and enhance the Big Data service.

• Development and deployment of data applications
• Design and Implementation of infrastructure tooling and work on horizontal frameworks and libraries
• Creation of data ingestion pipelines between legacy data warehouses and the big data stack
• Automation of application back-end workflows
• Building and maintaining backend services created by multiple services framework
• Maintain and enhance applications backed by Big Data computation applications
• Be eager to learn new approaches and technologies
• Must be a clear methodical thinker with good problem solving skills
• Strong programming skills with drive and strong work ethic
• Background in computer science, engineering, physics, mathematics or equivalent
• Worked on Big Data platforms (Vanilla Hadoop, Cloudera or Hortonworks)
• Experienced and technically strong UI developer (Angular) that is backend (C#) savvy
• Preferred: Experience with Scala or other functional languages (Haskell, Clojure, Kotlin, Clean)
• Preferred: Experience with some of the following: Apache Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Pig, Oozie, ZooKeeper, MongoDB, CouchbaseDB, Impala, Kudu, Linux, Bash, version control tools, continuous integration tools

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised