Lead, System Engineer (62221) at Standard Bank Group

About the job
Job Purpose:

To execute technical, digital, data platform strategies, solutions and roadmaps that encompass the current and future needs of the business, technology and platforms ensuring the integrity, consistency and resilience of platform features and functions across geographies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the overall success of Client Segment and Client Solutions service delivery and country service experience by making visible the specific capacity, availability and continuity (Always on) requirements for the platform based on usage/consumption and forecasts.
• Provide input to relevant risk governance forums and escalate relevant risk issues. Establish appropriate risk oversight and governance processes and structures within the area.
• Review the number and severity of incidents and outages, performing trend analysis and investigating root causes. Give input to appropriate information dashboards regarding failure of service and develop plans to mitigate failures.
• Implement the service strategy for platform services with overall Client Segment, Client Solutions, Country service strategic objectives. Inculcate service orientation and culture within delivery functions and teams.
• Monitor budgets against expenditure across Group and countries, and manage IT costs in line with organisational parameters.
• Advocate and promote awareness of trends and developments in digital, cloud and platform technologies and devices by focusing on educating business users and present and promote awareness of platform features and processes.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Post Graduate Degree in Information Stdies or Information Technology as well as IT related professional certification such as SAFE Agile certification.
• 5-7 Years experience in managing system or platform teams and have experience in leading engineering teams in other Capital Markets businesses (Calypso, Alchemy, Front Arena, Wall Street, Asset Control).
• 8-10 Years experience in the full lifecycle design and development.
• Well versed in vendor system setup and types of system architectures, preferably Murex.
• Significant experience in future fit technology such as Cloud, DevOps, One-click deployments, API frameworks for vendor systems.