Product Engineer at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Description

DataOps

• Produce well-organised and documented source code for technical solutions.
• Apply technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience in code development.
• Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions.
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets if required.
• Work with integrated teams and other developers to improve and evolve technical products and services.
• Study & apply Group Architecture & Infrastructure guidelines to all development work.
• Support reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on application.
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices and continuously evolve existing knowledge & skill in preparation for exposure to Automation, Integration, Messaging, CI/CD etc.
• Update, create and appropriately store application documentation & technical specificationsRisk & Governance.
• Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents.

DataOps Improvement

• Understand an aggregated view of all tools.
• Take responsibility for operational processing & monitoring quality by meeting & or exceeding all SLA’s & defined targets for e.g. time, quality, cost.
• Continuously evolve own knowledge & skills to assume responsibility for new and OR; refined monitoring & processing services to achieve efficiency & effectiveness objectives.
• Review and analyse operational processing, monitoring & scheduling performance data and identify & proactively predict events & incidents (ahead of their occurrence).
• Provide support & information to business, problem management, DR, resilience & technology to identify & implement solutions that will prevent incidents, events & outages of critical business services.
• Review operational processing, monitoring & scheduling performance data & provide recommendations for the continuous improvement of these services.
• Support reviews & ongoing optimization and maintenance on technologies and associated tooling.
• Participate in incident & problem management processes and provide critical data-driven insights & suggested remedial actions.
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging operational processing, scheduling & monitoring technologies & practices and continuously leverage evolved knowledge & skill to influence the automation, optimisation, digitisation & predictive capabilities.
• Finance, Risk, Governance & Compliance - Participate in risk, governance & compliance review & manage, maintain & provide regular & accurate information.
• Ensure risk, governance & regulatory compliance (always!) of all processing, scheduling & operations activity (own).
• Support The Data Operations teams in the design of adoption improvement processes.

Agile Delivery

• Ensuring artefacts are maintained and updated.
• Ensuring that initiatives and ceremonies are running smoothly and corrective actions taken wherever appropriate.
• Effectively communicate to leadership about the progress as well as blockages in the on-going sprints.
• Ensuring all change governance and standards are adhered to.
• Ensuring code quality is maintained.
• Developing plans to ensure delivery of teams’ work.
• Ensure accurate reporting, including maintenance of reports, trend/thematic analysis etc.

Skills & Experience Required

• Relevant NQF Level 7 qualification.
• 2+ years experience Data or Software Development roles, coupled with experience as a Scrum Master.
• Scrum Master certification or relevant experience.

Education

Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

End Date: December 11, 2025