Product Engineer at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Description

Key critical requirements: 

• Minimum 3 years of experience in Banking / Investment Banking / Capital Markets IT domain 
• Minimum 3 years of experience in data engineering development. 
• Strong technical skills: Software design and development, Data management, AWS Cloud, AWS Data Flow, Standardised data lakes, Python, Business analysis, quality assurance, change release management. 
• Take ‘one stop shop’ accountability for the retrieval, storage, processing & distribution of data across a business area (data eco-system). 
• Assemble large, complex data sets to meet functional / non-functional requirements to best big data practices. 
• Source data from internal and external data sources, engaging with technical subject matter experts. 
• Build Analytics, reporting and Insights withing AWS cloud 
• Explore, analyse, and profile data from various internal and external data sources, and assist data scientists in preparing data for analytical purposes. 
• Ensure delivered solutions meet Systems Integration and User Acceptance Testing criteria. 
• Productionalise solutions and ensure daily data refresh processes run successfully. 
• Leverage expertise in analytical & creative problem solving to synthesise data solution designs (build a solution from its components) beyond the analysis of the problem 
• Assemble large, complex data sets that meet business requirements & manage the data pipeline 
• Build infrastructure to automate extremely high volumes of data delivery and 
• Creatively solve data volume and scaling challenges. 
• Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience 
• Inform & support the infrastructure build required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources. 
• Strategically & operationally monitor the performance of data products and services ensuring ongoing optimization & cost to value for our businesses (think bank wide) 
• Stay ahead of the curve on data retrieval, storage & distribution technologies & processes (global best practices & trends) to ensure best practice 
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and stakeholder’s management skills 
• Ability to perform in a challenging and dynamic environment 

Preferable: 

• Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise-Wide Risk Management Framework and Absa Policies and Policy Standards. 
• Understand and manage risks and risk events (incidents) relevant to the role. 
• Builds and monitors data pipelines from data retrieval, storage, database design, and distribution of information assets through the organization. 
• Data ingestion to the cloud from different source systems and via different servicing e.g. API, CS, flat file etc.  
• Database Design 
• Data Integration 
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) 
• Data Modeling 
• Requirements Gathering 
• Process Mapping 
• Effective communication 
• Time Management 
• Technical Knowledge 
• Experience in AWS, ASQL, C# .net, C++, MS SQL, XSLT, Kafka, Data modeling tools etc. 
• Experience in API creation/pulling data via an API, Integration tools, automation tools and regulatory reporting technologies, FIX Protocols and other. 
• Functional skills required: In depth understanding of asset classes such as Equity, Fixed Income, Credit, FX, commodities, Interest Rates, Collateral, high level is all derivatives and non-derivative products and their product lifecycle, Regulatory and risk reporting. 

Key accountabilities: 

DevOps 

• Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem-solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems (Front End, Back End and Integration) with high quality solutions 
• Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical and functional solutions 
• Automate regulatory reporting through appropriate tools  
• Centralize regulatory data 
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging regulatory and non-regulatory technologies and development practices e.g. scripting languages, containerization etc.  
• Contribute to and in some cases lead all phases of the development lifecycle including e.g. design process. 
• Determine operational feasibility of solutions by evaluating analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development and proposed solutions 
• Develop high quality software / application design and architecture in a test driven & domain driven / cross domain environment 
• Quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions 
• Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience 
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets. 
• Apply version control and related concepts and techniques 
• Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture, Security & Infrastructure guidelines 
• Work with project & program teams (when required) to plan & manage the development lifecycle e.g. releases, risk management, testing, integration etc. 
• Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications 
• Contribute to the design & evolution of Group Architecture, Infrastructure & associated technical standards for the organization 

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

End Date: December 18, 2025