Product Engineer - Sandton at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Summary

• Absa Investor Services (AIS) offers a holistic range of operational and administrative support solutions to institutional clients including asset managers, pension funds, stockbrokers, life insurers, government departments, global custodians and broker dealers. These solutions include Trustee Services, Derivatives Clearing, Investment Administration, Securities Lending, Issuance, Cash Management and Custody, Safekeeping, Settlements and Corporate Actions.
• We require a Full-stack Developer who has experience with working in agile teams and with a strong focus on enabling business value through quality delivery.
• You will be required to assist teams to develop quality, error-free solutions based on business requirements to meet appropriate acceptance criteria.
• Support high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade application design & development in agile teams by producing, testing, documenting & reviewing source code.

Job Description

Key critical skills:

• Min 2 years software development skills
• Technical skills / experience: C# .Net / HTML / Javascript / Angular / Postgres / Oracle
• Domain knowledge beneficial (Custody / Lending)
• Technical, Organizational and People skills
• Ability to adapt to change
• Problem-solving skills, in order to deliver solutions by developing products that can be tested through automated unit testing
• Working knowledge of Microsoft .Net framework and ability to develop scalable solutions using tools like angular
• Team and stakeholder collaboration, you will be required to collaborate effectively with both technical and business stakeholders, understand the concept of using tests to drive their development

DevOps

• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle
• Interpret analysis, problem definition & business requirements to identify solution requirements (e.g. features)
• 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.
• 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 applications
• 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 specifications

Risk & Governance

• Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology