Specialist Software Developer - Front Arena at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Description

Core Requirements

• 3–5 years’ experience within the Banking, Investment Banking, or Capital Markets IT environment
• Strong software engineering capability, including: Software design and development Business analysis Quality assurance Release and deployment management
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder management skills
• Proven ability to perform effectively in a fast-paced, complex, and dynamic environment

Technical Skills (Preferred)

• Experience working on Front Arena or comparable front-office trading systems
• Hands-on experience with Front Arena AEF technologies, including: ACM, AEL, ADFL, ASQL Python C# (.NET), C++, MS SQL, XSLT
• Deep understanding of Front Arena components such as: PRIME, ADS, AMB, AMBA, ATS, AMWI PACE, APS, AFG-AMB SWIFT adapters, Adaptiv Docs, and related integrations

Functional & Domain Expertise (Preferred)

• Strong understanding of one or more asset classes, including: Equities, Fixed Income, Credit, and FX
• Knowledge of: Product lifecycles and valuation models Trading and position management Financial risk management Regulatory and risk reporting processes

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
• 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
• Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions
• 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
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices e.g. scripting languages, containerization etc.
• Contribute to the design & evolution of Group Architecture, Infrastructure & associated technical standards for the organization     

People

• Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team
• Provide technical subject matter expertise and support in the attraction and recruitment of Product Engineers for the organization
• Participate as a subject matter expert in the development & development planning of the broader product engineering team
• Support the people change teams in the design of adoption processes (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption)