Specialist Support Engineer at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Summary

• Work as part of an integrated (run & build) CIB and Market Risk (FRTB) environments to provide enterprise wide application support across multiple stakeholder groups by maintaining & optimizing enterprise-grade applications (tech products & services).

Job Description

Functional Skill:

• Basic understanding of the CIB and Market Risk (FRTB)  concepts (diverse asset classes, Trade Workflow, PNL, PV, Risk Classes, Risk Factors, VaR, SA, PLE, Regulatory reporting).
• Ability to support diverse Market Risk (FRTB) businesses.

IT Technical Skills:

• Log, resolve and report Market Risk (FRTB)  or Front Arena production incidents/requests/queries (business support).
• Proficiency in supporting and troubleshooting the Market Risk (FRTB)  and Front Arena Trading applications (FIS Adaptiv Analytics, Front Arena, or related Market Risk BI).
• Ability to setup, support and maintain Azure DevOps pipelines.
• proficiency in Linux/PowerShell scripting.
• Schedule the EOD tasks and run reports/tasks on ad-hoc bases.
• Configuration and maintenance of the Market Risk or FRTB environments which also include deployments and getting servers patched. 
• Plan and perform DR testing.
• Basic python programming.
• Basic SQL programming.
• Perform systems integration support.

Interpersonal Skill:

• Willing to share knowledge with others.
• Willing to work overtime/standby on weekly rotational bases.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Collaborate with other teams (Dev and Ops) in delivering strategic projects.
• Willing to learn new skills and technologies.

Added Advantage:

• Cloud computing (AWS/Azure)
• Use of the application performance monitoring tools (Observability).
• Knowledge of the advanced task scheduling and orchestration systems (Airflow, Wade, Control-M)

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology