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  • Posted: May 29, 2025
    Deadline: Jun 30, 2025
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  • Absa Group Limited (Absa) has forged a new way of getting things done, driven by bravery and passion, with the readiness to realise the possibilities on our continent and beyond.
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    Specialist Support Engineer

    Job Description

    Skills and experience required:

    • Relevant B-Degree in Computer Science preferred but not essential if minimum requirements of experience and practical application that enables application support is evident
    • 5+ years Information Technology and Application Support experience in a Technology environment
    • Application Diagnostics and Management experience
    • Strong functional knowledge of the custody business and its related functions
    • Familiarity working on BaNCS' custody module is desired
    • Strong knowledge of the SWIFT messaging framework, and an ability to troubleshoot any related issues
    • Experience in Quality Assurance and Testing
    • Experience and understanding of Disaster Recovery, and business continuity management
    • Excellent communication, analytical skills and decision making ability in collaborative environments
    • Excellent understanding of specific coding / scripting languages e.g. Java, C#, Python, Perl, JavaScript
    • Knowledge of Object Oriented Design and ability to properly apply general design patterns and paradigms
    • Experience with test-driven development and domain driven design
    • Knowledge of open-source relational databases
    • Knowledge of version control and related concepts and techniques, particularly Git
    • Appropriate unit testing framework(s)
    • Cloud platforms e.g. Azure, AWS & Google Cloud Platform

    Key Accountabilities:

    Devops & Support

    • Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem-solving skills to solve technical problems on existing applications
    • Implement all configuration, optimization (e.g. upgrades) & maintenance activity (e.g. regular maintenance patches) for enterprise-wide applications
    • Provide efficient and effective support of applications including continued development of the application and security, software patches, reliability, disaster recovery and ensure the application meets the business needs
    • Managing deployments through CI/CD pipeline
    • Identify and recommend application improvement to enhance capability, performance and also minimize costs.
    • Coordinate and execute unplanned maintenance tasks, such as disaster recovery procedures, for production IT services to prevent and to minimize issues
    • Manage applications throughout their lifecycle and assist in the application-related aspects of designing, testing, operating and improving technology products & services
    • Develop sufficient knowledge of cloud infrastructure & broader organization architecture to assist with application upgrades and troubleshoot issues, with a strong emphasis on AWS

    Maintenance and Knowledge

    • Maintain correct and current application documentation and making it available to application users
    • Oversee application implementation and configuration, patches, upgrades and maintenance, and ensure that application performance meets agreed SLAs and OLAs
    • Ensure minimal business operations impact due to upgrades and maintenance activities
    • Ability to document and share knowledge with peers and mentor junior support personnel
    • Develop and maintain knowledge in application functionality, user workflow, and business processes
    • Compile and maintain inventory of applications and related details
    • Manage and provide support aligned to all SLA’s
    • Develop the skills required to operate and maintain the technical products & services (applications)
    • Develop and maintain expertise in application functionality, user workflow, and business processes.
    • Receive and screen user programming requests for new applications or modifications, and determine appropriate priority and response.
    • Act as a liaison between business stakeholders and customers, external solution providers, and IT stakeholders for application support specific requirements
    • Provide input to current and future application requirements to meet the organization's needs
    • Prepare assessments for proposed applications, projects, and define appropriate integration and access requirements
    • Maintain awareness of application risks and opportunities for improvement
    • Ensure that application users are aware of the application capabilities for enabling their effective use
    • Assess vendor proposals for appropriateness and compliance with organization and industry standards.
    • Supervise and maintain the organization's repository of applications
    • Help diagnose problems and resolve incidents / issues related to applications.
    • Work with Enablement teams to define the operational activities related to the applications

    Application Monitoring & Performance Management

    • Monitor application modification requests and ensure best practices are being utilised
    • Conduct diagnostic investigations of program errors and implement or recommend solutions or methodologies for resolution.
    • Maintain metrics of operational performance and evaluate trends
    • Analyse business systems to determine effectiveness, identify inadequacies, inefficiencies and problems and recommend solutions
    • Ability to analyse performance issues on applications and how best to improve

    Governance, Risk & Control

    • Enhance methods and procedures for collecting, analysing, and documenting application issues, and completing user change requests.
    • Enhance IT processes for transitioning completed configurations from development to production.
    • Plan and coordinate the processes for the provision of user applications and systems necessary for business operations.
    • Define and maintain application assessment, development, and support standards, and work with other IT and business stakeholders to establish configuration and use guidelines.
    • Provide inputs to availability and capacity management process for effective planning.

    Education

    • Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

    End Date:

    • May 31, 2025 (1 day left to apply)

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