Careers at Standard Bank Group

Job Description

• To provide accurate, expert and specialised legal advice on legal and regulatory matters that arise in the negotiation, execution and implementation of transactions within the area of asset backed financing, including securitisation and equity capital markets. To manage, identify and mitigate the complex legal risks involved in these transactions in line with the relevant Banking practices, procedures and legal entity mandate.

Qualifications

• Type of Qualification: LLB
• Field of Study: Law
• Other Minimum Qualifications, Certifications or Professional Membership: Admitted Attorney

Experience Required

• 8-10 years proven experience in the provision of guidance and insight pertaining to the drafting, vetting, review, dissemination and/or negotiation of legal documentation and processes of a complex nature. Identification and mitigation of legal risks.
• At least 8 years experience within the legal/financial sector.
• At least 6 years people management experience where appropriate.
• Additional Information

Behavioural Competencies:

• Developing Strategies
• Directing People
• Empowering Individuals
• Establishing Rapport
• Team Working

Technical Competencies:

• Financial Industry Regulatory Framework
• Legal Compliance
• Policy Development
• Risk Awareness
• Strategy Definition

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Job Description

• Translates the strategic Business Banking objectives into day-to-day tactical plans that will align to the segment's client value propositions. Responsible to lead a team of support bankers that will provide a proficient support function to the Premium, Growth Banking teams by understanding what matters to the client. To take responsibility for end-to-end people management practices, high-risk routine compliance and client relationships.

Qualifications

Qualifications and Experience

• A relevant tertiary qualification in Business Management, Finance, or a related field is usually required. A Bachelor's Degree in Business Management or Finance is often preferred or ideal.
• Prior banking experience is important, typically at least 4-5 years in relationship management within commercial or business banking.
• Managerial or leadership experience of 1-2 years is often preferred.
• Knowledge areas include business economics, customer relationship management, credit principles, banking practices, regulatory requirements (such as FAIS and FICA), and sector-specific financial analysis.

Additional Information

Behavioural Competencies:

• Adopting Practical Approaches
• Articulating Information
• Conveying Self-Confidence
• Convincing People
• Developing Expertise

Technical Competencies:

• Business Acumen (Audit)
• Customer Acceptance & Review (Business Banking)
• Customer Understanding (Business Banking)
• Financial Acumen
• Product Knowledge (Business Banking)

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Job Description

• To provide Integration application support, working as part of a team to support the production and non-production areas within the IT environment. Focus on support for multiple integration applications in the Private Banking area.
• To support the Group Infrastructure and Operations practice in driving flow and maintaining cadence of release within the larger organisation by ensuring teams apply the Agile values and principles. He/she also provides valuable information across the practice to efficiently use resources and execute standards whilst delivering on business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Type of Qualification: First Degree
• Field of Study: Information Technology
• Experience Required
• Technology Operations / Infrastructure Production
• Technology
• 8-10 years
• Quality checks the incidents raised for Integration Level 2 Support. Provision of user support in order to achieve 100% service availability in line with it business needs.
• Correctly diagnoses, resolves, documents and escalates system incidents through to resolution
• Run Critsits sessions for major outages on behalf of Integration team.
• Performs event management by monitoring dashboards and system environments. Monitoring of key systems to ensure proactive availability of applications to customers.
• Checking of various log files to ensure continued processing, and proactive error handling.
• Effectively communicate to clients, peers, and management any system issues that affect the quality or reliability of supported systems.
• Trend analysis to identify hot spots (Daily , weekly , monthly, year on year)
• Daily Incident and SLA reporting
• As a subject matter expert (SME) mentor junior staff, recommend and implement fixes and patches as recommended by vendor.

Additional Information

Behavioural Competencies:

• Adopting Practical Approaches
• Challenging Ideas
• Convincing People
• Documenting Facts
• Embracing Change
• Generating Ideas
• Interacting with People
• Making Decisions
• Meeting Timescales
• Producing Output
• Taking Action
• Team Working

Technical Competencies:

• IBM DataPower
• API Connect Gateway
• ACE Message Broker
• IBM MQ
• Business Process Improvement
• Change Control and Management (IT)
• IT Business Analysis/ Feature Analysis
• IT Knowledge
• IT Strategy & Planning
• Stakeholder Management

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• Job Description
• We are seeking a talented and innovative Salesforce Technical Lead to join our team in Johannesburg, South Africa. As the Salesforce Technical Lead, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining high-quality Salesforce Solutions against required standards and timelines, that meet our clients' needs and drive our organisation's success, through the team of Salesforce Software Engineers / Developers that you will be responsible for.
• Working closely with various architects you will design fit-for-purpose Salesforce solutions, which you will be responsible to get support for through our governance process. As a hands-on senior developer and configurator, you will:
• Be responsible for the end-to-end technical delivery of the solution.
• Be responsible for the technical design of the solution.
• Be responsible for attaining support and approval of the solution through the bank’s governance process.
• Ensure configurations and code follow our approved standards.
• Drive standardisation and reuse of solutions.
• Ensure necessary refactoring of solutions to ensure they remain performant, secure, reusable, maintainable and in line with our architectures.
• Be responsible for the overall quality of the solution.
• Interpret business requirements.
• Define technical tasks.
• Perform end to end testing.
• Supporting and troubleshooting technical questions, software and database issues
• Lead, manage and mentor Salesforce software and quality engineers across your delivery teams to build and improve the engineering capability.
• The Salesforce Technical Lead will be accountable for end-to-end delivery of all technical solution delivery (engineering aspects) in the identified delivery teams, adhering to set standards, practices and quality expectations:
• Adopt and adhere to suitable and agreed development methodologies and principles through work outputs and behaviours that enables continuous delivery and development across the production environment as well as ensuring effective collaboration with all colleagues and stakeholders to meet required targets and therefore deliver value to the customer.
• Build, code and review user and system interfaces including menus, screen dialogues, inputs, reports, validation and error correction, processing rules, access, security, audit controls, recovery routines and contingency procedures to ensure they are as per agreed specification.
• Conduct quality assurance and approve developed code linked to supplied specifications for production deployment.
• Construct, interpret and execute end to end system and program tests to verify correct operation of completed systems. Prepare test cases for unit testing purposes and review test cases as produced by other developers for unit testing purposes as required.
• Qualifications
• Qualifications
• Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or Information Technology.
• Post Graduate Degree: Information Technology
• Salesforce Certifications
• Ideally should have the following Salesforce certifications:
• Platform Developer I,
• Platform Developer II
• Platform App Builder
• Experience Cloud Consultant
• Copado Fundamentals 1 and 2
• Experience Required
• Software Engineering
• Technology
• 5-7 years
• Proven ability to work effectively as both a team leader and as a member of a small team of technical staff working in an agile development environment. Track record in capability and competency building and coaching of staff is required. Minimum 1-2 years' experience as a manager running a portfolio of 10+ technical experts
• 8-10 years
• Broad experience in translating business and functional requirements into technical specifications and developing the programming code to create the solutions.
• Mandatory experience:
• 3-4 years Salesforce development experience (can be concurrent with the above Experience timelines). Ideally Salesforce development experience should be a combination of Salesforce Experience Cloud and Salesforce Service cloud and have involved Customer Facing solutions within Salesforce. While the applicant may not have played a technical lead role on a Salesforce project, they should at least have good experience as a Salesforce Team lead and be experienced in doing Salesforce code reviews / QA of code developed by their team members, coaching and mentoring the developers within their team and at a minimum have reached the stage where they are ready to move into a Salesforce Technical Lead role. Candidates experienced as a Salesforce Technical Lead will get preference. The incumbent should also have experience in:
• Designing the Salesforce Solution alongside the relevant architects and presenting their solution designs to the relevant Salesforce architecture forums.
• Linking the various parts of their solution together, understanding the dependencies and the potential impact of a change being made in one part of the solution to other parts of the solution.
• Salesforce Dev Ops tools such as Copado and experience in deploying their Salesforce solutions between the various non-production environments such as SIT and Hotfix environments, and preparing their Salesforce solutions for deployment to production,
• Best practices for Salesforce coding (and be able to quickly learn any specific requirements for Standard Bank) to ensure the quality of code stands up to scrutiny by automated code review software, such as CodeScan and to third party PR reviews of the code to be deployed,
• Fostering a learning environment is their team so that their team is continually learning and improving in the quality of their development of code and how their solutions integrate and work together as a whole.
• In addition, strong experience with / exposure to the following:
• Apex
• Lightening Web Components (LWC)
• VF Pages
• Aura Components
• Copado
• Platform Development
• App Builder
• FSC Knowledge
• ffLib framework
• SOQL, SOSL, and Salesforce APIs
• Integration patterns and data modelling

Additional Information:

Behavioural Competencies:

• Team Leadership
• Fostering Teamwork
• Leading by example
• Adopting Practical Approaches
• Articulating Information
• Developing Expertise
• Producing Output
• Risk Management
• Technical Competencies:
• Agile Engineering
• API Engineering
• Automation
• Cloud Computing
• Continuous Deployment
• Continuous Integration (CI)
• Data Engineering
• Design Thinking
• Lightening Web Components
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Scalability and Reusability
• Microservices
• Non-abstract Large System Design (NALSD)
• Observability (Application and Web Analytics)
• Post-incidence Analysis
• Reliability and Resilience, including Web Security Knowledge
• System Integration
• Test-driven Design (TDD)

Additional Information

Behavioural Competencies:

• Adopting Practical Approaches
• Articulating Information
• Checking Things
• Developing Expertise
• Documenting Facts
• Embracing Change
• Examining Information
• Interpreting Data
• Managing Tasks
• Producing Output
• Taking Action
• Team Working

Technical Competencies:

• Agile Engineering
• API Engineering
• Automation
• Cloud Computing
• Continuous Delivery (CD)
• Continuous Deployment
• Continuous Integration (CI)
• Core Systems
• Data Engineering
• Design Thinking
• Error Budgets
• Incident Response
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Knowledge Management
• Microservices
• Non-abstract Large System Design (NALSD)
• Observability (Application and Web Analytics)
• Platform Engineering
• Policy as Code
• Post-incidence Analysis
• Reliability and Resilience
• Security Engineering
• Service Level Management
• Software Engineering Methods
• Software Engineering Tools
• Software Foundations
• System Integration
• Test-driven Design (TDD)
• Threat Modelling

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Job Description

• As a Specialist Incident Response Analyst, you will play a central role in detecting, investigating, and responding to cyber incidents in a non-tiered SOC environment. You will own incidents end-to-end from triage through containment and recovery while applying an adversarial mindset to anticipate attacker behaviour. Alongside technical response, you will contribute to policy improvement, coaching, and industry engagement, ensuring the bank’s response capability matures continuously. This role includes after-hours standby as part of an on-call rotation.

Qualifications

• A degree Information Technology is required.
• IT Risk/security certification such as CISM, CISSP or CISA, GCIA, GCIH, OSCP is required.
• AWS/Azure Cloud Certifications.

Experience Required:

• 5-7 years experience in IT Security, preferably in a Financial Institution, with noted experience in developing threat models, threat analysis, cyber and incident management, offensive security, high level static and dynamic malware analysis.
• 5-7 years experience in strong IT understanding, gaining insight into digital and platform operating models and cyber security trends and solutions.
• Strong experience in incident management, threat modelling, malware analysis, and offensive security techniques.
• Broad IT systems knowledge and awareness of digital platform operating
• models.

Additional Information

Key Responsibilities:

• Detect & Investigate: Analyse alerts from SIEM, EDR, and threat intelligence sources; distinguish true vs false positives.
• Contain & Remediate: Lead active incidents through containment, eradication, and recovery actions.
• Threat Hunting: Proactively search for adversary activity using attacker TTPs and threat intel.
• Malware & Phishing Triage: Perform static/dynamic malware analysis and investigate phishing campaigns.
• Offensive Security Awareness: Apply penetration testing/red team knowledge to strengthen detection and response.
• Forensic Support: Collect and analyse logs, endpoint, and network artifacts for root cause analysis.
• On-Call Duties: Provide after-hours escalation support on a rotational basis.
• Documentation & Reporting: Produce incident reports, lessons learned, and contribute to playbook improvements.

Behavioural Competencies:

• Articulating Information
• Checking Things
• Directing People
• Documenting Facts
• Embracing Change
• Examining Information
• Interpreting Data
• Making Decisions
• Producing Output
• Providing Insights
• Taking Action
• Team Working

Technical Competencies:

• Data Analysis
• Diagramming and Modelling
• Documenting
• Information Security
• IT Knowledge
• IT Systems
• Research & Information Gathering