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Description

• Investec Sandton is looking for a DevOps Engineer in the CXT Team who will support and innovate on application, platform delivery and availability across our global online platform. This will include software lifecycle enablement via solid CI/CD principles; automate operational areas into a self-service approach for teams; proactively review and identify areas of improvement with a strong focus on our cloud strategy; infrastructure and security design including implementation and management; respond to platform support and events as well as recover systems and applications within agreed SLA's. This all within a DevOps mindset and SRE approach that is being matured and suited to the Digital landscape with a client centric vision. The role functions in a great team dynamic, driven by people, learning and collective ownership. 

Responsibilities include: 

• Design and build internal developer platform capabilities that abstract infrastructure complexity and provide golden paths for deployment, guided by DevOps principles and platform engineering best practices 
• Define and implement observability strategy across the platform, including SLI/SLO frameworks, golden signals, and automated telemetry that enables teams to understand system health without becoming observability experts 
• Develop automation and CI/CD pipelines that balance standardization with flexibility, ensuring platform users can deploy confidently with minimal toil
• Respond to events and monitoring alerts to recover systems and applications within agreed timeframes, performing platform standby functions and partnering with Application Support teams to maintain availability 
• Act as a technical product owner for platform capabilities, gathering feedback from internal customers and translating developer pain points into platform improvements 
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code patterns and reusable modules that become the foundation for consistent, reliable deployments across teams 
• Work closely with development teams throughout the SDLC, providing consultation on architecture, deployment strategies, and production readiness 
• Provide technical guidance and troubleshooting support throughout the release process, with strong diagnostic abilities across the full stack
• Create comprehensive documentation and self-service resources that enable engineering teams to be autonomous and successful on the platform 
• Design for system integration, understanding dependencies and failure modes that influence availability and reliability 

Skills
Platform & DevOps Engineering: 

• Strong grasp of DevOps/SRE methodologies, platform engineering principles, and developer experience design 
• Proven experience designing CI/CD pipelines and deployment patterns at scale 
• Intermediate to advanced Kubernetes knowledge, including operator patterns and multi-tenancy considerations 
• Infrastructure as Code expertise (Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates)

Cloud & Infrastructure: 

• Strong Microsoft Azure experience (AKS, Azure DevOps, networking, IAM, cost management)
• Understanding of CDNs and edge computing (Cloudflare Workers, caching strategies, security features) 
• Network design, load balancing, and security architecture knowledge
• Web security, DNS, SSL/TLS, and web protocols (HTTP/S, gRPC) 

Observability & Reliability: 

• Experience designing observability systems and defining SLIs/SLOs that reflect user experience
• Understanding telemetry strategies: logs, metrics, traces, and their correlation 
• Knowledge of monitoring tools (Dynatrace, SPLUNK, Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, or similar)
• Incident management and post-incident review facilitation 

Technical Depth: 

• Windows Server and Linux administration in containerized environments 
• Ability to read, debug, and occasionally write code in .NET/C#, JavaScript, Python, Bash, or PowerShell 
• Strong Git workflow knowledge and source control best practices 
• Understanding of event-driven architecture and messaging patterns 

Soft Skills:

• Excellent written and verbal communication - ability to explain technical trade-offs to varied audiences 
• Product mindset with focus on internal customer needs and developer productivity 
• Strong collaboration and relationship building across engineering teams 
• Ability to balance pragmatism with technical excellence

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Description

• Investec is looking for a Data Engineer with 8+ years of experience to join the Private Bank Tech Data team in Sandton. The successful candidate will have strong experience designing BI solutions using Microsoft stack preferably within Investment banking or Financial services experience as well as experience supporting the transformation of data platforms from on-premise environments to the cloud.
• Designing and building end to end BI solutions, that will extract data from multiple systems, transforming and loading into multiple reporting data warehouses
• Working with end users and analysts on requirements and translate them into technical specification, provides estimation to the management
• Supporting existing BI Platform, reverse engineer and improve processes
• Following and contributing to departmental development process in terms of standards, methodologies, testing, version control and documentation, mentor junior members, drive and implement industry best practices, evaluate, and introduce new tools, design, and improve existing ETL framework, data validation framework
• Assist in the migration to an off-prem Cloud Solution (Specifically Microsoft Azure)

Azure Cloud Data Engineer Competencies

• Deliver to all stages of the data engineering process
• Data ingestion, transformation, data modelling and data warehousing, and building self-service data products.
• Experience in Azure, in particular Data Factory, MS Fabric and Databricks
• Good understanding of Data Lakes, in particular Azure Data Lake Gen2
• Demonstrated proficiency in stream analytics and real time data processing frameworks
• Deep hands on experience building and operating cloud based data platforms and pipelines at scale

Experience, skill and capability

• Excellent data analysis and exploration using T-SQL, and strong SQL programming (stored procedures, functions).
• Knowledge of data warehouse modelling methodologies
• Experience of loading data from different sources – xml, csv, excel, web services, different databases, MQ messages etc.
• Extensive experience of using SSIS, script tasks, custom plugins
• Significant experience designing solutions following Kimball methodology and good knowledge of data modelling concepts
• Knowledge of data modeling principles, best practices, and knowledge of relational and dimensional modeling
• Performing data proofing, analysis, and validation to ensure the quality of data.
• Post release support of deployed BI solutions
• Experience of building reports using SSRS, PowerPivot, integration with SharePoint, building corporate reporting portals, Data Products, KPIs, dashboards, self-service BI

General

• Experience of working in a team following agile development practices, using team development tools, working on the same objects
• Wide knowledge of other tools, vendors, solutions available on the market and applicable to BI space, upcoming releases of new software packages, etc.

Personal attributes and other requirements

• Ownership
• Self-starter culture and Agile mindset
• Delivery focused and Excellent attention to detail
• Ability to work on projects and with a variety of stakeholders
• Inquisitive nature and willingness to solve problems

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Description

• The Core Banking Technical Solution Analyst translates complex business and functional requirements into Finacle-aligned technical solutions and designs. The role acts as a bridge between business, architecture and engineering, ensuring solutions are feasible, well-designed and aligned to Investec's core banking strategy.
• A key aspect of the role is the ability to design integrations to Investec's existing strategic and legacy systems – working through APIs, abstraction layers and messaging to ensure robust, secure and maintainable end-to-end solutions across channels, core banking and downstream platforms.

Experience, skill and capability

Key responsibilities

• Analyse and refine business, product and regulatory requirements into clear solution designs and functional specifications for Finacle and surrounding systems.
• Perform impact analysis across channels, integrations, data and downstream systems for new products, features and regulatory changes.
• Design and document integrations between Finacle and existing strategic or legacy systems within Investec, using agreed patterns (APIs, events, messaging, batch).
• Produce and maintain solution artefacts: process/sequence diagrams, interface contracts, data mappings, non-functional requirements.
• Collaborate with architects, integration teams, data engineers, testers and vendors to ensure solution feasibility and alignment to standards.
• Support Agile delivery squads with ongoing clarification during build, test and release, including input into test strategy and edge-case scenarios.
• Embed operational considerations (monitoring, logging, batch, supportability) into design from the outset.

Experience

• 8–12 years in Technology / Business Systems / Solution Analysis, preferably in banking or financial services.
• Hands-on exposure to a core banking platform (Finacle strongly preferred) across multiple modules (accounts, deposits, lending, payments, etc.).
• Proven experience designing solutions in a complex, integrated environment, including integrations with legacy and strategic systems.
• Experience of working on large change programmes such as core banking migration, major product launches or regulatory change.

Skills & Capabilities

Technical & domain

• Strong understanding of core banking concepts (customer, account, product, interest, fees, limits, payments; cards/lending exposure is a plus).
• Finacle modules expertise and familiarity with configuration and integration patterns.
• Solution mapping and API specification (REST/JSON, SOAP/XML), including interface and data contract design.
• Integration design experience with abstraction layers, enterprise APIs, messaging and batch interfaces to existing Investec systems.
• Confident in UML/modelling (process flows, sequence and component diagrams) and comfortable using SQL/data analysis for validation and investigation.

Analysis & behavioural

• Strong requirements elicitation, workshop facilitation and documentation skills.
• Able to simplify complexity, articulate options and trade-offs, and influence decisions.
• Collaborative, relationship-driven and comfortable working across regions, teams and disciplines.