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Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Develop solution architectures for different projects and govern the end-to-end delivery of solutions to business.
• Combine various domains (business, data, application and technology) and architectural as-is (baseline) and to-be (target) models with roadmaps to create an overall solution architecture and roadmap with the supporting transition architectures.
• Collaborate with the Lead Solution Architect and ensure alignment between the enterprise architecture, solution architecture, architecture principles and information and communications technology (ICT) standards to ensure standardisation and reduce risk.
• Ensure the developed solutions meet the business and technical requirements, both functional and non-functional.
• Review of developed solutions, assist with root cause analysis of solution problems, and propose solution updates. 
• Ensure that solutions implemented match the architectural designs (quality control).
• Contribute to the development of evaluation criteria for product evaluations, requests for information (RFIs) and requests for proposal (RFPs). 
• Assist the Lead Solution Architect to evaluate products and partners, based on evaluation criteria, RFIs and RFPs.
• Contribute to advancing ICT standards and the optimisation of the ICT facilities in the SARB.
• Demonstrate leadership by driving collaboration and a culture of knowledge sharing and teamwork.
• Stay abreast of industry trends and proactively introduce improvements to existing solutions.
• Provide technical expertise and assist the team in troubleshooting complex technical issues.

Qualifications

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• an Honours degree in Informatics, Computer Science or Engineering or related NQF8-equivalent qualification; and
• at least eight years’ experience in application development (Java, Javascript, MS SQL) architecture, design, DevSecOps, enterprise architecture and/or solution architecture.

The following would be an added advantage:

• relevant exposure in the payments ecosystem for interbank transfers, SWIFT and/or ISO 20022;

certification and/or experience in:

• architecture frameworks and methods such as the Open Group architecture framework (TOGAF) and application data management (ADM).
• architecture notations, such as ArchiMate 3.
• unified modelling language (UML). 
• business process model and notation (BPMN); and
• Openshift Container Platform (OCP). 

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Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Conduct functional, integration, usability, configuration, installation, system, regression and user acceptance testing.
• Assist with the analysis of business requirements and gap analysis to ensure that comprehensive testing can be performed.
• Compile and execute test cases and scenarios (including test estimation) to ensure a structured approach during testing. 
• Perform defect management to ensure high-quality solutions.
• Produce and communicate the progress for all testing efforts, results, activities, data, logging and tracking.
• Produce quality reports (encapsulating test results and statistics) to support the final approval for implementation of the solution.
• Collaborate with analysts, designers, developers and system owners in the testing of new requirements.

Qualifications

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• a National Diploma (NQF 6) in Information Technology (IT) or an equivalent qualification;
• two to five years’ experience within an IT environment, specifically in the area of testing.

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Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas: 

• Plan and perform tasks against work plans as defined by the team leader.
• Clean offices, boardrooms, the dining area, the plant room, ablution facilities and parking areas.
• Load and offload consignments.

Qualifications

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• a Matric/Grade 12 certificate or an equivalent qualification. 

The following would be an added advantage: 

• some experience in a service-related environment. 

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Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Organise self to ensure that the allocated work is completed within the set times and defined standards. 
• Perform routine and well-defined tasks under direct supervision, including the ordering of required ingredients, Lunch Club food preparation, serving food to Lunch Club members, operating a till point, setting up and preparing meeting rooms/pause areas, as well as cleaning and other scullery duties.
• Maintain sanitation, health and safety standards in own work areas.
• Apply the basic rules of courtesy whenever in contact with other employees and visitors to the Cash Centre, always displaying a strong service orientation. 
• Engage with own team members in a manner that reflects a sound and effective working relationship. 
• Proactively understand the impact of own environment output in relation to the wider service delivery context and proposition.
• Willingly and enthusiastically make useful and meaningful changes to the way in which own work is conducted.

Qualifications

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• a Matric/Grade 12 certificate or an equivalent qualification; and
• at least one year of experience in the hospitality environment, specifically in the areas of serving and cleaning. 

The following would be an added advantage:

• a certificate in food preparation. 

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Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Ensure the implementation of the Occupational health and safety framework and monitor compliance.
• Develop the OHS framework, procedures and standards with regards to build environment and structure initiatives across the Bank and ensure communication to and comprehension by all stakeholders.
• Advise and guide the business in the implementation of the OHS systems (policies, procedures, standards etc) and the prioritisation of OHS activities.
• Create OHS awareness regarding build environment and structure initiatives across the Bank, administrative and embed the culture of safety in the business and its operations through relevant training and education.
• Conduct audits, inspections, risk assessments and surveys to create a baseline of hazardous incidents relating to OHS in line with Hazards Identification and Risk Assessment (HIRAs) standards.
• Recommend mitigating measures, guide and monitor the implementation of the mitigating measures and ensure that deviations from and non-conformance to the policy, procedures and standards are addressed.
• Engage with internal stakeholders and technical teams to inculcate a safety culture, encourage high performance and ensure the prioritisation of OHS issues within the SARB.
• Ensure all legal appointments and agreements with services providers are compliant with and adhere to, in line with the OHS Act.
• Ensure that all major and registered projects have controlled SHE plans and registered in keeping with acceptable standards or adopted framework.
• Gather data and compile OHS reports to inform decision making at an organisational level. To develop a universe for all related Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for various codes of work.
• Actively keep abreast of and identify developments in the applicable legislations and create awareness thereof by relevant stakeholders to ensure increased levels of understanding, awareness and application of safety, health and environmental prescripts in the Bank.
• Ensure prudent document and records management in keeping with the requirements of the Bank’s records management principles, and the General Administrative and related Regulations the OHS Act.
• Develop processes and procedures necessary for the statutory compliance of all facilities projects in the Bank to comply with the contractual requirements as per relevant elements of the OSH Act, especially section 37 and the Construction Regulations.

Job requirements

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• a Bachelor’s Degree (NQF 7) in Occupational Health and/or Environmental Health or equivalent;
• five to seven years of experience in a Health and Safety environment with exposure to highly technical, projects and complex operational environment

The following will be an added advantage

• Registration or candidate with The South African Council for Project and Construction Management Professions (SACPCMP).

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Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Coordinate Programme Management Office (PMO) activities such as collating and consolidating PMO monthly reports and organise team events.
• Provide financial management support, not limited to collating and consolidating budget information using approved templates, liaising with vendors and the Management Support Division, and processing the timely payment of invoices.
• Maintain financial spreadsheets to keep track of expenditure versus budgets.
• Assist in compiling and maintaining mandatory documentation (e.g. information relating to charters, business cases, project plans and change requests) to ensure compliance in terms of PMO standards and procedures.
• Collate and manage information and reports to ensure that relevant stakeholders are adequately informed of the programme/project’s status.
• Liaise with various stakeholders (internal and external) throughout the project life cycle to maintain effective communication on all matters relating to the programme/project.
• Maintain a programme/project repository to ensure that information is accessible to all stakeholders and available for audit purposes.
• Schedule meetings, consolidate information for meetings, maintain and disseminate minutes and ensure that actions are followed up as per the minutes.
• Record, update and maintain lessons learnt, risks, issues, action and decision logs to allow the management of risks by the programme/project manager.
• Contain and follow up on programme/project activities in the absence of the programme/project manager to ensure project continuity.
• Provide general administration and support that includes making travel arrangements, providing general administrative support as and when requested in special projects or filling in for other administrators.
• Guide project and controls administrators on divisional and programme/project requirements.
• Ensure continuous improvement by identifying and introducing improvements in programme administration processes.

Job requirements

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• a National Higher Certificate (NQF5) in Project Management or an equivalent qualification; 
• five to eight years’ experience in a project administration environment; of which one to two years of exposure to administration in the programme management discipline will be an advantage.
• sound knowledge of project management disciplines and methodologies, budget and procurement management, records management, stakeholder engagement and reporting.

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Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Define the project scope/brief and work breakdown structure (WBS) in collaboration with key stakeholders to ensure a common understanding of deliverables and approach. 
• Produce project management plans and ensure that they are comprehensive; this includes scope, quality, risks, time, cost, human resources, procurement, integration and communication and to confirm that these knowledge areas are regularly updated and maintained.
• Ensure that all project documentation, deliverables and reports are produced, approved and maintained timeously, including close-out documents. 
• Identify and manage project risks, constraints and changes, ensuring that the project plan is managed and approved. 
• Establish and manage relationships with all stakeholders, role players and service providers to ensure commitment to a common goal. 
• Establish and effectively manage a multi-disciplinary project team throughout the project life cycle, clearly defining roles and responsibilities of project team members for the delivery of project outputs. 
• Direct and coordinate the activities of project resources to ensure the project progresses according to the approved schedule, producing the expected deliverables within budget and according to specification and quality standards.
• Coordinate and facilitate initiatives that are formal projects, across GSMD.
• Manage the quality of the information and monitor progress and reporting to different departmental structures.  

Job requirements

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) or an equivalent NQF7 qualification; 
• a relevant Project Management certification; and
• five to eight years’ experience in project management. 

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Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for, among others, the following key performance areas:

• Prepare and provide accurate and reliable data and information in support of strategic decisions.
• Acquire new data sources to enable effective departmental decision making.
• Identify and manage data assets within the domain, ensuring alignment and integration across elements.
• Create and maintain consistent metadata to ensure clear and precise data definition, while complying with legislative, quality and security requirements.
• Develop and maintain business metadata for published data sources, ensuring that it is easily discoverable and meaningful to information consumers.
• Provide relevant data for appropriate consumers within the SARB Group and relevant stakeholders and monitor published data sources for feedback on usage, relevance and quality.
• Ensure that the assigned data element is current and does not conflict with other data elements in the metadata registry and ensure consistency in data usage across various systems.
• Monitor and improve data quality through defined metrics, continuous feedback loops and proactive issue resolution.
• Proactively identify and resolve data integrity and quality issues.
• Stay current with developments in all functional areas relevant to information management and ensure appropriate application thereof.
• Propose and implement the refinement and continuous improvement of systems, tools, methods and processes in own area.
• Represent the SARB’s NPSD at the Data Stewards Council.

Job requirements

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• a Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), Mathematics or an equivalent qualification at NQF 7 level; and
• five to eight years’ experience in data governance, data architecture or metadata management.

The following would be an added advantage:

• DAMA-certified data management professional (CDMP) or similar data management certification.

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Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for, among other tasks, the following key performance areas:

• Conduct research to inform the development of policies related to the SARB’s crisis preparedness and management and resolution functions.
• Analyse data submitted by financial institutions to aid the development of resolution plans and the execution of resolvability assessments.
• Identify information gaps and contribute to developing proposals aimed at addressing these gaps.
• Engage with financial institutions and industry stakeholders on issues related to crisis management and resolution.
• Provide administrative support for meetings with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Assist in the coordination and administration of the SARB’s resolution and crisis management governance forums.
• Stay abreast of international best practices and sector developments, analyse their implications for the Resolution and Crisis Preparedness Division and suggest improvements to current practices.
• Assist in preparing presentations for various SARB and industry forums on topics related to crisis management and resolution.
• Support the day-to-day operations of the Resolution and Crisis Preparedness Division.

Job requirements 

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• an Honours’ degree in statistics, mathematics, economics, or finance or have an equivalent qualification; and 
• two years’ job-related experience within the financial sector or financial services industry.

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The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Manage day-to-day centralised security incident information management and reporting to ensure situational awareness across the SARB Group in support of the security strategic value proposition of a secure operating environment. 
• Develop and manage the Incident Information Management Framework.
• Continually assess the strategy for responding to ongoing incidents, coordinate the execution of such a strategy with operational areas, and initiate the incident management process.
• Oversee and manage governance processes for security incident information management. 
• Provide recommendations to improve response and management processes for the security monitoring teams and applicable operational areas.
• Refine and continuously improve security incident management processes, including liaising with the security incident monitoring and management teams to improve incident response and management capabilities across the SARB Group. 
• Manage coordination between the incident response team and the investigative and support functions within the SARB Group to ensure effective response and management capabilities across the SARB Group. 
• Ensure security incident information management processes are based on industry practices and that guidelines are maintained and incorporated in the various functional areas within the team.
• Compile and provide integrated management information reports to support decision-making.
• Lead and participate in engagements with relevant stakeholders, both within the SARB Group and with external parties, demonstrating a service orientation as well as the ability to solicit and convey information effectively. 
• Take responsibility for ensuring industry practices and changes are maintained and incorporated in own functional area.

To be considered for this position, candidates must have:

• an Honours degree (NQF 8) in Security Management or Information Technology or an equivalent qualification in a related field;
• eight to 10 years’ experience in a security incident handling and response environment, of which at least three years should be in a managerial or leadership capacity; and 
• sound knowledge and experience in areas such as situational awareness, business continuity, information management and stakeholder engagement.

The following will be an added advantage:

• a security certification, such as CISP or SANS SEC504: Hacker Tools, Techniques, Exploits and Incident Handling.

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Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Identify opportunities for integration, collaboration and interfacing of physical electronic security systems with other systems and guide the implementation thereof.
• Plan and conduct corrective and preventative maintenance on physical security systems across the SARB Group facilities to ensure functionality and serviceability of all security systems.
• Monitor, review and maintain health status of all physical electronic security systems across SARB Group facilities.
• Provide first and second-line responses to any security system fault within the SARB Group to ensure that investigative diagnostics are conducted and faults are attended to by either being prepared or replaced.
• Manage third-line technical escalation support and remedial action plan on deployed physical electronic security systems across the SARB Group to ensure serviceability of all systems.
• Install, configure and test physical electronic security systems replacements components.
• Provide technical expert input on projects and initiatives, end-to-end research, design, build and run methodology in relation to the electronic physical security system. 
• Provide a consolidated maintenance report, including findings, recommendations and remedial actions. 
• Analyse, collate and escalate technical serviceability information to the Team Leader: Security Systems Technical Support for reporting, planning, decision making and third-party incident management.
• Provide quality assurance on installation and maintenance support performed by service providers to ensure that it is implemented according to the SARB standards and instructions. 
• Source and provide technical information for the procurement process for all required electronic security systems equipment, services and vendor support to ensure that it meets all SARB technical specifications and standards for approval by the Team Leader/Senior Team Leader.
• Manage relationships with all stakeholders, vendors, role players and service providers to ensure functionality and serviceability of all security systems.
• Stay current with industry developments and best practices and apply these in the course of own work.
• Perform standby duties and perform after hours maintenance work, where applicable.

Qualifications

To be considered for this position, candidates must have:

• a National Diploma in Information Technology/Systems Development/Electronics (NQF 6) or an equivalent qualification;
• registered or eligible for registration for PSIRA Grace C; and
• three to five years of experience in an electronic security and information technology systems environment, with specific emphasis on the installation, maintenance and repairs of physical security systems; and
• an N+ Certification will be an added advantage.

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Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Identify opportunities for integration, collaboration and interfacing of physical electronic security systems with other systems and guide the implementation thereof.
• Plan and conduct corrective and preventative maintenance on physical security systems across the SARB Group facilities to ensure functionality and serviceability of all security systems.
• Monitor, review and maintain health status of all physical electronic security systems across SARB Group facilities.
• Provide first and second-line responses to any security system fault within the SARB Group to ensure that investigative diagnostics are conducted and faults are attended to by either being prepared or replaced.
• Manage third-line technical escalation support and remedial action plan on deployed physical electronic security systems across the SARB Group to ensure serviceability of all systems.
• Install, configure and test physical electronic security systems replacements components.
• Provide technical expert input on projects and initiatives, end-to-end research, design, build and run methodology in relation to the electronic physical security system. 
• Provide a consolidated maintenance report, including findings, recommendations and remedial actions. 
• Analyse, collate and escalate technical serviceability information to the Team Leader: Security Systems Technical Support for reporting, planning, decision making and third-party incident management.
• Provide quality assurance on installation and maintenance support performed by service providers to ensure that it is implemented according to the SARB standards and instructions. 
• Source and provide technical information for the procurement process for all required electronic security systems equipment, services and vendor support to ensure that it meets all SARB technical specifications and standards for approval by the Team Leader/Senior Team Leader.
• Manage relationships with all stakeholders, vendors, role players and service providers to ensure functionality and serviceability of all security systems.
• Stay current with industry developments and best practices and apply these in the course of own work.
• Perform standby duties and perform after hours maintenance work, where applicable.

Qualifications

To be considered for this position, candidates must have:

• a National Diploma in Information Technology/Systems Development/Electronics (NQF 6) or an equivalent qualification;
• registered or eligible for registration for PSIRA Grace C; and
• three to five years of experience in an electronic security and information technology systems environment, with specific emphasis on the installation, maintenance and repairs of physical security systems; and
• an N+ Certification will be an added advantage.

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Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Facilitate the development and maintenance of joint financial sector cyber threat intelligence sharing mechanisms. 
• Collate, analyse and process cyber threat information received from all sector stakeholders. 
• Maintain an accurate national financial sector cyber threat landscape and associated cyber risk profile. 
• Identify and liaise with key internal and external stakeholders with regard to current and developing cyber threats.
• Define and maintain sector information requirements to align production processes and research objectives with client requirements.
• Define, innovate and apply appropriate analytical techniques, methodologies and technologies to meet the research objectives.
• Keep abreast of the changing broader cyber threat landscape and generate innovative products to support industry decision making. 
• Define a client centric production programme and produce regular and specialised reports to meet client requirements.

Qualifications

To be considered for this position, candidates must have:

• a Bachelor’s degree (NQF7) in Cybersecurity, Risk Management, Security Risk Management or related equivalent qualification. 
• five to eight years’ experience in intelligence and/or cybersecurity threat analysis in a financial/banking environment with a strong liaison and coordination track record; 
• specialised training in intelligence analysis and/or risk analysis; and
• financial sector exposure, broad information system knowledge and sector architecture knowledge will be an added advantage.

The following will be an added advantage:

• a postgraduate qualification in a related field; and
• a cyber security or cyber related qualification or certifications, e.g. a Certified Protection Professional (CPP) certification.