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  • Posted: Jul 2, 2021
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    Absa Bank Limited (Absa) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Barclays Africa Group Limited. Absa offers personal and business banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking, wealth and investment management as well as bancassurance. Barclays Africa Group Limited is 62.3% owned by Barclays Bank PLC and is listed on the JSE Limited. The Group is one of A...
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    Transformation Lead

    Job Summary

    • Reporting to the Head of People, be a technical specialist advisor and subject matter expert either directly or in conjunction with People Business Partners, provide guidance around Transformation in the business/function and oversee the implementation thereof. Report on Employment Equity Act enhancements to ensure compliance. Contributes to the Group Financial Services Charter and BEE from a Business perspective.

    Job Description

    Accountability: Technical

    • This function exists to act as a technical specialist advisor and subject matter expert either directly or in conjunction with People Business Partners, to provide guidance on transformation matters
    • Report on FSC and Employment Equity Act enhancements to ensure compliance
    • Provides specialist’s advisory service to People BPs in the area of Transformation
    • Deliver Transformation solutions for the function/business unit
    • Work with Group People and Culture to seek out strategic opportunities to advance  Transformation matters and services to the business

    Accountability: Problem Solving

    • Solve complex business problems
    • Analyse information and select the best solutions from a range of alternative solutions

    Accountability: Leadership

    • Responsible for development of Transformation strategies and implementation for the function/business
    • Input and collaborate with Group CoE in the development of Group policy and interpretation for divisions
    • Manage and develop employee Transformation team across the function/business

    Accountability: General

    • Responsible for developing and implementing Transformation strategy across the function and specialist platform
    • Works with the People Function and business stakeholders to drive the transformation initiatives and goals for organisational performance and effectiveness
    • Ensure the contribution of the function to regulatory reporting and CoGP and FSC interpretation, implementation and adhered to in the function
    • Guide businesses regarding Transformation planning, execution and reporting in respective divisions/functions
    • Participate in Industry bodies platforms where applicable and practical
    • Act as a custodian, contributor to all People Function policies in the Group in collaboration with Group ER, Wellbeing and Transformation division
    • Provides a specialist service to the HR community to deliver in areas of expertise for all divisions
    • Analyse the impact of current and future legislative changes in the country in the business and proactively adapt internal policies and practices accordingly

    Accountability: TCF

    • Ensures that TCF is understood and practiced by the people reporting to him / her, if any
    • Draws on TCF management information (and potentially contributes towards the input thereof) to monitor progress in TCF and address short-comings relevant to his / her area with urgency
    • Keeps abreast of latest TCF information and guidelines as from time to time

    Education and experience required:

    • Minimum Legal Degree or equivalent
    • Minimum 10 years Transformation and HR leadership experience in a medium size or large company
    • Proven track record in leading transformation teams and specialist functions          
    • Proven track record in strategy formulations, policy framework formulation and custodianship in Transformation 
    • Experience in the strategic positioning and implementation of transformation initiatives in a medium to large company
    • Track record and interactions at Exco and regulatory bodies’ level.
    • Knowledge of the legal framework in the different jurisdictions where Absa
    • operates.
    • Sound judgement and level headedness in approach

    Advanced Competencies:

    • Drive the policy review and formation based on development in Law, Statutory provisions or Group perspectives
    • Good partnership relationship with stakeholders
    • Has good influencing skills when working with key suppliers and delivery teams
    • Contributes to the formation of policy and procedures – including action planning in response to data analysis
    • Develops control systems to mitigate risks including Group and HR Risks Analyses and understand the key issues
    • Builds and executes effective and influential communications that support and enhance employee engagement

    Expected Competencies:

    • Provides expert advice on most complex and challenging Transformation issues
    • Shapes and leads policy review and formation
    • Analyses MI required for statutory purposes, identifying and resolving key issues identified
    • Leads collective consultation
    • Oversees policies to ensure they are accurate and reflect current employment

    Education

    • Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Human and Social Studies (Required)

    Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

    Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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    Business Analyst Projects

    Job Summary

    • The purpose of the role is to be responsible for working with Barclays Africa’s business areas to identify, investigate and analyse problems faced by business/product owners. Based on the analysis the Business Analyst needs to propose a solution, to fully address the business requirements needed to optimize the business.

    Job Description

    Key Accountabilities 

    Accountability:  Project Establishment Initiation Activities

    • Develop design principles based on the initial brief and scope provided by the Project Owner, Business Sponsor and Project Manager.
    • Support the Sponsor/Project Owner in their efforts to guide the project's implementation activities, including the requirements planning stage and assist the Product Owner and Project Manager in the management of change requests.
    • Provide input to the business areas impacted by projects and changes about updating of circulars and manuals, when changes to operational policies, procedures and processes occur.
    • Build and maintain relationships with line role players by communicating regularly and working closely with them to elicit business requirements, evaluate and recommend possible business solutions, make assessments and produce feasibility analysis.
    • Identify project risks either by consultation with key stakeholders and/or a risk assessment workshop and develop mitigating action plans in agreement with the project Sponsor/Project Owner/Project Manager (PM), thereafter document such risks and actions in the project risk register for on-going monitoring.
    • Receive the necessary information for allocated projects from the PM, including the Concept and project scope.  Assist in ensuring that the definition of the project scope and all other documentation needed in the Project Concept and/or Project Charter document/s is aligned by facilitating a project definition workshop with the Product Owner and other Stakeholders.
    • Develop hypotheses to achieve project goals based on the outcomes of the project definition workshop and use these to guide the fact gathering and analysis.
    • Ensure all the business requirements, evaluations and recommendations of possible business solutions, assessments and feasibility analysis are documented, circulated and signed off by the relevant stakeholders and handed over to the PM and IT for use in defining and designing the project.
    • Assist the PM by providing advice, investigating, as well as, timelines and plans for the Project.
    • Facilitate workshops in conjunction with the PM in order to obtain business user requirements in terms of the proposed end state of the project so that the project is suitably defined, designed and implemented.
    • Project manage a sub-project or work stream, when required to do so by the PM.
    • Assist the Project Manager (PM) to provide information, when required, in order for the PM to generate weekly/monthly or adhoc status reports, using input from project teams for reporting to Project Office/Sector Change Council for the purpose on reporting progress on the project in terms of work completed/still to be done, risks, issues, plans, etc.
    • Provide and update UAT reports on a Daily, weekly and monthly basis during UAT testing periods and provide the information to the PMs.

    Accountability: Requirements Definition

    • Analyse the “as is” “business architectures”, to identify any issues, opportunities, etc. This includes the analysis of existing products & services, the procedures and business rules, the organisation structures, functions, roles & responsibilities, the business processes & procedures, the IT systems functionalities, performance and measurement metrics.
    • Investigate and perform a business needs analysis, by interviewing the product or business process owners, to determine business requirements and identify possible alternatives and or solutions to achieve these requirements.
    • Perform a “root cause” issues analysis with key stakeholders by either conducting interviews or workshop to further evaluate and identify solutions and/or alternatives to meet the business requirements and document all findings to assist with project definition, design and build.
    • Assist the PM to set up and facilitate workshops with relevant stakeholders to gather, identify and document the project and business owner requirements to be used in the project definition, design and build.
    • Investigate options available, best practices, alternatives etc. and obtain up to date information in relation to the project requirements / objectives by referring to internal and external parties to ensure the best solution is considered and identified for the project.

    Accountability: Solution Analysis and Design Activities

    • Design the “to be” business architectures by using the identified design principles and document the ideas by working through increasing levels of design detail (i.e. conceptual/high level/detailed design levels).
    • Identify and design new and/or improved business process systems and/or procedures to deliver project goals by ensuring that the best solution is considered and identified for the project.
    • Undertake a feasibility and impact analysis of solutions identified (people, process, and system infrastructure) with key stakeholders, internal, external and technology staff to further define project requirements for the definition, design and build of the project. Call for support from IT solution design teams where technical designs are required.
    • Identify IT interfaces and IT integration points to ensure integrated functional specifications, by consulting and work shopping with the IT System Analysis teams, Group Strategy, Enterprise Architect, Vendors, etc.
    • Design and provide IT-systems functional, non-functional and service level requirements, Business Requirement Definition documents (BRDs), use cases, etc. based on the evaluations, meetings, assessments and requirements analysis undertaken during the earlier stages of the project analysis stages, for use by the PM and project team to design, build, test and implement the project.
    • Provide a functional decomposition of identified requirements through consultation with stakeholders to ensure that the business requirements be developed and delivered by the project.
    • Validate documented solutions in a walk-through workshop with stakeholders, compare the ABSA architectures, to ensure the solution is compliant in terms of required standards, design, and fit to the Enterprise Architecture.

    Accountability: Assessment and Validation of Solutions Activities

    • Review the systems-management function results, after the IT systems integration testing (SIT) by IT staff, to ensure that the technology solution meets the business requirements.
    • Compile Test Plans and Test cases for User Acceptance Testing.
    • Co-ordinate user acceptance testing with regard to requesting for securing and contracting User testers with the Product Owner and Product Manager, identifying the test location, arranging the relevant access rights, conducting and co-ordinating the UAT testing where applicable,  and by documenting all results and where required perform User Acceptance Testing (UAT) as undertaken and stipulated by the Africa Technology methodology.
    • Assess the solution/s by benchmarking with Industry and Absa to ensure the solution is compliant in terms of required standards, design and fit to the Enterprise Architecture.
    • Evaluate the vendors' products/solutions and the integration capability of the products/ solutions with ABSA to ensure the solution is compliant in terms of required standards, design and fit to the Enterprise Architecture.
    • Perform all other duties as reasonably assigned.

    Education and experience required

    • Relevant B. Degree or equivalent NQF level 7 or higher qualification
    • At least 3 years work experience in the Financial Industry would be advantageous
    • At least 3 - 10 years business analysis/business consulting experience
    • Solid knowledge & understanding of Project principles, practices, disciplines specifically the contents of Business Analysis Book of Knowledge (BABOK)
    • Previous direct involvement in business-change projects would be advantageous

    Education

    • Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences (Required)

    Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

    Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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    Specialist Product Engineer (Cobol Mainframe)

    Job Summary

    • Apply critical thinking & problem solving skills to contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle & quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications.

    Job Description

    Accountability: 

    DevOps

    • Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to solve technical problems (Front End, Back End OR Middleware) with high quality solutions
    • Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle including
    • Evaluate analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development & provide recommendations to enable the operational feasibility of solutions
    • Quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions
    • Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience
    • Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions
    • Support the development of CI / CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins / similar tools and deploying to multi-site Kubernetes environments – supporting and managing your applications all the way to production)
    • Use & configure modern observability techniques leveraging e.g. aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via Prometheus / Grafana / NewRElic and tracing using Zipkin/Jaeger
    • Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes
    • Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
    • Work with integrated teams and other developers to improve and evolve technical products and services
    • Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture & Infrastructure guidelines
    • Provide input into project & program teams (when required) to plan & manage the development lifecycle e.g. releases, risk management, testing, integration etc.
    • Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications
    • Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices and continuously evolve existing knowledge & skill in preparation for cross domain and other experiences e.g. Secure Side, Testing, Infrastructure solutions etc.

    People 

    • Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team
    • Support the people change teams in the development of user material (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption)

    Risk & Governance 

    • Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post release)
    • Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks
    • Participate in incident management & DR activity - applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents

    Education and experience required

    • 10+ years experience (Cobol Mainframe)
    • Relevant B-Degree in Computer Science preferred but not essential if minimum requirements of experience & practical application in the following is evident:
    • Automation
    • Messaging
    • Integration
    • Solutioning
    • SSL Security
    • CI/CD etc.
    • Experience working in an agile environment
    • 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
    • Solid understanding of Object Oriented Design and ability to properly apply general design patterns and paradigms
    • Experience with test-driven development and domain driven design
    • Solid understanding of messaging protocols and web services like SOAP and REST
    • Experience with open-source relational databases
    • Knowledge of application server containers: Tomcat, Jetty, JBoss, NodeJS, IIS, .Net Core etc.
    • Good understanding of frameworks and libraries like JavaScript, jQuery, TypeScript, HTML, CSS
    • Experience with CI / CD tools (like Jenkins, Bamboo, TFS, Azure Devops) and Artifact Management (preferably Nexus),
    • Ability to create and maintain sophisticated CI / CD pipelines
    • Strong understanding of version control and related concepts and techniques, particularly Git
    • Experience with appropriate unit testing framework(s)
    • Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills.
    • Comfortable with stubbing tools like wiremock and/or hoverfly
    • Experience with scripting languages like Bash and/or Python
    • Experience with Cloud platforms e.g. Azure, AWS & Google Cloud Platform
    • Familiar with OAuth, Open Connect ID and SAML, preferably with an understanding of AD / LDAP / Kerberos

    Education

    • Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

    Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

    Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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    Digital Product Owner

    Job Summary

    • Join an energetic team, passionate team about Digital channels, Innovation and emerging technology in banking. 
    • This role provides a unique opportunity to combine Deep Client & Colleague Insights with Emerging technology to drive delivery and execute on our digital strategy for Online Frameworks. Frameworks are a key enabler in our CIB strategy to build a winning Corporate bank, by providing Pan-Africa platforms where clients can access their CIB services.
    • The Product Owner (PO) is a member of the Agile Team and mainly responsible for defining and prioritizing stories on the Team Backlog to streamline execution of the program priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the Features or Components for the team.

    Job Description

    Key Accountabilities 

    • Building and Maintaining the Product Backlog with input from various team members in the development team and business team.
    • Prioritize the Product Backlog based on Roadmap and overall Strategy of the platform across the different Channels to enable business value.
    • Execute the strategic roadmap for Online Frameworks in partnership with client, product and technology.
    • Manage and Track Dependencies within the development team as well as external dependencies from other teams and deliverables.
    • Key Role in PI Planning with Business and Development team. The PO reviews and contribute to the Roadmap of the platform and updates the Product Backlog accordingly in preparation and during PI Planning.
    • The PO is involved with story definition, providing the clarifications necessary to assist the team with their story estimates and sequencing. The entire Agile team, which includes the PO, also work together to determine their team PI objectives for the upcoming PI.

    Education and Experience Required

    • 7-10 years’ experience in the financial services industry
    • 2-3 years’ experience in Product Owner role for Absa Access Online Frameworks
    • 2-3 years’ experience in managing third-party/outsourced vendors development teams
    • System and Technical Solution experience/knowledge
    • Corporate Banking Product experience
    • Online Channel and Product Management experience
    • Bachelor Honours Degree in Business or Information Technology
    • SAFe Product Owner Certification

    Education

    • Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences (Required)

    Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

    Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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    Consultant Regulatory Reporting

    Job Summary

    • This team is responsible for ensuring consistency and overall accuracy of returns, queries, commentary and supplementary data, submitted to the Prudential Authority. Reports changes to the Regulatory Reporting Change Control Committee (RRCCC).  Interaction with the regulatory risk and data production centres (such as Finance, Treasury, Credit Risk and Market risk), in order to source data and implement efficient data flows that support the requirements mentioned above in a sustainable way.

    Job Description

    Key Accountabilities 

    Accountability:  Preparation and completion of risk information 

    • Collect information from various sources in the risk and production centres, for the compilation and preparation of consolidated risk information required in the Prudential Authority (PA)returns
    • Coordinate resources from other areas of the ABSA Group, planning and managing the timetable for data collection, consolidation and review of data and information and to ensure that deadlines are met in respect of data submissions
    • Calculate the relevant sections required for returns for submission within set deadlines; drawing from source data, own financial and regulatory knowledge and expertise
    • Prepare the reconciliation of the risk and finance data (RAFDA) between systems to ensure that the data submissions is complete and accurate
    • Identification and preparation of the journals and or adjustments, for review, to ensure accurate and complete submission within the set deadlines and according to policy
    • Account for late adjustments to data and or return submissions with adequate supporting documentation and commentary for review by team leader
    • Identification of significant month on month, quarter on quarter and year on year variances, for commentary prior to review and analysis by team leaders and prior to submission
    • Obtain relevant risk commentary from the Regulatory risk and production teams on the variances identified and on queries raised by the Prudential Authority (PA) or internal review forums.
    • Collate the commentary and assess the adequacy thereof, by performing a high level review thereof, drawing on own knowledge and expertise, and present this for review prior to submission.
    • Meet reporting deadlines as set internally and by the prudential Authority or as per instructions and working day timetables.
    • Provide input and assistance to the reviewer and prepare the monthly management information packs for internal review forums.
    • Identify enhancements to current reporting processes and policies in order to achieve optimal efficiency.
    • Build stakeholder relationships, i.e. with Group Finance, Treasury, Market Risk and Credit Risk.

    Accountability:  Preparation and completion of BA returns 

    • Collect information from various sources, i.e. Group Finance, Treasury, Market Risk and Credit Risk for the compilation and preparation of consolidated BA returns
    • Coordinate resources from other areas of the ABSA Group, planning and managing the timetable for data collection, consolidation and review of data and information and to ensure that deadlines are met in respect of data submissions to the PA.
    • Prepare, calculate and compile the working sheets in support of the relevant BA returns to the Prudential Authority for review by the reviewer 
    • Maintain controls to ensure that the working sheets used in support of the BA returns is accurate and complete.
    • Prepare and maintain the relevant working papers, calculations and or reconciliation in support of the BA return and other submissions.
    • Prepare or calculate ad-hoc and other submissions to the Prudential Authority or internal governance forums such as the Regulatory Reporting Review Committee.
    • Upload the BA returns after review into the PA submission tool - DIX
    • Run validation checks on DIX and present for sign off by reviewer
    • Prepare the monthly management information and analysis packs on the BA returns for internal review.
    • Provide input and assistance to the reviewer in the drafting of the commentary and Executive Summary for the monthly management information packs
    • Identify enhancements to current reporting processes and policies in order to achieve optimal efficiency

    Accountability:  System maintenance and development 

    • To provide input and oversee ad-hoc projects which involves system and process development and improvement.
    • Document the enhancements for these projects for future reference according to ABSA requirements and on ABSA template documents.
    • Test the automated solution for adequacy, effectiveness and reliability prior to implementation
    • To assist the system owners in the implementation of this automated solution, including roll out to business units where necessary.
    • Identify processes for automation to increase effectiveness and efficiency in the team and present the proposed solution for review

    Education and Experience Required

    • B degree/similar qualification in a financial/related discipline or CA(SA)
    • Non CA with a minimum of 3-5 years relevant experience / CA(SA) with 0-3 year PQE
    • Business experience in a Banking environment gained from a Finance, Product Management or Front /Middle office role preferable.

    Knowledge & Skills:

    • Knowledge of local/ international regulatory requirements
    • Knowledge of local/ international regulatory 
    • Strong computer skills e.g. Excel, Word, PowerPoint
    • Knowledge of SA / IFRS accounting standards
    • Product knowledge in banking industry
    • Good report writing skills
    • Analytical
    • Logical Thinker
    • Attention to detail
    • Reconciliation
    • System development
    •  Project Management

    Competencies:

    • Deciding and initiating action
    • Learning and researching
    • Entrepreneurial and commercial thinking
    • Relating and networking
    • Adapting and responding to change
    • Persuading and influencing
    • Creating and innovating

    Education

    • Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)

    Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

    Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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    Sales Manager

    Job Summary

    • Min 150 Short Term FAIS Credits, RE1 or RE5 certificate, Business Management Degree/Diploma Min 5 years People Management experience Contribute to tactical planning from an operational perspective. Implement and deliver approved operational plans. Accountable for management in terms of: people, process, applied technology, budget.

    Job Description

    • Min 150 Short Term FAIS Credits, RE1 or RE5 certificate, Business Management Degree/Diploma Min 5 years People Management experience: maintain the Advisers strategy in the Contact Centre to delivery accordingly | Compliance and Risk Management: Fulfil all activities in adherence to relevant control and compliance requirements, and quality standards | Collaboration : ● Facilitation of the process between system developer and users | : | : | : | : | :

    Education

    • Bachelors Degree and Professional Qualifications: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)

    Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

    Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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    Lead Product Engineer (.NET)

    Job Summary

    • Build high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications & build capability in others to do the same. This includes but is not limited to applying critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems (Front End, Back End and Integration) with high quality solutions & leading all phases of

    Job Description

    DevOps

    •  Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem-solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems (Front End, Back End and Integration) with high quality solutions leveraging C# (.NET), Sql Server, Javascript/Typescript, ReactJs, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Kafka, Git
    •  Contribute to and in some cases lead all phases of the development lifecycle including e.g. design process
    •  Determine operational feasibility of solutions by evaluating analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development and proposed solutions
    •  Develop high quality software / application design and architecture in a test driven & domain driven / cross domain environment
    •  Quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions
    •  Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience
    •  Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions
    •  Create & Maintain Sophisticated DevSecOps CI/CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins for deployment to multi-site environments – supporting and managing your applications all the way to production).
    •  Use & configure modern observability techniques to provide a deeper understanding of the application using AppDynamics, Instana and Splunk.
    •  Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes
    •  Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
    •  Work with guilds and other technical SME’s to improve and evolve technical products and services
    •  Apply unit testing frameworks and perform integration, validation and verification testing using Moq and MsTest
    •  Managing branching and merging in support of project delivery. Setup quality gates to ensure conformance to team best practices
    •  Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture, Security & Infrastructure guidelines
    •  Work with project & program teams (when required) to plan & manage the development lifecycle e.g. releases, risk management, testing, integration etc.
    •  Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications
    •  Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices e.g. scripting languages, containerization etc.

    People

    •  Coach & mentor other engineers
    •  Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team
    •  Provide technical subject matter expertise and support in the attraction and recruitment of Product Engineers for the organization
    •  Participate as a subject matter expert in the development & development planning of the broader product engineering team
    •  Support the people change teams in the design of adoption processes (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption)

    Risk & Governance

    •  Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post deployment)
    •  Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks
    •  Create business cases & solution specifications for various governance processes (e.g. CTO approvals)
    •  Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents
    •  Deliver on time & on budget (always)

    Education

    • Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology (Required)

    Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

    Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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