Job Openings at Absa

Job Summary

Apply platform engineering expertise, critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to produce well-organised, optimised and documented source code that successfully delivers platform features & components of the service & solves complex technical problems with high quality solutions.

Job Description

Platform Engineering, Deployment & Optimisation
• Leverage platform engineering expertise & a working knowledge of specific platforms and their constituent parts to positively contribute to platform feature and service designs
• Take accountability for deeply understanding & building expertise on the platform, the platform contribution to the broader platform strategy & business and customer requirements & all available technologies
• Develop business & customer aligned, lasting & innovative platform feature sets
• Positively contribute to, define & implement the development/engineering lifecycle (end to end) and lead lifecycle improvements over successive releases.
• Produce simple, extensible, and maintainable features with very few defects. Continually works to find and fix defects.
• Leverage platform (service design & code) & engineering technical expertise to proactively identify risks and prevent defects
• Identify patterns that reveal errors and unanticipated problems, and influence telemetry analytics design decisions
• Identify & Apply metrics to drive the quality and stability of code
• Ensure consistent, usable, forward-looking, maintainable test infrastructure
• Apply object orientated design in development & draw from a large base of design patterns
• Uphold our technical principles of: self-service, scalability, re-usability, resilience & stability in all development practices and deliver feature sets that sustainably deliver on these principles
• Apply knowledge and expertise in User / Customer experience to deliver a stable user experience in all design & development that is simple, elegant, and useful.
• Proactively identify development practices that work well & leverage & improve these for future solution design and deployment
• Document feature set and constituent design information to produce solution design blueprints and validation collateral
• Based on engineering & platform expertise and a sound knowledge of the business & customer requirements
consistently provide key ideas for the enhancement & optimization of the platform
• Develop & document complete designs and implement testing processes that identify and eradicate platform or service-wide problems / improve on platform performance
• Demonstrate a strong commitment to the quality & ongoing quality assurance of the product/service’s in use, and take appropriate action to resolve issues throughout the lifecycle of the product or service
• Ensure alignment to platform and service release plans for effective deployment of solution designs
• Drive & implement design review processes & practices with the team & participate & positively contribute to design reviews for the feature area led by others
• Apply expertise in engineering & available technologies to enable effective review processes
• Cascade review lessons learnt for the benefit of the broader team
• Enable problem resolution across technical teams, apply and or facilitate root cause analysis, deeply understand the root causes of issues and find ways to resolve them (sustainably)
• Continuously review & find ways to optimize team processes & improve engineering quality, productivity, and team responsiveness to feedback and changing priorities
• Optimize, refactors and reuse components to improve performance and maintainability – ensuring maximum efficiency, effectiveness, and return on investment
• Take accountability for maintaining platform standards and best practices, and drive adoption across multiple service teams
• Demonstrate knowledge of, identify & find required data for the ongoing monitoring & improvement of the platform feature area
• Proactively monitor the performance of the platform features & solutions
• Translate monitoring data into clearly articulated descriptions of opportunities & defects, their impact to the customer scenario and to the product or service as a whole, and the relevance to product and service targets (within scope of the job).
• Cascade and communicate these insights across the team to influence platform decision making
• Leverage production performance monitoring and customer data to make feature area technical design and implementation decisions.
• Synthesize data from multiple sources and present & define concise, impactful conclusions that influence feature teams to solve defects and meet quality targets

Accountability: Financial & Cost Optimization, Risk & Governance
• Understand the platform cost model & the optimal cost : serve of the platform, use this understanding to drive the platform efficiency & effectiveness objectives
• Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents
• Apply Group risk (e.g. Architecture, development, change & release etc.), governance, compliance & regulatory standards and frameworks
• Proactively identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post release)
• Update / Design all feature documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks

Accountability: People
• Proactively & effectively (time & quality) collaborate & drive collaboration on features across feature team (e.g. managing dependencies & interdependencies, conflict resolution, information & best practice sharing, problem resolution outside of own area etc.)
• Apply collaboration skills in development practices & issue resolution regardless of team boundaries & lead communication with relevant stakeholders through to conclusion
• Contribute to a high performance team environment & culture as a high performing member of a self-directed team aligned to agile working
• Leverage coaching techniques in all team related activity to drive a higher quality service, design and deployment of technical solutions.
• Proactively seek & provide feedback across a range of stakeholders for the benefit of the team & leverage feedback to consistently improve platform solution delivery
• Coach & mentor other engineers & support engineering teams on technical solutions and problem resolution & proactively seek coaching & mentoring from others
• Participate in peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team
• Cascade platform performance feedback and ensure capability development across teams to enable efficient & effective platform service delivery
• Drive the design of content, tools & materials for strategy alignment, education & adoption processes to be applied across stakeholder groups

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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Job Summary

The IMEX / SWIFT Team within CIB Trade is looking for a Specialist Software Developer to 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

The CIB Trade team supports all trade applications across the Africa continent, for local and international trade, with a range of trade and working capital solutions.

We offer trade products that will help our clients to manage risks, negotiate terms, and reduce pressure on cash flow to enable our clients to trade confidently and efficiently.

Our trade solutions are inclusive of both customer-facing systems as well as back-end operational systems.   

How we stay relevant:

The emergence of FinTech’s has captured a large share of the market in the banking revenue pools. In response, we are reinventing our digital trade strategy to compete with FinTechs to enable the bank to stay relevant and meet the demands of the digital future.

By introducing agility and removing complexity of legacy systems we are enabling our various Trade Channels to be at the forefront of the banking digital age, in addition, improving the way transactions are processed.

Our Solution:

We are striving to deliver standardized solutions that are built on the latest technologies and infrastructure, i.e. open-source and AWS cloud solutions. These solutions will allow cost effective roll-out across the African continent. Our team aids the trade business to meet multiple demands including channel support, third part integrations and non-banking channels.

Key critical requirements for this role:

• Min 5 years software developer experience

• Basic Java Programming experience with good Java deployment

• Experience working in an agile environment

• Excellent communication, analytical skills and decision making ability in collaborative environments

• Excellent understanding of specific coding / scripting languages

• Understanding of Object Oriented Design and ability to properly apply general design patterns and paradigms

• Experience with test-driven development and domain driven design

• Linux Admin

• Agile Delivery (SCRUM/Kanban)

• JIRA

• Confluence

• Sharepoint

• Mainframe and Cobol beneficial

Some key accountabilities: 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

• 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

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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Job Summary

Responsible for continuous improvement of performance through regular audits and identifying coaching and training needs to support the efficient and effective operation of the claims operational area.

• Manage the QA function and ensure compliance.
• Conduct quality audits in an accurate manner and timely manner
• Provide weekly and monthly reports
• Identify risks and mitigation of these risks.
• Ensure resolution of escalation of quality of work and issues identified.
• Active involvement in any investigation relative to loss prevention and fraud.

Training

• Actively motivate, develop and coach consultants to drive quality and results.
• Create a high performing team and highly engaged team. Identify and assess
• training needs of the organization through job analysis. Develop individual and group training programs to address specific business needs.
• Develop training manuals that target tangible results.

To deliver learning material & facilitation to ensure the enhancement of knowledge & skills, through the execution of predefined objectives as per agreed SOPs.

Job Description

To administer and offer excellent service to the internal business stakeholders: Ensure the effective rollout of the in the cluster by serving as a cluster super user for the end to end delivery. Provide cluster end users with assistance and training to enable user understanding and system utility. Liaise with Group Administrator to facilitate loading of training information onto the learning platform to enable both usability and monitoring of progress. Participate, by timeously identifying cluster learning requirements and ensuring that are factored into the learning planning and portal considerations, in the cluster roll out of the assignment of Online and offline courses to fast track the learning cycles and commitment of all employees . Proof read the content of all cluster specific online courses and communicate all content related issues to the content provider. Make use of reporting and tracking tools on Talent Learning System to create lists of people who need to complete courses or be assigned tasks, thereby enabling the learning community to track learning performance overall. Generate standard and responsive cluster MII to empower business dialogue and decisions on the status of learning in critical learning areas | End user/System Enablement: Provide Managers with regular reports to enable the (WHO?) to chase up people who are overdue in their training requirements by creating reporting and MI capability for line managers to take ownership of the corrective process. Act as a cluster contact point for learning management queries to enable smooth rollout of the business activities. Liaise with employees and assist in resolving ad hoc issues emanating from their use of the LMS and thus enable them to use the LMS to its full capability. Act as the primarily point of contact with the Group LMS Administrator to enable seamless integration with new and emerging LMS trends. Work closely with the Group LMS Administrator to report any issues that might arise and any new business requirements which may impact the quality and configuration of the LMS. Form part of and actively engage in LMS Community of Practice within Absa to promote sharing of information and practices with LMS peer and colleagues and thus promote a culture of learning from fellow professionals | Cluster alignment and integration: Ensure, in consultation with the Cluster L&D community and line managers, that planned learning activities can be supported by the LMS and advising accordingly Escalate all LMS challenges resulting from cluster learning plans to the Group LMS Administrator for timeous and effective solutions without slowing down the cluster learning pulse. Conduct cluster based client surveys on the effectiveness of the LMS and communicate recommendations for improvement or changes to the Group LMS Administrator Be part of the system review and quality assurance on the LMS under the flagship of the Group LMS Administrator and/or Learning technology Manager | : | : | : | : | :

Education

Bachelors Degree and Professional Qualifications: Education, Training and Development (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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Job Summary

To provide specialist actuarial support that enables sound commercial advice through the application of probability & investment theory and related statistical tools and the execution of predefined objectives as per agreed SOP's.

Job Description

Functional Strategy: Set and cascade the Functional strategy with supporting operating model and ensure resources are in place for its execution | Operational Excellence: Oversee the design, implementation, maintenance and continuous improvement of operational activities | Business Risk and Compliance Management: Oversee the implementation of, and conformance to, Group Risk and Compliance requirements within the operating environment, in line with set risk appetite | Stakeholder Management: Actively promote and manage the collaborative engagement of internal and external stakeholders, including regulators, suppliers, clients, service providers, business partners and other Absa entities | People Management: Coach, mentor and manage team members toward driving business objectives and ensuring colleague development | Governance: Ensure the fulfilment of all required governance activities, including tracking and reporting | : | :

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