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Absa Group Limited (Absa) has forged a new way of getting things done, driven by bravery and passion, with the readiness to realise the possibilities on our continent and beyond.
Job Summary
Are you ready to make a difference?
Our Converged Security Office prides itself in its unique structure that sees an integration and collaboration model between our Information Risk, Cyber, Resilience, Physical Security & Forensics teams to ensure effective risk management across all disciplines.
You will be focused on the evaluation, testing, implementation and support of the security solutions on the endpoints.
Job Description
What you’ll get to do:
The role is within the Converged Security Office your responsibilities will include the following:
Help define a long-term vision for maintaining and scaling our Privileged Access (e.g. authorisation, two-factor setup, least privilege access) and/or Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions
Create trustworthy user experiences by building interfaces that are simple, easy to comprehend, performant and reliable
Configure, test, pilot and rollout new user-facing experiences in modern tools
Ensuring that platforms, with architecture input, are maintained in the most current state and not allowed to become obsolete
Develop detailed technical configuration documents, working closely with the security architecture, risk management and standards groups
Developing, maintaining, and updating internal process documentation
Provide support to internal Absa projects
Provide platform related reports periodically
Perform problem diagnosis; performance tuning; capacity planning and configuration management for the platforms
Respond to platforms related incidents within the defined SLA times
Provide standby support for the platforms on weekends/holidays as per the roster
Combine the knowledge of security technology evaluations and emerging products with security business needs
Ability to work with other engineers both internally and external to Absa
Ability to manage vendor relationships knowing due diligence goes beyond just the technology and engaging with the right business people to ensure Absa fully leverages vendor relationships
What do you need to get in?
NQF level 6 B Degree
8 years (technical/lead) experience in technology
6 years Security Engineering experience preferably within a large financial institution
Industry & Vendor certifications – CISSP, CISM, GIAC, Linux, Windows, etc. preferred
Experience in engineering and support of BeyondTrust suite and/or CrowdStrike will be advantageous
Experience in API integrations will be advantageous
Working experience in Operating Systems such as Linux, Windows, MacOS
Solid understanding of Web Services technologies (e.g. XML, .NET, JAVA) and remote access protocols (SSH, RDP, SCP)
Experience in automation technologies will be advantageous
Strong knowledge of information security frameworks and standards such as CIS, ISO27001,
Comprehensive grasp of emerging security technologies and threats for mobile & digital channels
Knowledge in multiple information security technologies and their strengths and shortcomings
Experience with securing information for cross-functional, cross-platform applications
Monitors marketplace trends, vulnerabilities, emergent threats and audit/control issues
Must have a high degree of initiative and self-motivation and demonstrate the ability to drive results
Strong communication skills both verbal and written and strong relationship and collaborative skills and organizational skills with the ability to work as a member of Group cyber team and geographically distributed engineering teams (ARO)
Actively seeks ways to understand and mitigate risk
Able to shift well from task to task
Able to work well under pressure
If you’re passionate about working in a fast-paced environment and contributing to the exciting world of Security by leading from the front, we would love to hear from you!
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
Job Summary
Provide business with innovative, customer centric, efficient and sustainable business architecture and process designs by extensively collaborating with experts from different fields and business representatives of the end to end value chain.
Job Description
Process Engineering
• Create high-quality process designs to improve customer experience, process efficiency, and process excellence. Identify operational gaps and opportunities in relation to customer experience, cost, revenue, and control
• Create high-quality process design work, ensuring a data-driven approach, customer and business impact, and timely delivery of agreed outputs.
• Conduct a thorough investigation to produce a qualified and quantified view of customer value, pain points, and priorities in relation to business strategy
• Define success criteria for process performance in terms of customer experience and company strategy (quality, cost, service levels)
Identify the most appropriate method and tools for solving a specific problem and scope e.g. analysis, new design, reengineering, Lean, Six Sigma
• Ensure adherence to and compliance with governance, risk policies, procedures, and compliance policies
Accountability: Deliver & Support
• Create and maintain a centralised process and knowledge management repository and provide access as required to stakeholders in the organization.
• Own the IT reference processes: Update processes, communicate changes and ensure that reference processes are leveraged across IT through deployment and usage of processes and related documents in the organization.
• Analyse project successes and root causes of failures to streamline processes in all phases of project management.
• Monitor process performance based on defined parameters / conduct process performance diagnostics to identify improvement opportunities.
• Work towards continuous process improvement and the enhancement of quality and consistency of IT processes and methods across the organisation.
Qualifications
Bachelors Degree in Manufacturing, Engineering or Technology
Added Advantage:
• Engineering degree or honours degree
• Lean or six-sigma qualifications
• Design and innovation training and experience
• Business Analysis experience
• Agile training and experience
• Casewise, Aris, I-Server (Visio process mapping)
Experience Level
3 - 5 years
Education
Bachelor's Degree: Manufacturing, Engineering and 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
Job Summary
The Sanction Screening team within CIB Payments is looking for a Full-stack Java 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
Key critical technical requirements:
Key accountability: DevOps
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
Job Summary
Lead the agile solution design, deployment & ongoing optimization & evolution of less complex enterprise wide technology platforms & delivery systems
Job Description
Platform Direction Setting, Solution Design & Performance Management
• Work with the Cross Functional Technology Leaders and CIO’s to understand & assess business and customer requirements (short, medium, long term)
• Leverage business (e.g. strategy, customer insights & CVP, competitor insights) and cross-technology (tech products & services, architecture, tech roadmap) performance data to identify strategic and operational platform opportunities
• Positively contribute to the organisation wide platform & engineering strategy & the achievement of end-end ‘Platforms as a Service’
• Set the supported platform vision and direction for the organisation
• Clearly articulate the supported platform strategy & roadmap
• Cascade the platform vision, direction & strategy across the business & facilitate stakeholder alignment
• Build a leading practice ‘centre of enablement’ partnership with business - trusted to influence the broader technology & product & services strategies - & achieve an integrated set of technology, business & customer objectives
• Collaborate across the tech value chain (CSO, CTO, etc.) to guide the business on the appropriate technical solution (cost to value) & the range of strategic technical choices to be made
• Take full accountability for leading the design, delivery & management of advanced (i.e. simple, innovative, optimised, modernised) platforms and associated infrastructure & architecture (end to end) & their validation
• Lead the identification and selection of fit for purpose internal & external technologies
• Design, implement & manage design thinking practices across platform feature teams to deliver architecturally sound platform technology solutions
• Lead & facilitate the design of the integrated set of platform solution blueprints & coach teams on the strategic direction, vision, platform development, architecture & infrastructure holistically
• Lead the detailed scoping, prioritisation & integration planning for the integrated set of platform solution designs & deployment across multiple stakeholder groups
• Act as the point of escalation for all major issues and events and apply deep subject matter expertise to facilitate their resolution with minimal business & customer impact.
• Strategically & operationally monitor the performance of platforms (all applications) – ensuring ongoing optimization & cost to value for our businesses (think bank wide)
• Be accountable for leading & developing innovative methods for measuring the customer experience, and translate the data to drive platform improvements
• Define & lead the implementation of quality performance measures & metrics & related data analytics tools and processes to enable business decision making
• Leverage data and insights from business, customer and platform itself to make technical design and implementation decisions
• Lead the resolution of service issues by analyzing and prioritizing data from stakeholders and directing service improvement efforts.
• Take full accountability for the end-to-end platform quality, completeness and resulting user experience for the life of the product or service.
• Design & deliver an optimal platform delivery capability that aligns the necessary people, process, & systems for optimal efficiency & effectiveness
• Assess Platform Capabilities and drive capability development plans for exceptional delivery & evolution of the platform
• Lead the design, implementation & adoption of enhanced process or technology solutions that identify and resolve platform, system, deployment, and environmental issues.
• Identify new and emerging practices for managing platforms and lead the adoption of new practices, across groups or disciplines to improve platform & associated platform analysis capabilities.
• Meaningfully contribute to & ensure solutions align to the design & direction of the Group Technology (e.g. architecture, DevOps) standards, principles, preferences & practices. Short term deployment must align to strategic long term delivery.
• Meaningfully contribute to & ensure solutions align to the design and direction of the Group Infrastructure standards and practices e.g. SLA’s, OLA’s, IAAS, PAAS, SAAS, Containerisation etc.
• Identify, development and lead the implementation of platform standards and best practices, and drive adoption across multiple value-chain wide product & service teams
Accountability: Platform Development & Delivery Management
• Leverage the required expert level (own) skill & knowledge in platform engineering. architecture & Infrastructure, design and manage all development & development practices & outputs across feature teams
• Ensure the most optimal design & deployment of technical solutions in the organization (via pipeline – not manually)
• Lead the quality assurance & test automation agenda & continuous integration / delivery strategies & frameworks for the platform and take accountability for the platforms delivery of the broader technology principles of: self-service, resilience, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience
• Guide code development practices (across platform & product engineering teams) and processes through an understanding of complex concepts and developmental practices
• Guide & ensure the delivery of quality development (code) based on own experience platform engineering
• Effectively manage the platform delivery pipeline & associated releases for maximum customer impact & minimum business risk
• Lead the maintenance & optimization of the platform as a ‘way of doing things / culture’ across the team. You are fully accountable for the longevity of solutions.
• Coach & Mentor senior engineers on technical competencies to effectively deliver on platform strategy.
• Resource & manage the appropriate number and nature (skill & capability) of squad based teams to execute on both Run & Change elements of delivery.
• Ensure agile practices are implemented and sustained for effective delivery to business e.g. RETRO’s etc.
Accountability: Financial & Vendor Management, Risk & Governance
• Positively contribute to the development & management of the integrated platform cost model & framework
• Take full accountability for and lead the design & continuous improvement of an integrated platform specific cost model & the ongoing optimisation of platform efficiencies and effectiveness
• Analyse operational cost data, identify cost-saving efficiencies and influence the business to adopt these efficiencies across multiple service teams – taking care to balance decision making for optimal efficiency & effectiveness
• Carry the ‘one stop shop’ accountability for all risk associated with technical decision making (from ideation to deployment)
• Manage & Apply the organization risk & governance frameworks - & represent the platform in all risk, governance & compliance processes (e.g. CTO approvals etc)
• Manage all vendor selection processes & take full accountability for all related commercial impact
• Negotiate best fit contracts for the organization at an enterprise level and align decision making to our key business principles of scalability, resilience, captivity etc.
• Deliver on time & on budget (always)
People
• Set & Cascade platform vision, direction & strategy across squads (feature teams)
• Design, implement and lead cross functional collaboration processes across technology teams and set cross-team commitments and achieve scale by enabling the work of others
• Proactively attract, recruit, develop, retain, reward & deploy a diverse resource base aligned to an ever evolving tech environment (ahead of demand)
• Build a high performance team environment through self-directed teams by driving performance management & measurement that is aligned with agile working practices (including daily, weekly, etc. sprint routines, regular & honest feedback etc.)
• Accountable for the right people in the right teams to deliver on our tech strategy (always!)
• Leverage coaching techniques to drive a higher quality design and deployment of technical products and services across technology teams
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
Job Summary
As part of the Payment Partnerships centre of excellence, the role holder will provide oversight guidance, advice, and support to the impacted business product teams in relation to all Card Scheme and Payment System Operator (PSO) change activity.
Performing the role of a subject matter expert, the role holder will support the establishment of an overall health position of Absa Payment partnerships in relation to Card Schemes and PSO’s supporting transactions flowing via the card payment rails.
Working in close collaboration with BU product areas, the role holder will analyse the Schemes Bulletins and technical Mandatory Schemes Release documents and size the likely risk or opportunity impact of all bulletins, mandatory releases, and new compliance requirements from the card schemes and PSO’s to inform the decision-making process whether to make the change.
For all approved change activity, the role holder will form part of the business unit project team to ensure that the requirements are defined, built, tested, and deployed to comply with the new requirement.
Job Description
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
Accountability: Relationship Management and Industry representation
Accountability: Reporting, Analytics and Insights
Accountability: Financial Management
Accountability: People Management
Education and Experience Required
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
Job Summary
To Support the credit risk process through carrying out comprehensive and quality credit risk functions within the credit lifecycle to create shared growth within the boundaries of internal policies and external regulations
Job Description
Risk Management: To conduct quality credit risk assessments and reviews, Proactively manage credit risks associated with clients, Develop data driven strategies, facilitate the credit sanctioning process to ensure responsible risk decisions | Data and Systems Management: To produce and analyse relevant management information and insights management | Governance: Ensure the bank's credit, philosophy and all relevant legislation is adhered to | Customer Management: Investigate and resolve all escalated customer complaints | : | : | : | :
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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