Job Opportunities at Absa Group

Job Summary

• The Scrum master will be the facilitator for a product development team that uses scrum/agile as the development methodology. The scrum master will lead a team that ensures self-organisation and the ability to make changes quickly. The role will ensure that agile principles and concept are adhered to ensure effective preparation of the product backlog, sprint backlog and burn down charts.

Job Description

Accountabilities:
Delivery

•  Lead multiple sprints.
•  Ensuring SCRUM artefacts are maintained and updated
•  Ensuring that sprints are running smoothly and corrective actions taken wherever appropriate.
•  Effectively communicate to project manager/delivery manager about the progress as well as blockages in the on-going sprints.
•  Ensuring all change governance and standards are adhered to
•  Ensuring code quality is maintained
•  Developing plans to ensure delivery of teams’ work.

Transition to Agile

•  Understand current development/delivery model and guide teams to adapt agile strategy.
•  Satisfactory resolution of issues raised during transition.
•  Support Project/Delivery Manager in planning and transition of releases.
•  Providing expert guidance and assistance to colleagues for successful transition

Leading others and business skills

•  Responsibility for supervising, co-ordinating, participating in,and accountable for sprints of teams located at different geographic locations.
•  Making effective use of resources during the sprint to ensure that business objectives are met and deliverables achieved to agreed time, cost and quality.
•  Familiar with the details of at least one business area and has experience of liasing with peers in that area
•  Is respected and consulted by business area peers and seen as a point of contact within the team
•  Experience in creating and maintain sprint artefacts.

Delivery Capability

•  Ability to maintain a dialogue in difficult situations
•  Experience in maintaining and supporting multiple sprints
•  Knowledge of major functions and features of workflow analysis tools
•  Resolves major problems and fluently applies escalation and notification procedures for incidents

Management

•  Adapts style to contribute and enhance overall team performance and works effectively with people across a wide range of disciplines and levels (both internal and external/3rd party suppliers)
•  Experienced at leading or managing a variety of teams and projects.
•  Deals comfortably with ambiguity and uncertainty and is effective when working with unstructured teams, situations and environments
•  Aware of project costs and resources, help in tracking actual against budget and managing the balance of delivery within time/cost/quality constraints

Application Management

•  Understands how service support applies to own technical function:
•  Has experience of incident & problem management disciplines
•  Has experience of maintaining configuration items, raising changes and planning releases
•  Has good operational knowledge of the service desk and incident systems
•  Has experience in developing and maintaining technical reference documents
•  Familiar with technical documentation standards, guidelines and best practices
•  Working knowledge of scripting/utility tool component, features and facilities

Stakeholder Management

•  Can effectively manage and develop relationships with key decision makers and stakeholders to achieve successful outcomes
•  Uses stakeholder management strategy effectively and knows how to navigate the organisation
•  The ability to facilitate and negotiate with multiple parties to bring about agreement and resolution, even when position is not initially shared by others
•  Clearly and effectively communicates difficult or complex ideas clearly to stakeholders, peers and subordinates
•  Adapts style to contribute and enhance teams performance by working effectively with people across a wide range of disciplines and levels, both internal and external.

Education and Experience Required

•  Must have 3-5 years of agile practitioner experience.
•  Must have 3-5 years of experience as Scrum Master.
•  Knowledge or experience of other methodologies like RUP, Kanban etc.
•  Excellent communication skills in English in written and spoken form
•  At least 3 years’ experience working in an agile environment, preferably in a variety of situations

Knowledge & Skills: (Maximum of 6)

•  Prior background of application development using Java and web applications.
•  Experience in the delivery of multiple Application Development Projects from strategy through to deployment.
•  Proven track record in Scrum Master role,
•  Understanding of other development methodologies like RUP.
•  Expert level skills in a relevant programming language(s) and relevant design techniques.
•  A logical, analytical approach to problem solving and close attention to detail.
•  Experience in the financial industry delivering & supporting financial applications

Competencies: (Maximum of 8 competencies)

•  Working with people
•  Coping with pressure and setbacks
•  Adhering to principles and values
•  Delivering results and meeting customer expectation
•  Writing and reporting
•  Analysing
•  Planning and organising

 Following instructions and procedures

Education

National Certificate: 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

• Work as part of an agile team to provide application support for specified tech products & services. This includes first line support & basic optimization, administration, configuration, maintenance & trouble shooting / problem solving with end users of these tech products & services.

Job Description

Devops & Support

•  Apply problem solving skills to solve technical problems on existing applications
•  Take ownership for developing advanced design thinking and problem solving skills in preparation for greater complexity / changing / evolving tech
•  Implement configuration, optimization (e.g. upgrades) & maintenance activity (e.g. regular maintenance patches) for enterprise wide applications
•  Schedule and oversee planned maintenance tasks, such as backups and performance tuning, in production for tech products & Services
•  Provide inputs into application documentation for end users
•  Leverage application documentation to guide users through application support processes
•  Leverage knowledge gained on support / trouble shooting processes to make recommendations for user documentation and or application changes / enhancements
•  Execute unplanned maintenance tasks, such as disaster recovery procedures, for production IT services to prevent and to minimize issues
•  Follow governance & risk procedures for all application support e.g. upgrades, maintenance etc.
•  Work as part of an integrated application / product / service team throughout their lifecycle and assist in the application-related aspects of designing, testing, operating and improving technology products & services
•  Identify stakeholder & communication dependencies / interdependencies & requirements in all application support processes & ensure these are followed prior to any application support implementation
•  Proactively identify any risks ahead of application support processes e.g. changes, optimization, maintenance, batch uploads etc.
•  Develop and maintain knowledge in application functionality, user workflow, and business processes to improve level of support provision on an ongoing basis
•  Develop sufficient knowledge of application infrastructure (server, network, security) to improve application support inputs
•  Compile and maintain inventory of applications and related details
•  Meet all SLA requirements associated with application support being provided
•  Follow identified risk, governance & control procedures for all application support provided e.g. backup, documentation etc.
•  Maintain awareness of application risks and opportunities for improvement

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

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 DebiCheck team within CIB Payments is looking for a Specialist Java Developer

• DebiCheck is an initiative by the Payments Association of South Africa (PASA) to re-architect the way that debit orders are processed. The debit orders are now electronically confirmed by the customer (Debtor) with their bank on a once-off basis, relating to a new contract that they have signed with a company (Creditor). DebiCheck has been implemented by all banks in the industry and our team represents Absa at an industry level as well as servicing all internal channels and product houses. This creates opportunity and exposure to a number of different business areas within the bank. From a technical point of view, our stack is 90% in-house built using open source technologies. The application has been architected with a microservices approach and implemented as SpringBoot applications deployed into Docker containers that runs within a Rancher platform. The application needs to be performant as we are required to process up to 2 million records over a few hours. We employ a DevOps approach to our work which means we support the full lifecycle of our product from development to production.
• We have a number of upcoming projects that are a mix between technical redesign of some parts of the applications, enhancing existing components as well as replacements of some other legacy applications which DebiCheck will supersede once fully implemented in the industry.

Key critical requirements:

• Min 5 years + Java experience

• Hands-on development experience

• 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, JavaScript

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

Technical Skills:

Java8, Springboot, Docker, Kubernetes, Rest, MQ, Spring cloud, Camel, Spring batch (optional), Cloud (AWS) computing principles, Oracle or Postgress,

Debi Check knowledge is advantageous.

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.

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 identifying and executing on continuous improvement opportunities, reporting and updating the knowledge management system.

Job Description

• Research Insights: Provide research insights to more senior analyst to support them in the formulation of research reports
• Stakeholder Management: Establish and manage relationships with both internal and external sources of information/industry role players

Education

Higher 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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Job Summary

To develop tactical strategy and delivery plans, formulate associated practice/s and to ensure operational implementation and adaption i.t.o. organisational development methodology, governance and delivery objectives.

Job Description

• Assist in the delivery of the OE Strategy: Works with the OE Lead to create the framework for aligning and engaging people, the people management systems, and the structure and capabilities (including organisational culture) to the strategy of ABSA Develops key enabling methodologies including Organisation Design, Employee Engagement and Change Leadership to support execution of initiatives across ABSA Builds organisational capability and facilitate capability building sessions for HR Business Partners to meet businesses’ organisational effectiveness requirements Provides advisory support and mentoring to HR Business Partners | Effectively analyse business requirements to provide opportunities for OE intervention: Analyses trends and developments within and external to ABSA to proactively diagnose the need for targeted interventions | Effectively manage OE initiatives as required: Leads and facilitates the implementation of ABSA wide organisational effectiveness initiatives Monitors the implementation of the organisational effectiveness programmes to provide additional support and resources as appropriate (primarily through HR Business Partners) Identifies criteria to evaluate the effectiveness of organisational effectiveness initiatives and define measures to be used Assesses the effectiveness of organisational effectiveness initiatives within ABSA | Effectively Manage the Team: Optimally balance the resources in the team, and also utilizing the BP capacity to deliver and contribute to this team’s ability to make an impact to the overall business agenda Develop a high performing team by embedding formal performance development and informal coaching Determine development needs for the team itself and ensure that identified training requirements are budgeted for and executed Interview and recruit new members of the team, including determining appropriate compensation levels with input from Human Resources. Approve leave requests for team members and create leave plan to ensure adequate coverage. When required, initiate disciplinary processes for team members calling on support from Human Resources when required Resolve grievances raised by team members and escalate only if required | : | : | : | :

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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Job Summary

The role holder is expected to manage a team of Business Support Specialists and Senior Business Support Specialists who are managing portfolios of financially distressed High Value clients within Relationship Banking with the aim of developing and managing Business Turnaround/Rescues/Restructuring/Workout strategies that will rehabilitate the clients and/or minimise potential credit loss to the Bank.

Previously held a credit mandate of at least R100m.

Job Description

Credit Risk Management

• Take ownership for the strategic management of the top tier distressed debt customers in their respective portfolio ensuring that effective strategies are devised and implemented to ensure the management of impairments within acceptable norms.

• Lead detailed negotiations with customers, other lenders, creditors, and 3rd party advisors regarding the agreement to, and implementation of strategy, to ensure properly mitigated credit risk for the Bank, based on continued bank support.

• Where appropriate, obtain customer’s agreement to the use of professionals including accountants, turnaround professionals, attorneys and property professionals.

• For turnaround customers, agree critical success factors with the relevant Portfolio Managers in liaison with Relationship Managers, Regional Credit Managers, and other Credit teams to ensure credit risk normalisation and relationship preservation. Obtain customer commitment and agreement to implement appropriate risk mitigation strategies and remedial actions to improve the client credit risk profile.

• Monitor customer progress against agreed strategies and action plans through analysis/appraisal of plans and budgets & cash flow.

• Deliver high standards of credit quality for high-risk cases through the application of best practice to credit proposals. Ensure high standards of credit discipline are applied to monitoring and control activities especially unauthorised borrowing.

• Make lending decisions within an appropriate personal mandate.

• Chair the Watch List Forum meetings.

Business Management

• Responsibility for team adherence to governance, compliance and lending portfolio controls and Management Information (MI).

• Champion the Business Support team’s relationship with internal and external customers, develop a strong network of internal contacts, external and panel professionals to maximise financial benefit for the Bank.

• Position and promote the team with Regional Credit Managers, Relationship Teams and Credit Managers as well as external customers and industry specialists and peers.

• Where applicable, manage and monitor the use of professionals including accountants, turnaround professionals, attorneys and property professionals within their team.

• Ensure that impairment decisions are appropriately taken and escalated where necessary.

• Ensure proper asset management of the portfolios under overall control.

• Drive the implementation of appropriate strategies and/or risk mitigation measures with the primary goal being to limit and/or reduce the overall level of Capital at Risk for Relationship Banking clients.

• Impairment forecasting, as required from time to time.

• Ensure that monthly reports are submitted on time, accurate and complete.

Education

Bachelor Honours Degree: Accounting (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

• Responsible for the planning, mobilisation, management and execution of a business-change project,
• through the entire Business Change Lifestyle (BCL) by using approved project-management principles.

Job Description

Accountability: Project Definition and Planning Activities

•  Work with business to define its requirements in order to meet its strategic objectives, including the development or assistance in the development of Stage 1 and Stage 2 business cases for the related projects.
•  Define, scope and plan the project and agree structure and deliverables according to the Absa BCL methodology.
•  Obtain sign-off for the business case from the Project Sponsor and Steering Committee.
•  Prepare and agree detailed project/sub project responsibilities with the Project Sponsor and or Project Owner.
•  Ensure all such investment is well funded and that the senior management are aware of their responsibilities in achieving the successful delivery of the associated projects
•  Agree resource requirements for the Project with the Project Sponsor and or Project Owner and secure them from available project resources or by outsourcing contractors.
•  Prepare a quality plan for each project that outlines the overall approach to quality, identify the standards to be employed and/or developed in the preparation of all products and plans for the process of quality assurance, review and control.
•  Ensure that the project concepts developed are in alignment with Medium Term Plans (MTPs) and enterprise architecture according to the Absa BCL methodology.
•  Calculate the project benefits and ensure that they are included in MTP
•  Complete all project/programme plans in a way that ensures compliance with Group Change policies, procedures, methodologies, standards, templates, etc.
•  Establish and maintain the correct structures to control and monitor the initiation, progress and delivery of the project or comply with the correct structures set up by the Programme Manager or Strategic Project Manager (SPM) to control and monitor the initiation, progress and delivery of the project.
•  Actively participate in all phases and activities of the project and provide specialist guidance to the project team, particularly in project definition, requirements analysis, business and technical design and change control activities.

Accountability: Project Management Activities

•  Manage all elements of project execution namely timelines, actions, status reporting, status meetings, deliverables, risks and issues, expenditures, forecast of costs, cash flow, timescales and resource requirements etc. as detailed in the Absa BCL methodology and training.
•  Manage the activities of the project-team members, as well as line role-players and subject-matter experts assigned to the project as detailed in the Absa BCL methodology and training.
•  Co-ordinate the work of the project team by allocating tasks, monitoring progress, ensuring awareness of responsibilities and securing commitment to successful project delivery.
•  Comply with the appropriate structures established and maintained by the Programme Manager, to ensure the delivery of projects.
•  Write presentations and reports for various stakeholders to keep them informed of progress and status of the project i.e., Steering Committee, Management Meetings, Monthly Status reporting to EPO; and present them to the relative audience as may be required.
•  Manage relationships with line role players, business sponsors and -owners as detailed in the Absa BCL methodology and training.
•  Manage and run the routine project meetings i.e., team, vendor, testers, to ensure agendas are adhered to, actions agreed, owners assigned and thereafter recorded in project plans, reports and minutes.
•  Develop financial Business Cases to secure the project funding as detailed in the Absa BCL methodology and training.
•  Identify and manage all programme/project issues and risks including their mitigating actions, owners, appropriate escalation and contingency management as detailed in the Absa BCL methodology and training.
•  Prepare and maintain detailed and accurate project and resource plans, with current estimates for activity completion.
•  Monitor and control the use of resources and funds against the original budget or, where appropriate the latest allocation. Gain agreement Project Sponsor and or Steering Committee for all changes to the project as necessary.
•  Provide regular and accurate progress reports and updated plans on a monthly basis to the respective Sector / BU Head of Change, Enterprise Programme Office (EPO), Sector Project Office, and if appropriate the Programme
•  Manager/Project Steering Committee in order for the various Group reporting requirements, financial management and reporting to Group Change Council (GCC)
•  Within the context of a Programme, confirm any plans for the external procurement of any resource/s and services with the Programme Manager in order to gain approval for the use thereof.
•  Manage the process of procuring the external supply of resource and services, and lead the negotiation of major contracts with external suppliers.
•  Ensure that all service contracts include a clear specification of the supplier’s responsibilities regarding scope and quality of the deliverables, as well as costs and timescales.
•  Establish an agreed audit plan to monitor progress on a regular basis and to audit quality, as and when appropriate, throughout the life of the contract.
•  Ensure that all tasks that are carried out comply with departmental procedures, mandatory quality standards and agreed architectural framework as detailed and required in the Absa BCL methodology and training.
•  Manage compliance with the ABSA Group project practices and methodologies while being proactive with any resourcing and financial constraints as detailed in the Absa BCL methodology and training.

Accountability: Staff Management Activities

•  Agree resource plans with the Programme Manager (programme) or Sponsor and manage the recruitment of staff, contractors and external consultants, as appropriate
•  Ensure that staff, where appropriate, are adequately trained and prepared for implementation of the solution, and that the operational handover is well planned and managed, without any adverse effect on existing systems and processes, and that all SLA commitments are fully achievable.
•  Review and quality-assure the project team deliverables (business analysis & design) as detailed and required in the Absa BCL methodology and training.
•  Guide, mentor and lead the business analysis and design activities, and provide conceptual thought leadership to develop the project team and ensure success of project delivery. Improve the project team members business analysis and design skills through ongoing mentoring and coaching.
•  Manage and lead project team, provide assistance to less experienced staff by giving guidance and supporting on the job training, as appropriate.
•  Act as a task manager for Implementation Managers, where needed based on the project plan for rollout and implementation.
•  Conduct a regular review of individual and team performance targets to assess and ensure quality of project deliverables, adherance to timelines and maximise use of resources working on the project.
•  Delegate effectively, allowing team members to take responsibility for performance.
•  Proactively and creatively develop the team’s skills by encouraging learning and knowledge transfer and by recognising their achievements.
•  Identify any training needed to support the project implementation planning delivery of training within project timescales.
•  Contribute to the performance assessment of staff undertaking sub-project work by providing feedback to their respective line managers as and when requested.

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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Job Summary

Leveraging a thorough understanding of the business data requirements & own data subject matter expertise (ahead of trend), set data architecture direction & lead the agile solution design, deployment, implementation & ongoing optimization of enterprise wide data retrieval, storage and distribution across an estate.

Job Description

Management Information (MI) and Reporting: Engage with internal business and technical stakeholders to understand requirements and ensure objectives, priorities and key requirements are agreed and understood. Interpret data and identify issues, risks and opportunities and relate results and insights to Business users. | Governance and Control: Ensure compliance to policies, legislation and regulations

The ideal candidate enjoys working with data, is comfortable performing complex analysis and translating data into actionable insights that inform strategy and design. You are a whiz at creating engaging visualizations and dashboards that tell a concise story. You are a collaborative team player looking to advance our analytics capabilities and develop new products, tools, and services.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Collect, synthesize and analyze large, complex datasets and identify meaningful patterns that lead to actionable recommendations

• Format and transfer data to render it appropriate for analysis

• Perform thorough testing and validation of models, and support various aspects of the business with data analytics

• Perform statistical modeling, build predictive models and leverage machine learning algorithms

• Develop clear, compelling analysis and data visualization, including figures, reports and presentations

• Develop decision-support tools and products, including dashboards and interactive visualizations

• Create reports and presentations and build customized dashboards for internal use and client deliverables

• Create new tools and frameworks to collect data, and seek opportunities to improve data analysis and visualization

• Other duties as required

ABOUT YOUR QUALIFICATIONS

• Qualified candidates must have a Bachelor's degree in Data Analytics or related.

• Professional work experience in Data Science, Business Analytics, or Data Analysis

• Quantitative strengths in the creation of detailed analytical models using various analytics tools is a must

• Proficiency in PowerPoint and wizardry in visualization of data using Tableau or similar tools is a must

• Experience using Salesforce, R, SQL and Python required

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills required

• Candidate must have the ability to work independently and to manage multiple tasks in a time-sensitive environment

Education

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 advice and support in the development and implementation of product development, planning and associated service delivery processes, methods and techniques; enabling the provision of sound product development expertise. As well as expertise in Channel creation to support the Sales environment. Require strong dealer and broker networks. Short Term insurance experience required.

Job Description

Require strong dealer and broker networks. Short Term insurance experience required. Expertise in Channel creation to support the Sales environment. Product Enhancement: Remain abreast of industry standards to identify new product opportunities. | Risk and Control: Continuously review product processes to identify areas of real and potential risk within the Product | Product Analysis: Review Product process to continuously look for enhancements within the product process | Stakeholder Management: Manage relationships with critical stakeholders such as tech, operations, channel etc to ensure optimal product delivery end to end | : | : | : | :

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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Job Summary

The Models Data and Implementation team within RTF is looking for a Specialist Solution / Systems Analyst to work as part of a DevOps team, leverage specialist analysis & testing tools, frameworks, techniques and practices to elicit, define and organize business requirements. Translate & document business requirements into user stories & specifications (Full Stack, Cross System) detailing integration points, business & associated risk / opportunities to be realised. And following this analysis, work collaboratively within squads during design & delivery activity including assuming responsibility for manual application testing processes, frameworks & outcomes

Job Description

About: Risk Treasury and Finance (RTF) Area

The RTF department is responsible for designing, developing and supporting the various solutions required for the Africa CIB division, Absa Group including ARO). This is across a wide range of business units and operations, including Credit Risk, Market Risk, Treasury, Disclosure and Finance.

About: Models Data and Implementation team

The Models Data and Implementation IT team are responsible for maintaining, enhancing and expanding the models implemented in CIB in order to meet business requirements in regulatory reporting, financial reporting and front office business.

Education and experience required

• 6 – 8 years business & systems analysis experience
• Experience in working with multidisciplinary teams
• Experience in Agile Methodology & working embedded within an Agile team / teams
• Degree or Diploma in computer science, commerce or business administration
• Information Systems Analyst certification advantageous
• Banking domain experience, preferred.
• Testing Certification (preferred)
• Experience in systems in Development
• Experience in Business Continuity Management & Disaster Recovery
• Experience in Governance, Compliance & Audit
• Experience in Quality Assurance & Testing.
• Experience in Systems & integration design

Skill required:

• SQL or any other relational database experience. Especially writing basic queries, select, join, look-ups, update.
• Excel – Pivot tables
• Data Validation
• Experience with SAS programming and coding
• Atlassian
• Big Data Concept
• AWS

Key accountabilities:

• Analysis (including Business Case)
• Solution Design (within DevOps Context)
• Solution Delivery & Testing
• Focus on data interrogation skills as part of data preparation and models business support

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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Job Description

Who are we looking for?

The quote-unquote UX/UI Designer who has the skills in that overlapping spot between User Experience, Interaction Design and Visual Design. You’ll know if you fit the bill J

Some thoughts to guide you. Would you like to?

• Collaborate with a highly skilled team of software engineers and designers

• Work in a genuinely fast-paced Agile environment,

• Own your work throughout the entire Software Development Lifecycle from conception to deployment

• Break down complex tasks into bite size chunks, improvise, and shift strategies to meet different types of challenges

• Be empowered to proactively produce even when not all the answers are available yet

• Add value by creating useful deliverables that reduce uncertainty allowing development to progress

• Identity and map the value stream that will provide business value to our end users

• Push boundaries, think outside the box and engage in cognitive flexibility

• Gain knowledge in the banking business domain

• Exposure to the latest IT trends, techniques and technologies

• Re-imagine new ways to solve existing problems

• Build in learning and continuous improvement

• Increase throughput and reduce lead-time to achieve high responsiveness in the development process. Learn to work with incomplete information which allows work to begin earlier and activities to be done more in parallel.

• Join team building events where we come together and have some fun!

What are we looking for? We want someone who has:

• 3 – 6 years working experience within Design, Software Development and/or related field.

• Practical User Experience and User Interface Design knowledge and experience

• Practical understanding of Lean Design & Development Principles

• The ability to Ideate and to diverge (explore options) before you converge to being pragmatic and focused

• Previous experience in Agile and Kanban ways of working

• The ability to autonomously, efficiently time & task manage

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Advantageous

• Previous experience working on a financial product and/or in a financial institution

• Understanding of Lean Development, Design Thinking and Human-Centred Design Practices

• Understanding of Java, JavaScript, Angular HTML and CSS development principles

• Design Programs (Sketch, Adobe Suite, Abstract)

• Miro (Realtimeboard)

• Atlassian Stack (Jira, Trello)

• Slack & Teams

Application requirements

• Submit a CV as well a portfolio with samples of UX & UI Designs and related deliverables

• Advantageous: Case studies offering insight into the designs and the work in the portfolio.

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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Job Summary

To provide specialist advice & support in the development & implementation of MIS service delivery processes, methods and techniques; enabling reliable business intelligence to inform key deliverables & decision making.

Job Description

Management Information (MI) and Reporting: Engage with internal business and technical stakeholders to understand requirements and ensure objectives, priorities and key requirements are agreed and understood. Interpret data and identify issues, manage the full development lifecycle of the BI solution from requirements gathering, solution development, testing and implementation using a variety of BI technologies including but not limited to Microsoft SQL Server BI stack (essential), Power BI (essential), Hadoop and Python/R programming.

The Required Skills for this position are:

Business Intelligence (BI) Solutions; Database Management Systems (DBMS); Microsoft Business Intelligence; Microsoft Power BI; SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS); SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS); Structured Query Language (SQL) Development

The Optional (Advantageous) Skills for this position are:
Hadoop; Python; R Programming

Candidates with a Degree/Diploma in Information Systems/Informatics or similar field and a minimum of 5 years working experience in MI/BI Reporting will also be given first consideration.

Education

Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Information Systems (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

Responsible for identifying and executing on continuous improvement opportunities, reporting and updating the knowledge management system.

Job Description

Management Information (MI) and Reporting: Engage with internal business and technical stakeholders to understand requirements and ensure objectives, priorities and key requirements are agreed and understood. Interpret data and identify issues, risks and opportunities and relate results and insights to Business users. | Governance and Control: Ensure compliance to policies, legislation and regulations

The ideal candidate enjoys working with data, is comfortable performing complex analysis and translating data into actionable insights that inform strategy and design. You are a whiz at creating engaging visualizations and dashboards that tell a concise story. You are a collaborative team player looking to advance our analytics capabilities and develop new products, tools, and services.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Collect, synthesize and analyze large, complex datasets and identify meaningful patterns that lead to actionable recommendations

• Format and transfer data to render it appropriate for analysis

• Perform thorough testing and validation of models, and support various aspects of the business with data analytics

• Perform statistical modeling, build predictive models and leverage machine learning algorithms

• Develop clear, compelling analysis and data visualization, including figures, reports and presentations

• Develop decision-support tools and products, including dashboards and interactive visualizations

• Create reports and presentations and build customized dashboards for internal use and client deliverables

• Create new tools and frameworks to collect data, and seek opportunities to improve data analysis and visualization

• Other duties as required

ABOUT YOUR QUALIFICATIONS

• Qualified candidates must have a Bachelor's degree in Data Analytics or related.

• Professional work experience in Data Science, Business Analytics, or Data Analysis

• Quantitative strengths in the creation of detailed analytical models using various analytics tools is a must

• Proficiency in PowerPoint and wizardry in visualization of data using Tableau or similar tools is a must

• Experience using Salesforce, R, SQL and Python required

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills required

• Candidate must have the ability to work independently and to manage multiple tasks in a time-sensitive environment

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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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

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

The Specialised Engineering team within the Chief Technology Office is looking for Cloud Engineers who can approach a problem with a novel approach and implement in an automated way.

Information on the team:

• The Specialised Engineering team designs and develops tactical and strategic solutions to solve problems common across multiple areas.
• The team actively evaluates and provides architectural guidance for Cloud based infrastructure, as well as hands on implementation of the environments.
• Providing consultancy and help to teams designing, developing and releasing solutions to Cloud based infrastructure.

Main responsibilities of the role:

• Providing consultancy and hands-on help to development teams designing, developing and releasing solutions to Cloud based infrastructure
• Provide hands-on support resolving issues with Cloud based infrastructure
• Advise on best practice when designing and implementing Cloud based solutions

Requirements:

• Familiarity with Ansible, Terraform, Python, Atlassian stack
• Good communication skills and command of English
• Knowledge and practical experience in one or more of AWS, Azure or other Cloud solutions
• Desire and willingness to learn about multiple cloud technologies 
• Good knowledge of Linux or Windows systems administration
• Good knowledge of fault tolerant applications, infrastructure and application security, networks
• Knowledge or desire to learn about technologies such as Elastic search, EMR, Containers
• Ability to interact with senior internal and external parties independently and cooperatively
• Flexible and creative problem solver
• Ability to solve business challenges with code

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