Job Opportunities at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

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

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Job Description

• At least 5+years’ experience in commercial grade software development using Swift or Objective-C
• 2+ years working with JSON, Codable, GCD or asynchronous programming
• Excellent understanding of Object Orientated Programming concepts
• Expertise with Swift, Objective-C, iOS, fundamentals and frameworks
• Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills
• Ability to deliver solid work on tight schedules
• Have a passion to write and help others produce efficient code.
• Mentor and train fellow team members to become better developers
• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle
• A passion for technology and the ability to learn new concepts quickly
• Thorough knowledge of macOS and iOS

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

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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

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Job Description

• Accountable for the end to end execution of the digital strategy across digital front end channels across a complex portfolio of business units by persuing parrallel execution paths on channels . Making the required trade off decisions to maximise KPIs and value outcomes
• Accountable for the operational excellence and puts systems, processes and continuous improvement measures in place to ensure maximisation of key value drivers across
• Accountable from the eye of the customer and looks at the end to end system holistically to drive out key results. Is able to interlock key deliverables across the value stream. Accountable to break down the strategic outcomes into defined works packages that can be interlocked accross various structures
• Accountable to deliver on the commercial outcomes of the digital assets and seek ways to maximise the value of the asset. Will use marketing tools, communication methods and in channel digital techniques to promote and commercialise the strategic outcomes of the digital assets
• Drives new ways of work by implementing best practices and methods for the functional chapter. Stays abreast with trends and developments within the digital PM (Lean Startup) world and serves as a professional functional specialist. Implements the required improvements to improve the maturity of the capability
• Provides innovation solutions to digital problems and seeks to identify customer opportunities that are solved digitally. Accountable to encourage experimentation within the team and demonstrate innovation outcomes
• Leads the execution team of cross functional experts and creates the culture of innovation and results orientation. Seeks to develop others within the function. Ensures adherence too but also contributes towards creating effective standards for the ideation, creation, launch and continuous improvement of digital assets. Takes end to end accountability to deliver key strategic business metrics through the interlock and collaboration of many functional areas

Education

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

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Job Description

Accountability: Project Establishment Initiation Activitie

• 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.
• Assist business areas impacted by projects and changes with the writing and/or 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.
• Assist the PM with ensuring that the definition of the project scope and all other documentation needed in the Project Concept and/or Project Charter document/s is obtained by facilitating a project definition workshop.
• 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 for use in defining and designing the project.
• Assist the PM by providing advice, investigating, estimating and calculating costs, timelines, resources and plans for the composition and approval of the project stage business cases.
• 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.
• Identify project milestones based on the high level project plan and prepare planning estimates in terms of timelines, resources, design, etc. for the project.  Project manage a sub-project or work stream, when required to do so by the PM.
• Assist the Project Manager (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.

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, 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.
• Develop 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.
• Develop a functional decomposition of identified requirements through consultation with stakeholders to ensure that the business requirements will be developed and delivered by the project.
• Validate documented solutions in a walk-through workshop with stakeholders and 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.
• Assist the systems-management function with setting up and undertaking the IT systems user-acceptance tests by both business users and IT staff to ensure that the technology solution meets the business requirements.
• If required, co-ordinate user acceptance testing with regard to securing test users, the test location, the relevant access rights and by documenting all results and where required perform User Acceptance Testing (UAT) as undertaken and stipulated by the Technology methodology.
• Assess the solution/s by bench-marking with Industry and within 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

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

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Job Summary  To grow the Absa customer base through acquisition and increased customer profitability of the identified portfolio. Gain new customers and increase port folios of current customers through proactive attraction, cross selling, retention and contributing towards the achievement of the branch’s sales targets.

Job Description

• Financial Goals Business Risk Customer Satisfaction Colleague Support

Education

• Further Education and Training Certificate (FETC)

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Job Description

Key critical requirements

• Min 5 years of relevant experience
• Power BI
• Knowledge of development in Qlikview, Qliksense, Nprint and PowerBI
• Knowledge of SQL database
• Knowledge and experience in Hadoop is an advantage

Summary

Author software code for new applications and enhancements to existing applications. Design and build unit-level test cases to validate the new / updated code against specification. Implement fixes to bugs found in various stages of testing or when the software is in production. Participate in software release and post-release activities, including support for product launch (e.g., developing demonstrations and samples)

Job Description:

•  Code and test software and applications in keeping with given design and specifications
• Create a detailed software design at application/component level in collaboration with the software designer.
•  Review test plans and results of other team members to ensure that all test scenarios have been considered.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology