Jobs at Absa

Job Summary

• To assist management in ensuring that a robust control environment is maintained. To manage and improve performance, productivity, and efficiency of ACS Operations through the implementation of effective and efficient processes and control

Job Description

• Global Markets operations teams seeks to appoint an Equity SME to assist management in ensuring that a robust control environment is maintained.
• The role will require you to manage and improve performance, productivity and efficiency of the Equity team through the implementation of effective and efficient processes and control.
• This role is suited to a candidate with a B degree in business or equivalent NQF level 6 qualification, JSE RPE exams will be an advantage.

A general understanding of Securities Borrowing and Lending, Collateral and Custody process to settle transactions would be preferred. 5 years financial market experience and 3 years’ experience in a banking environment is also essential.

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 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

• Africa Technology CIB provides technology support to the organisation's corporate and investment banking sectors.  Activities are grouped into three areas, namely Markets, Corporate and Investment Banking. The Prime Services IT team is responsible for development, enhancement and maintenance of all Post Trade vendor and bespoke application suites that fall within the Markets business area.
• Prime Service IT is at the point where it needs to expand on its resourcing due to a number of systems it currently support. Hiring would thus give Prime Service IT team the ability to contribute meaningfully within CIB and moreover and more value to Prime Service business.

As a .Net Developer / Product Engineer will you be required to:

• Translate, design, build bespoke applications given a set of requirements
• Assist business during QA testing, resolving bugs and issues as their being discovered
• Collaborate with IT/Business for any technical assistance required
• Diagnose production issues and provide assistance to production support staff (2nd level support)
• Participate in agile methodologies and practices as agreed within the team
• Complete any technical documentation impacting the work done
• Determine the most effective and efficient software design to meet the specifications
• Ensure work done adheres to quality guidelines and standards for all activities (e.g. naming conventions, code comments) as agreed in the team
• Assist (Project Coordinator / Team) with performing the required estimations inline to the work identified
• Participate in software release and post-release activities
• Ensures that all the produced artifacts are versioned correctly
• Identify issues within the current bespoke products and suggest improvements
• Help maintain code quality, organization and automation
• Provide technical guidance as needed by the team
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers

Education and Experience Required

• Tertiary qualification would be highly advantageous
• Min 5 years’ experience using .NET technology stack such as (Web API, MVC, .NET4.5, .NET Core, WCF, Unity) Comment fyi only: this line to be posted for AVP – remove the below
• Must have a good grasp of design principles (Solid, GOF Patterns and etc)
• Familiarity with various design and architectural patterns
• Familiarity with standard SDLC process and Agile/Scrum Methodology
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Familiarity with versioning control tools {{such as Git, TFS and etc}}
• Must be able to design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug systems and their various integration points
• Good knowledge in writing SQL scripts, stored procedures and database design
• Familiarity with Microsoft SQL Server 2008/12/14
• Knowledge of Azure DevOps is a plus
• Knowledge of SSIS development a plus
• Exposure to Non-Microsoft DB technologies a plus (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Hadoop, etc.)

Knowledge & Skills:

• Results orientation
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Analyzing (Proficient in)
• Presenting & Communicating Information (Familiar with)
• Learning & Research (Familiar with)
• Creating & innovating (Familiar with)
• Deciding & Initiating action (Familiar with)
• Working with people (Proficient in)

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

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

Job Description

• Africa Technology CIB provides technology support to the organisation's corporate and investment banking sectors.  Activities are grouped into three areas, namely Markets, Corporate and Investment Banking. The Prime Services IT team is responsible for development, enhancement and maintenance of all Post Trade vendor and bespoke application suites that fall within the Markets business area.
• Prime Service IT is at the point where it needs to expand on its resourcing due to a number of systems it currently support. Hiring would thus give Prime Service IT team the ability to contribute meaningfully within CIB and moreover and more value to Prime Service business.

As a .Net Developer / Product Engineer will you be required to:

• Translate, design, build bespoke applications given a set of requirements
• Assist business during QA testing, resolving bugs and issues as their being discovered
• Collaborate with IT/Business for any technical assistance required
• Diagnose production issues and provide assistance to production support staff (2nd level support)
• Participate in agile methodologies and practices as agreed within the team
• Complete any technical documentation impacting the work done
• Determine the most effective and efficient software design to meet the specifications
• Ensure work done adheres to quality guidelines and standards for all activities (e.g. naming conventions, code comments) as agreed in the team
• Assist (Project Coordinator / Team) with performing the required estimations inline to the work identified
• Participate in software release and post-release activities
• Ensures that all the produced artifacts are versioned correctly
• Identify issues within the current bespoke products and suggest improvements
• Help maintain code quality, organization and automation
• Provide technical guidance as needed by the team
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers

Education and Experience Required

• Tertiary qualification would be highly advantageous
• Min 8 years’ experience using .NET technology stack such as (Web API, MVC, .NET4.5, .NET Core, WCF, Unity) Comment fyi only: this line to be posted for VP – remove the above
• Must have a good grasp of design principles (Solid, GOF Patterns and etc)
• Familiarity with various design and architectural patterns
• Familiarity with standard SDLC process and Agile/Scrum Methodology
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Familiarity with versioning control tools {{such as Git, TFS and etc}}
• Must be able to design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug systems and their various integration points
• Good knowledge in writing SQL scripts, stored procedures and database design
• Familiarity with Microsoft SQL Server 2008/12/14
• Knowledge of Azure DevOps a plus
• Knowledge of SSIS development a plus
• Exposure to Non-Microsoft DB technologies a plus (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Hadoop, etc.)

Knowledge & Skills:

• Results orientation
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Analyzing (Proficient in)
• Presenting & Communicating Information (Familiar with)
• Learning & Research (Familiar with)
• Creating & innovating (Familiar with)
• Deciding & Initiating action (Familiar with)
• Working with people (Proficient in)

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 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

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

• 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

• 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 Treasury team within CTO RTF (Risk, Treasury & Finance) is looking for Specialist C# Developers. RTF provides IT expertise to our customers. We enhance and support the Group’s Regulatory Reporting framework providing tool sets for data, reporting and front-end portal capabilities to enhance Business Intelligence across the RTF businesses.  We provision unique solutions to meet business & regulatory challenges.
• We are the technology partner supporting Credit Risk, Treasury, Finance, Regulatory Reporting, Data and Business Intelligence.
• We handle the consumption of the Bank’s data for the calculation of risk metrics and making the outputs available to business and regulators.
• Our task is the successful delivery of innovative solutions that enable business efficiency.

Key critical requirements:

• Min 5 years' C# experience
• Ability to transition into Cloud and Devops
• C# Integration is critical (using API wrappers etc) key focus on integration, automation and optimization within Treasury

Advantageous:

• Cloud experience – AWS or Azure (Cloud Principals)
• Python , Hadoop , CI/CD pipelines experience
• Treasury domain knowledge

Accountability: 

DevOps

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

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

• Risk management through cost effective recovery of outstanding debt exposures by monitoring and engaging in the business rescue process instructing 3rd party professional service providers and engaging with internal customers in the collections, recoveries, credit sanctioning, business support and business rescue environments.

Job Description

Accountability: Managing the assigned legal portfolio

•  Formulate the appropriate recovery strategy to recover as much as possible and to mitigate any additional impairment requirements
•  Instruct panel attorney to institute legal action against all liable parties and management of legal process until the matter is resolved
•  Initiate, entertain and approve any negotiations or settlements proposals within personal discretion and refer to mandate official if outside personal mandate.
•  Provide ongoing instructions to attorney inclusive of evidence required by court such as factual evidence, reconcilations and documentation
•  Draw and submition of claim and documentation required in liquidations/sequestrations and deceased estates
•  In liquidation/sequestration ensure that the liquidator is protecting the Bank¡¦s interest with regards to our assets, whether it is a vehicle, immovable property orany other.
•  Assess the risk position by analysing the overall security position to ensure the correct level of impairment is raised.
•  Perform financial and non-financial analysis on the client that will support and underpin the recovery strategy to be implemented for a particular group or customer
•  Produce relevant management information and statistics as required. This includes reports to the Watchlist Committee if required.
•  Manage bad debt exposures by taking daily legal recovery decisions and reviewing information from various systems and taking loss decisions accordingly.
•  Report all risk and loss events as a result of fraud or error
•  Monitor progress on defended/opposed matters in consultation with Group Legal and submit Form B.
•  Engage with Team Leaders and higher levels on a matter to matter basis regarding complex matters.

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Law (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