Jobs at RMB - Rand Merchant Bank

Job Description

• RMB is a place where exceptional people create their own opportunities by challenging the conventional and driving sustainable impact. 
• United by our proud heritage, strong ethics and philosophy of Traditional values. Innovative ideas, it’s the magic of our people and culture that sets us apart.
• Now, is the time to imagine your next move with South Africa’s number one employer in Financial Services for 2025, where you can embrace the power of collective thinking to unlock unique opportunities for our clients and society.

The purpose of the role is as follows:

• To collaborate with cross-functional teams to collectively decipher requirements and apply a deep knowledge of quantitative methodologies in the context of the core businesses. i.e. Trading, BRM, Risk, Credit.
• To lead the analysis, investigation, collaboration, implementation, optimisation, and maintenance of business solutions.
• To be a hands-on leader for the Quantitative Business Analysts that includes line management and delivery oversight.

Are you someone who can:

• Integrate specialist understanding of Investment banking, technology, business processes, and data analysis to provide an optimal solution that satisfies stakeholder needs and requirements, expanding the delivery footprint of the capability.
• Engage with internal business (viz. Trading, Risk Managers, XVA specialists, Quantitative specialists) and technical stakeholders to understand requirements and ensure objectives, priorities and key requirements are agreed.
• Ensure adequate and timely responsiveness and resolution on production incidents and feedback on queries relating to risk, pricing and technical queries linked to Workflows, Integration and Reporting.
• Coordinate and participate in the test effort to ensure that the delivered solution meets agreed business requirements and functional/process specifications.
• Provide input into the design and implementation of scalable, fit for purpose and resilient platform solutions.
• Liaise with external contracted suppliers (e.g., CompatibL) to implement new solutions required by business and technology users according to an agreed roadmap.
• Build and manage an effective, skilled team with appropriate succession planning.
• Manage performance of employees by clearly defining goals and objectives and providing direction, coaching and regular feedback
• Drive team optimisation and synergies by organising the team with client and output aligned goals through Quarterly Business Reviews and agile ceremonies and practices.
• Ensure compliance with relevant statutory, legislative, policy and governance requirements in area of accountability.
• Build effective relationships that allow for the managing of expectations, the sharing of knowledge and diverse insights, the creation of buy-in and aligned delivery focus.
• Initiate stakeholder engagements to track progress, manage expectations and ensure stakeholders' requirements are delivered.
• Research, enable and consult on improvements and opportunities to harness technology and platform enablement.
• Review existing processes and suggest innovative ideas to improve and streamline processes to drive efficiencies and minimise redundancy.

You will be an ideal candidate if you have the following:

Qualifications

• Minimum qualification: post-graduate qualification in Mathematical Finance, Statistics, or another quantitative discipline

Experience and Skills

• 3 to 5 years’ experience in a similar environment, of which 1 to 2 years ideally at junior (entry level) management level
• Experience in experience in implementing and supporting Financial Markets systems and related interfaces.
• Experience in designing, testing, and configuring quantitative systems.
• Experience and knowledge of Market and credit risk and XVAs (incl. CVA, SA-CCR, KVA, SA-CVA, MVA, etc)
• Working knowledge of SQL and ability to analyse data.
• Multi asset class, and trade life cycle knowledge
• Business process modelling and design capabilities.
• Understanding of data models and ability to validate data flows between and within systems

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Job Description
Hello Future Real Time Integration Developer (TIBCO)!

• RMB is a place where exceptional people create their own opportunities by challenging the conventional and driving sustainable impact. 
• United by our proud heritage, strong ethics and philosophy of Traditional values. Innovative ideas, it’s the magic of our people and culture that sets us apart.
• Now, is the time to imagine your next move with South Africa’s number one employer in Financial Services for 2023, where you can embrace the power of collective thinking to unlock unique opportunities for our clients and society.
• This role will involve designing and developing data and system integration solutions across all business units within RMB.
• Integration solutions will largely be based on the Tibco product stack within RMB, which include Tibco EMS, BusinessWorks, API Exchange and ActiveSpaces, and using Integration standards and methodologies as defined by the RMB Integration Centre of Excellence (CoE). 

You will be required to:

• Develop innovative, reusable competitive solutions and contribute actively to a collaborative Developer community
• Collaborate with BDMs and Delivery Heads to make recommendations on the use of new and emerging technologies, which provide the competitive advantage and a clear technical roadmap
• Maintain stability of all technical platforms

Are you someone who can:

• Plan and execute data conversion activities (e.g., test data).
• Manage Integration risk and project deliverables.
• Prepare Integration architecture and design documents for review by the Project / Technical Architect and the bank’s Enterprise Integration Architecture Forum (IAF).
• Automate regression test packs for Integration components, in line with agreed testing frameworks and standards.
• Provide production development support on a roster basis.
• Identify and solve production issues when required.
• Initiate dialogue to build professional working relationships with all stakeholders displaying excellent abilities to listen, advise, influence, negotiate and present at all levels
• Lead and facilitate difficult conflict situations into consensual agreements
• Integrate opinions and information provided by various sources to make strategic decisions
• Adapt communication styles to meet the needs of different audiences
• Continually scan the industry to identify opportunities to create strategic partnerships with key individuals and bodies
• Follow best practice and principles governance policy frameworks and utilisation of tools for the technology of the domain
• Engage with the designated standards team for specific guidance and delivery of solution components to maximise impact
• Understand and contribute to a knowledge sharing environment
• Produce a well operationalised solution on time that surpasses the requirements and performance expectations
• Drive scalable and sustainable solutions built based on best development practices
• Adopt a framework centric approach to prompt feasibility and reduces failure demand
• Reduce the technical debt as much as possible or revisit the business expectations
• Ensure technical follow up and a commit to allow for this-flexibility
• Take full responsibility for performance management of all direct reports managing their performance in relation to quality standards and agreed benchmarks and objectives focusing on all aspects of sound people management
• Engage in recruitment development, performance management, remuneration and rewards, career path planning, on the job training, coaching, and mentoring
• Ensure appropriate levels of management and accountability
• Motivate, delegate, and empower appropriately, enabling direct reports to take responsibility and display appropriate creativity and initiative
• Work with the team to actively grow their skills and lead them in operational excellence
• Demonstrate pride in the organisations brand services and products by consistently delivering on the brands promise
• Follow through to ensure that personal quality and productivity standards are consistently and accurately maintained
• Stay relevant and up to date with legislations and new developments
• Maintain a positive attitude and respond openly to feedback
• Handle stress in ways that do not negatively impact others
• Plan and manage own workflow anticipating obstacles juggling priorities and following through on objectives within agreed time frames and according to quality standards
• Take ownership of personal career development leveraging formal and informal opportunities
• Read situations and organisational realities
• Set aside personal agenda for the greater good
• Act in an ethical transparent and morally defensible manner including highlighting unethical practices
• Share debate and communicate learnings
• Flag and debate issues constructively
• Promote a friendly cooperative climate

You will be an ideal candidate if you:

• Have completed a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
• Have at least 3 years Integration experience across multiple Integration platforms and technology landscapes (especially Tibco BusinessWorks 5.x).
• Have 2 years server-side development experience.
• Demonstrate a clear and thorough understanding of Enterprise Integration Architecture patterns and best practices.  These include: Synchronous/Asynchronous messaging, Message queuing, guaranteed messaging, message correlation and sequencing, distributed transactions, etc.
• Data Integration: Understanding of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Extract Transform Load (ETL), batch architecture platforms and frameworks (eg. Informatica PC and/or Ab Initio).
• Middleware Knowledge: Understanding of Message Oriented Middleware (for example Tibco BusinessWorks).
• UML modelling.
• Working Operating System knowledge: Windows & Linux.
• Strong relational database experience (Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle).
• An understanding of highly available, high performance, distributed architectures.
• A good understanding of Enterprise Data Modelling (Entity-Relationship Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, Data Vault Modelling). Prior experience with test automation.

You will have access to: 

• Opportunities to network and collaborate
• Opportunities to innovate

We can be a match if you are: 

• Curious & courageous - you're driven by always wanting to know more and learn more
• Obsessed with mastery - you know what it takes to become good at what you do and are constantly pushing yourself to do it