Latest Job Openings at South African Reserve Bank

Detailed description

Various roles are available. The successful candidate(s) for each position will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

Solutions Architects

• The main purpose of this position is to develop and implement the architectural design of solutions to support the business goals and to ensure alignment of business and IT at a solution level within the SARB.
• Experience in application analysis/architecture and/or design and/or enterprise architecture and/or solutions architecture is required for this position. Experience in the submission of returns and/or an understanding of regulatory submissions would be an advantage.

Enterprise Security Architects

• The main purpose of this position is to manage the security architecture domain and landscape, develop reference content and ensure the application thereof in the strategic and operational environment for a safer SARB.
• Experience in risk analysis, physical security architecture, design, enterprise architecture or solutions architecture is required for this position.

Integration Architect

• To deliver the blueprint architectures aligned to the SARB technology and data strategy, provide thought leadership, technical guidance, and solution architecture oversight within the SARB IT landscape.
• Experience in at least three architecture domains such as business architecture, data architecture and application architecture;
• Defining, developing and maintaining reference models, principles, standards, frameworks and patterns for integration architecture; and 
• Collaborating with, and advising relevant business, system and technical stakeholders to develop, implement and harmonize end-to-end solution architecture and interoperability of business, data, application, technology, integration, infrastructure and security architectures now and in the future.

Qualifications

Job requirements

To be considered for these positions, candidates must be in possession of:

• an Honours degree in Informatics, Computer Science, Engineering or a related field;
• industry-specific certifications such as TOGAF 9.1 and SABSA Foundation or security industry certifications such as CISSP-ISSAP, GSE and CGEIT; and
• at least eight years’ working experience in any of the specialisation fields.nd security architectures now and in the future.

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Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Design and implement data strategies and systems in collaboration with BSTD and business subject matter experts to create and maintain data architecture that drives various FinSurv initiatives.
• Build infrastructure to automate high volumes of data and creatively solve data volumes and scaling challenges.
• Work with team members and other stakeholders to contribute to the design and architecture of innovative solutions to complex problems.
• Collaborate with BSTD to build optimal data extraction, transformation and loading from a wide variety of data sources using big data technologies.
• Assemble large, complex data sets to meet functional and non-functional business requirements.
• Identify, design and implement business process improvements by automating manual processes, optimising data delivery and redesigning infrastructure for greater scalability.
• Provide technical support to the Advanced Analytics Specialist during the design, development and implementation of self-learning applications (artificial intelligence and machine learning).
• Search and select appropriate data sets to run tests, ensuring algorithms generate accurate user recommendations.
• Keep abreast of developments in the industry regarding data engineering practices.

Qualifications

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• a Bachelor’s degree (NQF 7) in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Computer Engineering or an equivalent qualification;
• five to eight years’ experience in the data engineering field;
• five years’ experience working with relational databases and query authoring (SQL);
• three to five years’ experience building analytics tools using data pipelines; and
• experience with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, SAS and OBIEE.

The following would be an added advantage:

• programming experience with natural language processing in R, Python and so forth; and 
• relevant programming or data querying certification.

Additional requirements include:

• knowledge and skill in:
• industry, organisational and business awareness;
• data warehousing and reporting solutions;
• SQL;
• Microsoft Power BI;
• databases and relational databases;
• data engineering;
• data lakes; 
• data pipelines;
• Informatica;
• Teradata;
• SAS;
• performance metrics
• analytical and problem-solving skills;
• effective communication skills;
• planning and organisational skills;
• service and stakeholder focus;
• conceptual thinking skills;
• innovation and creativity; and
• a drive for results.

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Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Provide strategic and leadership direction to the division.
• Manage the performance of team members.
• Manage and mitigate risk in line with South African Reserve Bank policy.
• Manage the process of appointing Authorised Dealers and ADLAs.
• Ensure compliance with the Exchange Control Regulations and Currency and Exchanges Manual for ADLAs.
• Manage the implementation of and adherence to relevant policies, processes, procedures and systems.
• Draft suggestions for refining policies, processes and systems and improving alignment with related function/division processes and systems.
• Facilitate decisions on complex applications within the exchange control policy environment.
• Manage the implementation of FIC Act requirements.
• Produce and manage the yearly inspection programme.
• Develop and maintain worksheets and process manuals for conducting inspections.
• Manage the entire inspection process, ensuring adequate preparation, the completion of related administration, team leadership and effective reporting.
• Lead a team responsible for conducting inspections of ADLAs with regard to the provisions of the Exchange Control Regulations as well as the AML and combating the financing of terrorism (CFT) measures set out in the FIC Act.
• Conclude inspections of ADLAs by producing inspection reports to the management of the ADLAs, producing appropriate directives to address the identified weaknesses.
• Provide information to management on the progress of inspections and their findings.
• Advise and provide support to internal and external clients and stakeholders and sustain working relationships.
• Facilitate collaboration with other divisions, including external stakeholders and functions impacting work.
• Serve on various committees and ad hoc working groups when required.
• Perform ad hoc duties and participate in special projects when required.
• Provide input on the review and update of various internal and external documents and surveys.
• Manage the efficiency and quality of the division's deliverables.

Qualifications

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• an Honours degree in Law, Economics, Accounting, Auditing, Finance or an equivalent NQF8 qualification;
• at least 10 years’ experience in the exchange control/banking/AML or another relevant regulatory environment; and
• two years’ experience in team management.

Additional requirements include:

• knowledge and experience in:
• the Exchange Control Regulations and South African exchange control system; 
• risk management practices and standards;
• inspections-related project management experience; 
• a technical understanding of the AML/CFT obligations set out in the Financial Intelligence Centre Amendment Act 1 of 2017; 
• research skills;
• demonstrated analytical skills; 
• the ability to organise and understand complex material;
• problem-solving skills;
• the ability to work under pressure and in a team environment;
• the ability to lead and manage change;
• teamwork skills;
• the ability to develop and grow others;
• the ability to build and maintain relationships;
• a drive for results;
• impact and influence;
• effective verbal and written communication (including presentation and report writing) skills; and
• competence in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

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Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Drive or lead a team in providing functional support to SARB users with a focus on testing, analysis, configuration, system setup and general support.
• Drive functional analysis initiatives or lead a team of analysts/a cross-functional team on multi-year/long cycle projects.
• Lead engagements with clients, taking responsibility for managing relationships and client interfaces.
• Develop a partnership role with business owners and interact with clients independently to define future business requirements, identify opportunities for optimisation and propose and develop solutions.
• Support the relevant architect in defining, analysing and developing the business architecture, reference model, framework and implementation roadmaps required to enable the strategy.
• Manage change requirements and the supporting specifications and plan and coordinate user acceptance testing.
• Provide substantive input to support disciplines (e.g. systems development, project management, quality management and change management).
• Apply industry best practice to optimise effective and efficient business processes and procedures.
• Identify and register risks within their respective application’s functional streams and manage risk mitigation.
• Develop system training manuals, training plans and present training courses in support of new initiatives.
• Configure complex business processes and tasks (where appropriate) within a system to improve and provide specialised functional support.
• Assure the quality of the work and outputs of application functional specialists.

Qualifications

Job requirements

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• an Honours degree (NQF 8) in Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Technology (IT) or an equivalent qualification; and
• eight to ten years’ experience in the business analysis/application support/project environment, including the development and maintenance of existing software in applications, as well as in functional and business analysis within the application implementation and/or support environments.

Additional requirements include:

• knowledge and skill in:
• industry, organisational and business awareness;
• quality assurance;
• continual improvement;
• continued learning and professional development;
• business transformation and optimisation; 
• elicitation techniques;
• business analysis practices, methodologies and tools;
• realisation and testing practices; and
• IT domain management. 

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Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Drive or lead the monitoring of underlying environments (databases and application servers) to ensure capacity management, systems availability and optimal long-term performance.
• Ensure system availability, configuration, upgrades and general support for all BSTD applications.
• Drive enhancements of all BSTD applications through the installation of new features and by configuring solution architecture throughout the application lifecycle to ensure the delivery of new functionality.
• Provide guidance and technical input in the resolution of high-complexity issues across all BSTD applications.
• Lead engagements with cross-functional stakeholders and take responsibility for managing relationships.
• Keep abreast of industry best practices and technologies and lead the implementation thereof to optimise effective and efficient business applications.
• Impart knowledge of the technical environment to the system development team.
• Proactively identify and drive initiatives to ensure compliance and adherence to security and application standards across all BSTD applications.
• Identify and manage the mitigation of risks relating to the support of all BSTD applications.
• Provide reporting and recommendations on solution performance and system availability to senior management and relevant stakeholders.
• Assist and develop application technical specialists by providing technical guidance and assuring the quality of their outputs.

Qualifications

Job requirements

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• an Honours degree in Computer Science, Information Management, Information Technology (IT) or an equivalent qualification; and
• eight to ten years’ experience in supporting, maintaining and enhancing IT business applications.

Additional requirements include:

• knowledge and skill in:
• industry, organisational and business awareness;
• quality assurance;
• continual improvement;
• continued learning and professional development;
• business continuity and planning;
• IT enablement planning;
• IT transformation and innovation;
• release management;
• application design, configuration and development;
• application support and maintenance;
• infrastructure design and development;
• systems integration;
• workload estimation; and 
• technical analysis.