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Job Summary

• The purpose of the role is to be responsible for working with Barclays Africa’s business areas to identify, investigate and analyse problems faced by business/product owners. Based on the analysis the Business Analyst needs to propose a solution, to fully address the business requirements needed to optimize the business.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities 

Accountability:  Project Establishment Initiation Activities

• 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 and assist the Product Owner and Project Manager in the management of change requests.
• Provide input to the business areas impacted by projects and changes about 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.
• Receive the necessary information for allocated projects from the PM, including the Concept and project scope.  Assist in ensuring that the definition of the project scope and all other documentation needed in the Project Concept and/or Project Charter document/s is aligned by facilitating a project definition workshop with the Product Owner and other Stakeholders.
• 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 and IT for use in defining and designing the project.
• Assist the PM by providing advice, investigating, as well as, timelines and plans for the Project.
• 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.
• Project manage a sub-project or work stream, when required to do so by the PM.
• Assist the Project Manager (PM) to provide information, when required, in order for the 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.
• Provide and update UAT reports on a Daily, weekly and monthly basis during UAT testing periods and provide the information to the PMs.

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, and 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.
• Design and provide 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.
• Provide a functional decomposition of identified requirements through consultation with stakeholders to ensure that the business requirements be developed and delivered by the project.
• Validate documented solutions in a walk-through workshop with stakeholders, 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

• Review the systems-management function results, after the IT systems integration testing (SIT) by IT staff, to ensure that the technology solution meets the business requirements.
• Compile Test Plans and Test cases for User Acceptance Testing.
• Co-ordinate user acceptance testing with regard to requesting for securing and contracting User testers with the Product Owner and Product Manager, identifying the test location, arranging the relevant access rights, conducting and co-ordinating the UAT testing where applicable,  and by documenting all results and where required perform User Acceptance Testing (UAT) as undertaken and stipulated by the Africa Technology methodology.
• Assess the solution/s by benchmarking with Industry and 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 and experience required

• Relevant National Diploma/Advance diploma or equivalent NQF level 6 qualification
• Relevant NQF level 7 or higher is preferred
• At least 3 years work experience in the Financial Industry would be advantageous
• 3 - 10 years business analysis/business consulting experience
• Solid knowledge & understanding of Project principles, practices, disciplines specifically the contents of Business Analysis Book of Knowledge (BABOK)
• Previous direct involvement in business-change projects would be advantageous
• NO REFERRAL FEE PAYABLE

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

Job Description

• Candidate with BCom finance/quantitative degree and proven working experience within an Investment Banking environment in a business reporting/finance role or in market risk, capital adequacy or liquidity role to join Financial Resource Management team and assist the firm in monitoring large lending transactions, client returns, portfolio returns and business cases for both Johannesburg Loan Operating Committee (JLOC) and Business Selection Committee (BSC) whilst cognizant of associated risks and Portfolio Management frameworks. The position requires extensive knowledge of Economic and Regulatory Capital, the practical interpretation and implementation thereof in Portfolio Analysis. Pricing methodologies and the application thereof (expected loss and term structures) are key requirements. The analyst will work directly in the Private Side Portfolio team and interact with deal teams across both Product and Coverage.

More specifically the role requires the following:

DEAL ACTIVITY MONITORING:

• Maintain a continuous pricing comparison and provide guidance on JLOC and BSC transaction submissions in terms of transaction structure, risk, funding and pricing with specific focus on Regulatory and Economic Capital consumption.
• Attend JLOC and BSC meetings and assist in ensuring minutes accurately reflect decisions made, check recorded minutes, and interact with JLOC Co-ordinator.
• Capture and maintain JLOC/BSC transaction register in terms of pricing trends, success and failure profile and provide insights and trend analysis to a wider audience.
• Monitor all deal implementations and update the JLOC database with the updated detail and incorporate credit requirements.
• Monitor and flag sub-200m transactions, derivative, Trade Finance and WC transactions not presented at JLOC.
• Active involvement with deal teams in the construction of a detailed ancillary database on three-year business case forecasts and track JLOC and BSC ancillary business promise.

PORTFOLIO REPORTING:

• JLOC reporting covering client and product profitability analysis based on economic and regulatory capital requirements and subsequent performance.
• Credit portfolio performance, taking into account trends in the back-book, with the view to optimise financial resource allocation, including formulating the internal portfolio credit risk outlook measured against external market signals.

PORTFOLIO RESEARCH:

• Consultation with quantitative team on methodologies used for economic capital calculations.
• Active engagement with Credit team on credit risk appetite and stress testing, including credit earnings at risk and evaluation against Mandate and Scale parameters with specific focus on risk and return principles.

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

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.

People

•  Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team
•  Support the people change teams in the development of user material (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption)
• Risk & Governance
•  Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post release)
•  Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks
•  Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents

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

• Design automation testing plans and develop automation test scripts for multiple technical products / services (pre, during & post deployment) in both ‘Run & Change’ contexts and align to chosen application testing frameworks & guidelines. Testing may apply to all or a combination of the following front-end, back-end, integration, performance, scalability and regression testing of solutions. This entails full responsibility for ensuring products are protected through quantifiable test coverage & metrics.

Job Description

QA Engineering

•  Proactively contribute & participate in the full solution development lifecycle as a member of a squad / multiple squads as an QA automation specialist engineer
•  Actively participate in daily Scrum and project planning meetings.
•  Participate and analyze test automation requirements during the requirements analysis phase of technical product & service development, maintenance & optimization (across tribes & squads) – using design specifications and technical documentation (e.g. Business Briefs, User Stories, Architecture & Integration documentation)
•  Prepare QA & Automation testing documentation (planning, design, execution and sustainability)
•  Develop automation test plans
•  Develop and execute automated test scripts using various technologies (automated scripts, test harnesses, SQL scripts etc.)
•  Perform various types of automation testing (regression, integration, black box, scalability)
•  Evaluate automated test cases and analyse & report results
•  Facilitate test plan / case reviews within squads
•  Work with product engineers to evaluate software / solution quality & provide recommendations for improvement / enhancement
•  Contribute to the design and selection of testing frameworks for business applications
•  Deliver all automation & technical testing deliverables on time (always)
•  Provide the required project / scrum related information / feedback on deliverables (e.g. progress, tracking, quality etc.)
•  Conduct performance monitoring on applications / components of applications for which you’ve designed and executed test scripts / plans
•  Produce quality and testing outcome metrics and reports

DevOps

•  Follow engineering best practices and continuously improve on engineering knowledge to successfully shift our QA capability forward
•  Leverage coding language understanding & expertise to deploy testing requirements for specific products / services
•  Understand the full technical solution that is being tested – show interest and capability to run the technical solution & the ability to test the viability of the code being developed
•  Shift from testing features to supporting & being accountable for full product delivery

Risk & Governance

•  Ensure compliance with technical risk and governance requirements
•  Ensure work is compliant with automation testing frameworks and standards
•  Proactively identify and communicate risks ahead of need
•  Participate in Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Incident Management processes as required and implement mitigating actions

People

•  Participate in peer reviews & continuously develop automation testing awareness & capability across squads

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 Description

Analysis (including Business Case)

•  Proactively build relationships with business areas & DevOps teams to proactively develop expertise in the various business process.
•  Apply analytical techniques to elicit and validate business (product & service) needs
•  Translate elicited needs and knowledge acquired into user story format to be used by DevOps teams
•  Prepare and prioritise the backlog of requirements for the user stories linked to the proposed solutions & or units of analysis
•  Provide input into detailed solution roadmaps, business cases (e.g. effort estimations) & product & service visions (including detailed analysis requirements & solution scope)
•  Define measures of success & key outcomes for various solutions / changes including detailed acceptance criteria for all features
•  Define & execute testing requirements (pass or fail test cases)
•  Document all systems analysis outcomes (requirements, test cases etc.) for specific solutions & support the documentation processes for system analysis for the broader team

Solution Design (within DevOps Context)

•  Translate business requirements into detailed systems requirements. Detailed system requirements must include capabilities, interfaces and functionalities within and across technologies.
•  Leverage business analysis & modeling tools and apply notation standards such as UML/BPMN to diagrammatically/visually document: business requirements, business processes, system processes & integration.
•  Socialize and gain business approval for integrated requirements with key stakeholders
•  Proactively learn & leverage knowledge on the organisations technical landscape, environment and broader architecture to systems requirements
•  Work collaboratively with project / program teams, squads, scrum masters and engineers to define backlog, release & DevOps / project planning implications of the requirements (what should happen when)
•  Continuously improve system requirements mapping (e.g. leverage input from questions asked etc. to consistently improve the quality of the requirements analysis for easier interpretation by the development teams)
•  Work as part of the embedded DevOps team throughout the design process to review solution design (features and functionality)
•  Facilitate resolution during development & testing phases for any change requirements

Solution Delivery & Testing (manual)

•  Define & implement the manual testing strategy & test cases for various solutions (where it makes sense to do so)
•  Define & validate quality & testing parameters (+/-) & plans for the solution (socialize & translate these to automation testing teams)
•  Develop & implement manual testing frameworks and patterns for the solution
•  Execute testing processes for various solutions (e.g. execute test cases, analyse results)
•  Provide real time feedback to the DevOps teams on change requirements identified throughout the testing process
•  Review & monitor system stability, resilience etc. throughout the testing process (e.g. integration) & in production
•  Define & monitor overall backlog planning for effective solution delivery
•  Provide Developer & User support during user acceptance testing

People

•  Participate in peer reviews & problem solving within and across the broader team

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

• Work as part of a DevOps team, apply analysis & testing tools, frameworks, techniques and practices to elicit, define and organize business requirements into user stories. And following this analysis, work collaboratively within squads during design & delivery activity with a specific focus on testing.

Job Description

Analysis (including Business Case)

•  Proactively build relationships with business areas & DevOps teams to proactively develop expertise in the various business process.
•  Apply analytical techniques to elicit and validate business (product & service) needs
•  Translate elicited needs and knowledge acquired into user story format to be used by DevOps teams
•  Prepare and prioritise the backlog of requirements for the user stories linked to the proposed solutions & or units of analysis
•  Provide input into detailed solution roadmaps, business cases (e.g. effort estimations) & product & service visions (including detailed analysis requirements & solution scope)
•  Define measures of success & key outcomes for various solutions / changes including detailed acceptance criteria for all features
•  Define & execute testing requirements (pass or fail test cases)
•  Document all systems analysis outcomes (requirements, test cases etc.) for specific solutions & support the documentation processes for system analysis for the broader team

Solution Design (within DevOps Context)

•  Translate business requirements into detailed systems requirements. Detailed system requirements must include capabilities, interfaces and functionalities within and across technologies.
•  Leverage business analysis & modeling tools and apply notation standards such as UML/BPMN to diagrammatically/visually document: business requirements, business processes, system processes & integration.
•  Socialize and gain business approval for integrated requirements with key stakeholders
•  Proactively learn & leverage knowledge on the organisations technical landscape, environment and broader architecture to systems requirements
•  Work collaboratively with project / program teams, squads, scrum masters and engineers to define backlog, release & DevOps / project planning implications of the requirements (what should happen when)
•  Continuously improve system requirements mapping (e.g. leverage input from questions asked etc. to consistently improve the quality of the requirements analysis for easier interpretation by the development teams)
•  Work as part of the embedded DevOps team throughout the design process to review solution design (features and functionality)
•  Facilitate resolution during development & testing phases for any change requirements

Solution Delivery & Testing (manual)

•  Define & implement the manual testing strategy & test cases for various solutions (where it makes sense to do so)
•  Define & validate quality & testing parameters (+/-) & plans for the solution (socialize & translate these to automation testing teams)
•  Develop & implement manual testing frameworks and patterns for the solution
•  Execute testing processes for various solutions (e.g. execute test cases, analyse results)
•  Provide real time feedback to the DevOps teams on change requirements identified throughout the testing process
•  Review & monitor system stability, resilience etc. throughout the testing process (e.g. integration) & in production
•  Define & monitor overall backlog planning for effective solution delivery
•  Provide Developer & User support during user acceptance testing

People

•  Participate in peer reviews & problem solving within and across the broader team

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

• Absa’s CIB Technology team provides technology support to the organization’s Corporate and Investment Banking sector.  This IT Services team is specifically dedicated to our Markets business area and is responsible for the support, enhancement and maintenance of all Trade and Post Trade vendor and bespoke application suites that fall within the Markets business area.
• We are looking for a Specialist Front Arena Developer with experience in Financial Markets (trading) and with a balance of quantitative knowledge vs technical knowledge for the Front Arena team.

Job Description

Key critical requirements:

• 5 - 8 years of experience in the Investment Banking / Capital Markets IT domain
• 5 years of experience in Front Arena (or equivalent system) development / consulting projects
• Strong technical skills: Software design and development, Business analysis, quality assurance, release management
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and stakeholder’s management skills
• Ability to perform in a challenging and dynamic environment
• Experience in: Front Arena AEF: ACM, AEL, ADFL, ASQL, Python, C# .net, C++, MS SQL, XSLT
• Deep knowledge of FA components such as PRIME, ADS, AMB, AMBA, ATS, AMWI, PACE, APS, AFG-AMB, SWIFT adapters, Adaptiv Docs etc.
• Functional skills required: In depth understanding of asset classes such as equity, Fixed Income, Credit, FX, their valuation models and product lifecycle, Financial Risk Management, Regulatory and risk reporting, trading and Position management.

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  
• 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.

People

Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team

Support the people change teams in the development of user material (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption)

Risk & Governance

• Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post release)
• Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks
• Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents

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

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.

People

•  Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team
•  Support the people change teams in the development of user material (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption)

Risk & Governance

•  Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post release)
•  Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks
•  Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents

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 Description

• Accomplished FX sales person to be appointed in Cape Town office. Will be appointed to manage all FX sales activity for a large portfolio of clients ranging from Multinationals, large Local Corporate and Medium Business. The successful candidate will be appointed at VP level and must have a proven track record in FX sales and developing client relationships through strong value add. A good understanding of regulatory environment affecting FX is required. B degree with min 5 years relevant expertise. Self-starter with strong networking capability.

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

go to method of application »

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

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.

People

•  Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team
•  Support the people change teams in the development of user material (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption)

Risk & Governance

•  Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post release)
•  Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks
•  Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents

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