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Job Summary

• To prepare specialised information for all stakeholders of the business for informed decision making and to support the business.

Job Description

• Design and maintain reports: Design and maintain standard reporting templates against relevant requirements | Information collation: Collate required information from relevant sources to ensure that reporting timelines can be adhered to | Administration: Effectively fulfil all required administrative duties | Compliance and Risk Management: Ensure that all team activities are in adherence to relevant control and compliance requirements, and quality standards | : | : | : | :

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

• To provide advanced project management services and to develop, maintain and enhance operational business relationships.

Job Description

• The Global Markets team within CIB Investment Banking is looking for a Senior Project Manager to assist with the successful delivery of technology and business projects and to ensure alignment of projects and project outcomes to the business, IT strategies and objectives. Investment Banking / Global Markets and or Market Risk experience is fundamental for this role. 
• Absa Global Markets is a Pan African market leader, engaging in sales, trading and research activities across all major asset classes in our 13 presence markets and key non-presence markets. The team delivers cross-asset pricing, hedging and risk management capabilities across the product spectrum to corporate and institutional clients, both on the continent and offshore.
• The technology team supports the business throughout the whole trade lifecycle. This includes trade execution, trade risk management, post-trade servicing, product control, and compliance. The lifecycle is managed across a number of platforms which includes in-house built as well as vendor solutions.

Accountabilities:

• Manage the end-to-end execution of waterfall and agile projects (Business and Technology);
• Manage complex initiatives that span one or multiple lines of business;
• Must be able to engage with senior business and technology stakeholders;
• Provide leadership for project team by building and motivating team members to meet project goals;
• Prepare estimates and detailed project plan for all phases of the project;
• Ensure that adequate resources are allocated to achieve project objectives in planned timeframes; this will entail negotiating with various business and technical stakeholders for said resources;
• Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks and issues, budgets, communicating across leadership;
• Understand interdependencies between technology, operations and business needs; understanding (or build the understanding in short time span) of the business and technologies involved;
• Develop and manage all aspects of project and program engagement from planning, external vendor relationships, communications, resources, budget, change, risks and issues;
• Set and continually manage project and program expectations while delegating and managing deliverable with team members and stakeholders;
• Deliver appropriate and effective executive level communication;
• Monitor, track and control outcomes to resolve issues, conflicts, dependencies and critical path deliverables;
• Ensure that company governance controls are adhered to

Key critical requirements:

• Minimum 7 years’ Project Management experience, across technology and business
• Investment Banking / Global Markets and or Market Risk experience (essential)
• Excellent experience in SDLC Methodologies, Agile, SDLC / Waterfall;
• Strong leadership, diplomatic and motivational skills including the ability to lead up, across and down multiple business and technology organizations;
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation and excellence;
• Build and maintain relationships by engaging business leaders to establish credibility, solve problems, build consensus and achieve objectives;
• Excellent leadership, communication (written, verbal and presentation) and interpersonal skills;
• Self-motivated, decisive, with the ability to adapt to change and competing demands;
• Experience drafting and submitting budget proposals and recommending subsequent budget changes where necessary;
• Experience in successfully leading technology and business projects and programs on-time, on-schedule and within budget close;
• Experience leading, motivating and managing various project and program team sizes, including internal and external resources, while holding team accountable for performance;
• Strong experience presenting to executive sponsors and demonstrated communication skills; both written and oral with technical and non-technical staff, all levels of management;
• Experience influencing and gaining buy-in from executives sponsors, team members, stakeholders and peers;
• Team-building skills with technical and non-technical staff;
• Experience working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment;
• Flexible with proven ability to conform to shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities;
• Technically competent with various software programs, including but not limited to Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio), Microsoft Projects;
• Must be able to learn, understand and apply new technologies;
• Support diverse and inclusive work environment

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

• The role is in RBB Finance in the Product Control.  To manage the risks that sits in the Balance Sheet.  The focus will be on supporting/roll the Head of Department to roll out greater RBB Strategy (External Audit, internal Audit, RBB Recons Dashboard, Robotics Project and streamlining of processes).

Job Description

• Assist Head of Department (HoD) to roll-out Product Control Strategy across greater RBB.
• Support the external audit and internal audit across RBB.
• Co-ordinate Robotics Project to ensure that critical manual processes are automated.
• Capacity creation: Identify and streamline processes in order to improve efficiencies and turnaround time in the team.
• Risk Management: play an oversight role on recons that RBB has outsourced some of the Recons to 3 Centre of excellences, namely, Financial Shared Services (FSSA), Tech Enablement and Accounting control.
• RBB Recons Dashboard: Work with FSSA, Tech Enablement and Accounting Control to get monthly Recons Dashboards and manage the risks that sits in the recons.
• IT incidents Dashboard, Deep-dive exercise on Product Control Suspense GL,
• Produce monthly reports/power point presentations to be presented at different forums.

Education

• Bachelor Honours Degree: Accounting (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

Role Description

• This role provides an exciting opportunity within the Chief Technology Office - Artificial Intelligence team. The Fullstack Engineer / Developer serves as a development and support expert with a responsibility for the design, development, automation, testing, on-going support and administration, along with documentation of their delivery. The position balances a fast-paced work environment with the expectation of the completion of work activities meticulously and effectively; working independently within our highly collaborative integrated teams; creating new code with ensuring it doesn't disrupt previous versions. The ideal candidate is required to be passionate about solving complex technical problems across all levels of software architecture, development, and debugging.

Technologies/skills:

• 4+ years' relevant experience
• C#.NET, ASP.NET MVC 4+ (dotnet core a plus)
• WEB API
• Angular
• RESTful services
• SCSS/LESS/TypeScript - having worked with preprocessor languages
• UI charting (D3/highcharts/etc.)
• Experience with material design is a plus
• Experience with application dev in AWS is a plus
• Attention to detail for UI design
• Understanding large scale systems
• Familiar with Agile methodologies
• Experience and knowledge on CI/CD and tooling used ¡V Azure DevOps, Jenkins
• Preferred: Experience with some of the following: SQL, Apache Hadoop, Spark, AWS, Kubernetes, Linux, Bash, version control tools, continuous integration tools

You will have the opportunity of working directly across the firm with developers, operations staff, data scientists, architects and business constituents to develop and enhance the Big Data service.

• Development and deployment of data applications
• Design and Implementation of infrastructure tooling and work on horizontal frameworks and libraries
• Creation of data ingestion pipelines between legacy data warehouses and the big data stack
• Automation of application back-end workflows
• Building and maintaining backend services created by multiple services framework
• Maintain and enhance applications backed by Big Data computation applications
• Be eager to learn new approaches and technologies
• Must be a clear methodical thinker with good problem solving skills
• Strong programming skills with drive and strong work ethic
• Background in computer science, engineering, physics, mathematics or equivalent
• Worked on Big Data platforms (Vanilla Hadoop, Cloudera or Hortonworks)
• Experienced and technically strong UI developer (Angular) that is backend (C#) savvy
• Preferred: Experience with Scala or other functional languages (Haskell, Clojure, Kotlin, Clean)
• Preferred: Experience with some of the following: Apache Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Pig, Oozie, ZooKeeper, MongoDB, CouchbaseDB, Impala, Kudu, Linux, Bash, version control tools, continuous integration tools

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

• We are looking for an experienced DevOps (Development and Operations) professional to join our growing organization. In this position, you will manage infrastructure projects and processes. Keen attention to detail, problem-solving abilities, and a solid knowledge base are essential.

Job Description

DevOps Duties and Responsibilities

• Work directly with the DevOps team and Senior DevOps manager to test system integrity
• Design and implement build, deployment, and configuration management
• Test implemented designs
• Build and test automation tools for infrastructure provisioning
• Handle code deployments in all environments
• Monitor metrics and develop ways to improve
• Provide technical guidance and educate team members and coworkers on development and operations
• Brainstorm for new ideas and ways to improve development delivery
• Consult with peers for feedback during testing stages
• Build, maintain, and monitor configuration standards
• Maintain day-to-day management and administration of projects
• Manage CI and CD tools with team
• Document and design various processes; update existing processes
• Improve infrastructure development and application development
• Follow all best practices and procedures as established by the company

DevOps Requirements and Qualifications

• High school degree or equivalent; bachelor’s degree in CS, engineering, software engineering, or related field
• Linux and Automation Certificate
• Minimum 2 years’ previous experience in development and operations, or related IT, computer, or operations field
• Previous experience with software development, infrastructure development, or development and operations
• Experience with Linux infrastructures, databases scripting such as JavaScript, PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, .NET, Agile workflow methodologies
• Understanding of source code repo and version control process flow such as bitbucket,git language
• Patching Management process and tools
• Automation tools preferably Ansible and Awx
• Up-to-date on the latest industry trends; able to articulate trends and potential clearly and confidently
• Good interpersonal skills and communication with all levels of management
• Able to multitask, prioritize, and manage time efficiently

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

• To develop tactical strategy and delivery plans, formulate associated practice/s and to ensure operational implementation and adoption i.t.o. credit risk management methodology, practice, governance and delivery objectives.

Job Description

• Develop and provide input for (country and sovereign) risk models (i.e. understanding sovereign PD models) as well as giving input in deal structuring to mitigate risks.
• Conduct meetings with multilateral organisations, governments and key clients across African countries
• Conduct high quality research and analysis, covering political, macro-economic and business trends and forecasts for the Africa and Emerging Markets region
• Prepare country and sovereign rating reports for Sub-Saharan African countries
• Conduct relevant country visits to hold risk related meeting with IMF, government agencies etc.
• Undertake industry/sector analysis for the purpose of enhanced analysis of countries and the sovereign
• Provide support to business in developing prudent strategies given the country risk profile
• Develop and maintain sovereign and country risk rating models.
• Engage with Wholesale Credit Stakeholders to ensure full understanding of their business strategies into Africa, building credible relationships both globally and locally.
• Provide Management information on the performance of business to key stakeholders Group wide. Drive and participate in Wholesale Credit projects and initiatives outside of immediate areas of responsibility.

Qualifications

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas - Business, Commerce and Management Studies, Credit Risk (Meets all of the requirements), Digital familiarity (Meets some of the requirements and would need further development), Experience in a similar environment at junior specialist level, Openness to change (Meets some of the requirements and would need further development), Reasoning (Meets all of the requirements)

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 Description

Delivery & Support

• Manage and provide support for software and applications as per the service level agreement.
• Manage Office 365 and monitor Office 365 service health
• Evaluate Office 365 capabilities and make recommendations for leveraging new features
• Keep up with industry knowledge of Microsoft Office 365, concepts, best practices
• Microsoft Teams administration and creating a deployment strategy
• Assist with the migration of data into Office 365
• Maintain a highly secure Office 365 system through proper configuration
• Work closely with Information Security to establish Office 365 access monitoring
• Troubleshoot Office 365 issues including connectivity and mobility
• Office 365 user administration, including the removal of user accounts, management of service requests, file sharing and permissions, group policies, etc.
• On-going analysis of current Office 365 security features
• Serve as a knowledge expert on Office 365 applications, advising on best practices of use and third-party integrations
• Assist in the architecture of and administration of security policies encompassing all Office 365 and Azure services
• Administer Microsoft Intune/Microsoft Endpoint Manager
• Define and build Office 365 administrative procedures
• Recommend and implement governance techniques
• Manage Office 365 Pro Plus deployment groups and coordinate the release of the respective Office 365 Pro Plus updates to users
• Continually nurture our white-glove support culture in an Office 365 environment
• Champion the adoption of Office 365 services as appropriate for our business

Education and experience required

• 3-5 years of Office 365 and Microsoft Exchange administration experience
• Knowledge and support experience on AD and ADFS
• Knowledge and experience on working with Microsoft Teams or Skype for Business
• Experience with Azure AD and O365
• Knowledge of Authentication, Identity and Access Management (IAM), and Conditional Access Policies
• Solid understanding of Windows administration and PowerShell scripting
• Microsoft MCSE Certified
• ITIL V4 Certified

Knowledge & Skills:

• Results oriented
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

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

• Leveraging a thorough understanding of the business data requirements & own data subject matter expertise (ahead of trend), set data architecture direction & lead the agile solution design, deployment, implementation & ongoing optimization of enterprise wide data retrieval, storage and distribution across an estate.

Job Description

• A Hadoop Big Data Engineer is a professional responsible for programming Hadoop applications and knows about all the components or pieces of the Hadoop Ecosystem , understands how the Hadoop components fit together and has the ability to decide on which is the best Hadoop component for a specific task.
• In this role, you will be part of the Data Operations team that is responsible for supporting all the Applications on the Hadoop ecosystem. This role expands in maintaining changes on datasets and optimisation activities on all Applications, including new development.
• They therefore need to understand basic programming to enable them to manage Big Data and to transfer all data to Hadoop.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field.

Job Experience & Skills Required:

• 8+ years experience
• 5 - 8 years’ experience with designing and building, BI systems and complex data eco systems
• 5 + years’ experience working in Big data environment, optimising and building big data pipelines, architectures and data sets with e.g. Java, Scala, Python, Hadoop, Apache Spark and Kafka
• Cross domain knowledge
• Minimum one year experience with Scala programming language
• Familiarity with Hadoop ecosystem and its components
• Good knowledge of the concepts of Hadoop
• Solid experience in a working environment in Big Data development utilising SQL or Python
• Experience in Big Data development using Spark
• Experience in Hadoop, HDFS and MapReduce
• Experience in database design, development and data modelling
• Data architecture and security

The following additional knowledge, skills and attributes are preferred:

• Good knowledge in back-end programming, specifically java
• Experience with development in a Linux environment and its basic commands
• Ability to write reliable, manageable, and high-performance code
• Should have basic knowledge of SQL, database structures, principles, and theories
• Knowledge of workflow/schedulers
• Strong collaboration and communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills

Responsibilities

Play a lead role in the Data Operations Team

• Prioritise tasks assign to the team
• Give input and quality assure the tasks allocated to the team
• Give input and feedback to team members on progress of tasks
• Identify optimisation opportunities
• Improvement on recovery time in case of prod failures
• Test prototypes and oversee handover to the operational teams
• Attend and contribute to regular project meetings
• Responsible for the actual coding or programming of Hadoop applications
• Propose best practices and standards
• Maintain security and data privacy
• High-speed querying
• Translate complex functional and technical requirements into detailed design

Education

• 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