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• As the Lead for the Colleague Services team across the Southern Hemisphere, you will be responsible for the delivery of exceptional end-user IT support services across multiple regions. This includes oversight of desktop support, trader support, IT walk-in centres, and device and mobile management. You will play a pivotal role in shaping the colleague experience by ensuring operational excellence, fostering a high-performance culture, automating workloads through AI and aligning service delivery with business needs. Your key responsibilities would be to contribute to the overall ITS Colleague Services strategy supporting the Investec Digital and Technology strategic objectives. Developing and maintaining the performance of the team in line with target competences and ensuring service delivery meets SLA's and stakeholder expectations. You will be enabling seamless colleague experiences using the Microsoft eco-system for personal productivity and collaboration as well as building and maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders while ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction.

Experience, skills and capability

• A minimum of 2 years in a technical team leadership role, with direct reports.
• Regulatory Knowledge to ensure compliance with regulatory and security requirements across the supported region.
• Prior technical experience in delivery and/or technical team leadership in at least one of the core pillar capabilities of a Digital Modern workplace.
• Prior experience of leading the development and implementation of AI-driven projects across the organisation.
• Prior experience of collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities for AI integration.
• Prior demonstrable experience in implementing large, complex technical delivery spanning multiple domains and business teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Be able to influence and build relationships and enable process with external and internal stakeholders and leaders across the group. 
• Demonstrate strong decision-making capability and drive innovation. 
• Demonstrate deep appreciation and understanding of the Investec culture and be able to apply that knowledge across various Investec geographies.
• Have prior experience in program and coordination capability - essential to enabling highly complex and inter-connected technical delivery.
• Willingness and availability to travel to various Group offices, as and when needed.

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Description

• As a Quality Assurance Test Automation Engineer, you will work closely with the engineering agile teams and stakeholders to help build and evolve Investec's automated testing capability and framework to ensure continuous delivery of high-quality code.  You will design, implement and maintain automated test frameworks, integrate them into our CI/CD pipelines, and champion a shift left, AI augmented testing culture. You will collaborate closely with developers, business analysts and DevOps to ensure every release meets Investec's quality, security and regulatory standards. You will work with Product, Support and Customer teams to identify high-impact bugs and coordinate fixes and ways to prevent them through automation with the engineering team.

Result

• Automated regression, API and performance suites coverage of critical user journeys.
• Improve release cycle time thanks to reliable, fast feedback loops.
• Defect escape rate to production reduces year‑on‑year.
• CI/CD pipeline health dashboards surface quality gates and AI‑generated test insights in real time.
• Development teams adopt automation best‑practice through your coaching and enablement.
• Test plans and Test cases
• Defect management
• Regression maintenance
• Active participation in QA guild and the QA community.
• Undertake any reasonable duties, aligned to your skills, that are required to achieve team objectives

Experience, skills and capability

• Degree or diploma including 4+ years working years' experience in the testing competency (Automated and Manual)
• AZ900 Certification and other azure certifications relevant to a QA
• Experience with test automation and continuous integration/delivery tools such as Playwright, Cucumber, Cypress, Appium, JMeter, Selenium, RestAssured, RestSharp.
• Proficiency with Azure Devops
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining Azure DevOps Pipelines and Test Plans, orchestrating load tests with Azure Load Testing, and instrumenting releases with Azure Monitor/Application Insights. 
• Support the maintenance and enhancement of the CI/CD pipeline
• Strong technical knowledge and an ability to train development teams in the usage of test frameworks and infrastructure
• Ability to navigate SQL or run work queries to set up test data & validate technical aspects of initiatives
• Knowledge with REST API and WEB/Mobile GUI testing as well as experience writing automated API tests
• Familiarity with AI‑enabled testing tools and enthusiasm for exploring emerging approaches.
• Excellent problem‑solving, communication and stakeholder‑management skills; comfortable working in agile, DevOps‑oriented environments.

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Description of the role 

• Investec Sandton is looking for a project manager who will plan, manage, and lead the delivery of multiple projects (strategic/business/technical) for Private Bank (PB), in line with the project management governance framework, application & integration architecture and IT governance standards. Will be accountable and responsible for driving the successful delivery of the required outcomes (scope) within the approved timeframe (schedule) and cost (budget).
• Responsibilities include day-to-day management of all aspects of prioritised and approved change delivery activity across PB; utilizing the defined PB Change Delivery Life Cycle (CDLC) to manage project delivery; responsibility for regular progress and status reporting for all assigned change delivery activities, as well as proactively identifying, reporting and managing all risks, issues and changes that may impact the project outcomes; balance the competing demands of scope, time, cost, quality, resources and risk (ready to challenge and be challenged in the right way); delivery of the project outcomes to meet the stakeholder needs on budget and on time and participating fully in the development of the PB Change Delivery team and processes.

Description of the skill and experience required 

• Delivery of projects in the Banking Sector
• Forex, trading and cross border payments/processes including understanding of foreign exchange regulatory requirements
• Structured project management methodologies
• Agile or lean project management methodologies
• Knowledge of cloud technologies
• Delivery of Technology Projects
• Service Management approach

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Description

• Coordinated leadership of Risk and Ops value chain in the region, to ensure effective partnership, collaboration, and integration between risk and operations to drive an efficient, scalable, leveraged, and sustainable business

Experience, skills and capability

Operations and Risk

• Leading and managing risk and operations in the region, in close partnership with regional pillar heads
• Co-ordinate people leadership in partnership with regional and national risk pillar heads
• Holding the operational and risk value chain in the region to ensure end-to-end coordination of the operationalisation of national functional risk strategies across all risk disciplines
• Ensuring operational risk and compliance within the region, including consistency and exceptions processes
• Supporting national risk pillars in achieving process enhancement, national alignment, and leverage
• Working closely with technology teams
• Managing stakeholder relationships
• Representing the region in various national operation and risk forums

Change and Value Chain Integration

• Leading change initiatives, including origination, prioritisation, development, and management
• Managing incident response within the region
• Overseeing facilities management 
• May hold certain national portfolios for the benefit of the broader operations community

Audit

• Ensuring thorough audit processes are in place to maintain high standards of operational and risk management

Experience, skill and capability

• B. Com Degree, LLB or equivalent qualification preferred
• 5 - 10 years' relevant experience 
• Demonstrated strong leadership acumen and gravitas, with the ability to inspire and gain buy-in from diverse teams
• Proven track record as a team player who can lead and collaborate effectively
• Solid understanding of the business processes to facilitate transactions, from deal origination to implementation, across different product offerings
• Investec Private Bank experience is advantageous
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Understand and able to articulate the Investec operations and change landscape

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Description

• Investec Sandton is looking for a Business Analyst for the One Place team within CXT. The role will involve project and business as usual deliverables, the resolution of user issues and requests, as well as maintenance and support of systems and related interfaces. The self-managed individual will have to build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, subject matter experts, other project managers and team members, and will drive the delivery of solutions that meet or exceed expectations and are aligned with business purpose and strategies.

Experience, skills and capability

• Independent and original thinking will be required while solving complex issues, particularly as multiple systems, clients, and technologies are involved. 
• High level business case and solution design (including the Functional requirements Specification) for business-driven requirements within given standards 
• Deliver cost-effective, user friendly, innovative solutions (business process re-engineering, systems, and technology) 
• Participate in the full SDLC depending on the scope of the initiative including post implementation activities. This includes the formulation of appropriate documents to present at the various forums and checkpoints. It also includes the ability to create clear and comprehensive acceptance criteria for development tasks. 
• Ensure that processes, business rules (including decision point trees and rules definitions), data requirements (including Business Data Dictionary and reference List), project administration etc. are accurately and completely documented in line with the delivery strategy 
• Ensure that the solutions meet the changing business requirements in terms of functionality, capacity and reliability 
• Ensure that all projects / SMIs are delivered meeting business requirements, can be measured through a sound business case, and adhere to agreed application and integration architecture principles
• Feedback regularly to the team and stakeholders on progress and knowledge sharing.
• Ability to provide support for client incidents, ensuring timely resolution and effective communication. This includes troubleshooting issues, coordinating with relevant teams, and maintaining a high level of customer service to enhance client satisfaction.

In addition to the above:

• UAT of development tasks.
• Foster stakeholder communication. 
• Drive Agile Scrum Methodology practices within the team.
• Facilitation of prioritization for projects/SMI's with stakeholders 
• Backlog management and prioritisation. 
• Governance adherence for projects/SMI's 
• Facilitation of team ceremonies: stand ups, retrospectives, and demos for the development team.
• Reporting - Compile project dashboards, delivery stats 
• Mange capacity and work allocation across the project teams in the mobile space 
• Continuously evaluating operational processes for improvement with the team (stakeholder communication/ prioritisation/communication/team efficiencies) 
• Mentorship - assist with upskilling Jnr team members. 
• Coaching the Development Team in self-organization and cross-functionality 
• Assist with monthly allocations for projects and team capacity planning. 
• Understanding of application components and maintenance • Ensuring that goals, scope, and product domain are understood by everyone

Qualification and Experience

• 3+ years business analyst experience working in an IT software development team. 
• Hands-on experience working on cloud solutions and SaaS will be an advantage. 
• A proactive mindset focused on identifying and mitigating risks and resolving issues. 
• High levels of ownership and ability to work with a certain amount of ambiguity. 
• Ability to interact and contribute effectively to both functional and technical areas. 
• Excellent leadership, communication, planning and facilitation skills. 
• Critical thinking, solution driven and strong technical background. 
• Experience with working in different teams

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Description

• We are seeking an experienced Angular Web Engineer to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and maintaining our web applications using Angular and related technologies. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Angular development and a passion for creating high-quality, scalable web applications.

Experience, skill and capability

• Develop and maintain our web applications using Angular and related technologies.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement and maintain features.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code.
• Ensure high performance and availability of web applications.
• Participate in code reviews and ensure code quality.
• Stay up to date with emerging trends and technologies in Angular development.

Requirements:

• At least 7 years of experience developing web applications of which at least 3 years using Angular for development
• Experience in creating professionally designed web applications from Figma and working with UI & UX designers
• Strong proficiency in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Deep knowledge of Angular (18+), TypeScript, and related technologies
• Experience with Nx, NGXS, RxJS
• Experience with Angular JS and SASS
• Good eye for styling and creating pixel-perfect components
• Knowledge of RESTful web services and API design
• Experience creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Agile development methodologies
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Testing using Cypress and Jest or similar tools
• Strong understanding of version control (Git)

Nice to have: 

• Experience with other front-end frameworks such as React or Vue
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
• Experience with back-end technologies such as Node.js or .NET
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure