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Description

• The Cloud Enablement Team is dedicated to accelerating the adoption, integration, and optimization of cloud solutions within the Private Bank. This role involves creating, maintaining, enhancing, and supporting our Azure infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code practices. Collaboration with various teams is essential to deliver cost-effective and scalable solutions that align with the business needs.

Experience, skill and capability

Help Teams at all levels of their Cloud Journey:

• Provide guidance and mentorship to teams and individual members, helping them understand cloud concepts and best practices

Align Cloud Solutions with Business Objectives:

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to ensure that cloud solutions meet strategic goals and operational needs
• Evaluate and recommend cloud architectures that enhance business processes, improve efficiency, and drive innovation

Enhance Security Posture:

• Implement and promote best practices for cloud security, including identity and access management, data encryption, and compliance

Proactively Seek Cost-Effective, Performant and Scalable Solutions:

• Analyse existing cloud resources and usage patterns to identify opportunities for cost savings and performance improvements
• Research and evaluate new cloud services and technologies that can optimize resource use and reduce operational costs or increate operational stability

Work Across Many Teams Simultaneously:

• Facilitate collaboration between development teams, DBAs and Cloud Enablement teams

Handle Multiple Projects and Priorities:

• Manage competing priorities effectively, ensuring that projects are completed on time and meet quality standards

Willingness to Learn New Technologies:

• Stay current with emerging cloud technologies and trends, continuously enhancing personal and team knowledge

Generate Trend Reports and Track Key Data Points:

• Develop and maintain reports that track cloud usage, performance metrics, and cost trends to identify areas for improvement

Proactively Close Gaps in Current Designs:

• Regularly review and assess current cloud deployments to identify inefficiencies or outdated practices or CAS modules or azure templates
• Collaborate with teams to implement improvements and ensure that cloud solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with business goals
• Evaluate functional and non-functional requirements with teams 

Foster a Culture of Continuous Improvement:

• Facilitate knowledge sharing and collaboration among teams to promote a unified approach to cloud enablement
• Share, update and create documentation that all teams can use

Key Requirements

Technical Skills

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure and its services
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, Azure Resource Manager templates, Bicep)
• Experience working directly with Development or Product teams 
• Technical understanding of a solution end-to-end 
• Excellent understanding of networking concepts, security practices, and system architecture
• Ability to write scripts in languages such as PowerShell for automation or data processing
• Pragmatic approach to solutions and designs 
• Ability to document and create technical designs for the Azure solutions 

Experience

• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience working with large scale Cloud providers. (Azure or AWS)
• Proven track record of designing, deploying, and managing cloud-based solutions

Soft Skills

• Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive and innovative mindset
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, capable of working across teams
• Ability to mentor junior engineers and promote a culture of learning

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Description

• Working as part of a national team to support the External Consultants by being pro-actively involved in the facilitation, administration and implementation, of intermediary client requests. All underpinned by service excellence to clients at all touch points.

Key Responsibilities

New Business:

• Assisting in compiling new business presentation packs for the sales consultants as well as tracking new business applications received from the sales consultants
• Processing approved new business application including CRM (RADAR), FICA,FATCA/CRS, credit checks of firms and individuals, and facilitating the application of new users through the MUA process.

Handling and supporting any administrative queries around CCM:

• First point of contact for any administrative/technical/process/system related queries with a view of first call resolution
• Building relationships with clients and administrators
• Telephonically hand holding intermediaries through queries and processes with a strong understanding of the CCM system
• Facilitating the guarantee process in partnership with the national guarantee team
• Updating client information on CRM/RADR and Shared drive as well as internal procedures
• Managing and taking ownership of the annual review process by assisting with queries and follow ups to meet national deadlines
• Working closely with the AML (Anti Money Laundering) team with regards to daily requests for their investigations and liaising with clients to obtain relevant information when necessary
• Building relationships and liaising with the Operations team on any complex queries
• Processing forex deals and liaising closely with the forex team with regards to requirements and progress of a forex transaction

Partnering with the External Consultant:

• Building strong relationships with the EC's in order to deliver to the client, and keeping them informed on resolution as well as progress of queries

Training:

• Setting up and co-ordinating training sessions, training new intermediaries as well as ad-hoc training for new users and processes
• Training updates when system or processes are enhanced

Qualification, Experience and Skills

• Relevant Tertiary Degree
• 2 - 3 years relevant experience
• Broad understanding of banking processes

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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

• Investec Sandton is looking for a highly skilled QA Automation Engineer in the Card and Cryptography Tech team to use their unique skillset and experience to successfully deliver quality across several applications. Skilled in Front-end and Back-end automation designing and utilizing automation frameworks. The QA Automation Engineer will be familiar with working in Agile, DevOps culture and CI/CD environment.
• The role entails working closely with the engineering agile teams and stakeholders to help build a world class test automation framework and tooling to ensure continuous delivery of high-quality code as well as be willing to write code and trouble shoot across the application. As a QA Engineer you would be required to be an active voice about test automation and continuous delivery, fostering the automation mindset across the team. The QA Engineer would work with Product, Support and Client success teams to identify high-impact bugs and coordinate fixes and ways to prevent them through automation with the engineering team.

Experience, skill and capability

• B. Com / B.Sc. degree in IT, or equivalent qualification
• ISEB/ISTQB Qualifications
• Solid experience in VB Scripting, HP UFT ALM and API Testing
• Write, design, and execute automated tests by creating scripts that run testing functions automatically
• Maximize test coverage for the most critical features of the system
• Determine the priority for test scenarios and create execution plans to implement these scenarios
• Write documentation for automated processes including test plans, test procedures, and test cases
• Build/Maintain test automation frameworks 
• Log and document bugs in the tracking system
• Set up Continuous Integration
• Solid experience in establishing and maintaining controls for risk and quality
• Defect tracking and reporting tools
• Risk Analysis and Static Techniques
• Test Design Techniques
• Analysis and Reporting
• Change management
• Knowledge of DevOps principles

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Description

• Manage the legal risk of the bank whilst maintaining commerciality, which includes, inter alia, instructions of bonds, authorising payments, restructuring loans, vetting documents, and drafting guarantees. Perusing entity documents to establish locus standi of the entity entering into the contractual obligation.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide a legal advisory and support service with regards to: Instalment sale agreements, Secured and unsecured loans, home loans, building bonds, commercial properties, mortgage commercial developments and restructures 
• Instructing bonds to panel attorneys and managing the file until registration
• Advising consultants on legal aspects of deal structure
• Drafting nonstandard clauses for agreements
• Vetting of documents and authorising payments
• Review credit minutes and ensure that all condition precedents on minutes are fulfilled and security is perfected
• Advise on aspects of Companies Act and Insolvency Act

Qualifications, Experience and Skills

• Bachelor of Law, Admitted Attorney and Conveyancer
• 5 to 8 years of relevant experience
• Good general commercial law background and experience
• Working knowledge of FICA and NCA
• Experience in contract law and drafting of contracts
• Banking experience and corporate legislation an advantage
• Working knowledge of Trust Property Control Act, Companies Act, Insolvency Act and Close Corporations Act

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Description

• Manage the legal risk of the bank whilst maintaining commerciality, which includes, inter alia, instructions of bonds, authorizing payments, vetting documents and drafting guarantees. Perusing entity documents to establish locus standi of the entity entering into the contractual obligation.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide a legal advisory and support service with regards to: Instalment sale agreements, Secured and unsecured loans, home loans, building bonds, commercial properties, commercial developments etc.
• Instructing bonds to panel attorneys and managing the file until registration, including liaising with attorneys and managing queries, checking signed loan documents and ensuring all special conditions in the loan agreement are fulfilled prior to bond registration
• Advising banking consultants on legal aspects of deal structure
• Drafting nonstandard clauses for agreements
• Vetting of documents and authorizing payments
• Review credit minutes and ensure that all condition precedents on minutes are fulfilled, and security is perfected
• Review property valuations and ensure that all valuation conditions are fulfilled

 Qualifications, Experience and Skills

• Bachelor of Law, Admitted Attorney and Conveyancer
• 2 to 4 years conveyancing experience
• Good general commercial law background and experience
• Working knowledge of FICA and NCA
• Experience in contract law and drafting of contracts
• Banking experience and corporate legislation an advantage

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Description

• Investec Sandton is looking for a candidate that will be responsible for fulfilling the role of an IT Business Analyst within the Capital Management team sitting within the CS Tech Risk division. The role will involve focusing on business-as-usual deliverables and support for multiple global regions across Investec.

Key Responsibilities

• Write and maintain business specifications. Also produce functional documents, system configuration changes and consider best practice operational controls
• Participate in and drive technical design sessions with IT architects (when required) before compiling the functional specifications
• Design and manage the implementation of automated schedules in Control-M with the respective team
• When applicable, create and document test scenarios for testing purposes
• Work with the Data Warehouse team to define and source new data requirements and maintain the team's data mapping specifications
• Work with the software vendor on implementing new business rule configurations and/or update existing configurations when required
• Participate in the full SDLC process but responsible for managing the entire delivery – from understanding the requirements, to documentation, managing the change with developers, testing of the change, logging the change control and review the changes post deployment
• Involved in general day-to-day production application support and operational requests from business – data and system specific queries and the resolution of them
• Manage stakeholder expectations and priorities effectively
• Build and maintain strong communication with a range of stakeholders across other IT teams and Business Units
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize, deliver to milestones, be flexible and adjust to change in priorities quickly
• Ability to deal with pressure and remain level headed
• Ability to manage stakeholder expectations regarding requirements
• Ability to write SQL queries to retrieve data from databases
• Take ownership of tasks and projects assigned and follow issues or concerns through to delivery
• Demonstrate the ability to work well in a team with strong facilitation skills
• Customer focused attitude
• Ability to collaborate and facilitate attainment of the best possible solution for the situation
• Ability to conceptualize big picture while maintaining a high level of attention to detail and accuracy
• A proactive mind-set focused on identifying and mitigating risks and resolving issues

Qualifications, Experience and Skills

• IT related/Commercial/Science degree
• Use of Agile/Lean practices (user stories, backlog grooming, sprint ceremonies)
• Familiarity with Azure/ ADO/Confluence or equivalent BA tools
• Prior work experience with a basic level of SQL and data analysis
• Prior work experience or knowledge of financial market instruments is a must have
• 5 + years working as a Systems/Technical Business Analyst in the Banking industry, specifically in the Capital Management team/ Risk Management/ Corporate and Investment Banking team would be advantageous
• Completed or in the process of completing an FRM, PRM or CFA certification would advantageous
• Basel regulatory knowledge (credit risk) would be advantageous
• Moodys Risk Authority application experience would be advantageous

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Description

New transactions/re-financing:

• Implementation of new transactions: working closely with various teams across the bank , front office structurers and arrangers, the appointed attorneys, rating agency, and JSE
• Data collation and preparation of scenarios on new and existing deals, while taking into consideration various criteria and variations required within the required timelines
• Scrutinise existing/new data sets for completeness and reasonability
• Data analysis, rating agent liaison, and assistance with preparation of roadshow presentations
• Execution of the operational aspects of the legal agreements with regards to all relevant processes associated with the deal. Clarification of interpretations where required
• Project managing the process of re-financing of term notes and/or tap issues, in conjunction with the arrangers and servicing team
• Working proactively with the relevant teams with the timelines agreed, to provide clear and concise information/feedback
• Automation of various functions/analysis calculations/processes

Maintenance of existing transactions:

• End-to-end ownership of allocated transactions which includes engaging with all internal and external stakeholders, understanding the economics of the transaction, legal structure, regulations, monitoring of portfolio covenants and triggers, cashflows, hedging, expenses, accounting, capital treatment, liquidity management, reporting and timeous filing
• Engagement with the internal and external stakeholder which includes but is not limited to: Servicer Liaison team, accountant, IEB, risk, swaps desk, arrangers, distribution team, SPV directors/trustees, rating agents, investors, auditors, company secretarial
• Economics: asset yields, funding rates, swap rates, expenses, credit enhancement, excess spread, monitoring trends
• Legal structure: Knowledge of legal set-up, events, triggers, and implications. Ability to monitor, pre-empt, and advise
• Regulations: Compliance with securitisation and/or commercial paper regulations
• Portfolio covenants and triggers: Calculating and reporting as well as monitoring trends and advising on the corrective action to be taken
• Cash flows: set up of bank accounts, analysis of excess spread, calculating cash flow waterfalls and preparing payment instructions, following up on payments made, monitoring of the movements on the bank accounts
• Hedging: Monitoring interest rate swaps, rolling and settlement
• Expenses: Accrual management and expense control of trustee fees, rating agency fees, auditor fees, listing fees etc
• Accounting: Reviewing monthly management accounts and preparing annual financial statements for allocated SPV's
• Capital treatment: Periodic calculation of on- and off-balance sheet regulatory capital
• Liquidity management: Facility renewal legal process, providing information to facility providers, monitoring of liquidity levels, fee calculation and payment
• Reporting: Preparing internal and external investor reports, servicer reports, rating agent pool data reports, SARB submissions

Experience, skills and capability

• Qualified accountant, CA(SA) preferred
• Coding and/or robotics experience an advantage
• Relevant securitisation or debt origination experience an added advantage
• Proven application of advanced Excel skills (with VB an added advantage)
• Proven ability to drive change and innovate
• Ability to improve existing procedures/process
• Stakeholder management and team player qualities
• Methodical and detail-oriented, produce high quality output