Opportunities at Capitec Bank

Purpose Statement

• To provide direction to and lead IT teams responsible for the full product lifecycle to ensure successful delivery of all product features, support and maintenance related tasks within the Capitec Bank Operations
• Oversee the ongoing drive to increase efficiency, optimisation, innovation and people development in these environments

Delivery Lead Focus areas: 

1. Credit
2. Remote Onboarding
3. App
4. Core Banking
5. Digital Middleware
6. Cloud Engineering
7. Test Automation
8. Integration
9. CRM
10. Merchant Loans
11. ISA
12. Credit Origination
13. Risk and Account Management
14. Collections Recoveries & Loan Origination System

Knowledge & Experience

Minimum:

• At least 5 years' experience in software development management or management of a delivery team including experience in leading a technical team
• Experience in progressive database or software development roles
• In an environment which required validating work
• Stakeholder relationship engagement and management
• Responsibility for delivery in a fast moving environment
• General business acumen
• The retail credit industry
• Banking industry
• Budgeting and accounting principles
• Business analysis and design
• Implementation and maintenance of financial and contact centre systems and procedures
• Project Management principles and methodologies
• Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Qualifications

• Grade 12 National Certificate / Vocational
• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology (Computer Science or Programming)

Skills

• Communication
• Interpersonal & Relationship Management
• Analytical
• Negotiation
• Attention to detail
• Presentation
• Facilitation
• Process Thinking
• Planning and organising
• Decision making
• Leadership

Conditions of Employment

• Clear criminal and credit record

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Purpose Statement

• To provide direction to and lead IT teams responsible for the full product lifecycle to ensure successful delivery of all product features, support and maintenance related tasks within the Capitec Bank Operations 
• Oversee the ongoing drive to increase efficiency, optimisation, innovation and people development in these environments.

Experience

Minimum:

• At least 5 years’ experience in software development management including experience in leading a technical team.
• Experience in progressive database or software development roles
• In an environment which required validating work 
• Stakeholder  relationship engagement and management
• Responsibility for delivery in a fast moving environment
• General business acumen
• The retail credit industry
• Banking industry
• Budgeting and accounting principles
• Business analysis and design
• Implementation and maintenance of financial and contact centre systems and procedures
• Project Management principles and methodologies 
• Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Ideal:

• Central Collections environment 
• Capitec Bank Systems Environment
• Capitec Bank Business Model
• Agile development principles

Qualifications (Minimum)

• Grade 12 National Certificate / Vocational

Qualifications (Ideal or Preferred)

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology - Computer Science or Information Technology - Programming

Knowledge

Minimum:

• General business acumen
• The retail credit industry
• Banking industry
• Budgeting and accounting principles
• Business analysis and design
• Implementation and maintenance of financial and contact centre systems and procedures
• Project Management principles and methodologies 
• Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Ideal:

• Central Collections environment 
• Capitec Bank Systems Environment
• Capitec Bank Business Model
• Agile development principles

Skills

• Communications Skills
• Interpersonal & Relationship management Skills
• Analytical Skills
• Negotiation skills
• Attention to Detail

Competencies

• Deciding and Initiating Action
• Applying Expertise and Technology
• Planning and Organising
• Leading and Supervising
• Working with People
• Delivering Results and Meeting Customer Expectations
• Persuading and Influencing
• Creating and Innovating

Conditions of Employment

• Clear criminal and credit record

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Purpose Statement

• To provide direction to and lead IT teams responsible for the full product lifecycle to ensure successful delivery of all product features, support and maintenance related tasks within the Capitec Bank Operations 
• Oversee the ongoing drive to increase efficiency, optimisation, innovation and people development in these environments.

Experience

Minimum:

• At least 5 years’ experience in software development management including experience in leading a technical team.
• Experience in progressive database or software development roles
• In an environment which required validating work 
• Stakeholder  relationship engagement and management
• Responsibility for delivery in a fast moving environment
• General business acumen
• The retail credit industry
• Banking industry
• Budgeting and accounting principles
• Business analysis and design
• Implementation and maintenance of financial and contact centre systems and procedures
• Project Management principles and methodologies 
• Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Ideal:

• Central Collections environment 
• Capitec Bank Systems Environment
• Capitec Bank Business Model
• Agile development principles

Qualifications (Minimum)

• Grade 12 National Certificate / Vocational

Qualifications (Ideal or Preferred)

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology - Computer Science or Information Technology - Programming

Knowledge

Minimum:

• General business acumen
• The retail credit industry
• Banking industry
• Budgeting and accounting principles
• Business analysis and design
• Implementation and maintenance of financial and contact centre systems and procedures
• Project Management principles and methodologies 
• Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Ideal:

• Central Collections environment 
• Capitec Bank Systems Environment
• Capitec Bank Business Model
• Agile development principles

Skills

• Communications Skills
• Interpersonal & Relationship management Skills
• Analytical Skills
• Negotiation skills
• Attention to Detail

Competencies

• Deciding and Initiating Action
• Leading and Supervising
• Working with People
• Applying Expertise and Technology
• Planning and Organising
• Delivering Results and Meeting Customer Expectations
• Coping with Pressures and Setbacks

Conditions of Employment

• Clear criminal and credit record

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Purpose Statement

• To have ownership and accountability for a single  Product*, translating strategic direction into a ‘best in world’ product through the leadership of a dedicated team, with the single focus of the product and through the entire product life cycle, driving, planning and ensuring delivery. 

*NB. In the context of the operating model, a ‘product’ could be a product (e.g. Live Better) a channel (e.g. the App), a platform (e.g. Bancs) or a capability.

Education (Minimum)

• Bachelor's Degree

Education (Ideal or Preferred)

• Honours Degree

Knowledge and Experience

Minimum:
Experience

• 10+ yrs experience in business management at a senior level in an innovative high performing environment, ideally banking or FinTech. 
• 5+ years’ experience managing products.
• Business and product vision; has had ownership responsibility for a product previously.
• Product management where there are multiple initiatives with competing priorities and so experience in influencing multiple diverse stakeholders, both business and technology.
• Working at strategic, tactical and technical levels.
• Career experience to include some time in one or more technical roles.
• Communicating with technical and non-technical senior stakeholders across multiple business units. 
• Using data and metrics to test theories, confirm assumptions, and measure success
• Earning trust across different levels and multiple groups of a large organization
• Usability studies and/or customer research principles and methods.
• Client development and product validation through customer feedback.
• Using influence and relationships to drive and achieve objectives.
• Leading and guiding multi-functional teams with a single product operating model
• Leading and having oversight of remote / hybrid teams.

Knowledge and Skills

• Strategic and commercial thinking; able to think about problems from a business perspective using people, technology and product input.
• Business acumen and systems thinking; able to take a ‘big picture’ view, assess, make a logical, sound decision and influence others to achieve objectives.
• Financial acumen - sufficient to effectively operate own cost centre
• People leadership and management practices to empower, create focus and delivery.
• Organising, planning and prioritising work.
• Data-driven approach; analytical and quantitative skills.
• Technologically literate and able to adapt to new technologies. 
• Able to dive deep in understanding the product, the business, and the competitive landscape.
• Able to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences. 

Skills

• Commercial Thinking Skills
• Decision making skills
• Interpersonal & Relationship management Skills
• Problem solving skills
• Strategic Thinking Skills

Competencies

• Adapting and Responding to Change
• Creating and Innovating
• Deciding and Initiating Action
• Delivering Results and Meeting Customer Expectations
• Formulating Strategies and Concepts
• Leading and Supervising
• Persuading and Influencing
• Planning and Organising

Additional Information

• Clear criminal and credit record

Closing Date: 7th, July 2022

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Purpose Statement

• Responsible for gathering, analysing and understanding business users’ data and analytics requirements and translating these requirements into analytics best practice technical solutions that meet the relevant business objectives.  
• To ensure alignment between business, data product owners, data and analytics teams and produce a comprehensive functional specification from business requirements by maintaining a high level of in-depth knowledge with regards to analytics and other relevant data concepts.

Experience

Minimum:

• At least 5 years+ proven experience in drafting functional specifications
• BI Business Analysis, data design and systems analysis experience in a data and analytics environment
• Stakeholder engagement for the purpose of identifying and specifying business requirements.
• Liaising between business and functional stakeholders; translating requirements.

Ideal: 

• Business Information Business Analysis experience in an finance/banking environment
• Exposure to a credit environment.

Qualifications (Minimum)

• A relevant tertiary qualification in Statistics or Finance
• Grade 12 National Certificate / Vocational

Qualifications (Ideal or Preferred)

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Management or Business Analysis

Knowledge

Minimum:

• Relevant business area knowledge
• Data and analytics Business Analysis 
• Data Warehouse Methodologies
• Front End Technologies 
• BI Best Practice
• Data Analysis
• Data Governance
• Financial systems and procedures
• Visualisation
• Data Product Life Cycle

Ideal:

• Banking systems environment
• Banking business model
• Agile development life cycle 
• Best practices for Quality Assurance (QA)
• Microsoft Appliance (APS)

Skills

• Facilitation Skills
• Communications Skills
• Negotiation skills
• Attention to Detail
• Interpersonal & Relationship management Skills
• Analytical Skills
• Presentation Skills

Competencies

• Deciding and Initiating Action
• Relating and Networking
• Persuading and Influencing
• Presenting and Communicating Information
• Applying Expertise and Technology
• Delivering Results and Meeting Customer Expectations
• Coping with Pressures and Setbacks

Conditions of Employment

• Clear criminal and credit record
• A valid driver's license and own vehicle is required
• Contactable via own mobile phone

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Purpose Statement

• To contribute to the design and development of new cloud workloads for platform and product teams, to empower data consumers using Capitec data platforms to deliver client value.
• To maintain and manage the existing cloud data environments and enable data producers to easily contribute to these environments.
• Contribute to evolving the Capitec data platforms through sharing of knowledge, contributing new data features, and enhancing/streamlining existing processes e.g. improved re-use of code

Education (Minimum)

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or Information Technology - Programming

Education (Ideal or Preferred)

• Honours Degree in Information Technology - Computer Science or Information Technology - Systems Engineering

Knowledge and Experience

Knowledge:

Minimum:
Must have detailed knowledge of:

• Application development with scripting languages (Python)
• Relational database management systems
• Provisioning cloud resources using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Core AWS services (S3, EC2, VPC, IAM)
• Cloud data lake and warehouse concepts
• Software testing practices
• Basic Terminal/bash usage
• Software Version Control systems (git) and deployment tools (CI/CD)
• Structured vs Unstructured data

Ideal:
Knowledge of:

• AWS serverless services (Step Functions, Lambda, EventBridge, API Gateway)
• AWS data lake and warehousing services (Glue, LakeFormation, EMR)
• Data lake and warehouse architecture.
• AWS Well-Architected Framework. 
• Collaboration tools (JIRA, Confluence, Draw.io)
• Trusted insights into Data Governance, Data Management, Data Quality, Data Security and Master Data Management. 
• Solid understanding of:
• Banking systems environment
• Banking business model

Experience:

Minimum:

• At least 3 years’ proven experience in computer programming and data engineering, together with a relevant 3 year tertiary qualification 
• At least 4 - 5 years’ proven experience in computer programming and data engineering
• Proven experience in:
• AWS data stack (AWS Glue, AWS Redshift, AWS S3, AWS LakeFormation)
• Operationalizing Batch and/or Realtime data pipelines. 
• Python, PySpark, or Scala
• Version control in git, and CI/CD deployment
• Any infrastructure as code tool

Ideal:

• At least 3 years’ proven experience in cloud data engineering, particularly in AWS, together with a relevant 3 year tertiary qualification
• At least 4-5 years’ proven experience in cloud data engineering, particularly in AWS
• Proven experience in:
  1. Apache Spark, Hudi, Presto. 
  2. Distributed Systems (Apache Hadoop, Amazon EMR)
  3. Advanced shell scripting.
  4. Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

Skills

• Analytical Skills
• Communications Skills
• Computer Literacy (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook)
• Interpersonal & Relationship management Skills
• Problem solving skills

Competencies

• Deciding and Initiating Action
• Working with People
• Presenting and Communicating Information
• Analysing
• Applying Expertise and Technology
• Learning and Researching
• Creating and Innovating

Additional Information

• Clear criminal and credit record

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Purpose Statement

To successfully customize, develop and support solutions on the Force.com platform and contribute to our development in Salesforce products, through the completion of complex projects and development.

Experience

• 4+ years of experience working on Salesforce platforms
• Direct experience working on CRM projects for middle market and enterprise size companies
• Working knowledge and experience with complex business systems integration as well as object-oriented design patterns and development
• Software engineering skills with Force.com Platform (Apex, LWC, SOQL, Unit Testing)
• Experience in core web technologies including HTML5, JavaScript .Net, Java, .net and jQuery
• Demonstrated experience and knowledge of relational databases, data modelling, and ETL tools
• Experience with web services (REST & SOAP, JSON & XML, etc.)
• Experience with Agile development methodologies such as SCRUM

Qualifications (Minimum)

• Grade 12 National Certificate / Vocational

Qualifications (Ideal or Preferred)

• A relevant tertiary qualification in Information Technology

Knowledge

Min:
Must have detailed knowledge of:

• IT systems development processes (SDLC)
• Application development
• Testing practices

Ideal:
Knowledge of:

• UML
• Systems analysis and design
• Banking systems environment

Skills

• Communications Skills
• Interpersonal & Relationship management Skills
• Analytical Skills
• Problem solving skills

Competencies

• Applying Expertise and Technology
• Coping with Pressures and Setbacks
• Adhering to Principles and Values
• Delivering Results and Meeting Customer Expectations
• Analysing

Conditions of Employment

• Clear criminal and credit record