Lead Product Engineer

at  Absa Bank Limited

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.
With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
Job Summary
Build high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications & build capability in others to do the same. This includes but is not limited to applying critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems (Front End, Back End and Integration) with high quality solutions & leading all phases of the development lifecycle to deliver.
Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Lead, coach & mentor other engineers
• Research design and deliver Salesforce solutions for multiple lines of business, collaborating with analysts, business owners and team members to deliver results in a timely manner.
• Apply configuration solutions, write code and where necessary create customizations that meet business needs.
• Follow applicable standards, procedures, guidelines, and methodologies in the support, documentation and/or maintenance of systems.
• Perform end user training as well as internal cross training to other team members.
• Conduct peer reviews, code reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team
• Provide technical subject matter expertise and support in the attraction and recruitment of Product Engineers for the organization
• Participate as a subject matter expert in the development & development planning of the broader product engineering team
• Support the people change teams in the design of adoption processes
• Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post deployment)
• 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
• Deliver on time & on budget (always)

Requirements:

• 5+ years developing applications for the Salesforce.com platform.
• Must have 10+ years development experience in IT.
• Must have led a development team as Senior Developer or Lead Developer.
• Familiar with VS Code IDE and Azure DevOps.
• Worked on the Sales, Financial Service, and Service clouds
• Advanced knowledge of programming languages (APEX, Lightning Components, JavaScript, SOQL, HTML5, CSS etc.).
• Strong ability to interface with end users to solve issues and elicit requirements.
• Solid understanding of key SFDC architectural concepts (e.g. API and governor limits) and how they influence design.
• Salesforce Certified Administrator, Certified App Builder and Certified Platform Developer 1
• Experience working on an agile development team.
• LWC and Omni Studio experience will be an advantage

Candidate must have experience in Lightning Components, Visual Force pages, Apex development in creating Objects, Triggers, Apex Classes, Standard Controllers, Custom Controllers and Controller Extensions.
They must also have experience in Salesforce setup menu, configuration options, custom application development, administration, communities, data migration and deployment of applications to Force.com platform.
Must understand roles, profiles and users, and have knowledge of security and sharing rules on objects, fields, and record level for different users at different levels of organization. Worked with Page Layouts, Workflows, Actions, Alerts, Reports, Approval Processes, Pick-lists, Custom Formula Fields, Field Dependencies and Validation Rules.
Experience with Marketing Cloud advantageous.
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 advertise

• Lead, coach & mentor other engineers
• Research design and deliver Salesforce solutions for multiple lines of business, collaborating with analysts, business owners and team members to deliver results in a timely manner.
• Apply configuration solutions, write code and where necessary create customizations that meet business needs.
• Follow applicable standards, procedures, guidelines, and methodologies in the support, documentation and/or maintenance of systems.
• Perform end user training as well as internal cross training to other team members.
• Conduct peer reviews, code reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team
• Provide technical subject matter expertise and support in the attraction and recruitment of Product Engineers for the organization
• Participate as a subject matter expert in the development & development planning of the broader product engineering team
• Support the people change teams in the design of adoption processes
• Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post deployment)
• 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
• Deliver on time & on budget (always