Specialist 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
Specialist Software Developers required for a new BTB Support team in CIB Market Risk Technology. 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

Key critical skills and experience required:

• Relevant B-Degree in Computer Science preferred but not essential if minimum requirements of experience & practical application is evident.
• Min 5 years of development experience in Python, C# 4.5 and up, .Net core, C++, MS SQL, XSLT
• Technical skills: Software Design and Development, Business Analysis, Quality Assurance, Release Management
• Financial Markets / Mathematical Finance experience
• Relevant Market Risk Product knowledge
• Ability to identify, solve problems and build solutions
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and stakeholder’s management skills
• Ability to perform in a challenging and dynamic environment

Advantageous:

• Experience in Front Arena (or equivalent system) development / consulting projects
• Experience in: Front Arena AEF: ACM, AEL, ADFL, ASQL
• Investment Banking / Capital Markets IT domain experience
• Functional skills: In depth understanding of asset classes such as equity, Fixed Income, Credit, FX, their valuation models and product lifecycle, Financial Risk Management, Regulatory and risk reporting, trading and Position management.
• Knowledge of FA components such as PRIME, ADS, AMB, AMBA, ATS, AMWI, PACE, APS, AFG-AMB, SWIFT adapters, Adaptiv Docs etc.

Key Accountabilities:

• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle including
• Evaluate analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development & provide recommendations to enable the operational feasibility of solutions
• Quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions
• Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience
• Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions
• Support the development of CI / CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins / similar tools and deploying to multi-site Kubernetes environments – supporting and managing your applications all the way to production)
• Use & configure modern observability techniques leveraging e.g. aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via Prometheus / Grafana / NewRElic and tracing using Zipkin/Jaeger
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
• Work with integrated teams and other developers to improve and evolve technical products and services
• Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture & Infrastructure guidelines
• Provide input into project & program teams (when required) to plan & manage the development lifecycle e.g. releases, risk management, testing, integration etc.
• Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices and continuously evolve existing knowledge & skill in preparation for cross domain and other experiences e.g. Secure Side, Testing, Infrastructure solutions etc.

Why might you be interested in this role?

• Learn the domain of Corporate and Investment Banking
• Open international career opportunities by learning an industry-leading trading and risk platform
• Help to build and grow a high-performing development team
• Contribute to improving and modernising software development practices
• Work for one of South Africa’s leading Banks and top employers of choice
• Earn highly competitive compensation and benefits
• Enjoy continuous growth and development with opportunities to move within the Bank
• Receive financial support for continued learning (courses, certifications, tertiary, etc.)

We have a culture that values:

• Ownership and autonomy
• Diversity and the unique contribution of individuals
• Teamwork and collaboration
• Continuous improvement
• Innovation
• Agile ways of work
• Experimenting without fear of failure

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

• Learn the domain of Corporate and Investment Banking
• Open international career opportunities by learning an industry-leading trading and risk platform
• Help to build and grow a high-performing development team
• Contribute to improving and modernising software development practices
• Work for one of South Africa’s leading Banks and top employers of choice
• Earn highly competitive compensation and benefits
• Enjoy continuous growth and development with opportunities to move within the Bank
• Receive financial support for continued learning (courses, certifications, tertiary, etc.