South Africa Job Openings

Absa Bank Limited

Specialist Product Engineer

Sandton

FULL TIME

December 3, 2024

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

The Front Office BTB team in IB Markets Technology is looking for a Software Developer to 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 / New RElic 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 advertised

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