Time left to apply: End Date: November 20, 2024 (5 days left to apply)
Job Requisition ID: R-15969353
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 Alternative Channels, a division within the Integrated Channels Everyday Banking, is looking for a Lead Product Engineer that preferably has strong device experience where ATM devices would be beneficial. This person will be required to do in-depth investigations and troubleshooting into incidents.
Job Description DevOps Apply 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.Contribute to and in some cases lead all phases of the development lifecycle including the design process.Determine operational feasibility of solutions by evaluating analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.Develop high-quality software/application design and architecture in a test-driven & domain-driven/cross-domain environment.Quickly produce well-organized, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions.Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organization principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience.Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions.Create & Maintain Sophisticated CI/CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins/Azure DevOps or similar tools and deploy to multi-site environments – supporting and managing your applications all the way to production).Use & configure modern observability techniques to provide a deeper understanding of the application. To do this, leverage e.g. aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via Prometheus/Grafana/NewRelic and distributed tracing like Zipkin/Jaeger etc.Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes.Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.Work with guilds and other technical SMEs to improve and evolve technical products and services.Apply unit testing frameworks and perform integration, validation, and verification testing (apply knowledge of stubbing tools e.g. wiremock, hoverfly etc.).Apply version control and related concepts and techniques.Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture, Security & Infrastructure guidelines.Work with 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 e.g. scripting languages, containerization etc.Contribute to the design & evolution of Group Architecture, Infrastructure & associated technical standards for the organization.Coach & mentor other engineers.Conduct peer 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 (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption).Risk & GovernanceIdentify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post deployment).Update/Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk/governance frameworks.Create business cases & solution specifications for various governance processes (e.g. CTO approvals).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).Skills Required: Knowledge of Aptra Activate/Enterprise Advantage.Knowledge of Aptra Vision.Knowledge of internal Absa or similar interface areas such as CIF, Base 24 etc.C#.Java.Knowledge of mainframe.Agile ways of working.Experience in building MicroServices.ZOS Connect, API.Webservice integration.Knowledge of Salesforce advantage.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. About UsTruly AfricanWe are a diversified standalone African financial services group, delivering an integrated set of products and services across personal and business banking, corporate and investment banking, wealth, investment management, and insurance.
Absa Group Limited is listed on the JSE and is one of Africa's largest diversified financial services groups with a presence in 12 countries across the continent and around 41,000 employees.
We own majority stakes in banks in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, the Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania (ABSA Bank in Tanzania and National Bank of Commerce), Uganda, and Zambia. We also have offices in China, Namibia, Nigeria, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America, a Technology Hub in Prague, and insurance operations in Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zambia.
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