Lead Product Engineer at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Summary

• Technical Lead Developers required for a new BTB Support team in CIB Market Risk Technology. 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

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 8 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 and in some cases lead all phases of the development lifecycle including e.g. 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-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
• 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 SME’s 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

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