Specialist C# Product Engineer at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Key Accountabilities:  

DevOps 

• Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to solve technical problems (Front End, Back End OR Middleware) with high quality solutions  
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle including Testing, UAT and Production Support 
• 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 )- 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 /Instana. 
• 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.  

People  

• Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team  
• Support the people change teams in the development of user material (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption) 

Risk & Governance  

• Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post release) 
• 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

Education and experience required 

• 5 - 8 years experience in C# and SQL Server
• With at least 5 years experience in:
• C# Web API 
• C# Windows Forms
• SQL Server Table Design, Procedures and Optimization
• 2 - 3 years experience in:
• .Net Core & Windows Services with .Net Core 
• Angular Web Applications 
• Relevant B-Degree in Computer Science preferred but not essential if minimum requirements of experience & practical application is evident. 
• Experience working in an agile environment 
• Excellent communication, analytical skills and decision making ability in collaborative environments 
• Excellent understanding of specific coding / scripting languages e.g. Java, C#,  JavaScript, JSON
• Solid understanding of Object Oriented Design and ability to properly apply general design patterns and paradigms 
• ​Experience with test-driven development and domain driven design 
• Solid understanding of messaging protocols and web services like SOAP and REST 
• Experience with open-source relational databases like Postgress Knowledge of application server containers:, JBoss, NodeJS, IIS, .Net Core etc.
• Good understanding of frameworks and libraries like JavaScript, jQuery, TypeScript, HTML, CSS,JSON
• Experience with CI / CD tools (like TFS, Azure Devops) and Artifact Management  
• Ability to create and maintain sophisticated CI / CD pipelines  
• Strong understanding of version control and related concepts and techniques, particularly Git 
• Experience with appropriate unit testing framework(s) 
• Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills. 
• Experience with Cloud platforms e.g. Azure, AWS & Google Cloud Platform 
• Familiar with OAuth, Open Connect ID and SAML, preferably with an understanding of AD / LDAP / Kerberos