Specialist Product Engineer at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

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