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Job Summary
- 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
- 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 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
People
- 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 & Governance
- Identify 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)
Education
- Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology
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Job Summary
- As Programme Manager and coach for the Agile Release Train (AGT), the main purpose of this role is to ensure overall alignment and effective delivery of the Programme Increment Planning (PI) objectives to ensure the successful delivery of Epics/Features/MVP in line with the set governance principles and business strategy.
Job Description
Accountability: Alignment of the agile release train(ART)
- Facilitate the design process of key deliverables and secure authorisation from primary stakeholders
- Design, implement and facilitate process to ensure alignment on key deliverables and direction to encourage collaboration and agile delivery between all parties
- Design and implement measures to help the teams on the ART note and track PI objectives, dependencies, impediments, and delivery progress
- Facilitate the building of monitoring tools to monitor and track progress against objectives and delivery progress
- Support the design, integration, and execution of end-to-end tactical enablement strategies across the ART and the supporting infrastructure to drive the collaboration between all parties affected by the ART
- Facilitate the building of integrated enablers to drive seamless delivery of PI objectives
Accountability: Optimisation of the Agile Release Train (ART) capabilities
- Facilitate the building and integration of capabilities to enable the execution of the agile train release capability
- Facilitate the design and implementation of service standards for the full agile train release capability
- Define, implement and monitor service level measures for the primary and secondary stakeholders (product owners, management and other stakeholders)
- Implement and drive capabilities and associated measures/analytics to optimise the ART enablement activities
Accountability: Optimisation of delivery of Agile Release Train events
- Facilitates or ensures the facilitation of ART-level synchronisation
- Drive simplicity, agility, innovation when conducting PI planning, inspecting and adapting events on all ART practices and processes.
- Supports the scrum masters in effectively coaching their teams on the effective execution of all other team events such as the Daily Stand-up, Iteration Planning and Review and similar events
- Drives a culture of relentless improvement, through facilitation of ART level inspect and adapt workshops. Continuously challenges current ways of work to improve delivery, by incrementally improving quality, predictability, flow and value
Accountability: Performance management
- Analyse and interpret data to produce detailed reports explaining trends, discrepancies and inconsistencies.
- Support the design of measures that will track daily, weekly and monthly progress/performance against strategy and tactical plans
- Ensure timeous reporting on performance
- Responsible for translating Management Information data and reports and tabling insights gained through studying such integrated business (function) reports to measure success and to realign tactical strategy implementation objectives appropriately
Accountability: Risk and compliance
Responsible for:
- The effective implementation of and adherence to the risk and control framework associated with service enablement
- Driving the remediation of risk daily where control design or operational execution failed resulting in losses/breaches
- Ensuring that all compliance, regulatory, governance or other risk standards are adhered to by all service providers and other stakeholders
Accountability: Finance
- Develop, implement and monitor a cycle of medium-term cost improvements
- Compile a budget that aligns to delivery plans, monitor and report on variances
- Manage high-risk and problematic financial issues and contribute to the development of policy
Accountability: People and culture management
- Apply a collaborative leadership style, create an engaging, enabling and productive work climate and enable self-organised and customer focused multi-disciplinary colleagues to deliver on an outcomes-based performance basis
- Implement people strategies that drive the optimum utilisation of human capability and capacity, clarifying requirements and expected outcomes
- Achieve high performance through embedding formal development plans and informal coaching.
- Implement a robust knowledge management and agile learning system to support real-time learning and the constant communication of new ideas/learning amongst all colleagues
Education
- Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)
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Job Summary
- Leveraging a thorough understanding of the business data requirements & own data subject matter expertise (ahead of trend), set data architecture direction & lead the agile solution design, deployment, implementation & ongoing optimization of enterprise wide data retrieval, storage and distribution across an estate.
Job Description
- Providing consultancy and hands-on help to development teams designing, developing and releasing solutions to Cloud based infrastructure
- Provide hands-on support resolving issues with Cloud based infrastructure
- Advise on best practice when designing and implementing Cloud based solutions
- Architectural guidance on next iteration of technology stack. AWS Set Up: Account, Configuration and getting the data into the Production instance of AWS
- Application Development including data pipeline, data storage, data analytics as well as front end and back end of technology stack
- Data engineering and data lineage (data life cycle) considerations on how to manage the pipeline from source to analytics engine
- Collaborate with data science teams & broader business & technical stakeholders to analyse customer data requirements & leverage analysis to identify & accurately spec / frame & set the appropriate data architecture for the business area
- Take accountability for deeply understanding the technical landscape and bank wide architecture that is connected to or dependent on the business area supported in order to effectively design & deliver data solutions (architecture, pipeline etc.)
- Leverage expertise in analytical & creative problem solving to synthesise data solution designs (build a solution from its components) beyond the analysis of the problem
- Lead design thinking processes to successfully deliver data solution blueprints & associated roadmaps
- Lead the end to end solution design & implementation process for all data retrieval, storage & distribution solutions including contributing to and in some cases lead all phases of the development lifecycle including e.g. design process
- Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline by quickly producing well-organised, optimized, and documented source code & algorithms to deliver technical data solutions
- Create & Maintain Sophisticated CI / CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins or similar tools and deploy to multi-site environments – supporting and managing your applications all the way to production)
- Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
- Assemble large, complex data sets that meet business requirements & manage the data pipeline
- Build infrastructure to automate extremely high volumes of data delivery and
- Creatively solve data volume and scaling challenges.
- Create data tools for analytics and data science teams that assist them in building and optimizing data sets for the benefit of the business
- 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
- Inform & support the infrastructure build required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources.
- Meaningfully contribute & ensure solutions align to the design & direction of the Group Architecture & in particular data standards, principles, preferences & practices. Short term deployment must align to strategic long term delivery.
- Meaningfully contribute & ensure solutions align to the design and direction of the Group Infrastructure standards and practices e.g. OLA’s, IAAS, PAAS, SAAS, Containerisation etc.
- Strategically & operationally monitor the performance of data products and services ensuring ongoing optimization & cost to value for our businesses (think bank wide)
- Stay ahead of the curve on data retrieval, storage & distribution technologies & processes (global best practices & trends) to ensure best practice
Pre-requisite Skills:
- Pro-level skills:
- Python 2 & 3
- Nodejs
- Terraform
- C#
- AWS Certified Dev Associate
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
- TensorFlow
- PySpark
- AWS Data Analytics Specialty
Additional Certifications:
- AWS Certified Sysops associate
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
- AWS Certified DevOps Professional
Key understanding of – additional benefits:
- Absa ServiceNow and the CMDB;
- Technology platforms, software
- Confluence, Bitbucket, JIRA & Quicksight
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Job Summary
- To define, align, and implement the relevant and appropriate People Plan with the Business Unit's business strategy. Provide HR Business Partnering (including advising and coaching) to Leadership teams. Facilitate the delivery of the strategic People priorities, through defining an approach to deploy the People Plan and partner with the Business Unit leadership in the execution of the plan.
Job Description
Commercial Awareness and Strategic Partnering:
- Demonstrates a deep understanding of the global marketplace, competitive position and commercial drivers for a complex, large scale business.
- Uses business acumen/perspective to translate the Business Unit strategy into a clear people agenda within the direction set by the bank and global People function for a business with multiple core lines of business.
- Is a strategic partner to the Business Unit Managing Executive/functional leaders in a fast moving, complex and developing environment.
- Uses analytics, data and trends both internally and externally to diagnose Business Unit issues and recommend effective solutions.
- Manages external networks and is well connected in the appropriate bodies to shape the external perception of Absa Group Limited to be in a position to attract the best capabilities to the organisation and have influence in the marketplace.
- Articulates strategy and is able to translate into actions and results for the function.
Trusted Advisor:
- Owns the relationship with the Business Unit leadership as a trusted advisor.
- Exemplary coach and sounding board to the Managing Executive and other senior leaders in the business.
- Demonstrates influence and credibility with senior leaders across the business.
- Actively assists the Managing Executive to build the effectiveness and develop the top team appropriately.
Ownership of the end-to-end HR Delivery:
- Operates as the relationship manager for the customer base and is responsible for broking People Specialist and Operations to execute on the defined people strategy.
- Works with the Business Unit leadership to identify and develop talent and robust succession for the area.
- Has a high level of focus on customer relations. Drives a culture of customer centricity and responsiveness across all People Function teams.
- Able to prioritise, manage and lead a team of specialist to deliver across a Pan African agenda.
- Drive the delivery of key People initiatives through employing the appropriate change and project management disciplines across the People value chain.
- Takes the business priorities and translate these into People Strategies and takes end-to-end ownership for delivering the following key People processes to their client by undertaking the following:
- Translate business strategy into people strategy and ensuring that workforce planning is embedded whilst providing People analytics that deliver relevant insights.
- Support and drive major change and People Function Projects.
- Specify capability gaps and define talent pools in conjunction with the Functional Leader. Takes ownership of strategic resource planning and delivery and participate in executive and senior role hiring.
- Takes responsibility for Business Unit talent reviews, succession planning activities and talent and capability development.
- Deliver Leadership and Learning programmes via specialists, specifies internal capability gaps and ensure relevant assessments, development and coaching in place.
- Drive the Business Unit reward and performance strategy and provide input and manage the executive compensation and ownership of pay cycle and reward plan delivery.
- Ensure effective employee engagement for the Business Unit in conjunction with the Functional Leader, supporting the People Operations planning and service quality management.
Education
- Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Human and Social Studies (Required)
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Job Summary
- This position will require an understanding of configuration and a foundational level of experience on a Cloud based platform. Working alongside a Strategic Lead and Specialist Configurators, ensuring optimal operation of the overall platform. It will include but not be limited to complex testing, business process design, process implementation, analysis, and maintenance in the light of best practice recommendations and creating reports.
Job Description
Key Accountabilities
- Support Tier 1 case management and customer support team with technical queries
- Coordinating with team members to analyse/troubleshoot complex system issues, supporting the configuration and implementation changes to the application, participating in testing/validation of functionality changes
- Analyse business problems and processes to identify functional and non-functional solutions supporting the needs of business.
- Ensure design, development, configuration, testing and launch of specific features are complete and functional, both independently and in coordination with all other dependent platform features with a consideration for out of the box capabilities.
- Ensuring all dependent integrations, reports and other business needs are consistently maintained and accounted for as continual changes are made to the system.
- This role will require work as part of a larger functional team looking after the platform as a whole and require this position to assist cross-functionally.
- Perform application maintenance, managing support for incidents related to the platform
- Takes ownership of business requirements for small enhancements and works them to completion
- Maintains the stability and usability of the platform across production and non-production environments
- Performs application maintenance to include performance monitoring and error identification and remediation
- Provides configuration assistance
- Assist with estimating release level of effort
- Be part of the testing cycle, ensure test results are stored as per governance guidelines and any issues identified are addressed appropriately through issue resolution and repeat test cycles – working closely with business on outcomes.
Education
- National Diplomas and Advanced Certificates: Information Technology (Required)
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Job Summary
- This purpose of the job is definition, implementation, and management of configurations to meet business requirements. The position requires understanding business requirements, process flows, as well as the alignment of internal system in order to conduct extensive configuration on ‘cloud based platforms’.
- The Configuration Specialist works alongside a Functional Lead and other Configurators, ensuring optimal operation of the overall functional area through complex testing, business process design, process implementation, analysis and maintenance in the light of best practice recommendations and creating reports based business requirements.
Job Description
Configuration & Requirements Gathering
- Configure and support existing applications and add new functionality as necessary.
- Ensures requirements are understood, developed, tested, and delivered to specification.
- Troubleshoot and resolve configuration issues, error identification and remediation.
- Determine and implement integration method(s) used, integration directionality and attributes.
- Ensure up to date features, deployments, and initiatives for optimal platform usage.
Design & Documentation
- Create functional and technical systems documentation.
- Participate in process design workshops.
- Template Creation and Updates.
- Configure Catalog Items and Record Producers. Ongoing input and recommendations for continuous
- improvement and evaluation of system functionality
- Maintain the stability and useability of the platform across production and non-production environments
- Platform upgrade execution.
Testing Activities
- Coordinate test activities, including unit testing, system testing and user acceptance testing.
- Release Management
- Plan ahead and deploy bi-annual feature releases.
- Play a key role in design to implementation of feature releases and change requests.
- Works with the Functional Lead to develop release estimates.
Reporting
- Create advanced reports and dashboards.
Mentoring & Training
- Train and mentor developers.
- Provide technical assistance to Tier 1 teams, managing severity issues and setting prioritization for
resolution.
Learning and Growth
- Interact proactively with others for the purpose of continuous knowledge sharing and integration of own
new knowledge.
- Provide expertise, participate, and contribute to a culture of work centric thinking, productivity, service
delivery and quality management.
- Support and contribute to the successful implementation of change initiatives.
Education
- Relevant degree (NQF level 7) or similar qualification.
Experience
- 2+ years relevant experience/exposure to Workday functional areas (e.g.
- Compensation, Benefits, Absence, Performance & Talent, Recruitment, Learning etc) and/or HR digital platforms/SAAS solutions.
- Relevant experience using reporting technologies is advantageous.
- Understanding object orientated landscape is advantageous.
- Banking and Financial Services experience is advantageous.
Competencies
- Stakeholder and relationship management.
- Strong planning & organising skills.
- Out-of-the-box creative & digital thinker.
- Customer Orientation
- Results driven
- Presentation skills
- Effective communication Skills
- Good Coaching and problem-solving skills.
- Quality assurance.
- Testing application and coordination
Education
- Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences (Required)
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Job Summary
- This role provides an exciting opportunity to roll out a new strategic initiative within the Consumer Product Data space. Our ML Platform Engineers work closely with Machine Learning Engineers, Data Engineers, and Data Scientists and are responsible for creating and maintaining the ML Platform, with a large focus on Databricks and AWS (Amazon Web Services). The Platform team works to build the unified architecture to automate ML pipelines and model serving capabilities across teams in the space. The company is on the journey to move services from on-premises to the cloud. The technology stack includes, but is not limited to GitHub Enterprise, Terraform, AWS Services (EC2, S3, CloudWatch, Lambda, etc.), Elasticsearch, DataBricks, MongoDB, Kafka, Elasticsearch.
Job Description
- In this role you will have the opportunity of working directly across the firm with developers, operations staff, Data Engineers, Data Scientists, Architects, and business constituents to develop and enhance the ML Platform.
Responsibilities
- Maintain and enhance systems for the ML Platform
- Integrating with Databricks
- Building additional tooling to support model serving
- Utilizing our CI/CD tools to automate processes
- GitHub Actions, Jenkins
- System architecture
- Designing and testing new architectural patterns
- Working with both on-premises and cloud infrastructure
Requirements
- Experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Argo CD)
- Experience with containerization (Docker, Rancher, Kubernetes and etc)
- Programming skills in Python, Golang or Java
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Eagerness to learn innovative approaches and technologies
Nice to have
- Background in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or equivalent
- Experience with cloud technologies (AWS, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack etc.)
- Understanding of modern Big Data technologies (Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, NoSQL etc.)
- Experience with Databricks
Education
- Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology
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Job Summary
- Workday Functional Lead required with a solid understanding of the landscape and art of the possible
- across the different modules, focusing on the experience for the colleague, the Manager and the ultimate internal client with a strong strategic arm and involvement alongside key stakeholders.
Job Description
- Provide advice and support on the Workday platform in practice formulation and associated best practice improvement tactics; enabling the provision of specialist expertise.
- As a Functional Lead there is a primary focus on strategic involvement with relevant CoE's (Center of Expertise) and key stakeholders across the group. Aligning functionality and best practice
- with requirements of business by engaging in research for the best possible solution within the Workday eco-system and across available modules. You are required to not only be the driving force
- behind key deployments and the strategic intent thereof but also as a mentor and coach for Specialists within the Workday team.
- Your expertise on Workday will play a vital role in project deliverables, strategic alignment and feature management.
Strategic partnering:
- Demonstrates a deep understanding of HCM (Human Capital Management)/ SaaS platforms and possibilities.
- Uses business acumen/perspective to translate the Business Unit strategy into a clear delivery objective within the direction set by the bank and accountable CoE.
- Is a strategic partner to the Business Unit CoE’s/functional leaders in a fast moving, complex and developing environment.
- Uses analytics, data and trends both internally and externally to diagnose Business Unit issues and recommend effective solutions.
- Articulates strategy and is able to translate into actions and results for the function.
- Align to People & Culture strategic objectives and how to get the most out of the overall Workday subscription
Trusted Advisor:
- Owns the relationship with the Business Unit leadership as a trusted advisor.
- Exemplary coach and sounding board to the CoE (Center of Expertise) and other senior leaders in the business.
- Demonstrates influence and credibility with senior leaders across the business.
- Actively assists to build effectiveness and develop the top team
Ownership of the end-to-end delivery:
- Operates as the strategic partner for internal clients and CoE's, and responsible to execute on the defined people strategy.
- Works with the Business Unit leadership to identify and develop talent and robust succession for the area.
- Has a high level of focus on customer relations.
- Drives a culture of customer centricity and responsiveness across all teams.
- Able to prioritize, manage and lead a team of specialists to deliver across a Pan African agenda.
Takes the business priorities and translate these into People Strategies and takes end-to-end ownership for delivering the following key people processes to their client by undertaking the following:
- Translate business strategy into people strategy and ensuring that workforce planning is embedded whilst providing People analytics that deliver relevant insights.
- Support and drive major change and People Function Projects.
- Specify capability gaps and be a mentor for Specialists and Configurators
- Takes ownership of strategic resource planning and delivery and works according to a Scrum methodology to deliver on time and quality work
Education
- Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences (Required
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Job Description
- Platform Engineering, Deployment and Optimisation
- Leverage platform engineering expertise and working knowledge of specific platforms and their constituent parts to positively contribute to platform, infrastructure and application failures and recovery
- Take accountability for deeply understanding and building expertise on the platform, the platform contribution to the broader platform strategy and business and customer requirements and all available technologies
- Develop business and customer-aligned, lasting, and innovative platform and infrastructure stability features
- Positively contribute to, define and implement the support and engineering lifecycle (end to end) and lead lifecycle improvements over successive version upgrades.
- Produce simple, extensible, and maintainable processes and procedures with very few defects. Continually works improve on processes and procedures.
- Leverage platform, infrastructure and engineering technical expertise to proactively identify risks and prevent failures
- Identify patterns that reveal errors and unanticipated problems, and implement fixes and preventative actions
- Ensure consistent, usable, forward-looking, maintainable test infrastructure
- Implement and maintain digitisation and automation where possible and applicable
- Uphold our technical principles of: self-service, scalability, re-usability, resilience and stability in all support practices and deliver processes that sustainably deliver on these principles
- Apply knowledge and expertise in User / Customer experience to deliver a stable user experience in all processes and procedures that is simple, elegant, and useful.
- Proactively identify development practices that work well and leverage and improve these for future solution design and deployment
- Document processes and procudures and constituent design information to produce solution design blueprints and validation collateral
- Develop and document complete designs and implement testing processes that identify and eradicate platform or service-wide problems / improve on platform performance
- Demonstrate a strong commitment to the quality and ongoing quality assurance of the product/service’s in use, and take appropriate action to resolve issues throughout the lifecycle of the product or service
- Ensure alignment to platform and service release plans for effective deployment of solution designs
- Take accountability for maintaining platform standards and best practices, and drive adoption and integrations across multiple service teams
- Demonstrate knowledge of, identify and find required data for the ongoing monitoring and improvement of the platform stability
- Proactively monitor the performance of the platform features and solutions
- Translate monitoring data into clearly articulated descriptions of opportunities and defects, their impact to the customer scenario and to the product or service as a whole, and the relevance to product and service targets (within the scope of the job).
- Cascade and communicate these insights across the team to influence platform decision making
Operational Responsibilities
- Manage, Monitor, Maintain, Document and Improve:- -
- ITAM assets in scope for on SAM tool
- ITAM inventory in scope for SAM
- SAM tools platform health
- SAM infrastructure health
- SAM inventory agent/collection health
- SAM IT Visibility integrations and health on SAM tool
- SAM SQL Data Warehouse
- SAM SaaS manager integrations and connectors on SAM tool
- SAM remediation and audit support in scope
- Active Directory and Azure configuration for SSO and Azure enabled applications
- SAM application stores, package and provision in Scope
- Powershell scripts and API developments as required for reporting and integrations
- Reporting and Management Information as required
- Project and task management for business as usual projects
- Accountability: Financial and Cost Optimization, Risk and Governance
- Understand the platform cost model and the optimal cost : serve of the platform, use this understanding to drive the platform efficiency and effectiveness objectives
- Participate in incident management and DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving and technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents
- Apply Group risk (e.g. Architecture, development, change and release etc.), governance, compliance and regulatory standards and frameworks
- Proactively identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during and post release)
- Update / Design all feature documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks
Accountability: People
- Proactively and effectively (time and quality) collaborate and drive collaboration on features across feature team (e.g. managing dependencies and interdependencies, conflict resolution, information and best practice sharing, problem resolution outside of own area etc.)
- Apply collaboration skills in development practices and issue resolution regardless of team boundaries and lead communication with relevant stakeholders through to conclusion
- Contribute to a high performance team environment and culture as a high performing member of a self-directed team aligned to agile working
- Leverage coaching techniques in all team related activity to drive a higher quality service, design and deployment of technical solutions.
- Proactively seek and provide feedback across a range of stakeholders for the benefit of the team and leverage feedback to consistently improve platform solution delivery
- Coach and mentor other engineers and support engineering teams on technical solutions and problem resolution and proactively seek coaching and mentoring from others
- Participate in peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team
- Cascade platform performance feedback and ensure capability development across teams to enable efficient and effective platform service delivery
- Drive the design of content, tools and materials for strategy alignment, education and adoption processes to be applied across stakeholder groups
Additional Job Description
- Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and Absa Policies and Policy Standards.
- Understand and manage risks and risk events (incidents) relevant to the role.
Desired Skills
- Reporting skills, such as PowerBI, Cognos and Excel
- Flexera Certification / Training
- Cloud Technologies awareness, such as IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
- Azure and Amazon Web Services awareness
- Windows OS Specialist
- Linux/AIX OS Specialist
- SCCM/Intune Specialist
- Basic Shell Scripting and API Skills
Experience - Workday
- IT Technology and Software Auditing Skills - 2+ years
- Data and Reporting - 2 to 5 years
- Experience in a similar environment at specialist level - 3-5 years
- Information Technology - 5+ years
Competencies - Workday
- Agile ways of working
- Analytical Thinking - Advanced
- Application of IT systems and tools
- Audit Methodology
- Business Analysis
- Collaboration with others
- Compliance Advisory and Interpretation
- Data Management
- Emotional intelligence
- Interpersonal effectiveness
- IT Infrastructure and Assets
- IT Systems
- Contract Management Knowledge
- Results orientation
- Digital Affinity
- Effective Communication
Skills - Workday
- Asset Management (Worker Profiles)
- Business Analysis (Worker Profiles)
- Continual Service Improvement (CSI) (Job Details)
- Data Analysis (Worker Profiles)
- IT Asset Management (ITAM) (Worker Profiles)
- ITSM (Job Details)
- Service Delivery (Job Details)
- Service Improvement (Job Details)
- Software Asset Management (SAM) (Worker Profiles)
- Software License Management (Job Details)
- Preferred Skillset
- SCCM/Intune Specialist
- Service Now Incident/Change/ITIL
- Software Packaging and Provision
- AD/Azure Management
- Windows Server Management
- Linux/Unix Server Management
- Windows Desktop OS Management
- VMWare Management
- AWS Management
- Basic Shell Scripting, API's and Integrations
- Software Asset Management Awareness
- Software License Management Awareness
- Basic SQL Design and Management
- Data Management and Verification/Quality control
- Flexera Platform and Admin
- Monitoring Toolsets
Education
- Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology
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Job Description
- Platform Engineering, Deployment and Optimisation
- Leverage platform engineering expertise and working knowledge of specific platforms and their constituent parts to positively contribute to platform, infrastructure and application failures and recovery
- Take accountability for deeply understanding and building expertise on the platform, the platform contribution to the broader platform strategy and business and customer requirements and all available technologies
- Develop business and customer-aligned, lasting, and innovative platform and infrastructure stability features
- Positively contribute to, define and implement the support and engineering lifecycle (end to end) and lead lifecycle improvements over successive version upgrades.
- Produce simple, extensible, and maintainable processes and procedures with very few defects. Continually works improve on processes and procedures.
- Leverage platform, infrastructure and engineering technical expertise to proactively identify risks and prevent failures
- Identify patterns that reveal errors and unanticipated problems, and implement fixes and preventative actions
- Ensure consistent, usable, forward-looking, maintainable test infrastructure
- Implement and maintain digitisation and automation where possible and applicable
- Uphold our technical principles of: self-service, scalability, re-usability, resilience and stability in all support practices and deliver processes that sustainably deliver on these principles
- Apply knowledge and expertise in User / Customer experience to deliver a stable user experience in all processes and procedures that is simple, elegant, and useful.
- Proactively identify development practices that work well and leverage and improve these for future solution design and deployment
- Document processes and procudures and constituent design information to produce solution design blueprints and validation collateral
- Develop and document complete designs and implement testing processes that identify and eradicate platform or service-wide problems / improve on platform performance
- Demonstrate a strong commitment to the quality and ongoing quality assurance of the product/service’s in use, and take appropriate action to resolve issues throughout the lifecycle of the product or service
- Ensure alignment to platform and service release plans for effective deployment of solution designs
- Take accountability for maintaining platform standards and best practices, and drive adoption and integrations across multiple service teams
- Demonstrate knowledge of, identify and find required data for the ongoing monitoring and improvement of the platform stability
- Proactively monitor the performance of the platform features and solutions
- Translate monitoring data into clearly articulated descriptions of opportunities and defects, their impact to the customer scenario and to the product or service as a whole, and the relevance to product and service targets (within the scope of the job).
- Cascade and communicate these insights across the team to influence platform decision making
Operational Responsibilities
- Manage, Monitor, Maintain, Document and Improve:- -
- ITAM assets in scope for on SAM tool
- ITAM inventory in scope for SAM
- SAM tools platform health
- SAM infrastructure health
- SAM inventory agent/collection health
- SAM IT Visibility integrations and health on SAM tool
- SAM SQL Data Warehouse
- SAM SaaS manager integrations and connectors on SAM tool
- SAM remediation and audit support in scope
- Active Directory and Azure configuration for SSO and Azure enabled applications
- SAM application stores, package and provision in Scope
- Powershell scripts and API developments as required for reporting and integrations
- Reporting and Management Information as required
- Project and task management for business as usual projects
- Accountability: Financial and Cost Optimization, Risk and Governance
- Understand the platform cost model and the optimal cost : serve of the platform, use this understanding to drive the platform efficiency and effectiveness objectives
- Participate in incident management and DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving and technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents
- Apply Group risk (e.g. Architecture, development, change and release etc.), governance, compliance and regulatory standards and frameworks
- Proactively identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during and post release)
- Update / Design all feature documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks
Accountability: People
- Proactively and effectively (time and quality) collaborate and drive collaboration on features across feature team (e.g. managing dependencies and interdependencies, conflict resolution, information and best practice sharing, problem resolution outside of own area etc.)
- Apply collaboration skills in development practices and issue resolution regardless of team boundaries and lead communication with relevant stakeholders through to conclusion
- Contribute to a high performance team environment and culture as a high performing member of a self-directed team aligned to agile working
- Leverage coaching techniques in all team related activity to drive a higher quality service, design and deployment of technical solutions.
- Proactively seek and provide feedback across a range of stakeholders for the benefit of the team and leverage feedback to consistently improve platform solution delivery
- Coach and mentor other engineers and support engineering teams on technical solutions and problem resolution and proactively seek coaching and mentoring from others
- Participate in peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team
- Cascade platform performance feedback and ensure capability development across teams to enable efficient and effective platform service delivery
- Drive the design of content, tools and materials for strategy alignment, education and adoption processes to be applied across stakeholder groups
Additional Job Description
- Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and Absa Policies and Policy Standards.
- Understand and manage risks and risk events (incidents) relevant to the role.
Desired Skills
- Reporting skills, such as PowerBI, Cognos and Excel
- Flexera Certification / Training
- Cloud Technologies awareness, such as IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
- Azure and Amazon Web Services awareness
- Windows OS Specialist
- Linux/AIX OS Specialist
- SCCM/Intune Specialist
- Basic Shell Scripting and API Skills
Experience - Workday
- IT Technology and Software Auditing Skills - 2+ years
- Data and Reporting - 2 to 5 years
- Experience in a similar environment at specialist level - 3-5 years
- Information Technology - 5+ years
Competencies - Workday
- Agile ways of working
- Analytical Thinking - Advanced
- Application of IT systems and tools
- Audit Methodology
- Business Analysis
- Collaboration with others
- Compliance Advisory and Interpretation
- Data Management
- Emotional intelligence
- Interpersonal effectiveness
- IT Infrastructure and Assets
- IT Systems
- Contract Management Knowledge
- Results orientation
- Digital Affinity
- Effective Communication
Skills - Workday
- Asset Management (Worker Profiles)
- Business Analysis (Worker Profiles)
- Continual Service Improvement (CSI) (Job Details)
- Data Analysis (Worker Profiles)
- IT Asset Management (ITAM) (Worker Profiles)
- ITSM (Job Details)
- Service Delivery (Job Details)
- Service Improvement (Job Details)
- Software Asset Management (SAM) (Worker Profiles)
- Software License Management (Job Details)
- Preferred Skillset
- SCCM/Intune Specialist
- Service Now Incident/Change/ITIL
- Software Packaging and Provision
- AD/Azure Management
- Windows Server Management
- Linux/Unix Server Management
- Windows Desktop OS Management
- VMWare Management
- AWS Management
- Basic Shell Scripting, API's and Integrations
- Software Asset Management Awareness
- Software License Management Awareness
- Basic SQL Design and Management
- Data Management and Verification/Quality control
- Flexera Platform and Admin
- Monitoring Toolsets
Education
- Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology
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Job Summary
- To provide advice and support in practice formulation and associated best practice improvement tactics; enabling the provision of specialist human resources expertise.
Job Description
- Commercial awareness and strategic partnering: Demonstrates a deep understanding of the global market place, competitive position and commercial drivers for a complex, large scale business.
- Uses business acumen/perspective to translate the Business Unit strategy into a clear people agenda within the direction set by the bank and global People function for a business with multiple core lines of business.
- Is a strategic partner to the Business Unit CEO’s/functional leaders in a fast moving, complex and developing environment.
- Uses analytics, data and trends both internally and externally to diagnose Business Unit issues and recommend effective solutions.
- Manages external networks and is well connected in the appropriate bodies to shape the external perception of Absa Group Limited to be in a position to attract the best capabilities to the organisation and have influence in the market place.
- Articulates strategy and is able to translate into actions and results for the function.
- Trusted Advisor: Owns the relationship with the Business Unit leadership as a trusted advisor.
- Exemplary coach and sounding board to the CEO and other senior leaders in the business.
- Demonstrates influence and credibility with senior leaders across the business.
- Actively assists the CEO to build the effectiveness and develop the top team appropriately.
- | Ownership of the end-to-end HR delivery: Operates as the relationship manager for the customer base and is responsible for broking People Specialist and Operations to execute on the defined people strategy.
- Works with the Business Unit leadership to identify and develop talent and robust succession for the area.
- Has a high level of focus on customer relations. Drives a culture of customer centricity and responsiveness across all People Function teams.
- Able to prioritise, manage and lead a team of specialist to deliver across a Pan African agenda.
- Drive the delivery of key People initiatives through employing the appropriate change and project management disciplines across the People value chain.
- Takes the business priorities and translate these into People Strategies and takes end-to-end ownership for delivering the following key People processes to their client by undertaking the following:
- Translate business strategy into people strategy and ensuring that workforce planning is embedded whilst providing People analytics that deliver relevant insights.
- Support and drive major change and People Function Projects.
- Specify capability gaps and define talent pools in conjunction with the Functional Leader. Takes ownership of strategic resource planning and delivery and participate in executive and senior role hiring.
- Takes responsibility for Business Unit talent reviews, succession planning activities and talent and capability development.
- Deliver Leadership and Learning programmes via specialists, specifies internal capability gaps and ensure relevant assessments, development and coaching in place.
- Drive the Business Unit reward and performance strategy and provide input and manage the executive compensation and ownership of pay cycle and reward plan delivery.
- Ensure effective employee engagement for the Business Unit in conjunction with the Functional Leader, supporting the People Operations planning and service quality management.
Education
- Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Human and Social Studies (Required)
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Job Summary
- To coordinate, plan & deliver day-to-day team tasks & activities in order to execute technical services accurately & timeously in support of org. policy compliance through the execution of predefined objectives as per agreed SOPs.
Job Description
- People Management: Coach, mentor and manage team members toward driving business objectives and ensuring colleague development | Capacity Planning: Continuously plan the execution of team duties against plan and service level requirements | Operational excellence: Supervise and support the execution of priorities by team against service level agreements and customer outcomes | Compliance and Risk Management: Ensure that all team activities are in adherence to relevant control and compliance requirements, and quality standards | Administration: Effectively fulfil all required administrative duties, including tracking and reporting | : | : | :
Education
- Higher Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)
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Job Summary
- To coordinate, plan & deliver day-to-day team tasks & activities in order to execute technical services accurately & timeously in support of org. policy compliance through the execution of predefined objectives as per agreed SOPs.
Job Description
- People Management: Coach, mentor and manage team members toward driving business objectives and ensuring colleague development | Capacity Planning: Continuously plan the execution of team duties against plan and service level requirements | Operational excellence: Supervise and support the execution of priorities by team against service level agreements and customer outcomes | Compliance and Risk Management: Ensure that all team activities are in adherence to relevant control and compliance requirements, and quality standards | Administration: Effectively fulfil all required administrative duties, including tracking and reporting | : | : | :
Education
- Higher Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)
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Job Summary
- Deliver day-to-day knowledge work, in order to execute predefined objectives as per agreed standard operating procedures (SOPs).
Job Description
- Customer Experience: To deliver excellent customer sales and service including fulfillment, resolving customer queries, service level agreements, and to ensure delivery according to set standards.
- Deal Facilitation: Handle all customer interactions professionally and efficiently
- Achieving sales targets through generating quality applications.
- Ensure first call resolution.
- Contact the customer and executes the sales process within the desired turnaround time.
- Adheres to company values and service standards
Education
- Further Education and Training Certificate (FETC): Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)
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Job Summary
- To provide advice and support in practice formulation and associated best practice improvement tactics; enabling the provision of specialist human resources expertise.
Job Description
- Commercial awareness and strategic partnering: Demonstrates a deep understanding of the global market place, competitive position and commercial drivers for a complex, large scale business.
- Uses business acumen/perspective to translate the Business Unit strategy into a clear people agenda within the direction set by the bank and global People function for a business with multiple core lines of business.
- Is a strategic partner to the Business Unit CEO’s/functional leaders in a fast moving, complex and developing environment.
- Uses analytics, data and trends both internally and externally to diagnose Business Unit issues and recommend effective solutions.
- Manages external networks and is well connected in the appropriate bodies to shape the external perception of Absa Group Limited to be in a position to attract the best capabilities to the organisation and have influence in the market place.
- Articulates strategy and is able to translate into actions and results for the function.
- | Trusted Advisor: Owns the relationship with the Business Unit leadership as a trusted advisor.
- Exemplary coach and sounding board to the CEO and other senior leaders in the business.
- Demonstrates influence and credibility with senior leaders across the business.
- Actively assists the CEO to build the effectiveness and develop the top team appropriately.
- | Ownership of the end-to-end HR delivery: Operates as the relationship manager for the customer base and is responsible for broking People Specialist and Operations to execute on the defined people strategy.
- Works with the Business Unit leadership to identify and develop talent and robust succession for the area.
- Has a high level of focus on customer relations. Drives a culture of customer centricity and responsiveness across all People Function teams.
- Able to prioritise, manage and lead a team of specialist to deliver across a Pan African agenda.
- Drive the delivery of key People initiatives through employing the appropriate change and project management disciplines across the People value chain.
- Takes the business priorities and translate these into People Strategies and takes end-to-end ownership for delivering the following key People processes to their client by undertaking the following:
- Translate business strategy into people strategy and ensuring that workforce planning is embedded whilst providing People analytics that deliver relevant insights.
- Support and drive major change and People Function Projects.
- Specify capability gaps and define talent pools in conjunction with the Functional Leader. Takes ownership of strategic resource planning and delivery and participate in executive and senior role hiring.
- Takes responsibility for Business Unit talent reviews, succession planning activities and talent and capability development.
- Deliver Leadership and Learning programmes via specialists, specifies internal capability gaps and ensure relevant assessments, development and coaching in place.
- Drive the Business Unit reward and performance strategy and provide input and manage the executive compensation and ownership of pay cycle and reward plan delivery.
- Ensure effective employee engagement for the Business Unit in conjunction with the Functional Leader, supporting the People Operations planning and service quality management.
Education
- Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Human and Social Studies (Required)
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Job Summary
- Responsible for identifying and executing on continuous improvement opportunities, reporting and updating the knowledge management system. Oversees and conducts the conversion of data into insights that will lead to informed business decisions. Works directly with stakeholders within the assigned departments. The MI/BI Analyst will have to handle multiple simultaneous tasks, prioritize work, and remain functional under pressure, and aggressive timelines. Skilled in data analysis and programming, assisting the business to use the data they collect to understand trends, solve business problems, and monitor metrics. They assist with determining the data the company needs, structuring it in an appropriate format, analyzing the data using queries, and creating reports and visualizations for company decision-makers. To manipulate and prepare data for evaluation and reporting purposes, build data marts for different business users to view and use for analysis and decision making. To support and enhance intellectual business performance modelling and create measures that drive an optimal value management strategy. To enhance information in order to support optimal decision making.
Job Description
Key accountabilities
- Deep Dive Analytics - Analyse the transactional behaviour, profitability, tendencies and trends throughout the life cycle of the client using SAS base, SAS Enterprise Guide, Advanced Excel, SQL, Visualisation tools and any tool that may be identified for analysis from time to time. Collaborates with both business and technical teams to drive understanding of both the requirement and the solution being implemented
- Modelling - Develop end-to-end plans and designs of models required to support in-depth customer behavioural analysis and predictions. Translate business requirements into a technical specifications
- Analytical Insights - Perform data manipulation and analytical techniques to provide analytical insights and recommendations that support decision making to the business as and when required. Development of sustainable BI solutions to address business needs, and identify opportunities to improve processes and strategies with technology solutions and identify development needs in order to improve and streamline operations.
- Networking - Build and maintain relationships within relevant business units by creating an understanding of their requirements and gather feedback. Liaise with stakeholders and keep them updated on progress of the development of requirements. Communicates data driven insights to business analyst and/or business stakeholders. Responds timeously and professionally to ad hoc business requests
- Validate, Collaborate & Research - Continuously explore ways to enhance business performance by analysing key profit / cost / process efficiency drivers, key indicators, relationships and trends. Develop a thorough knowledge of products, systems, platforms and related reporting.
Education
- Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: BMI - Business Management and Informatics
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Job Summary
- You will be a Cloud SysOps Engineer responsible for client facing support & enablement of Application Teams across the Bank, for systems operations on the Absa AWS Platform & releases to our AWS Account Base. Working closely with the Cloud Engineers, Cloud Security Engineers & Cloud Architects. Applying your Cloud, systems operations, client engagement & platform engineering expertise in a dynamic Agile Team.
- Recognized Internationally, this Leading Financial Institution is scouting for Talented Cloud Engineers to join their amazing space. Known for its innovation and cutting-edge technology, this would be an excellent opportunity for someone looking to expand their industry knowledge and work with leading technology years ahead of its competitors.
- This is a brilliant opportunity to work in SA’s best-rated banking environment with SA’s highly skilled Cloud professionals.
Job Description
- This includes design, development, planning, management, maintenance, and support of the core cloud infrastructure as well as working with other engineering teams in the firm. This role provides great exposure, opportunities for growth and career trajectory in the Cloud. Our Cloud Engineers are specialists who use their cloud skill to build our robust platform that underpins our next generation of products and digital experiences. Constant innovation and learning are a key part of the role (and what brought us to the cutting-edge).
- Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and Absa Policies and Policy Standards.
- Understand and manage risks and risk events (incidents) relevant to the role.
Experience and Qualifications:
- Minimum qualification - Relevant degree or industry certification in the relevant Cloud Platform – AWS.
- Preferred Qualification - Bachelor of Science degree in computer science or relevant IT experience.
- At least 2 – 5 years’ experience with cloud services AWS. (EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, etc.)
- Automation, scripting, continuous integration and continuous delivery, you’ll be using Python a lot. (Ansible, Jenkins, Chef, Puppet)
- Familiarity with application development in Python, Java, .Net, Ruby or Go is a plus.
- Cloud infrastructure management tools: Terraform.
- Experience working in a support customer facing role.
- Proven problem solving, technical troubleshooting and performance-tuning.
- A good understanding of Linux, Networking, Docker and Kubernetes.
- Understanding of cloud security, cyber security fundamentals and security automation.
- A good understanding of APIs, orchestration, automation, DevOps, and databases.
- Cloud management software such as AWS, Azure, or VMware.
- Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a- Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).
Job Duties:
- Start of day Absa AWS Platform health checks.
- Client support including email & client channel correspondence.
- End-to-end support of release cycle tasks.
- Full understanding of changes packaged within each release in-order to support the Absa AWS Platform & enable Application Teams running in or migrating to AWS.
- AWS account support.
- IAM permissions support, advice & guidance.
- Client AWS network troubleshooting, advice & guidance.
- Networking for clients which includes AWS VPC, firewall rule, NACL, proxy whitelist implementations, internet facing AWS account onboarding & private link set ups.
- Incident support for live Applications running on AWS.
- Assistance with larger initiatives rolled out by the Cloud Product Team.
- Service Desk backlog grooming & triaging of client requests.
- Respond to & investigate relevant monitoring alerts generated by the Absa AWS Platform & at times those of our clients.
- Take end-to-end ownership & accountability of assigned client requests, with resolution in the quickest possible time.
- Contribute, when required, to forthcoming releases comprising of enhancements to the Absa AWS Platform or enablement of AWS Services for general consumption.
- Adhere & contribute to the Cloud Product Team’s branching strategy when fulfilling tasks.
- Conduct peer code reviews.
- Contribute to & update the Cloud Product Team’s document repository.
- Knowledge share with clients & the Cloud Product Team on various forums.
- Fulfillment of technical debt & bug fixes when prioritized.
- Ensure pipeline health of AWS accounts are green after effecting changes.
- Self-study to remain relevant.
- Identify opportunities to improve or automate current processes.
Education
- Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology
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