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Job Purpose:

To execute technical, digital, data platform strategies, solutions and roadmaps that encompass the current and future needs of the business, technology and platforms ensuring the integrity, consistency and resilience of platform features and functions across geographies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the overall success of Client Segment and Client Solutions service delivery and country service experience by making visible the specific capacity, availability and continuity (Always on) requirements for the platform based on usage/consumption and forecasts.
• Provide input to relevant risk governance forums and escalate relevant risk issues. Establish appropriate risk oversight and governance processes and structures within the area.
• Review the number and severity of incidents and outages, performing trend analysis and investigating root causes. Give input to appropriate information dashboards regarding failure of service and develop plans to mitigate failures.
• Implement the service strategy for platform services with overall Client Segment, Client Solutions, Country service strategic objectives. Inculcate service orientation and culture within delivery functions and teams.
• Monitor budgets against expenditure across Group and countries, and manage IT costs in line with organisational parameters.
• Advocate and promote awareness of trends and developments in digital, cloud and platform technologies and devices by focusing on educating business users and present and promote awareness of platform features and processes.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Post Graduate Degree in Information Stdies or Information Technology as well as IT related professional certification such as SAFE Agile certification.
• 5-7 Years experience in managing system or platform teams and have experience in leading engineering teams in other Capital Markets businesses (Calypso, Alchemy, Front Arena, Wall Street, Asset Control).
• 8-10 Years experience in the full lifecycle design and development.
• Well versed in vendor system setup and types of system architectures, preferably Murex.
• Significant experience in future fit technology such as Cloud, DevOps, One-click deployments, API frameworks for vendor systems.

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JOB PURPOSE

To report, measure and maintain the holistic Balance Sheet Management business process for the Africa Regions banking entities and Head Office by ensuring compliance to Standard Bank Group principles, country-specific regulations and international best practices to manage liquidity risk, interest rate risk in the banking book  and optimize the balance sheet.

KEY RESPONSIBILITES

• Measure and review  metrics for monthly reporting and review FTP reports ensuring threshold limits are within acceptable ranges, balances sheet hygiene is maintained and anomalies are communicated to AR resources for resolution.
• Validate ALM models to ensure accuracy, integrity and relevance of model data and correct potential modelling errors to manage interest rate risk and liquidity risk.
• Contribute to the preparation and review of regulatory returns, pertaining to Balance Sheet Management, ensuring compliance to AR and SARB regulations. 
• Contribute to the preparation and review of regulatory returns, pertaining to Balance Sheet Management, ensuring compliance to AR and SARB regulations. 
• Partner with the Quantitative Risk Management (QRM) systems team to enhance balance sheet reporting with an emphasis on enhancing forward-looking balance sheet reports.  

QUALIFICATIONS

• 4-7 years Banking experience having worked on financial statements with sound excel modelling and analyses experience. This role is Ideal for recently qualified CA Graduates looking to build a meaningful career in financial services. We also welcome Finance and Accounting Graduates with 3 years experience.

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JOB PURPOSE

Provide infrastructure, tools and frameworks used to deliver end-to-end solutions to business problems. Build scalable infrastructure for supporting the delivery of clear business insights from raw data sources; with a focus on collecting, managing, analysing, visualising data and developing analytical solutions.Responsible for expanding and optimising Standard Bank's data and data pipeline architecture, whilst optimising data flow and collection to ultimately support data initiatives.

This is a 12 month contract. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITES

• Designing and developing scalable ETL packages from the business source systems and the development of ETL routines in order to populate databases from sources and to create aggregates. Oversee large-scale data Hadoop platforms and to support the fast-growing data within the business.
• Utilise data to discover tasks that can be automated and identify, design, and implement internal process improvements, automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
• Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture and creating databases optimized for performance, implementing schema changes, and maintaining data architecture standards across the required Standard Bank databases. Work alongside data scientists to help make use of the data they collect.
• Liaise and collaborate with the entire team, providing support to the entire department for its data centric needs. Collaborate with subject matter experts to select the relevant sources of information and translates the business requirements into data mining/science outcomes. Presents findings and observations to team for development of recommendations.

QUALIFICATIONS

• An IT related degree
• 5-7 years experience - with big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc.
• 5-7 years experience - working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.
• 5-7 years experience - Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets.
• Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management.

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JOB PURPOSE
To perform the role of Business Support and Development for trading systems used within the Global Markets environment on both in-house and vendor solutions. Customer interaction is mandatory in ensuring that support and the implementation of enhancements/new products are carried out timeously. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITES

Implement new configuration for a portion of the system/s

• Configure front-end and back-end portions of trading/risk management systems used by Global Markets and Global Market Support functions in all markets inclusive of: Interest Rate Derivatives, Credit Derivatives, Equity Derivatives, Foreign Exchange Derivatives, Fixed Income, Foreign Exchange, Equities, Commodities, Structured products and Money Markets.

Collaborate with FO to develop tools

• Participate in the rapid development of front end pricing and risk tools for market making activities

Implement reports

• Develop new reports or enhance current reports for: Trading purposes, MIS, Finance, Reconciliations or any other support function requirement.

Collaborate with development/engineering teams on projects

• Participate in the development of integration solutions and other infrastructure projects inclusive of Database Upgrades, Application Upgrades etc.

Provide Support for Trading Application

• Provide second and third level support for trading systems.
• Participate in the resolution of analytical queries such as PnL queries, Risk number queries, Pricing and trade booking queries.

Implement new products to enrich Global Markets Product offering

• Configure trading systems to enable new products. This requires coordination front to back to deliver the outcome in partnership with feature team.

Improve mastery through continuous learning in area of expertise

• Become an expert in at least one area of financial trading, in order to facilitate appropriate solutions for Business.

Interact with and support customers to deliver solutions

• Utilise strong inter-personal/communication skills to ensure that an acceptable level of service is delivered to customers

Improve Trading Application continuously

• Collaborate with vendor to build enhancements in to trading system when using a vendor system. Build and maintain automated housekeeping procedures to actively manage Application usability

QUALIFICATIONS

• First Degree in Mathematical Sciences or Information Technology and Computer Sciences.
• 3-4 Years experience in a Global markets trading environment and have good understanding of the trade life cycle and processes and functions of Front, Middle and Back Offices.
• 3-4 Years experience with the configuration and maintenance of trading systems.
• 5-7 Years understanding of market data concepts as well as pricing concepts, derivatives, exchange traded systems and market data providers.

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JOB PURPOSE

• To sell products in the outbound contact centre in accordance with the business needs.
• To facilitate the development of customer loyalty through customer management and to consistently portray a professional image.

KEY RESPONSIBILITES

• Sale of designated products in line with targets set through blended campaigns and the proactive response to positioned leads.
• Participation in ad hoc campaigns as determined from time to time by Contact Centre Management.
• Monitoring of personal performance relative to contact centre productivity, Lead to quote and quote to sale ratios, call to quote ratios and sales made.
• Ensure productivity requirements are adhered to. Ensure all aspects of the sale have been discussed by completing the ‘checklist’ accurately.
• Personal development through involvement in mentorship, training and guidance provided by Supervisor and Contact Centre management.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Completed Matric with NQF5 (any) and Full Fais Short Term Insurance Qualification.
• Completed Regulatory Examination 5 and Short Term COP & CPD
• 1 year sales experience in a contact centre environment with short term and long term or short term only.
• Insurance sales experience (advantage)

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JOB PURPOSE

• To take demand from personal customers for any banking matters ranging from product questions to customer account activities (e.g., opening accounts, statements, debit order information, etc.), whilst forming an accurate assessment and understanding of that demand in order to act on it in a one-and-done manner that consistently delivers what matters to the customer within product and legislative (e.g., FAIS) parameters.

KEY RESPONSIBILITES

• Client Focus
• Risk, Regulatory, Prudential and Compliance
• Customer Services
• Data and Insights

QUALIFICATIONS

• Relevant FAIS qualification and experience
• If no FAIS experience, would then need to operate under supervision.
• Previous experience in branch banking or contact centre environment with good understanding of bank processes, policies and products
• 1-2 years experience
• Diploma or NQF 6

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JOB PURPOSE
To scope, plan, design and deliver complex end to end solutions against required standards and timelines. To direct, guide and oversee technical solutions delivery, interpreting business requirements, defining technical tasks, engineer quality software, end to end testing and troubleshooting technical questions, software and database issues. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITES

• Provide technical direction to the identified teams by leading and guiding their output in line with the delivery and business objective, driving team commitments to the work in every iteration and continual engineering delivery improvement.
• Perform risk analysis and guide delivery teams to produce development plans to consider the impact of design decisions.
• Direct the adoption, and adherence to, suitable and agreed development methodologies and principles through work outputs and behaviours that enables continuous delivery and development across the production environment as well as ensuring effective collaboration with all stakeholders.
• Work with data analysis colleagues to review, approve, produce or update system or object data models and correlate these with corporate models.
• Look actively for opportunities to shorten development timelines, improve skills of the team and improve cost efficiency of application development activities.
• Strive to reach mature levels on the Continuum model by building own and team competence to work in a continuous delivery environment.
• Execute against strategy and technology landscape by guiding teams in the assessment and selection of suitable technologies and advise development staff on the evaluation and impact analysis of major design options.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Post Graduate Degree in Information Technology as well as Industry related certifications such as Cloud certifications.
• Experience in a combination of Java, Springboot, NodeJS, Docker or Kubernetes, Chef, IBM MQ, Angular, React, Database skills.
• Experience in AWS, Azure or Cloud computing.
• Exposure to instrumentation and observability with experience in monitoring and metrics collection tools such as AppDynamics, Prometheus, Nagios and Graphite.
• Exposure to Global Markets Trading systems.

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JOB PURPOSE
To design, code, verify, test, document, amend and refactor programs/scripts. Applies agreed standards and tools, to achieve a well-engineered result. To monitor and report on own progress and proactively identify issues related to software development activities. To propose practical solutions to resolve issues. To collaborate in reviews of work with others as appropriate.

KEY RESPONSIBILITES
Client

• Adopt and adhere to suitable and agreed development methodologies and principles through work outputs and behaviours that enables continuous delivery and development across the production environment as well as ensuring effective collaboration with all colleagues and stakeholders to meet required targets and therefore deliver value to the customer.

Financial Management

• Look actively for opportunities to shorten development timelines, improve skills of the team and improve cost efficiency of application development activities.

People

• Engage with leads to receive feedback on work completed and communicate any concerns, issues, risks and progress regarding work output to enable a culture of continuous development and learning.
• Support less experienced Engineers on technical aspects of application development, controls, and documentation standards as well as on engaging effectively with relevant stakeholders.
• Strive to reach mature levels on the Continuum model by building own and team competence to work in a continuous delivery environment.

Risk, Regulatory, Prudential & Compliance

• Document all work and develop technical support documentation within agreed standards, methods and tools within the portfolio.

Technology & Architecture

• Provide support and production standby post go live adhering to release methodology and technical change management procedures for all changes.
• Prepare test cases for unit testing purposes, conduct unit testing and deploy code build in testing environment to ensure that errors are detected and resolved within service level timelines.
• Manage own work requirements effectively by contributing to reprioritisation of backlogs and reacting flexibly to changing demands, continuously striving to improve the quality of deliverables.
• Perform quality assurance on own code, documents and test plans incorporating input and comments from peer reviews performed by senior Engineers and leaders.
• Participate in the definition of moderately complex problems through engagements with senior leaders and apply a creative approach to solving the problems which will address both technical and people or culture challenges simultaneously
• Construct, interpret and execute end to end system and program tests to verify correct operation of completed systems.
• Develop, complete and update all required documentation as per the scope, including guidelines and checklists for development and testing purposes.

QUALIFICATIONS
Minimum Qualifications:

• First Degree in Information Technology/ Information Studies

Other Minimum Qualifications, certifications or professional memberships

• BSc Comp Science, B.Com Informatics
• Certification in programming languages

Experience:

• 5-7 Years broad experience in translating business and functional requirements into technical specifications and developing the programming code to create the solutions.
• Java SE11, SDLC, Devops, Cloud, Streaming
• The Standard Bank Group has implemented a Vaccination Policy for all roles which require the incumbent to work from the Standard Bank premises on a full-time or intermittent basis. Full vaccination against COVID-19 is therefore an inherent requirement of this role.

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JOB PURPOSE

• To sell products in the outbound contact centre in accordance with the business needs.
• To facilitate the development of customer loyalty through customer management and to consistently portray a professional image.

KEY RESPONSIBILITES

• Sale of designated products in line with targets set through blended campaigns and the proactive response to positioned leads
• Participation in ad hoc campaigns as determined from time to time by Contact Centre Management
• Monitoring of personal performance relative to contact centre productivity, Lead to quote and quote to sale ratios, call to quote ratios and sales made
• Ensure productivity requirements are adhered to
• Ensure all aspects of the sale have been discussed by completing the ‘checklist’ accurately
• Ensure favourable NPS ratings by consistently promoting quality interactions with customers and prospective customers
• Personal development through involvement in mentorship, training and guidance provided by Supervisor and Contact Centre management

QUALIFICATIONS

• Completed Matric with NQF5 (any) and Full Fais Short Term Insurance Qualification.
• Completed Regulatory Examination 5 and Short Term COP & CPD
• 1 year sales experience in a contact centre environment with short term and long term or short term only.
• Insurance sales experience (advantage)