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Define tasks and define the technology components that best deliver to user stories, in the context of epics, by conducting the following activities:

• Define a task sequence that delivers value to business promptly by applying lean management, Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and iterative delivery concepts
• Ensure tasks are clearly scoped, with defined acceptance criteria, to ensure clarity of what is required to complete work
• Define and performing appropriate unit and integration tests to ensure no errors are produced during and after deployments
• Define tasks with effective sizing of the effort required to deliver to contribute to predictable delivery and velocity management
• Provide lean documentation to reflect the solution design and capture data management artefacts
• Incorporate standard requirements – such as data quality control and future proofing – into task definition and delivery
• Ensure applicable standards are addressed in the solution design
• Apply best data integration, warehousing and reporting practices while utilising MS SQL 2016 technology

Construct end to end data service solutions
Identify data requirements and construct/extend data warehouse solutions (including ETL) to meet business requirements by conducting the following activities:

• Construct mechanisms to acquire data from a range of sources with controls that deliver to required data quality standards (e.g. BCBS239).
• Apply appropriate continuous integration practices to prevent defects
• Build solutions that are aligned with the technology strategy and future proofed through appropriate coding practices
• Apply DevOps testing practices as defined for the feature team
• Test the solution in terms of the master test plan to ensure no defects are identified post deployment
• Meet all governance requirements
• Document the solution sufficiently
• Engage with the other team members to achieve delivery objectives
• Deliver solutions that are robust and future-proofed to reduce waste and manage technology deficit

Perform work aligned with the team process; meeting governance requirements; and utilising the Continuous Integration toolset

This Requires The DE To Participate In Team Practices And Deliver To Team Standards

Team based delivery is the focus of feature team, as opposed to individual performance.

• Participate in team ceremonies
• Perform work which is traditionally performed by non-engineering roles which requires knowledge of other traditional roles (such as business analysis and testing)
• Contribute to team performance by identifying and implementing team improvements

Provide third tier support and enhancement services
Provide third tier support to the systems in the portfolio to restore availability, within service level agreement performance standards:

• Maintain in-depth knowledge of the technology design of the system
• Understand accurately and completely the impact of an incident on system functionality and business
• Achieve quick response times to incidents through effective cause diagnosis
• Prevent recurrence of incidents by identifying and effectively responding to root causes through effective cause diagnosis
• Prevent recurrence of incidents by introducing system improvements following from effective root cause analysis
• Clear and specific communication to users and other role players regarding the impact and resolution of an incident
• Ensure that all incident, problem and change management requirements are met
• Deliver enhancements to the system as required by business or in response to opportunities to address technology deficit or enhance solution performance

Preferred Qualification and Experience
Qualification

• Degree in IT and Computer Science

Experience

• 5-7 Years experience in Information Technology

Knowledge/Technical Skills/Expertise
Technical Competencies

• Development - The design, creation, testing and documenting of new and amended programs from supplied specifications in accordance with agreed standards.
• Debugging - The ability to analyse the behaviour of code to diagnose a problem and find the underlying cause. This includes but is not limited to using a debugger.
• Refactoring - The ability to revise existing code without impacting its functional behaviour.
• Use of Build Automation - The ability to use script builders as well as other related automation like continuous integration, automated deployments, and static code analysis tools.

Behavioural Competencies

• Developing Expertise
• Team Working
• Adopting Practical Approaches
• Checking Details
• Inviting Feedback

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Design, engineer, implement and/or consume best practice cloud platforms to support relevant workloads focusing heavily on implementation via automation while ensuring documentation of engineered platforms, scalability, performance, resilience as the solution scales up.
Implement and operate tooling capabilities
Implement and operate tooling supporting capabilities such as infrastructure as code, configuration management, and automation resulting in resilient and scalable systems while providing support to other users regarding queries and coaching others on implementation.
Practice standards
Contribute to the development and maintenance of relevant practices that would support the bank’s cloud and platform engineering strategy where relevant ensuring the upkeep of a sustainable platform.
Coach And Develop Others
Coach and develop automation engineering capability within the bank by developing skills in other to ensure sustainability with respect to automation engineering while also reducing the reliance on external parties to support next generation platforms.
Best practice processes
Research and benchmark externally best practices both locally and globally to implement innovative ideas to progress on existing processes to improve on the internal customers experience.
Data driven metrics
Determine data driven metrics to support platform and system functionality and backlog maintenance by implementing relevant systems to collect data metrics to give transparent views of platform under support.
Preferred Qualification And Experience
Qualification

• Degree in Information Technology

Experience

• 5-7 years experience in Technology

Knowledge/Technical Skills/Expertise
Technical Competencies

• Infrastructure/Platforms - Enterprise computing infrastructure support and maintenance provision

• Stakeholder Management - The coordination of relationships with and between key stakeholders, during the design, management and implementation of business change.

• IT Architecture - Architectural methodologies used in the design & development of IT systems

• Technology Orientation - The understanding of broad areas that form technology landscape and how they complement each other in for specific IT solutions or decisions.

• Use of Build Automation - This goes beyond simply writing a build script to include other related automation like continuous integration, automated deployments, and static code analysis tools.

• Use of Version Control - "This skill includes basic use of a version control tool, as well as a general understanding of software configuration management"

Behavioural Competencies

• Generating Ideas
• Exploring Possibilities
• Articulating Information
• Developing Expertise
• Taking Action
• Providing Insights
• Convincing People
• Team Working

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• Facilitate and participate in discovery/inception workshops to create a shared understanding of user needs and the potential technology solution required to deliver to these needs
• Work ahead of the team to get clarity on some (not all) requirements before the next iteration
• Create relevant analysis documentation resulting from elicitation sessions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams comprised of product management, /UX, technology, support, testing and other subject matter experts to gather and analyse functional needs and user story requirements.
• Groom user stories through business interviews, workshops or procedures and map user stories ensuring they come together as a cohesive whole.
• Provide the Product Owner with key information for prioritisation and estimation.
• Facilitate and participate in iteration meetings (product backlog grooming, planning meeting, daily stand up, review meeting and retrospective).
• Obtain sign off during iteration review sessions.
• Manage the stories (in JIRA), ensuring that all requirements are loaded as stories, Tasks and that the stories are assigned/linked to epics.
• Support showcasing of stories to stakeholders

Manage Backlog for the feature team

• Ensure that the activities needed to fulfil each item in the backlog are identified and outlined before the next sprint.
• Identify missing requirements
• Clarify any ambiguity until it is understood by the team
• Review user stories with the Product Owner
• Capture and keep the business and data rules up-to-date
• Ensure that where stories are blocked, these stories are identified for prioritisation to other iterations and new stories identified to replace them in the current iteration

Test cases for system

• Work with users to develop acceptance criteria or high level test cases for the system
• Provide regular feedback by validating that the product meets the business goals.

Collaborate with the team to deliver on backlog

• Create a shared understanding of what the product is supposed to do
• Stand-in for users only when they're unavailable (as opposed to being the permanent “bridge between developers and users)

Report on progress of backlog

• Capture Epics, Stories and tasks onto Jira.
• Produce periodic Stats and Reports 

Additional Responsibiliites

• Agile experience in a feature team mandatory
• Analyst experience mandatory
• SAFe framework experience preferred
• Scrummaster exposure advantageous
• Use of JIRA tool advantageous

Preferred Qualification and Experience
Qualifications

• Degree in IT and Computer Sciences

Experience

• 3-4 Years experience in Information Technology

Knowledge/Technical Skills/Expertise
Technical Competencies

• Data Analysis - Ability to analyse statistics and other data, interpret and evaluate results, and create reports and presentations for use by others.

• Stakeholder Management - The coordination of relationships with and between key stakeholders, during the design, management and implementation of business change.

• Research and Information Gathering - Ability to review and study relevant information from various sources to develop new information; Ability to identify primary and secondary authorities to validate the research.

• IT Risk Management - The planning and implementation of ganization-wide processes and procedures for the management of operational risk.

• Requirement Validationor - Knowledge and understanding of the techniques for validating requirements for form and content.

Behavioural Competencies

• Exploring Possibilities
• Adopting Practical Approaches
• Articulating Information
• Team Working