Job Vacancies at Absa

Job Summary

• To provide advice and support in the development and implementation of credit planning and associated service delivery processes, methods and techniques; enabling the provision of sound credit control services.

Job Description

• Risk Management: Ensure all process and procedure documentation is kept up to date, in accordance with ABSA policies (including control frameworks, risk management documentation and mandates) Ensure all team members complete all required compliance training as defined by the business Ensure that all regulatory requirements are adhered to as necessary Coach team members on all the processes and controls that they have to execute in their daily work and ensure that they understand the reasons for the controls and the consequences for failing to adhere to prescribed processes. Test a sample of activities on a weekly basis by reviewing documentation and checking work completed by team members to see if control requirements are being adhered to. Coach the team members on areas for improvement and highlight major failures to the manager of the area. Provide evidence/supporting documents to auditors or management assurance consultants during formal reviews. Identify losses due to processing errors or internal fraud in the department. Escalate to the manager and provide all the required information to allow logging of the Risk and Loss events. Participate in the investigations. On a weekly basis, remind the team of their compliance requirements. If any team member does not understand their obligations, highlight to the manager to arrange briefings by the Compliance Officer. Draw the monthly SAP compliance training reports. Schedule new employees for compliance training within the prescribed timelines and do not allow employees to work until they have completed pre-requisite compliance training. Explain the requirements for Business Continuity to team members, nominate team members to participate in BCM tests. Make team members aware of all changes to policies, processes and procedures that are being planned for the area and ensure that they are able to incorporate the changes on the effective date. Ensure that team members read circulars that are relevant to the area and answer questions they may have. | Networking & Relationship Building: Build and maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders, across all relevant 3 business areas (e.g. Product, Credit, Legal, other Operations business units) Liaise continuously with internal customers for which the departments services are primarily geared, to ensure that their needs are identified, logged for action and appropriately addressed Perform advisory services to internal customers to teach, coach, mentor, train and generally enlighten employees across the business | Personal Development: Set own personal development goal objectives and completed all required actions in order to achieve Continuously look for opportunities to further develop own skills and expand knowledge base | Credit control : Perform credit control activities in support of business outcomes .

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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Job Summary

• To provide advice and support in banking practice formulation and associated best practice improvement tactics; enabling the provision of specialist expertise.

Job Description

• Customer relationship management: Relationship Management and Client Solutioning, Develop, manage and retain a portfolio of clients by building strong and sustainable relationships | Sales: Sell solutions using a diagnostic approach and by using an in-depth understanding of client needs and/ or industry to form a holistic view of the clients business, | Client management: Create and maintain an annual Client Management Plan, including input form product/sector specialists and credit analysts. | People & Performance: Owning & Deliver on all performance targets for the allocated portfolio of external sales activities .

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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Job Summary

• Apply critical thinking & problem solving skills to contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle & quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications.

Job Description

• The CIB Digital Technology team based in Cape Town is looking for an Angular Developer to join our dynamic team on a contract basis and deliver a streamlined user experience.
• We want a team member who strives to develop a first class codebase using Angular best practices. As an Angular Developer, you will implement a complete user interface in the form of a mobile and desktop web app.

Typical Tasks

What you’ll do

• Develop User interfaces for Modern Rich Internet Applications with the latest Front End Technologies
• Perform product analysis and development tasks of an increasingly complex nature which may require extensive research and analysis.
• Writing tested and documented JavaScript, HTML and CSS
• Make design and technical decisions for Angular projects.
• Develop application code and unit test in the Angular, Rest Web Services with ideally some C# backend experience
• Ensuring high performance

Key critical requirements

• Min 5 years Front End Development experience
• Strong experience with Angular (7+) 9+ experience preferred
• Tertiary education in Computer Science / Engineering or related field
• Strong expertise with HTML, CSS, and writing cross-browser compatible code
• Good understanding of AJAX and JavaScript Dom manipulation Techniques
• Experience with RESTful services
• Experience in JavaScript build tools like grunt or gulp
• Expert in any one of the modern JavaScript MV-VM/MVC frameworks (Angular, JQuery, NodeJS, GruntJS)
• Familiar with testing frameworks (Ex. Jasmine)
• Test runner framework (Ex. Karma)
• Hand on and implements complex Angular applications, directives, controllers, services
• Critical thinker and problem-solving skills
• Team player
• Good time-management skills
• Great interpersonal and communication skills

Skills and nice to haves tag cloud:

• Angular 9+, Bootstrap, Jasmine, KarmaJS, Webpack, Redux, Jquery, Typescript, NPM, CSS, SASS, Materials, C#

*12 month contract

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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Job Summary

• Apply critical thinking & problem solving skills to contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle & quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications.

Job Description

Accountability: 

DevOps

• Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to solve technical problems (Front End, Back End OR Middleware) with high quality solutions
• Evaluate analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development & provide recommendations to enable the operational feasibility of solutions
• Quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions
• Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience
• Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
• Work with integrated teams and other developers to improve and evolve technical products and services
• Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture & Infrastructure guidelines
• Provide input into project & program teams (when required) to plan & manage the development lifecycle e.g. releases, risk management, testing, integration etc.
• Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices and continuously evolve existing knowledge & skill in preparation for cross domain and other experiences e.g. Secure Side, Testing, Infrastructure solutions etc.

People 

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

Risk & Governance 

• Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post release)
• Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks
• Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents

Education and experience required

• 3-8 years + Cobol experience - essential
• Relevant B-Degree in Computer Science preferred but not essential if minimum requirements of experience & practical application in the following is evident:
• Automation
• Messaging
• Integration
• Solutioning
• SSL Security
• CI/CD etc.
• Experience working in an agile environment
• Excellent communication, analytical skills and decision making ability in collaborative environments
• Excellent understanding of specific coding / scripting languages e.g. Cobol both batch and on-line processing, IMS, Db2 experience and JCL.  
• Solid understanding of Object Oriented Design and ability to properly apply general design patterns and paradigms
• Experience with test-driven development and domain driven design
• Solid understanding of messaging protocols and web services like SOAP and REST
• Good understanding of frameworks and libraries like JavaScript, jQuery, TypeScript, HTML, CSS
• Experience with CI / CD tools (like Jenkins, Bamboo, TFS, Azure Devops) and Artifact Management (preferably Nexus),
• Topaz and other IDE tools pertaining to the mainframe, abend aid, Icetools, BMP and MPP and Easytrieve advantageous
• Strong understanding of version control and related concepts and techniques, particularly Git
• Experience with appropriate unit testing framework(s)
• Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with Cloud platforms e.g. Azure, AWS & Google Cloud Platform

Competencies: (Maximum of 8 competencies)

• Team Working
• Accountability
• Interpreting Data
• Meeting Timescales
• Taking Action
• Producing Output
• Thorough, detailed and solution based investigations
• Following Procedures
• Adopting Practical Approaches
• Mental and Environmental demands (RSA specific)

Special work requirements

• Standby on weekends and after hours may be required from time to time

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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Job Summary

• The Cloud Security Engineer is focused on the research and evaluation of security solutions and technologies, including the design and delivery of security solutions via the formal engagement of the Security Risk and Architecture teams and in rare instances, direct engagement via the business drivers.

Job Description

Cloud Security Engineer:

• Absa has adopted a multi-cloud strategy and we have investments in various platforms.

What you’ll get to do:

• Develop and maintain detailed security designs, tools and configuration standards
• Build automation to remediate common security challenges
• Security Engineering design and delivery
• Security research and Technology evaluations

Technical Knowledge:

• Code - Familiarity with Python, Terraform, Atlassian stack essential
• Excellent understanding of security strategies and technologies including but not limited to secure global network designs, cryptography, remote computing, cloud based technologies, server and application hardening, Web services, AAA, compliance and auditing, secure development lifecycles, software auditing, penetration testing and security monitoring.
• Strong knowledge of information security frameworks and standards such as ISO27001/17799
• Comprehensive grasp of emerging security technologies for mobile & digital channels including core, backend and big data.
• Understanding of emergent threats in the digital space
• Functional and developmental knowledge of programming languages
• Knowledge of Identity, federation and authentication technologies (eg SAML, OAUTH)
• Solid understanding of Web Services technologies (eg. XML, .NET, JAVA)

Education and Experience Required:

• NQF level 6 B Degree (Computer Science preferred)
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in technology and Security Engineering
• Background in Development specifically in Python and / or JavaScript
• Practical experience in one or more AWS, Azure or other cloud solutions
• Have strong experience in designing, engineering, and implementing security solutions for highly complex public & private cloud environments
• Industry and Vendor certifications – SANS, ISACA, Checkpoint, Cisco, RSA etc (preferred)
• Cloud certification
• Make a difference and enhance your career within cloud technologies

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology (Required)

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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Job Summary

• To provide specialist advice and support in area of specialization guarding against risk, in alignment with related scheme and policy conditions.

Job Description

• Administrative and operations support: Provide specialist underwriting support and advice against standard operating procedures
• Ad Hoc duties: Provide support to customers and team as required on an ongoing basis
• Compliance and Risk Management: Fulfil all activities in adherence to relevant control and compliance requirements, and quality standards
• Administration: Effectively fulfil all required administrative duties, including tracking and reporting.

Education and Skills

• National Diploma NQF 5
• 3-7 years’ experience in Underwriting and Life products

Education

• Higher Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised