Jobs at Absa

Job Summary

• Work embedded as a member of squad OR; across multiple squads to produce, test, document and review algorithms & data specific source code that supports the deployment & optimisation of data retrieval, processing, storage and distribution for a business area.

Job Description

• This role provides an exciting opportunity within the Chief Technology Office – Data Solutions team. Working closely with business stakeholders and technology leaders, you will play a key role in the creation and implementation of Big Data applications and products across Absa. Support innovation, design, build and test applications that deliver analytical and predictive content direct to users, combining commercial, analytical and technological expertise. Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Absa Operational Risk Framework and internal Absa Policies and Standards.
• Key Accountabilities
• Project Work:
• Work with domain experts to identify and formalize approaches for solving business problems using machine learning and data science.
• Design, validate, implement, deploy and monitor machine learning models/algorithms on large datasets
• Work with large datasets using big tools (such as Spark, Hadoop) and/or data science tools (i.e. sk-learn, pandas, numpy, etc.)
• Comfortable engaging with business area subject matter experts, data analysts and system administrators to find data required for projects.
• Collaborating with the engineering team in the establishment of data pipelines from source systems to Hadoop.
• Working with lead data scientists to assist in the refinement of business requirements into measureable and actionable deliverables.
• Collaborate and work closely with cross-functional business partners (business-unit technology teams) to assist and oversee the deployment of the outputs of your work.
• Will create meaningful presentations and analyses that tell a “story” focused on insights not just data

Infrastructure:

• Contribute to data and technology initiatives as they relate to data science.
• Familiarity with the Big Data stack (Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, etc.) as well as experience with using these tools to develop and deploy data products and applications.
• Support data science colleagues in working with technology infrastructure colleagues to ensure a productive analytical and development environment.
• Beneficial, experience with building ML products in the Cloud (preferably using Amazon Web Services).
• Key critical requirements: Education and experience Required
• BSc, BCom, BEng, BBusSc or equivalent NQF level 6 qualification
• Degree in a quantitative discipline such mathematics, statistics, physics, computer science or engineering.
• Understanding of and experience of using Big Data technologies essential
• Understanding of and experience of applying machine learning methods is preferred
• Coding/software development skills. Strong mathematical and statistical skills.
• Strong programming skills, proven track record of coding ability and experience (hands-on back end development)

Knowledge of information technology environments, administration, policies and processes. Working knowledge of financial and management accounting desirable

• Scala (preferred), Python (pySpark), Java (as a precursor to learning Scala) including the key numerical, analytical and machine learning libraries / packages
• SQL
• Apache Spark (preferred), Hadoop
• Linux/Unix. Bash. Git. SBT/Maven
• Have the ability to work in either an Agile or project methodology to deliver tasks
• Advantageous: Experience in Elastic Search, Log Stash, Kibana, Tableau, Power Bi, MongoDB.

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

• Contributes to day to day operational excellence by monitoring agent behavior according to internal scheduling
• and tracks achieved targets on a half hourly basis. The Analyst - Real Time is responsible for resolving the
• operational performance variance and escalates to higher levels when required. This role is responsible for
• analysing the trends the work activities on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. The trend analysis supports future
• planning activities for the work force, and contributes to FTE target planning.

Job Description

• Monitors all activities with regards to dynamic break movement and floor management to track the half hourly targets. Identifies potential bottle necks and raises red flags in a timely manner for the Operations team to respond. Diligently disseminates relevant information and knowledge to the Operations team. Compiles and disseminates reports on timeliness and accuracy in a timely manner and that is contains real time and historical information that assists in maintaining levels of accuracy. Achieving daily, weekly and monthly with Line adherence as per defined targets. Accurately and timeously updates all relevant exceptions on the workforce management system (IEX).

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

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Job Summary

Absa CIB Digital Technology is looking for skilled developers to assist with building out the Absa Access Foreign Exchange product. This is a desktop application written in ElectronJs/React calling into a RESTful back end hosted within an internal platform called Absa Access. It’s the Absa FX flagship application in the FX Product suite which currently serves our Corporate Customers. We’re looking for strong and excited software engineers to join this exciting and dynamic team on a contract basis. The team and portfolio execute using Agile approaches and want developers of the same mindset to bring their solid experience and skill-set to this amazing space within Absa!
This product will move into AWS in the near future and utilize the likes of web sockets

Job Description

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 increasingly complex nature which may require extensive research and analysis.

• Writing tested and documented JavaScript, HTML and CSS

• Make design and technical decisions for Front end projects.

• Develop application code and unit test in the React/Angular, Rest Web Services with ideally some C# backend experience

• Ensure high performance

Key critical requirements:

• 3 – 5+ years development experience

• Minimum 2 years front-end experience (experience must be in the last 2 years)

• Experience in React (Angular beneficial)  

• Beneficial Front end skills: Electron, Redux, ELK, Elastic, Fluent d, Kibana, State Management in a front end framework

• Beneficial technical skills: Cloud, Rancher, Docker/Containerization, DevOps (i.e. pipeline deployment, repository management), Azure

• Ways of Working - experience actively working in an agile manner i.e. Kanban, Scrum etc

• Back end experience nice to have

• 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 (JQuery, NodeJS, GruntJS)

• Familiar with testing frameworks (Ex. Jasmine)

• Test runner framework (Ex. Karma)

• Hand on and implements complex Front end / React applications, directives, controllers, services

• Critical thinker and problem-solving skills

• Team player

• Good time-management skills

• Great interpersonal and communication skills

• Ability and drive to work in a fast paced, high pressure environment 
   

*Initial 6 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

Work as part of an integrated (run & build) tribe in lower complexity environments to provide enterprise wide application support across multiple stakeholder groups by maintaining & optimizing enterprise-grade applications (tech products & services).
Job Description

• Absa’s CIB technology team provides technology support to the organization’s Corporate and Investment Banking sector.  This IT Services team is specifically dedicated to our Markets business area and is responsible for the support, enhancement and maintenance of all Trade and Post Trade vendor and bespoke application suites that fall within the Markets business area.

Key critical requirements:

• Relevant B-Degree in Computer Science
• 6+ years of IT experience
• Strong Linux OS commands and shell script skills - especially sed and awk
• Knowledge/Work experience on Python
• Knowledge/Work experience on Ansible/Puppet/Terraform
• Working experience in Application support in fast-paced environment
• Experience in working with users directly
• Troubleshooting and problem-solving skills in critical times
• Should be able to work independently, self-motivated, quick learner with good interpersonal and communication skills
• Willingness to work standby or overtime as required
• Linux scripting
• Advise on software installation and upgrades, troubleshoot problems and provide resolutions.
• Receive and screen user programming requests for new applications or modifications, and determine appropriate priority and response.
• Develop and communicate training and documentation for end users.
• Act as a liaison between business stakeholders and customers, external solution providers, and IT stakeholders for application support specific requirements
• Oversee application implementation and configuration, patches, upgrades and maintenance, and ensure that application performance meets agreed SLAs and OLAs
• Windows Server support/troubleshooting
• Reading and understanding of config files
• Understanding of Python code (Advantageous)
• AWS certification (Advantageous)

Advantageous/Optional
Knowledge and working experience on some of the following:

• Containers and Orchestration Platform such as Kubernetes and OpenShift, OpenStack
• Software Development Platform integration GitHub, and related Cloud, DevOps and CI/CD matters.
• Working experience in Financial firm
• Working experience in Front Arena (Development or Support)
• ITIL certification

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

• To provide specialist advice and support in area of specialisation enabling the effective implementation of risk frameworks.

Job Description

Job Purpose:

• Be responsible for operating the Group frameworks, policies and standards to effectively manage Legal Risk across the functions and business units.
• Perform / prepare Control Evaluations, Key Risk Metrics, internal and external Incident Reporting, and the necessary supporting Management Information.  In addition, support the broader risk and control agenda across the Legal function, raising risk awareness and proactively helping to identify, assess and manage emerging risks.
• Perform control initiative and assurance for Legal Risks, ensuring excellent stakeholder engagement and agreement with all elements of project management covered.
• Support the Specialist Risk Type Owner in enhancing the function’s risk management infrastructure that supports Legal and in implementing consistent processes and methodologies for the identification, analysis, measurement, monitoring and management of risk within Legal.  

Accountability:  Framework, Policy and Standard

• Adhere to Group frameworks, policies and standards.
• Monitor and report against the cascaded risk appetite limits

Accountability:  Governance

• Report on the Operational Risk profile.
• Participate in the Legal risk committees and in working groups.

Accountability:  Controls

• Design and implemented controls in line with Operational Risk and risk type group policies and standards.

Accountability:  Assurance

• Perform risk-based control testing.
• Execute against the Legal combined assurance plan.

Accountability:  Reporting and escalation

• Ensure that RDARR requirements are maintained that Data Quality, Data Taxonomy etc are maintained in accordance with the Group Standards.
• Produce Management Information in  line with RDARR requirements
• Report and escalate risks and incidents per group standard

Accountability: Relationship building

• Manage relationships with a variety of control functions throughout the organization to ensure that the operating environment is optimized and compliant.

Education and Experience Required

• A relevant Business degree, BComm, BSc or equivalent
• Postgraduate qualifications would be advantageous
• Audit experience would be advantageous
• At least 3 to 5 years financial services working experience.
• Experience in a risk function essential.

Knowledge & Skills:

• In depth knowledge of Operational Risk
• Strong audit knowledge
• Excellent analytical skill and ability to solve complex problems
• Excellent Networking/ Relationship Building Skills
• Excellent Presentation Skills
• Good Report writing Skills

Competencies:

•     Deciding and initiating action
•     Learning and researching
•     Entrepreneurial and commercial thinking
•     Relating and networking
•     Responding to change
•     Persuading and influencer
•     Self starter
•     Completer/Finisher

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

• Oversee and manage the effective provision of key insights, information solutions and value adding advanced analytics that will facilitate the effective formulation of information-based propositions to drive purposeful, client-centric activity and strategies.

Job Description

• Management Information (MI) and Reporting: Engage with internal business and technical stakeholders to understand requirements and ensure objectives, priorities and key requirements are agreed and understood. Interpret data and identify issues, risks and opportunities and relate results and insights to Business users.
•  Ensure that all team activities are in adherence to relevant control and compliance requirements, and quality standards

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