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Job Summary

1. Mastery of core corporate finance skills – valuation, demonstrate ability to understand strategic issues in an industry, product knowledge
2. Be able to drive the production of pitch materials for any of our M&A core products
3. Effective collaboration with VPs and analysts for efficient execution of pitches / transactions
4. Contribution to idea generation for preparation of client materials
5. Show progress in attaining understanding of local regulatory framework most relevant to Banking, this includes JSE regulations and Companies Act

Job Description

Joining this team is for innovative, numerate and bright individuals keen to execute investment banking transactions from inception to closure. Role requires team players who are keen to travel, who don't like hierarchies and who are prepared to back themselves to win.

Financial honours/CA/CFA/MBA with min 4  years Investment Banking Corporate Finance experience . Successful incumbent must have superior financial modelling skills, sound business acumen and passion for corporate finance and capital markets.

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

The Collections team within CIB Corporate Tech is looking for an experienced .Net Software Developer to 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. This is a contracting opportunity for an initial 12 months

Job Description

Competencies – What are the specific competencies required?

• Tertiary education in Computer Science or related field

• Good understanding of scrum and agile practices

• Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills, with excellent attention to detail

• Flexible about working with new methodologies and technologies

• A solid understanding of OOP principles

• SOLID design principles

• Design patterns experience

• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools

• Good understanding of C# technology

• Experience using ORM’s such as Entity Framework or NHibernate

• Experience of WCF technology (advantageous)

• Domain Driven Design (DDD) and Test Driven Development (TDD) (advantageous)

Outputs – What are the key performance areas and daily responsibilities?

• Build reusable software components and libraries for future use across multiple projects

• Design, code, test, debug and document software according to the functional requirements

• Analyse, diagnose and resolve errors related to their applications

• Keep abreast of technical and industry developments

• Work closely with developers and a variety of end users to ensure technical compatibility and user satisfaction

We deliver a wide range of Digital products (which includes mobile, web applications and APIs). This opportunity will span across Corporate, Client and Colleague based projects. With the ultimate deliverable being to implement new and maintain current solutions for Corporate Clients in the collections value proposition.

*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 Description

The Salesforce team within CIB Technology is looking for a skilled Salesforce / Full Stack Developer. We are looking for a subject matter expert in technical solutions and business processes within the CRM environment.

Key critical requirements and role responsibilities:

• 3 - 5 years development experience

• 2 + years' Salesforce experience

• Relevant B-Degree in Computer Science / Information Technology

• Salesforce Qualifications 201, 402, 450, 501 Required

• Strong data background with experience in data manipulation, client data and client segments

• Big Data experience (Hadoop / Spark)

• API Gateway experience

• SQL experience

• AWS Core support

• Java script experience

• Development includes systems - Salesforce, .Net, Angular, SQL, AWS

• Experience working in an agile environment

• Excellent communication, analytical skills and decision making ability in collaborative environments

• Solid understanding of messaging protocols and web services like SOAP and REST

• Solid understanding of Object Oriented Design and ability to properly apply general design patterns and paradigms

• Business and systems analysis experience

• Self starter who takes responsibility for development and timeous completion

Responsibilities:

• Work with the Salesforce team to extend their integration layers

• Develop and maintain integration API Layers and Microservices

• Salesforce integration and development

• Gather requirements and develop and design accordingly

Education

Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences (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 Description

Key Responsibilities

Accountability Data Architecture & Data Engineering

• Understand 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.)

• Translate / interpret the data architecture direction and associated business requirements & leverage expertise in analytical & creative problem solving to synthesise data solution designs (build a solution from its components) beyond the analysis of the problem

• Participate in design thinking processes to successfully deliver data solution blueprints

• Leverage state of the art relational and No-SQL databases as well integration and streaming platforms do deliver sustainable business specific data solutions.

• Design data retrieval, storage & distribution solutions (and OR components thereof) including contributing to all phases of the development lifecycle e.g. design process

• Develop high quality data processing, retrieval, storage & distribution design in a test driven & domain driven / cross domain environment

• 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)

• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting technologies e.g. Ansible, Chef

• 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

• 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

• Support the continuous optimisation, improvement & automation of data processing, retrieval, storage & distribution processes

• Ensure the quality assurance and testing of all data solutions aligned to the QA Engineering & broader architectural guidelines and standards of the organisation

• Implement & align to the Group Security standards and practices to ensure the undisputable separation, security & quality of the organisation’s data

• Meaningfully contribute to & 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 to & ensure solutions align to the design and direction of the Group Infrastructure standards and practices e.g. OLA’s, IAAS, PAAS, SAAS, Containerization etc.

• Monitor the performance of data solutions designs & ensure ongoing optimization of data solutions

• Stay ahead of the curve on data processing, retrieval, storage & distribution technologies & processes

     (Global best practices & trends) to ensure best practice

People

• Coach & mentor other engineers

• Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team

• Build data science team capability in the use of data solutions

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 find the underlying cause of major incidents

• Deliver on time & on budget (always)

Education and Experience required

• Relevant NQF level 7 qualification in computer science, engineering, physics, mathematics or equivalent

• Development and deployment of data applications

• Design & Implementation of infrastructure tooling and work on horizontal frameworks and libraries

• Creation of data ingestion pipelines between legacy data warehouses and the big data stack

• Automation of application back-end workflows

• Building and maintaining backend services created by multiple services framework

• Maintain and enhance applications backed by Big Data computation applications

• Be eager to learn new approaches and technologies

• Strong problem solving skills

• Strong programming skills

• Worked on Big Data platforms (Vanilla Hadoop, Cloudera or Hortonworks)

• Preferred: Experience with Scala or other functional languages (Haskell, Clojure, Kotlin, Clean)

• Preferred: Experience with some of the following: Apache Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Pig, Oozie, ZooKeeper, MongoDB, CouchbaseDB, Impala, Kudu, Linux, Bash, version control tools, continuous integration tools, SAS and SQL skills

• At least three (3) years’ experience working in Big data environment (advantageous for all, a must for high volume environments) – optimizing and building big data pipelines, architectures and data sets

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