Lead Product Engineer

Absa Bank; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 300 000 - 400 000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent financial institution is seeking a skilled developer to build high-performing, scalable applications. The role involves creating CI/CD pipelines, solving complex technical problems, and mentoring junior engineers. Candidates should hold a Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology and have robust experience in DevOps and Agile methodologies. Join us to shape the future with innovative solutions while ensuring application stability and performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology is required.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Agile methodologies.
• Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes for automation tasks.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain sophisticated CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop high-quality software/application design and architecture.
• Coach and mentor other engineers.

Skills

DevOps

CI/CD pipelines

Agile methodologies

Docker

Kubernetes

Troubleshooting

Observability techniques

Coaching & mentoring

Technical documentation

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology

Tools

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

ELK stack

Prometheus

Grafana

WireMock

Job description

Overview

• Empowering Africa's tomorrow, together… one story at a time.
• With over years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary

Build high‑performing, scalable, enterprise‑grade applications & build capability in others to do the same.

This includes but is not limited to applying critical thinking, design thinking and problem‑solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems (Front End, Back End and Integration) with high‑quality solutions and leading all phases of the development lifecycle to deliver.

Responsibilities

• DevOps: create & maintain sophisticated CI/CD pipelines (authoring & supporting pipelines in Jenkins / Azure DevOps or similar tools and deploying to multi‑site environments – supporting and managing your applications all the way to production).
• Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem‑solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems (Front End, Back End and Integration) with high‑quality solutions.
• Contribute to and in some cases lead all phases of the development lifecycle including design process.
• Determine operational feasibility of solutions by evaluating analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development and proposed solutions.
• Develop high‑quality software/application design and architecture in a test‑driven & domain‑driven/cross‑domain environment.
• Quickly produce well‑organised, optimised, 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.
• Use & configure modern observability techniques to provide a deeper understanding of the application (e.g. aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via Prometheus / Grafana / NewRelic and distributed tracing like Zipkin / Jaeger).
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting (e.g. Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes).
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
• Work with guilds and other technical SMEs to improve and evolve technical products and services.
• Apply unit testing frameworks and perform integration, validation and verification testing (apply knowledge of stubbing tools e.g. WireMock, Hoverfly).
• Apply version control and related concepts and techniques.
• Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture, Security & Infrastructure guidelines.
• Work with project & program teams (when required) to plan & manage the development lifecycle (e.g. releases, risk management, testing, integration).
• Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimisation and maintenance on applications.
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices (e.g. scripting languages, containerisation).
• Contribute to the design & evolution of Group Architecture, Infrastructure & associated technical standards for the organisation.
• Coach & mentor other engineers.
• Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem‑solving within and across the broader team.
• Provide technical subject‑matter expertise and support in the attraction and recruitment of Product Engineers for the organisation.
• Participate as a subject‑matter expert in the development & development planning of the broader product engineering team.
• Support the people change teams in the design of adoption processes (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption) – Risk & Governance.
• Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post deployment).
• Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organisation 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 get to the bottom of major incidents.
• Deliver on time & on budget (always).

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

Equal Opportunity Statement

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer.

In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 2008, 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.