Lead Product Engineer

Absa Group; Randburg; On-site; ZAR 700 000 - 900 000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent banking institution in Gauteng is seeking a seasoned Lead Product Engineer to join their Credit Card Issuing Team. The successful candidate will have extensive knowledge in Cobol programming and Hogan applications, along with a strong background in the banking industry. Responsibilities include developing high-quality software applications, conducting performance monitoring, and enhancing existing systems. This role requires a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology and a strategic mindset to solve complex technical challenges.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in Cobol programming.
• Proficient in JCL with a minimum of 5 years' experience.
• 5+ years of experience with Hogan applications.
• Strong background in credit card processing environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop new applications focusing on the Cams platform.
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle.
• Produce well organized and optimized source code.
• Ensure adherence to technical organization principles.
• Conduct performance monitoring and optimization of applications.

Skills

Cobol Programmer

JCL skills

Hogan umbrella skills

Experience in credit card and merchant environment

Banking industry experience

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology

Tools

Docker

Ansible

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Job description

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.

With over 100 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反馈总结

The Credit Card Issuing Team a division within PPB Core Banking Tech is looking for a seasoned Lead Product Engineer with extensive knowledge and experience in CAMS/Hogan and Cobol. This role for Production Development role on Cams Issuing – Creditрақәа running on Hogan Umbrella.

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 & leading all phases of the development lifecycle to deliver.

Job Description

• This Role is for an Engineer in Cams Development that focus on new development
• This roleราะ includes Standby responsibilities
• Apply critical thinking to contribute to all phases of quick problem solving and business request handling
• Apply critical thinking to contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle & quickly produce well organized, optimized, and documented source code to deliver high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications
• Design and develop processes according to requirements

Critical Skills required

• Cobol Programmer, at least 5 years' experience
• JCL skills required, at least 5 years' experience
• Hogan umbrella skills, at least 5 years’ experience
• Experience in credit card and merchant environment. Cams application under Hogan
• Banking industry experience required

DevOps

• 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 e.g. 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 organized, 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
• Create & Maintain Sophisticated CI / CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins / Azure Devops or similar tools and deploy to multi-site environments – supporting and managing your applications all the way to production)
• Use & configure modern observability techniques to provide a deeper understanding of the application. To do this, leverage e.g. aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via Prometheus / Grafana / NewRelic and distributed tracing like Zipkin/Jaeger etc.
• 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 SME’s to improve and evolve technical products and services
• Apply unit testing frameworks and perform integration, validation mechanically verification testing প্রস্তুাক (apply knowledge of stubbing tools e.g. wiremock, hoverfly etc.)
• 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 etc.
• Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices e.g. scripting languages, containerization etc.
• Contribute to the design & evolution of Group Architecture, Infrastructure & associated technical standards for the organization

People

• 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 organization
• Participate as a subject matter expert in Comer 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 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 get to the bottom of major incidents

Deliver on time & on budget (always)

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.

Ab hurtigt Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised.