Product Engineer

Absa Group; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 600 000 - 800 000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent financial institution in Sandton is seeking a DataOps professional to support high-performing application design and development in agile teams. The role involves producing and reviewing source code, managing operational processing, and ensuring compliance with governance standards. The ideal candidate will have a relevant NQF Level 7 qualification and at least 2 years of experience in Data or Software Development roles, alongside Scrum Master certification. This position offers a chance to work in an innovative environment and contribute to the bank's digital transformation initiatives.

Qualifications

• Relevant NQF Level 7 qualification.
• 2+ years experience in Data or Software Development roles.
• Scrum Master certification or relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Produce well-organised and documented source code.
• Apply principles of repeatability and scalability in code development.
• Participate in incident management and provide technical support.

Skills

Data or Software Development experience

Scrum Master experience

Technical documentation

Education

Information Technology – Bachelor’s Degree

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 Summary

Support high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade application design & development in agile teams by producing, testing, documenting & reviewing source code.

Job Description

DataOps

• Produce well‑organised and documented source code for technical solutions.
• Apply technical organisation principles of self‑service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience in code development.
• Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions.
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets if required.
• Work with integrated teams and other developers to improve and evolve technical products and services.
• Study & apply Group Architecture & Infrastructure guidelines to all development work.
• Support reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimisation and maintenance on application.
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices and continuously evolve existing knowledge & skill in preparation for exposure to Automation, Integration, Messaging, CI/CD etc.
• Update, create and appropriately store application documentation & technical specificationsRisk & Governance.
• Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents.

DataOps Improvement

• Understand an aggregated view of all tools.
• Take responsibility for operational processing & monitoring quality by meeting & or exceeding all SLA’s & defined targets for e.g. time, quality, cost.
• Continuously evolve own knowledge & skills to assume responsibility for new and OR; refined monitoring & processing services to achieve efficiency & effectiveness objectives.
• Review and analyse operational processing, monitoring & scheduling performance data and identify & proactively predict events & incidents (ahead of their occurrence).
• Provide support & information to business, problem management, DR, resilience & technology to identify & implement solutions that will prevent incidents, events & outages of critical business services.
• Review operational processing, monitoring & scheduling performance data & provide recommendations for the continuous improvement of these services.
• Support reviews & ongoing optimisation and maintenance on technologies and associated tooling.
• Participate in incident & problem management processes and provide critical data‑driven insights & suggested remedial actions.
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging operational processing, scheduling & monitoring technologies & practices and continuously leverage evolved knowledge & skill to influence the automation, optimisation, digitisation & predictive capabilities.
• Finance, Risk, Governance & Compliance - Participate in risk, governance & compliance review & manage, maintain & provide regular & accurate information.
• Ensure risk, governance & regulatory compliance (always!) of all processing, scheduling & operations activity (own).
• Support The Data Operations teams in the design of adoption improvement processes.

Agile Delivery

• Ensuring artefacts are maintained and updated.
• Ensuring that initiatives and ceremonies are running smoothly and corrective actions taken wherever appropriate.
• Effectively communicate to leadership about the progress as well as blockages in the on‑going sprints.
• Ensuring all change governance and standards are adhered to.
• Ensuring code quality is maintained.
• Developing plans to ensure delivery of teams’ work.
• Ensure accurate reporting, including maintenance of reports, trend/thematic analysis etc.

Skills & Experience Required

• Relevant NQF Level 7 qualification.
• 2+ years experience Data or Software Development roles, coupled with experience as a Scrum Master.
• Scrum Master certification or relevant experience.

Education

Information Technology – Bachelor’s Degree

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.