Specialist Product Engineer - Front Arena

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

Job summary

A leading African bank is looking for a skilled IT professional to join their dynamic team in Sandton. The successful candidate will apply critical thinking and problem-solving skills, contributing to all phases of the development lifecycle. A Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology and 3-5 years of experience in Banking IT are essential. You'll work in an agile environment and assist in developing high-quality software solutions that comply with regulatory standards.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in Banking / Investment Banking / Capital Markets IT domain.
• Strong technical skills: Software design and development, Business analysis, quality assurance, release management.
• Experience in Front Arena AEF technologies (e.g., ACM, AEL, ADFL, ASQL).
• Deep knowledge of financial instruments and risk management.

Responsibilities

• Apply critical thinking and problem solving skills in an agile environment.
• Lead phases of the development lifecycle, including design.
• Develop high-quality software and application architecture.
• Conduct peer reviews and provide technical subject matter expertise.

Skills

Critical thinking

Problem solving

Interpersonal skills

Communication

Stakeholder management

Software design and development

Business analysis

Quality assurance

Release management

Agile methodologies

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology

Tools

Python

C# .NET

C++

MS SQL

XSLT

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Docker

Ansible

Kubernetes

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

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.

Job Description

Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and Absa Policies and Policy Standards.
Understand and manage risks and risk events (incidents) relevant to the role.

Additional Job Description

Key critical requirements:

• 3-5 years of experience in Banking / Investment Banking / Capital Markets IT domain

• 3-5 years of experience in Front Arena (or equivalent system) development / consulting projects ( Preferable )

• Strong technical skills: Software design and development, Business analysis, quality assurance, release management

• Excellent interpersonal, communication and stakeholder’s management skills

• Ability to perform in a challenging and dynamic environment

• Experience in Front Arena AEF: ACM, AEL, ADFL, ASQL, Python, C# .net, C++, MS SQL, XSLT ( Preferable )

• Deep knowledge of FA components such as PRIME, ADS, AMB, AMBA, ATS, AMWI, PACE, APS, AFG-AMB, SWIFT adapters, Adaptiv Docs etc. ( Preferable )

• Functional skills required: In depth understanding of asset classes such as Equities, Fixed Income, Credit, FX, their valuation models and product lifecycle, Financial Risk Management, Regulatory and Risk reporting, Trading and Position Management. ( Preferable )

Key accountabilities:

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-organised, 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

• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.

• 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

( Preferable )

• 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

• Work with guilds and other technical SME’s 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 etc.)

People

• 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 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)

Job Description

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