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.
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
- 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 and verification testing (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 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 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)
Please find below skill set required for UPF resource
- ACI UP framework, ACI UPF Endpoint Builder Development skills, ACI UPF IPF Development skills, ACI UPF API Manager Development skills, Groovy skills , JMS based messaging
- Knowledge on any instant payments, ISO20022 pain, pacs, acmt, camt, admi
- Knowledge of Business Services Infrastructure (BSI)
- Experience on Swagger or Open API
- Development in web services, XML, Java, JSON and RESTful services, API services, Security solutions like OAuth
- Should be able to work on Linux
- Basic Network knowledge such as TCP/IP
- Worked with application server JBoss or WebSphere
Experience working with databases Postgres SQL or Oracle
Desired Skills:
- ACI UP framework
- ACI UPF Endpoint Builder Development skills
- ACI UPF IPF Development skills
- ACI UPF API Manager Development skills
- Groovy skills
- JMS based messaging
- instant payments
- ISO20022 pain
- pacs
- acmt
- camt
- admi
- Business Services Infrastructure (BSI)
- Swagger
- Open API
- Development in web services
- XML
- Java
- JSON
- RESTful services
- API services
- Security solutions like OAuth
- Linux
- TCP/IP
- JBoss
- WebSphere
- Postgres SQL
- Oracle
- CI/CD Pipelines
- Front End
- Back End
- Integration
- Development Lifecycle
- Jenkins
- Azure DevOps
- ELK Stack
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- New Relic
- Zipkin
- Jaeger
- Docker
- Ansible
- Kubernetes
- Wiremock
- Hoverfly
Desired Work Experience:
- 5 to 10 years Banking
- 5 to 10 years Software Development
Desired Qualification Level:
- Degree
About The Employer:
Client based in the financial services sector.