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Lead Solution Analyst

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 SummaryWork in high complexity environments, fully embedded in a DevOps team, leveraging specialist analysis tools, frameworks, techniques and practices to elicit, define and organize business requirements, across multiple stakeholder groups. Translate & document these business requirements into user stories & specifications (Full Stack, Cross System) detailing integration points, business & associated risk / opportunities to be realised. And following this analysis, work collaboratively within squads to ensure the business requirements are met through DevOps design & delivery activity & lead the application of testing processes & frameworks ensuring all products & services are effectively tested. Business complexity is determined by: 1. Customer Impact 2. Number of integration points: • Data • Teams to talk to • Systems • Enabling function • 3rd party vs. internal 3. Complexity of business rules & Processes 4. Level of operational readiness 5. Introduction of new or changing old Tech (e.g. redo platforms)

Job Description

Analysis (including Business Case)
• Lead the analysis process for complex business areas
• Proactively build relationships, apply analytical techniques to elicit and validate business (product & service) needs ahead of demand
• Implement routines to get to know / become an expert in various business processes (e.g. spend time in business & with users)
• Translate elicited needs and knowledge acquired into user story format that is immediately usable for DevOps teams (right languaging, format for building & testing)
• Prepare and prioritise the backlog of requirements for the user stories linked to the proposed solutions
• Proactively scan the internal & external environment to predict change requirements & opportunities for improvement ahead of demand (e.g. market, risk, regulatory, customer, organizational change etc.)
• Work collaboratively with Tribe Leads (Technical Product / Service Owners) to build a roadmap & vision for the products and services (including detailed analysis requirements & solution scope)
• Define measures of success & key outcomes for various solutions / changes including detailed acceptance criteria for all features
• Define testing requirements (pass or fail test cases)
• Support the development of detailed business cases (including defining solution characteristics, effort estimations etc.)

Solution Design (within DevOps Context)
• Translate business requirements into an integrated system vision & detailed systems requirements. Detailed system requirements must include all capabilities, interfaces and functionalities within and across technologies.
• Build detailed user stories to be leveraged for system requirements design (modular)
• Leverage business analysis & modeling tools and apply notation standards such as UML/BPMN to diagrammatically/visually document: business requirements, business processes, system processes & integration .
• Facilitate processes to ensure integrated requirements are socialized, understood & approved across the broad range of stakeholders to be impacted (this includes various processes e.g. risk / governance forums, change council, scrum meetings / DevOps team capability building, solution design sessions etc.)
• Understand & leverage knowledge on the organisations technical landscape, environment and broader architecture to define integration points across tech stacks for various requirements
• Work collaboratively with project / program teams, squads, scrum masters and engineers to define backlog, release & DevOps / project planning implications of the requirements development & roadmap (what should happen when)
• Work as part of the embedded DevOps team to continuously improve system requirements mapping (e.g. leverage input from questions asked etc. to consistently improve the quality of the requirements analysis for easier interpretation by the development teams)
• Work as part of the embedded DevOps team throughout the design process to review solution design (features and functionality)
• Facilitate resolution & decision making during development & testing phases for any change requirements

Solution Delivery & Testing (manual)
• Define the manual testing strategy & test cases for various solutions (where it makes sense to do so)
• Define & validate quality & testing parameters (+/-) & plans for the solution (socialize & translate these to automation testing teams)
• Develop manual testing frameworks and patterns for the solution
• Lead the manual testing process for various solutions (e.g. execute test cases, analyse results)
• Provide real time feedback to the DevOps teams on change requirements identified throughout the testing process
• Review & monitor system stability, resilience etc. throughout the testing process (e.g. integration) & in production
• Define & monitor overall backlog planning for effective solution delivery
• Provide Developer & User support during user acceptance testing

Process Design & Modelling
• Provide input & or lead the development / improvement of organization wide process design approaches, templates & modeling tools

People
• Provide coaching & mentoring across the DevOps team as well as to developing analysts across the estate
• Build strong analysis capability across the analysis team
• Conduct peer reviews & problem solving within and across the broader team
• Provide technical subject matter expertise and support in the attraction and recruitment of Analysts for the organization
• Participate as a subject matter expert in the development & development planning of the broader analyst team
• Support the people change teams in the design of adoption processes (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption of new system requirements)
• Proactively attract, recruit, develop, retain, reward & deploy & manage a diverse resource base aligned to an ever evolving tech environment (ahead of demand) where you are the leader

Skills, Experience and Knowledge Required

• Bachelors Degree or National Diploma in IT
• Proven in-depth experience in Business Analysis
• Must have worked in Payments Technology
• Must have experience working in RTGS and Vostro Payments

EducationBachelor’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.

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Product Engineer

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 SummaryJob title: Product Engineer

Description:

Absa’s Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) Technology team delivers specialized regulatory technology solutions to support the organisation’s Markets business. The Regulatory Technology (Reg Tech) team is dedicated to ensuring the seamless operation, enhancement, and maintenance of all regulatory and compliance-related processes.

This function involves managing complex regulatory reporting requirements, which demand proficiency in modern development tools to extract, transform, and transmit data to both local and international regulatory bodies. Data is sourced from multiple systems and repositories (internal & external), then formatted to meet specific regulatory standards before being compiled into compliant reports.

We are seeking a Product Engineer / developer with proven experience in Financial Markets (Trading). The ideal candidate will possess a strong understanding of business data requirements, coupled with deep subject matter expertise in data engineering. This role requires the ability to define data architecture strategies, lead the deployment and implementation of scalable data solutions, and continuously optimize data retrieval, cloud storage, and distribution across the enterprise.

Job Description

Key critical requirements: 

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

• Minimum 3 years of experience in data engineering development. 

• Strong technical skills: Software design and development, Data management, AWS Cloud, AWS Data Flow, Standardised data lakes, Python, Business analysis, quality assurance, change release management. 

• Take ‘one stop shop’ accountability for the retrieval, storage, processing & distribution of data across a business area (data eco-system). 

• Assemble large, complex data sets to meet functional / non-functional requirements to best big data practices. 

• Source data from internal and external data sources, engaging with technical subject matter experts. 

• Build Analytics, reporting and Insights withing AWS cloud 

• Explore, analyse, and profile data from various internal and external data sources, and assist data scientists in preparing data for analytical purposes. 

• Ensure delivered solutions meet Systems Integration and User Acceptance Testing criteria. 

• Productionalise solutions and ensure daily data refresh processes run successfully. 

• Leverage expertise in analytical & creative problem solving to synthesise data solution designs (build a solution from its components) beyond the analysis of the problem 

• Assemble large, complex data sets that meet business requirements & manage the data pipeline 

• Build infrastructure to automate extremely high volumes of data delivery and 

• Creatively solve data volume and scaling challenges. 

• Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience 

• Inform & support the infrastructure build required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources. 

• Strategically & operationally monitor the performance of data products and services ensuring ongoing optimization & cost to value for our businesses (think bank wide) 

• Stay ahead of the curve on data retrieval, storage & distribution technologies & processes (global best practices & trends) to ensure best practice 

• Excellent interpersonal, communication and stakeholder’s management skills 

• Ability to perform in a challenging and dynamic environment 

Preferable: 

• 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. 

• Builds and monitors data pipelines from data retrieval, storage, database design, and distribution of information assets through the organization. 

• Data ingestion to the cloud from different source systems and via different servicing e.g. API, CS, flat file etc.  

• Database Design 

• Data Integration 

• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) 

• Data Modeling 

• Requirements Gathering 

• Process Mapping 

• Effective communication 

• Time Management 

• Technical Knowledge 

• Experience in AWS, ASQL, C# .net, C++, MS SQL, XSLT, Kafka, Data modeling tools etc. 

• Experience in API creation/pulling data via an API, Integration tools, automation tools and regulatory reporting technologies, FIX Protocols and other. 

• Functional skills required: In depth understanding of asset classes such as Equity, Fixed Income, Credit, FX, commodities, Interest Rates, Collateral, high level is all derivatives and non-derivative products and their product lifecycle, Regulatory and risk reporting. 

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 

• Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical and functional solutions 

• Automate regulatory reporting through appropriate tools  

• Centralize regulatory data 

• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging regulatory and non-regulatory technologies and development practices e.g. scripting languages, containerization etc.  

• 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 

• 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 

• Contribute to the design & evolution of Group Architecture, Infrastructure & associated technical standards for the organization 

EducationBachelor’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

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Intern

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.

My Career Development Portal: Wherever you are in your career, we are here for you. Design your future. Discover leading-edge guidance, tools and support to unlock your potential. You are Absa. You are possibility.

Job SummaryTo deliver operational services through the execution of predefined objectives as per agreed standard operating procedures (SOPs). Selecting this role has a compensation & benefit impact in Ghana. Please contact Reward for details.

Job Description

No role profile available as this role has no assigned corporate grade: This role should not be used to create new positions. Where this role is being used for an existing position, please contact the People Function to update records. | : | : | : | : | : | : | :

EducationHigher Certificates and Advanced National (Vocational) Certificates: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)

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File Transfer Platform Engineer

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 SummaryApply platform engineering expertise, critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to produce well-organised, optimised and documented source code that successfully delivers platform features & components of the service & solves complex technical problems with high quality solutions.

Job Description

What to expect from the role

• Work experience with different systems, software, and hardware.
• Opportunity to work on IT projects.
• Exposure to IT and development.
• Work in collaboration with a team.
• Guided by experts and professionals in the field and learn on the job.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that all systems and infrastructure is monitored and maintained.
• Perform the installation configuration and maintenance of the operating systems, operational software, and system management tools.
• Ensure systems are maintained and are functioning with high quality.
• Ensure that there is a high level of security and regular back up being carried out.
• Assess the systems, identify problem areas, and fix them.
• Collaborate with developers and fellow engineers to ensure that systems are functioning at an efficient capacity.
• Write and maintain scripts to provide readymade solutions and reduce human intervention at any point of time for a task.
• Design operational and information support systems in collaboration with fellow engineers and developers.
• Be available to provide 2nd and 3rd level support.
• Negotiate and coordinate with vendors and IT support personnel to resolve problems.
• Operations and Support 

Provide technical services and support for the following areas: 

• Network level: WAN and LAN connectivity, routers, firewalls and Security 
• Internal systems, cloud and network infrastructure 
• Microsoft related technologies: windows server, office 365, SQL, SharePoint, Active Directory 
• Virtualization technologies: VMware, Citrix, Microsoft 
• Remote monitoring and management of systems alerts and notifications f. Administration of Cloud Tenancy infrastructure 
• Identify problems and deliver timely solutions 
• Perform daily reviews of system monitoring logs verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems, and key processes.
• Performing remedial actions as required 
• Configure maintain and regularly review a robust backup policy for all CHL data sources 
• Effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems/network hardware software and related infrastructure as required 
• Administer and manage Active directory to ensure appropriate secure access to relevant resources for all staff Maintenance 
• Plan and maintain production systems change control, as well as facilitate the development, enhancement evaluation, testing and implementation of new software and software releases in consultation with vendors where necessary 
• Maintain operational, configuration, or other procedures 
• Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning 
• Maintain up to date system documentation Customer Support 
• Communicate technical information in non-technical language to users with varying expertise and seniority 
• Develop, maintain, and implement efficient and up-to-date system management techniques to optimize utilization of resources 
• Contribute to the on-going development and enhancement of relevant service standards, procedures, and guideline.

Experience Required:

• Prior 2 years’ experience as a systems engineer.
• Prior work experience with installation and configurations of operating systems and system management tools.
• Excellent knowledge of security software, automation software, scripting, and virtualization.
• Strong time management, organization, and multitasking skills.
• Solid experience with Cloud (AWS), administration and performance tuning of application stacks.
• Support (installation and configuration) for IBM Sterling products (Connect Direct / Secure Proxy / authentication services as part of a managed file transfer solution.
• Progress MOVEit Automation and Transfer with Gateway services onboarding/ support and maintenance configurations on Unix/windows/OS400 and ZOS file transfer Protocols which include Connect: Direct, SFTP/AWS S3/UNC share/Azure Blob and SSH key authentication.
• AWS Cloud skill products knowledge and experience in supporting business flows. (GitHub /GOCD /
• Required to ensuring that the managed file transfer solution complies with recommended security controls, Patch management from both operating systems and application level to Ensuring all audit requirements are met and addressed if there were finding against the team.

EducationBachelor’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

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Senior C# Developer

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.

My Career Development Portal: Wherever you are in your career, we are here for you. Design your future. Discover leading-edge guidance, tools and support to unlock your potential. You are Absa. You are possibility.

Job SummaryWe are hiring a Senior C# Developer to join our Electronic Trading technology team. This role
focuses on maintaining and modernizing our trading GUIs and backend components, ensuring high
performance, stability, and excellent user experience for our Markets business.
The successful candidate will work on real-time, event-driven applications and contribute to the
evolution of our trading platform, including UI modernization initiatives.

Job Description

• Maintain and enhance C#/WPF trading GUIs, ensuring performance and responsiveness.
• Lead UI modernization efforts, including migration to modern frameworks such as Avalonia.
• Develop and optimize multithreaded, asynchronous C# backend components.
• Troubleshoot production issues and ensure stability of mission-critical systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including trading, QA, infrastructure, and platform
• engineering.
• Contribute to architecture discussions, code reviews, and engineering best practices.
• Mentor team members where appropriate.

Required Experience.

• 7+ years of professional experience in C#/.NET development.
• Strong knowledge of WPF, MVVM, data binding, and UI performance tuning.
• Deep understanding of multithreading, concurrency, and asynchronous programming.
• Experience with high-performance or real-time systems.
• Backend development experience including REST APIs, messaging (Solace/Kafka), and
• databases.
• Strong analytical and debugging skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Avalonia, MAUI, Uno, or modern cross-platform UI frameworks.

• Background in electronic trading or financial technology.

• Knowledge of FIX protocol, OMS/EMS, or trading workflows.

• Experience with memory optimization, GC tuning, and UI thread performance.

Soft Skills

• High sense of ownership and accountability.

• Strong communication skills with both business and technical teams.

• Proactive problem-solving approach and focus on system quality.

• Ability to mentor junior developers and influence technical direction.

Why Join Us

• Work on mission-critical trading systems with real business impact.

• Be part of the modernization of our trading UI platform.

• Strong engineering culture and collaborative environment.

• Opportunities for technical leadership and innovation.

EducationBachelor’s Degree: Information Technology

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Lead Platform Engineer

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 SummaryBuild high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade Platform services & 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 with high quality solutions & leading all phases of the development lifecycle to deliver against business requirements at an optimal cost to serve.

Job Description

PAre you ready to make a difference?

Join an exciting and dynamic team of API Gateway Platform Engineers, who are responsible for shaping the technical API economy for the bank.

Work within the Platforms and Engineering Gateway technology tribe responsible for the development, design and run of the Datapower API Gateway platform. Apply platform engineering expertise, critical thinking, design thinking and problem-solving skills to produce well-organized, optimized and documented source code that successfully delivers platform features, components of the service and solves complex technical problems with high quality solutions. Capable of resolving escalated issues arising from operations of the Datapower API Gateway Platform.

Key accountabilities: (What you’ll get to do)

• Leverage platform engineering expertise and a working knowledge of specific platforms (physical Datapower Gateway appliances, API Connect v10, vmware, Kubernetes, AWS services) and their constituent parts to positively contribute to platform feature and service designs
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Kubernetes, Python, Terraform
• Use and configure modern observability techniques leveraging e.g. aggregated logging via Elastic Search stack, Kafka, metrics via Prometheus / Grafana
• Leverage platform (service design and code) and engineering technical expertise to proactively identify risks and prevent defects
• Uphold our technical principles off: self-service, scalability, re-usability, resilience & stability in all development practices and deliver feature sets that sustainably deliver on these principles
• Enable problem resolution across technical teams, apply and or facilitate root cause analysis, deeply understand the root causes of issues and find ways to resolve them (sustainably)
• Optimize, refactor and reuse components to improve performance and maintainability – ensuring maximum efficiency, effectiveness, and return on investment
• Take accountability for maintaining platform standards and best practices, and drive adoption across multiple service teams
• Contribute to a high-performance team environment by coaching and mentoring other engineers, support engineering teams on technical solutions and problem resolution, and proactively seek coaching and mentoring from others

Role/Person specification: (What do you need to get in?)

• +3 years Datapower Gateway experience (admin, operational and development)
• +3 years API Connect 2018 / v10 experience (admin, operational and development)
• +3 years coding / scripting languages experience e.g. Python, JavaScript, Bash scripting, GoLang, XSLT, Gateway Scripting
• +3 years’ experience in Kubernetes architecture, Networking, Security, Deployment, and Management
• +3 years messaging protocols and API technologies experience like SOAP and REST
• +3 years Infrastructure as code (IaC) tooling experience (like Jenkins, GITOPS, AWS CI/CD tools eg. Terraform, CloudFormation, CodeBuilder, CodeDeploy)
• +3 years analytics tools and Big Data Platforms experience like Elastic Search, Kafka (Hadoop)
• +3 years Web Security protocols experience like OAuth, JWT, OIDC
• +3 years Networking experience with a solid understanding of Network layer routing and security

Ideal Certifications:

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) and Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) or Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist CKS)
• AWS Associate level certifications
• IBM Certified Solution Implementer – DataPower Gateway v10
• IBM Certified Solution Implementer – API Connect v10

If you’re passionate about working in a fast-paced environment and contributing to the exciting world of API Platforms by leading from the front, we would love to hear from you!

EducationBachelor’s Degree: Information Technology

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Technical Support Specialist

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 SummaryThe L3 Technical Support Specialist is responsible for providing advanced technical support, incident resolution, and operational oversight for the bank’s corporate digital channels. This includes online corporate banking portals, host-to-host connectivity (SFTP, SWIFT, APIs), corporate onboarding platforms, file-processing systems, payment gateways, and integration touchpoints.

The role serves as the technical escalation point for L1/L2 teams, ensuring high service availability, rapid recovery from incidents, and continuous improvement across the production environment.

Job Description

1. Role Purpose 

The L3 Technical Support Specialist is responsible for providing advanced technical support, incident resolution, and operational oversight for the bank’s corporate digital channels. This includes online corporate banking portals, host-to-host connectivity (SFTP, SWIFT, APIs), corporate onboarding platforms, file-processing systems, payment gateways, and integration touchpoints. 

The role serves as the technical escalation point for L1/L2 teams, ensuring high service availability, rapid recovery from incidents, and continuous improvement across the production environment. 

2. Key Responsibilities 

A. Incident & Problem Management 

• Serve as the highest technical escalation point for corporate channel incidents and service interruptions. 
• Perform advanced troubleshooting, root cause analysis (RCA), and permanent fix implementation. 
• Collaborate closely with platform engineering, application development, infrastructure, and cybersecurity teams. 
• Drive post-incident reviews and implement corrective/preventative actions. 

B. Platform Support & Operations 

• Monitor production systems, application logs, performance dashboards, and integrations for early warning signals. 
• Manage job failures, message queues, file transfers, batch processes, and API connectivity issues. 
• Ensure SLAs, OLAs and SLOs are consistently met. 
• Assist in maintaining high availability of the Absa Access corporate channels 

C. Technical Expertise & Tools 

• Work with logging and monitoring tools (e.g., ELK/Elastic/OpenSearch, Instana Grafana, Thousand Eyes). 
• Strong ITIL-based incident, problem, and change management experience within ServiceNow. 
• Analyse API call flows, request/response payloads, authentication issues (OAuth2, MTLS, JWT). 
• Troubleshoot infrastructure components (Linux, Windows, networking, firewalls, load balancers). 
• Perform database checks, query logs, and assess data-level issues (SQL knowledge required). 

D. Stakeholder Interaction 

• Serve as the primary escalation point for high-priority incidents, ensuring the right technical experts are engaged for swift and effective resolution. 
• Provide clear, timely communication during incidents, including business impact and recovery timelines. 
• Work with internal and external auditors to ensure compliance with security, operational, and regulatory standards. 

E. Continuous Improvement 

• Identify recurring issues and drive technical improvements with platform teams. 
• Create runbooks, playbooks, and knowledge articles for L1/L2 teams. 
• Participate in change advisory board (CAB) sessions where relevant. 
• Recommend enhancements to monitoring, alerting, and operational tooling. 

3. Required Skills & Experience 

Technical Skills 

• Strong understanding of enterprise integration patterns and digital channel technologies. 
• Experience supporting corporate banking channels or high-availability financial platforms. 
• Understanding of: 
• APIs (REST, SOAP), Postman, API gateways 
• File transfer technologies (SFTP, FTPS, MQ, Kafka) 
• Web application architecture  
• Databases (Mongo, SQL Server, Postgres) 
• Networking fundamentals (DNS, routing, SSL certs, MTLS) 
• Security principles (IAM, token-based auth, encryption, key management) 

Tools & Technologies 

• Monitoring: Kibana, ELK, OpenSearch, Grafana, Instana, AWS Cloud Watch 
• Ticketing: ServiceNow, Azure DevOps, JIRA 
• Version control: Git 

Experience 

• 5+ years in technical support, platform engineering, systems analysis, or production operations. 
• Prior L3 support experience in a financial services environment strongly preferred. 
• Experience with mission-critical, high-volume transaction platforms. 

4. Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience. 
• Optional certifications: 
• ITIL Foundation 
• AWS fundamentals 

5. Key Competencies 

• Excellent diagnostic and technical troubleshooting skills. 
• Ability to stay calm and structured during high-pressure incidents. 
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills. 
• Detail oriented with a focus on secure and stable operations. 
• Continuous improvement mindset. 
• Ability to work after-hours or on-call rotations when needed. 

6. Working Model 

• Hybrid working arrangement. 
• Participation in on-call rotation for after-hours support. 
• Occasional weekend work for planned maintenance or releases. 

EducationBachelor’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

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Specialist Platform Engineer

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 SummaryWe are looking for an engineer to join our team to help build and maintain Kafka-based streaming applications and support the Kafka platform across on-prem and Confluent Cloud environments. The role is a hybrid of development, platform responsibilities, and observability, providing a unique opportunity to work on distributed systems at scale.

Job Description

Core Responsibilities:

• Develop, maintain, and optimize Kafka-based applications and event streaming pipelines using Java(Spring / Spring Boot), Python, or .NET.
• Work with distributed systems concepts: partitions, replication, fault-tolerance, scaling, and event-driven architectures.
• Contribute to provisioning, managing, and securing Kafka clusters both on-prem and in Confluent Cloud.
• Implement and maintain security and authorization mechanisms, including ACLs, Kerberos, SSL, and OAuth for Confluent Cloud.
• Automate infrastructure deployment and configuration using Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Docker, or Kubernetes.
• Configure, monitor, and maintain observability for Kafka clusters, including metrics, alerts, and dashboards (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Confluent Control Center, ElasticSearch).
• Assist in troubleshooting production issues and perform root cause analysis.
• Collaborate closely with developers, DevOps/SRE teams, and other stakeholders to ensure reliable and performant streaming systems.
• Contribute to best practices for connector configuration, high availability, disaster recovery, and performance tuning, including streaming applications and pipelines built with Kafka Streams, ksqlDB, Apache Flink, and TableFlow.

Required Skills:

• Strong programming experience in Java(Spring / Spring Boot), Python, or .NET. Ability to write clean, maintainable, and performant code.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems principles and event-driven architectures.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka in production or strong ability to learn quickly.
• Knowledge of Kafka ecosystem components (Connect, Schema Registry, KSQL, MirrorMaker, Control Center, Kafka Streams, Apache Flink, TableFlow) is a plus.
• Familiarity with security best practices for Kafka, including ACLs, Kerberos, SSL, and OAuth.
• Experience with infrastructure as code and containerized environments.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools for distributed systems.

Desirable Skills / Bonus Points:

• Experience with Confluent Cloud or other managed Kafka platforms.
• Experience with AWS.
• Experience building streaming pipelines across multiple systems and environments.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments.

Behavioral / Soft Skills:

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and prioritize across multiple BAU and project tasks.
• Product-minded approach, focusing on delivering value and scalable solutions.

EducationBachelor’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

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Operations Officer

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.

My Career Development Portal: Wherever you are in your career, we are here for you. Design your future. Discover leading-edge guidance, tools and support to unlock your potential. You are Absa. You are possibility.

Job SummaryTo deliver exceptional operational business performance through excellent customer service delivery and control.
To ensure optimization of operational processes and efficiency in the branch of operation.
To fully take charge of all operational duties including servicing.

Job Description

Operational Management – 45%

• Deliver exceptional operational performance by identifying and meeting customer needs through servicing and control.
• Own customer queries and complaints around loans and resolve in a timely manner. Escalate any unresolved queries, or queries not resolved in a short period of time to the Regional Branch Operations Manager. Build relationships with internal service providers (Operations, Retail, Corporate, IT and the KYC Helpdesk) to ensure a quick turnaround time of escalated queries and complaints.
• Participate in specific performance improvement advocated by Performance Team. Maintain own performance statistics for management information usage. 
• Own and manage your team performance contracts and well-fare.
•  Identify when & where to refer customers to an appropriate area of delivery for specialist product help or advice.
• Build effective relationships with sales staff to ensure that non-sales duties are referred to sales team.
• Provide coaching continuously to the team in order to bridge any skills gaps
• Motivate staff and ensure they are recognised through the Absa recognition scheme
• Take full charge of branch Customer Service & Servicing
• Own and manage customer queries and complains by taking ownership and resolving in a timely manner
• In conjunction  with the other team leaders, participate in system administration and ensure adherence to the Group IT Security Policy
• Manage staff attendance levels and ensure procedures are followed

Provision of Customer Service – 30%

• Direct customers to the appropriate delivery channel to meet their needs e.g. cashiers, drop boxes, etc.
• Participate fully to ensure that the Magnificent 7 criteria are met in the branch by  team members
• From time-to-time conduct Magnificent 7 checks and feed results back to the Branch Operations & Servicing Manager
• Deliver world class customer service practices and adhere to all Absa Service standards.
• Take full charge of queue walking to ensure excellent customer service is effected
• Manage Card & Pin production process effectively

Operational Rigour and Compliance with KYC requirements & other Compliance Policies – 10%

• Ensure accuracy on completion of loan documents. Branch Operations & Servicing Officers are held personally accountable for accuracy and quality of these supporting documents that they complete and submit.
• Achieve operational rigour excellence in all aspects of procedures and processes personally undertaken to ensure green audit.
• Comply with general Absa operational risk & rigour requirements e.g. Health & Safety standards and security of premises, KYC and anti-money laundering regulations.
• Undertake appropriate snap checks, taking remedial action where necessary
• Authorise T/Ts on E-box and authorise withdrawals and deposits on FOS
• Confirm cheques and cash in excess P10k anf P50K respectively
• Authorise and sign entries and  cash transfers ensuring that they have been logged as required.

Team Working – 10%

• Share knowledge and experience with the team.
• Contribute to the overall big picture in supporting the sales team with leads
• Provide cover for other Branch Operations & Servicing Officers in the area where the need arise.
• Deputise for the Branch Operations & Servicing Manager when required.
• Work with all stakeholders to promote ownership of risks and control.
• Work with Learning and Development to up-skill your team
• Provide honest, direct and constructive feedback to others

Personal Development – 5%

• Agree annual performance objectives with the Regional Branch Operations Manager, including specific Operational & Servicing targets.
• Pursue continued improvement in personal development by participating in development programmes and training.
• Ensure you take keen interest in your personal development

EducationFurther Education and Training Certificate (FETC): Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)

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Lead Solution Architect – Salesforce

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 SummaryDrive the design and delivery of complex fit for purpose, business strategy-aligned, high impact, cross domain technology solution blueprints & associated solutions & build architectural capability in Dev teams across an estate.

Job Description

Architecture

·        Leverage a solid and deep understanding of the organization strategy to identify, design and deliver relevant, scalable, testable, reusable technology solutions

·        Work with the broader architecture team to analyze customer requirements and current-state business capabilities to support the specification/framing of business problems

·        Leverage expertise in analytical and creative problem solving to synthesize solution designs

·        Participate in design thinking processes to deliver solution blueprints and roadmaps

·        Create components of complex end-to-end solution blueprints and ensure implementation across all phases of the initiative lifecycle

·        Contribute to feasibility studies and business case development

·        Apply engineering knowledge including domain-driven design, loosely coupled integration, and microservices

·        Collaborate with project/program management teams to design solution roadmaps

·        Embed within delivery teams to ensure successful design and implementation

·        Ensure solution details align with architectural principles and are implementable

·        Conduct solution reviews, code reviews, and testing

·        Stay informed on emerging architectural principles

·        Contribute to the architecture body of knowledge and evolution of principles

·        Experience working in a SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) environment

·        Active Salesforce Architect with certifications including:

·        – Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA)

·        – Salesforce Certified Application Architect

·        – Salesforce Certified System Architect

·        – Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I & II

·        Experience with Salesforce FSC is an advantage

·        Prior experience in solution architecture is an advantage

·        Responsible for creating architecture artifacts and following ARB/Design forum governance process that includes security and data compliance.

People

·        Participate in peer and development team reviews and share knowledge

·        Coach and build architectural capability across delivery teams

·        Contribute as a high-performance member of agile delivery teams

·        Demonstrate strong communication skills with stakeholders across business and technology domains

Financial, Risk & Governance

·        Identify solution design and delivery risks and propose mitigation strategies

·        Apply organizational risk and governance frameworks

·        Ensure compliance with regulatory, risk, and governance standards

·        Engage chapter and guild leads in solution decision-making

·        Deliver solutions on time and within budget

Additional Job Description

·        Ensure all activities comply with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Risk Management Framework, and organizational policies

·        Understand and manage risks and incidents relevant to the role

EducationBachelor’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

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DevOps Engineer (CZ)

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.

My Career Development Portal: Wherever you are in your career, we are here for you. Design your future. Discover leading-edge guidance, tools and support to unlock your potential. You are Absa. You are possibility.

Job SummaryApply 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

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and manage cloud infrastructure (AWS) using Terraform and Terragrunt
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions)
• Manage deployment of containerized applications to Cloud Infrastructure
• Implement monitoring and observability using open-source tools
• Configure alerting systems for existing applications
• Configuration management via IaC
• Patching of existing infrastructure using internal tools
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in an Agile/Scrum setting

Must-Have Technical Skills:

• Familiarity with AWS or equivalent (GCP, Azure)
• IaC tools (Terraform, Terragrunt)
• CI/CD pipeline automation (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
• Container orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Rancher)
• Familiarity with monitoring tools (Loki, Mimir, Prometheus, CloudWatch, Grafana)
• Familiarity with alerting systems (AlertManager, MSTeams Webhooks, CloudWatch alarms)
• Scripting languages (Bash, Python)
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills

Nice-to-Have Technical Skills:

• Experience with Big Data tools (Spark, Hadoop)
• MLOps and AI pipeline deployment
• DevSecOps tooling (SonarQube, OWASP)
• Familiarity with SAFe Agile framework
• Exposure to enterprise banking environments

Must-Have Soft Skills:

• Strong communication and documentation
• Team collaboration and cross-functional coordination
• Analytical problem-solving and troubleshooting
• Adaptability and continuous learning
• Ownership and accountability

Nice-to-Have Soft Skills:

• Mentorship and leadership experience
• Strategic thinking and architectural input
• Empathy for internal users and stakeholders
• Experience in multicultural, distributed teams
• Attention to detail and documentation discipline

EducationBachelor’s Degree: Information Technology

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Full Stack Engineer (Prague)

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.

My Career Development Portal: Wherever you are in your career, we are here for you. Design your future. Discover leading-edge guidance, tools and support to unlock your potential. You are Absa. You are possibility.

Job SummaryWe are seeking a highly skilled and intellectually curious developer (ideally Full Stack) to join our dynamic team. This role requires a strong foundation in backend development, cloud services, and data processing technologies. The ideal candidate is a conceptual thinker who thrives in solving complex problems and building scalable solutions.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems using Scala, Spark, and Python
• Build and optimize data pipelines and processing workflows
• Integrate and manage AWS backend services (e.g., Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, ECR + ECS, etc.)
• Collaborate with front-end developers and other stakeholders to deliver full-stack solutions
• Participate in architectural discussions and contribute to technical decision-making
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code
• Troubleshoot and debug applications across the stack
• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Proficiency in Scala, Spark, or/and Python
• Strong experience with AWS backend services
• Solid understanding of backend development principles and best practices
• Experience with RESTful APIs, microservices, and serverless architectures
• Ability to think conceptually and solve abstract problems
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with front-end technologies (e.g., React, Angular, Vue.js)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Knowledge of containerization tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices (e.g. Terraform)

EducationBachelor’s Degree: Information Technology

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UI/UX Engineer (CZ)

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.

My Career Development Portal: Wherever you are in your career, we are here for you. Design your future. Discover leading-edge guidance, tools and support to unlock your potential. You are Absa. You are possibility.

Job SummaryWe’re looking for a mid-to-senior UI/UX Engineer to lead the design and development of internal data products. You’ll combine front-end engineering with UX design to deliver intuitive, accessible, and performant web applications using Angular and TypeScript.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Design & Develop Front-Ends: Build responsive UIs using Angular and TypeScript for tools like Unify, Aqueduct, and Data Gateway.
• Prototype and UX Design: Create wireframes and interactive prototypes using Figma or Adobe XD, refining user flows based on feedback.
• Testing and Quality Assurance: Write unit tests (Jest) and end-to-end tests (Cypress/Playwright), debug issues, and participate in code reviews.
• Performance & Accessibility: Optimize UI performance (Core Web Vitals), implement WCAG-compliant components, and ensure usability across devices.
• Collaborative Agile Development: Work in cross-functional squads, participate in Agile ceremonies, and use Git for version control.
• Contribute to Design Systems: Use and improve the cps-shared-ui library, document design guidelines, and promote consistency.
• User-Centric Problem Solving: Engage with users to gather feedback and propose UI/UX improvements.
• Mentorship & Team Development: Support junior members and share UI/UX best practices.
• Leadership in Agile & Design: Drive UI/UX initiatives aligned with squad goals.

Skills Technical

• TypeScript Proficiency: Strong experience with modern TypeScript and ES6+ features.
• Angular (v2+): Deep knowledge of Angular, including components, RxJS, CLI, and performance optimization.
• Unit Testing (Jest): Skilled in writing and maintaining test suites.
• End-to-End Testing: Experience with Cypress and/or Playwright.
• Git & Version Control: Proficient in collaborative workflows using Git.
• Data Engineering Domain (Advantageous): Familiarity with data pipelines and big data concepts.

UX & Design Tools

• Prototyping & Wireframing: Skilled in Figma or Adobe XD for mock-ups and prototypes.
• UX Best Practices: Strong understanding of navigation flows, information architecture, and design systems.
• User Research & Feedback (Nice to Have): Experience with usability testing and user interviews.

Performance & Accessibility

• Web Performance Optimization: Knowledge of lazy loading, bundling, caching, and tools like Chrome DevTools and Lighthouse.
• Accessibility (A11y): Familiar with WCAG 2.1, semantic HTML, ARIA roles, and screen reader testing.
• Cross-Browser/Cross-Device Compatibility: Ensures responsive design across browsers and devices.
• Monitoring & Analysis (Nice to Have): Experience with tools like Google Analytics or Application Insights.

EducationBachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences (Required)

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UI/UX Engineer

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 SummaryWe’re looking for a mid-to-senior UI/UX Engineer to lead the design and development of internal data products. You’ll combine front-end engineering with UX design to deliver intuitive, accessible, and performant web applications using Angular and TypeScript.

Job Description

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Design & Develop Front-Ends: Build responsive UIs using Angular and TypeScript for tools like Unify, Aqueduct, and Data Gateway.
• Prototype and UX Design: Create wireframes and interactive prototypes using Figma or Adobe XD, refining user flows based on feedback.
• Testing and Quality Assurance: Write unit tests (Jest) and end-to-end tests (Cypress/Playwright), debug issues, and participate in code reviews.
• Performance & Accessibility: Optimize UI performance (Core Web Vitals), implement WCAG-compliant components, and ensure usability across devices.
• Collaborative Agile Development: Work in cross-functional squads, participate in Agile ceremonies, and use Git for version control.
• Contribute to Design Systems: Use and improve the cps-shared-ui library, document design guidelines, and promote consistency.
• User-Centric Problem Solving: Engage with users to gather feedback and propose UI/UX improvements.
• Mentorship & Team Development: Support junior members and share UI/UX best practices.
• Leadership in Agile & Design: Drive UI/UX initiatives aligned with squad goals.

Skills Technical

• TypeScript Proficiency: Strong experience with modern TypeScript and ES6+ features.
• Angular (v2+): Deep knowledge of Angular, including components, RxJS, CLI, and performance optimization.
• Unit Testing (Jest): Skilled in writing and maintaining test suites.
• End-to-End Testing: Experience with Cypress and/or Playwright.
• Git & Version Control: Proficient in collaborative workflows using Git.
• Data Engineering Domain (Advantageous): Familiarity with data pipelines and big data concepts.

UX & Design Tools

• Prototyping & Wireframing: Skilled in Figma or Adobe XD for mock-ups and prototypes.
• UX Best Practices: Strong understanding of navigation flows, information architecture, and design systems.
• User Research & Feedback (Nice to Have): Experience with usability testing and user interviews.

Performance & Accessibility

• Web Performance Optimization: Knowledge of lazy loading, bundling, caching, and tools like Chrome DevTools and Lighthouse.
• Accessibility (A11y): Familiar with WCAG 2.1, semantic HTML, ARIA roles, and screen reader testing.
• Cross-Browser/Cross-Device Compatibility: Ensures responsive design across browsers and devices.
• Monitoring & Analysis (Nice to Have): Experience with tools like Google Analytics or Application Insights.

EducationBachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences (Required)

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

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Lead Platform Engineer

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.

My Career Development Portal: Wherever you are in your career, we are here for you. Design your future. Discover leading-edge guidance, tools and support to unlock your potential. You are Absa. You are possibility.

Job SummaryBuild high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade Platform services & 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 with high quality solutions & leading all phases of the development lifecycle to deliver against business requirements at an optimal cost to serve.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• • Design, deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters on-premises and in AWS cloud using industry best practices.
  • Develop and maintain infrastructure as code to automate deployment, scaling, and management of Kubernetes clusters usingGitOps practices.
  • Collaborate with software development teams to ensure seamless integration of the Kubernetes platform with theirapplications.
  • Continuously monitor and improve the performance, reliability, and security of the Kubernetes platform.
  • Provide technical guidance and support to other members of the team and stakeholders in the areas of Kubernetesarchitecture, deployment and management.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve any issues related to the Kubernetes platform.
  • Stay up-to-date with industry trends and advancements in Kubernetes technology to ensure the platform is optimised forperformance, cost-effectiveness, and security.
  • The ability to own your deliverable from end-to-end with minimal guidance on the process and best practice.
  • Guide team members through both technical and behavioral aspects of the job.
  • Provide 1-on-1 mentorship with juniors and intermediates in the area.
  • Facilitate a thoughtful and inclusive environment for all fellows to learn and grow in their technical skills to achieve greatresults.
  • Support, guide and assist in troubleshooting application teams issues as part of support duties on a rotational basis.

Requirements:

• • A bachelor’s degree in Computer science or Informatics would be preferable but Candidates with suitable and relevantexperience will be acknowledged.
  • At least 3 years of experience in designing, deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters.
  • Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture, deployment, and management.
  • Experience in infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
  • Familiarity with AWS services and best practices for Kubernetes deployment in AWS.
  • Knowledge of networking concepts and security best practices in Kubernetes.
  • Strong knowledge of scripting languages such as Python and Bash.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Ideal Certifications and experience:

• • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) and Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) or Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist CKS).
  • Terraform Associate
  • AWS certified cloud practitioner or AWS Associate level certifications.
  • Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK stack.
  • Experience with GoLang ( the Kubernetes operator model is highly desirable)
  • Experience with Helm, Kustomize, Argo CD, Flux or related deployment tools.
  • Experience with GitOps

What would make you a good fit?

• • Expand your Kubernetes knowledge
  • Want experience with DevOps tooling
  • Have a light-hearted sense of humour
  • Enjoy learning new technologies
  • Can deal with the large cognitive load that platform engineering presents
  • Love problem solving
  • Want to solve technical problems for technical peers instead business problems for business
  • owners
  • Have a positive can-do attitude with matching enthusiasm
  • Have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Can work within a team and communicate effectively.
  • Able to work within an autonomous self-organising team.
  • Do you have any standards or ways of working you could contribute that the team currently
  • does not have?

EducationBachelor’s Degree: Information Technology

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Specialist Support Engineer

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 SummaryWork as part of an integrated (run & build) CIB and Market Risk (FRTB) environments to provide enterprise wide application support across multiple stakeholder groups by maintaining & optimizing enterprise-grade applications (tech products & services).

Job Description

Functional Skill:

• Basic understanding of the CIB and Market Risk (FRTB)  concepts (diverse asset classes, Trade Workflow, PNL, PV, Risk Classes, Risk Factors, VaR, SA, PLE, Regulatory reporting).
• Ability to support diverse Market Risk (FRTB) businesses.

IT Technical Skills:

• Log, resolve and report Market Risk (FRTB)  or Front Arena production incidents/requests/queries (business support).
• Proficiency in supporting and troubleshooting the Market Risk (FRTB)  and Front Arena Trading applications (FIS Adaptiv Analytics, Front Arena, or related Market Risk BI).
• Ability to setup, support and maintain Azure DevOps pipelines.
• proficiency in Linux/PowerShell scripting.
• Schedule the EOD tasks and run reports/tasks on ad-hoc bases.
• Configuration and maintenance of the Market Risk or FRTB environments which also include deployments and getting servers patched. 
• Plan and perform DR testing.
• Basic python programming.
• Basic SQL programming.
• Perform systems integration support.

Interpersonal Skill:

• Willing to share knowledge with others.
• Willing to work overtime/standby on weekly rotational bases.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Collaborate with other teams (Dev and Ops) in delivering strategic projects.
• Willing to learn new skills and technologies.

Added Advantage:

• Cloud computing (AWS/Azure)
• Use of the application performance monitoring tools (Observability).
• Knowledge of the advanced task scheduling and orchestration systems (Airflow, Wade, Control-M)

EducationBachelor’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

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Apprentice

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.

My Career Development Portal: Wherever you are in your career, we are here for you. Design your future. Discover leading-edge guidance, tools and support to unlock your potential. You are Absa. You are possibility.

Job SummaryParticipate in an internship programme in order to maximise individual and organisational development, through the execution of predefined internship objectives.

Job Description

To Participate in a learnership programme in order to maximise individual and organizational development, through the execution of predefined objectives.

Role Specification.

• Must have graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree not more than 2 years from the date of application (ATTACH GRADUATION CERTIFICATE )
• Must Possess a Transcript with a minimum CGPA of 3.6 (Second Class Upper Division)(ATTACH GRADUATION TRANSCRIPT)
• Must have at least 2 Principle Passes at ‘A’ Level (ATTACH ‘A’ LEVEL CERTIFICATE/ PASS SLIP)
• Must have a minimum of a Credit in Mathematics and English at ‘O’ Level (ATTACH ‘O’LEVEL CERTIFICATE/ PASS SLIP)

Must be willing to learn as this position is an Apprentice/Learnership role.

Note:

1. This recruitment is intended to build a pipeline of candidates who will be considered for hiring as opportunities emerge with in the bank.

2. Ensure all attachments requested are included in the application.

3. Only shortlisted candidates shall be contacted.

EducationHigher Certificates and Advanced National (Vocational) Certificates: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)

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Specialist Solution Analyst

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 SummaryWork as part of a DevOps team, leverage specialist analysis & testing tools, frameworks, techniques and practices to elicit, define and organize business requirements. Translate & document business requirements into user stories & specifications (Full Stack, Cross System) detailing integration points, business & associated risk / opportunities to be realised. And following this analysis, work collaboratively within squads during design & delivery activity including assuming responsibility for manual application testing processes, frameworks & outcomes

Job Description

Analysis (including Business Case)
• Proactively build relationships, apply analytical techniques to elicit and validate business (product & service) needs ahead of demand
• Implement routines to get to know / become an expert in various business processes (e.g. spend time in business & with users)
• Translate elicited needs and knowledge acquired into user story format that is immediately usable for DevOps teams (right languaging, format for building & testing)
• Prepare and prioritise the backlog of requirements for the user stories linked to the proposed solutions
• Work collaboratively with Tribe Leads (Technical Product / Service Owners) to build a roadmap & vision for the products and services (including detailed analysis requirements & solution scope)
• Define measures of success & key outcomes for various solutions / changes including detailed acceptance criteria for all features
• Define testing requirements (pass or fail test cases)
• Support the development of detailed business cases (including defining solution characteristics, effort estimations etc.)

Solution Design (within DevOps Context)
• Translate business requirements into detailed systems requirements. Detailed system requirements must include all capabilities, interfaces and functionalities within and across technologies.
• Build detailed user stories to be leveraged for system requirements design (modular)
• Leverage business analysis & modeling tools and apply notation standards such as UML/BPMN to diagrammatically/visually document: business requirements, business processes, system processes & integration .
• Facilitate processes to ensure integrated requirements are socialized, understood & approved across the broad range of stakeholders to be impacted (this includes various processes e.g. risk / governance forums, change council, scrum meetings / DevOps team capability building, solution design sessions etc.)
• Understand & leverage knowledge on the organisations technical landscape, environment and broader architecture to define integration points across tech stacks for various requirements
• Work collaboratively with project / program teams, squads, scrum masters and engineers to define backlog, release & DevOps / project planning implications of the requirements development & roadmap (what should happen when)
• Continuously improve system requirements mapping (e.g. leverage input from questions asked etc. to consistently improve the quality of the requirements analysis for easier interpretation by the development teams)
• Work as part of the embedded DevOps team throughout the design process to review solution design (features and functionality)
• Facilitate resolution during development & testing phases for any change requirements

Solution Delivery & Testing (manual)
• Define the manual testing strategy & test cases for various solutions (where it makes sense to do so)
• Define & validate quality & testing parameters (+/-) & plans for the solution (socialize & translate these to automation testing teams)
• Develop manual testing frameworks and patterns for the solution
• Lead the manual testing process for various solutions (e.g. execute test cases, analyse results)
• Provide real time feedback to the DevOps teams on change requirements identified throughout the testing process
• Review & monitor system stability, resilience etc. throughout the testing process (e.g. integration) & in production
• Define & monitor overall backlog planning for effective solution delivery
• Provide Developer & User support during user acceptance testing

People
• Provide coaching & mentoring across the DevOps team as well as to developing analysts across the estate
• Conduct peer reviews & problem solving within and across the broader team

EducationBachelor’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

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Manager Project

Bring your possibility to life! Define your career with us

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 DescriptionProject Management: Monitors the progression of a project at every stage and ensure that the objectives of a project are meet | Quality Assurance: Maintain a desired level of quality in a service or product, especially by means of attention to every stage of the process of delivery or production | Meeting deadlines: Completes task timeously | Stakeholder management: Ensure that stakeholders are identified and engaged | : | : | : | :

QualificationsBachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas – Business, Commerce and Management Studies, Customer Excellence – Service Delivery (Meets all of the requirements), Digital familiarity (Meets some of the requirements and would need further development), Enabling team success (Meets all of the requirements), Openness to change (Meets some of the requirements and would need further development), Planning and organising (Meets all of the requirements), Project and Programme Management (Meets all of the requirements), Project Management

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