Technical Business Analyst
Description
➢ Our client is looking for an experienced and versatile technical business analyst to improve their information technology systems.
➢ In this role, your duties will include developing software programs to improve our business operations.
➢ You may also be required to provide training.
➢ To ensure success as a technical business analyst, you should demonstrate experience and creativity in system development and application design.
➢ Outstanding technical business analysts combine their IT expertise with in-depth business knowledge.
Responsibilities:
➢ Performing system analyses on software programs, applications, and web services.
➢ Determining system efficiency and functionality by liaising with internal departments and end-users.
➢ Reporting to Management and obtaining approval for system development projects.
➢ Efficiently integrating new systems, programs, and applications with business operations and services.
➢ Analysing and improving the performance of web-based customer portals and support services.
➢ Ensuring end-user proficiency with new systems, programs, and applications across departments.
➢ Monitoring product licenses and ensuring compliance with IT industry regulations.
➢ Ensuring that computer hardware remains compatible with system enhancements and updates.
➢ Promoting system efficiency and security by integrating performance metrics and encryption.
➢ Implementing new advancements in the field of system and enterprise architecture.
➢ Technical Business Analyst Requirements:
➢ A bachelor's degree in computer science or information technology, and an accredited qualification in management consultancy, or similar.
➢ Extensive experience in technical business analysis in a related industry.
➢ Advanced knowledge of programming languages like SQL and system integration solutions.
➢ Ability to facilitate internal end-user proficiency.
➢ Ability to design and maintain efficient customer portal support and feedback channels.
➢ Ensuring optimal system functionality via integrated diagnostics.
➢ Advanced knowledge of data security and encryption.
➢ Ability to keep up with IT advancements.
➢ Exceptional communication skills toward facilitating the use of new software systems.
➢ Knowledge of relevant licensing and industry compliance regulations.

Purpose                                        

• To interpret the business requirement specification and translate into a detailed system design specification to enable the development of innovative, flexible, and efficient solution of a business problem.

Responsibilities             

• Explore ways to constantly improve quality of existing services, processes, and systems in order to be more efficient.
• Deliver exceptional service that exceeds customers’ expectations through proactive, innovative, and appropriate solutions by resolving queries quickly and effectively.
• Cultivate and manage objective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including end-users, SME’s, project managers and senior staff members by providing input to validate business requirements.
• Liaise and communicate the system requirements to the necessary audiences e.g., testers, developers, business analysts, infrastructure, production support, systems analyst (other areas of the business), etc.
• Define and document each function that the system is required to perform and the functional boundary of the system by defining and analysing the required interactions between the system and its environment in terms of interface and integration constraints to ensure that business needs/requirements are satisfied by the system requirements.
• Comply, understand, and align to all steps within IT development and meet governance in terms of legislative and audit requirements.
• Analyse the integrity of the system requirements, perform -impact assessment on each requirement, document and maintain the set of system requirements together with the associated rationale, effort, decisions, dependencies, and assumptions.
• Manage traceability between the system requirements and derived artifacts including system models to the relevant detail.
• Ensure adequate unit tests are performed for all configuration and development tasks and ensure results are successful.
• Ensure testing yields an acceptable level of performance for the changes being delivered and the application is not adversely affected.
• Continuously assess own performance, seek timely and clear feedback and request training where appropriate.
• Participate and contribute to a development culture where information regarding successes, issues, trends, and ideas are actively shared.

Additional Requirements                        

• In accordance with National Credit Act (NCA) candidates applying for this role will require a credit record check.

Qualifications and Experience               

• Degree or Diploma in IT
• Preferred TOGAF certification

Business Intelligence Analyst
Purpose                                        

• Design, development and maintenance of the knowledge, information management and business intelligence by looking at document requirements and validating with stakeholders.
• Design and generate reports to give analytical and quantitative insight to business to make improved operational, tactical, and strategic decisions.
• Generate reports to improve efficiencies in the business.            

Responsibilities                           

• BI Data Analysis for Business Improvements
• Manage Business Intelligence Report and Dashboards
• Data Governance and Quality Control
• BI Project Implementation and Ad-hoc Service Projects
• Business Profitability
• Personal Development
• Business Intelligence Data Management
• Service Performance and Customer Satisfaction
• BI Service Delivery Analyst
• Cost Effectiveness
• Corporate Governance Control
• Business Intelligence Service
• Business Intelligence Partnership Management
• BI Operational Execution Bi Analysis

Additional Requirements                                      

• PowerBI experience
• QlikView experience advantageous
• Abi initio experience advantageous 3 to 5 yeas post qualification experience in BI
• Large data experience
• Experience in Financial Services/Insurance/Banking a big advantage
• Relevant degree (Computer Science/Information Systems/Stats etc)

Qualifications                 

• Relevant Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or Business Analysis Diploma

Experience

• 3 to 4 Years

Project Manager
Purpose                          

• To drive business change that delivers value through the structured implementation and delivery of projects against time, resource, money, and scope constraints  

Responsibilities                           

• Build working relationships across teams and functional lines to enhance work delivery, collaboration, and innovation
• Effectively implement change management practices, processes and procedures and ensure optimal understanding and acceptance thereof
• Continuously develop own expertise in terms of industry and subject matter development and application thereof in an area of specialization
• Manage teams within the context of defined processes, set required performance parameters and act as technical coach where required
• Implement people resource planning in line with delivery and performance objectives, on budget and in partnership with specialised areas
• Continuously monitor actual project and process turnaround times and quality standards and resolve issues speedily to enhance effective client service delivery
• Manage and advise on projects from beginning to end in alignment with identified organisational methods and governance guidelines
• Contribute to the development of project budgets, control, and report on budgeted resources to meet the project objectives
• Compile and maintain relevant project documentation in accordance with agreed project procedures and methodologies to effectively support project delivery as well as comply with audit requirements
• Apply the necessary discretion and judgement to diagnose symptoms, causes and effects and to make decisions to overcome problems and to provide solutions
• Define project success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout project life cycles
• Apply knowledge of products, techniques, and related processes to manage a team's task execution on quality and time
• Direct, control, coordinate and optimise budgeted resources (including people, procurement, systems, time, and budget) to meet specific objectives and deliver agreed results in accordance with a defined project lifecycle or process

  Requirements                           

• In accordance with National Credit Act (NCA) candidates applying for this role will require a credit record check.

Qualification

• Completed relevant undergrad degree/diploma
• Preferred Qualification - Post graduate degree

Experience

• 5 to 7 years project management experience

Data Architect
Purpose

• To support in the design and development of information and data architecture framework and principles and develop and drive information and data architecture models and data systems within the segment/pillar/domain/function, including developing conceptual, logical, and physical data model designs      Responsibilities                                          

• Control expenditure and identify process improvements to contain and reduce costs
• Conduct research, share knowledge, identify problems, patterns, trends, and support in development of relevant MI and BI solutions
• Participate in systems development lifecycle and collaborate with relevant stakeholders to ensure the effective implementation of information technology and data solutions in line with information architecture principles
• Develop and maintain data models for the segment/pillar/domain/function and build an information management catalogue for all data used or required across the segment/pillar/domain/function
• Contribute to the development of architectural frameworks, apply architecture principles, and drive the development of data architecture models within the organisation
• Develop, encourage, and nurture collaborative relationships across area of specialisation
• Participate in planned activities that are appropriate for own development
• Ensure development and continuous value add improvement to operational processes
• Manages risks in own area of responsibility
• Creates solutions to meet customer demands to deliver internal and external customer service excellence through adherence to quality service standards
• Deliver customer experience excellence in own service delivery aligned to Organisational values and service standards
• Build working relationships across teams and functional lines to enhance work delivery, collaboration, and innovation

Qualification

• Relevant IT / Computer Science certification

Experience

• 3 to 4 years Data Architecture or Data Modelling experience in relevant environment
• Which 1 to 2 years ideally at junior (entry level) specialist

Data Engineer
Purpose                          

• To ensure effective movement, collection, integration, storage, and provisioning of data to meet business objectives through sound understanding of business unit requirements and frequent collaboration with relevant stakeholders (such as Enterprise Architecture, Database and Solution Architects, Business Intelligence Developers, Data Scientists and Product Owners, etc)

Responsibilities                           

• Control expenditure and identify process improvements to contain and reduce costs
• Manage acquisition, consumption, and deployment of data for operational use
• Provide required support in designing and developing systems and solutions
• Contribute to business analysis processes
• Manage data and system integration and testing
• Conduct research on architectural systems
• Develop, encourage, and nurture collaborative relationships across area of specialisation
• Participate in planned activities that are appropriate for own development
• Build working relationships across teams and functional lines to enhance work delivery, collaboration, and innovation

  Requirements                           

• Solid ETL experience
• Data Integration experience
• Data Transformation

Qualification

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Information Systems

Experience

• 3 to 5 years in Extract
• Transform and Load (ETL) of data from source systems or experience in data integration for consumption use cases

Data Scientist
Purpose                          

• To build, optimise and implement innovative quantitative analytical methodologies, procedures, and advanced mathematical models that provide analytical support and interpret insights, to address business opportunities and problems and implement business strategy, under guidance against predicted results and deliver according to set processes and procedures        

Responsibilities                           

• Implement localised Analytics strategy to address business needs, under supervision and within set processes and procedures
• Contribute to innovation by finding faster and more accurate ways of working
• Comply with relevant statutory, legislative, policy and governance requirements and adhere to processes and procedures related to area of specialisation
• Build and maintain stakeholder relationships
• Address customer needs to meet or exceed customer expectations
• Act responsibly with work related resources to contribute to cost containment
• Assess own performance through seeking timely and clear feedback and request training where appropriate
• Demonstrate teamwork as a valued team player
• Participate in utilisation, refinement and enhancement of statistical models and data analysis to inform decision making and address business needs
• Contribute to creative business solutions, optimisation of processes and conduct statistical modelling and data analysis to inform strategic decisions, under supervision and within set processes and procedures
• Participate in the delivery of value-add outputs across the analytics value chain in delivery of business strategy

  Requirements                           

• In accordance with National Credit Act (NCA) candidates applying for this role will require a credit record check.

Qualification

• Relevant Degree in Maths, Stats, Engineering, Computer Science, Econometrics, Physics or Actuarial Science

Experience

• 1 to 3 years’ experience in data environment

Additional Knowledge - Domain knowledge with regards to financial services:

• Credit, Pricing, Marketing, CVM, Trading etc.
• Design thinking
• Analytics Ops, Agile and SAFe concepts will assist
• Hands on experience using model such as: Naïve Bayes, Support Vector Machines, Classifications, Boosting Algorithms, Time Series, Feature Engineering and
• Dimensionality Reduction
• Data and Information Management topics e.g. structure, dimensions, storage
• Database management
• Python, SQL, MATLAB, SAS, S-PLUS or R (used for statistical analysis)
• Monte Carlo techniques
• Machine learning
• Data mining and data modelling
• C#/Java, .NET or VBA, Excel
• Calculus (including differential, integral and stochastic)
• Linear algebra and differential equations
• Probability and statistics
• Game theory
• Portfolio theory
• Equity and interest rate derivatives, including exotics
• Systematic and discretionary trading practices
• Credit-risk products

Financial modelling Data visualisation and reporting

Database Support Specialist
Purpose                          

• To support the build and maintenance of the data warehouse by actioning all database administrative activities on complex databases and to provide a client centric and secure database environment.

Responsibilities                                          

• Prevent wastage and identify process improvements to contain and reduce costs
• Develop, encourage, and nurture collaborative relationships within FNB and/or across the FRG
• Assess own performance through seeking timely and clear feedback and request training where appropriate
• Compile reports that track progress and guide business to make informed decisions relating to building technical equipment
• Ensure resolution of database conflicts to align to quality standards and eliminate inappropriate data usage
• Conduct installation, configuration, upgrade, administration, monitoring, security and maintenance of complex multi database environments
• Support the build and maintenance of the data warehouse
• Ensure compliance to legislative and audit requirements and adherence to relevant processes and systems
• Focus on providing optimal services and improving service delivery processes to meet or exceed customer expectations
• Build working relationships across teams and functional lines to enhance work delivery, collaboration, and innovation

Requirements                                            

• In accordance with National Credit Act (NCA) candidates applying for this role will require a credit record check.
• MYSQL Archiving, Scripting Analysis, Indexing, Backup and Replication check
• Data Analytics and Data Archiving experience (MYSQL, MSSQL)
• Jnr Java writing experience (Scripting and MYSQL connector)
• Python and Machine Learning experience an advantage
• Percona DB will be an advantage
• Good presentation skills required             

Qualification

• Relevant Degree in Computer Science
• Information Systems or related field and certification in databases
• Data warehouse
• MCSE

Preferred Qualification

• Relevant Post grad Degree in Computer Science,
• Information Systems or related field and certification in databases
• Data warehouse
• MCSE

Experience

• 3 to 5 years’ experience in Database Administration and Data Warehousing

Knowledge Required:   

• Design and administration of logical and relational databases in diverse technological environments
• Troubleshooting and analysis protocol
• Various database systems – Oracle or MYSQL or SQL server
• Database queries and theory
• Distributed computing architectures
• Operating systems
• Storage technologies and networking
• Routine maintenance, recovery, and handling failover of a database
• Data Management
• Business Systems Data

Systems Administrator
Purpose                          

• To provide guidance in the implementation, installation, configuration, and testing of system software on all relevant mainframes to code and automate tasks that optimise processing aligned to business requirements          

Responsibilities             

• Control expenditure and identify process improvements to contain and reduce costs
• Configure, install, and test relevant system software on mainframe systems and distribution platforms to support end user requirements
• Monitor the security and efficiency of the IT infrastructure to continuously improve service delivery
• Participate in planned activities that are appropriate for own development
• Compile reports that track progress and guide business to make informed decisions
• Manages risks in own area of responsibility
• Deliver customer experience excellence in own service delivery aligned to Organisational values and service standards
• Build working relationships across teams and functional lines to enhance work delivery, collaboration, and innovation

Qualification

• Relevant bachelor’s degree in information technology computer science
• Information Systems or related field

Qualification

• Control M/O/R certification

Experience

• 3 to 5 years’ experience in a similar environment, of which 1 to 2 years ideally at junior (entry level) management level
• Additional Knowledge - Bank mainframe and distribution
• Control M / O / R software
• JCL Advantageous
• Prior batch scheduling or software equivalent
• Programme/Batch monitoring
• Developer fix application
• Troubleshooting and analysis protocol
• Monitoring and command centre knowledge
• Data processing
• Infrastructure knowledge
• Operating systems knowledge

Technical Specialist
Purpose                                        

• To plan, design and build an IT infrastructure architecture usually at an enterprise level to meet business requirements

Responsibilities                           

• Drive business profitability in the context of cost management through Information technology solutions
• Increase operational efficiency and suggest solutions to enhance cost effectiveness.
• Advise on Budget forecasting to align the identified needs for IT Infrastructure Architecture
• Deliver exceptional service that exceeds customers’ expectations through proactive, innovative, and appropriate solutions by resolving queries fast end effective
• Cultivate and manage objective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including end-users, SME’s, project managers and senior staff members by providing input to business requirements
• Plan, design and build an IT infrastructure architecture, usually at an enterprise level, to meet business requirements and customise application functionality as identified through the relationship with the Organisational Sources and other External sources.
• Comply, understand, and implement all steps within IT development and meet governance in terms of legislative and audit requirements during design of IT Infrastructure Architecture
• Draft business and technical requirements into requests for proposal documents for IT Infrastructure Architecture
• Ensure IT Infrastructure Architecture Performance and Upgrade Metrics are developed and used in the business
• Ensure system health checks process is aligned with SLA and best practices for the Business Technical Environment
• Support application functionality to problems analysis in existing infrastructure architecture by staying abreast with latest technological advances in the marketplace then translate current and future trends and advise management of benefits and well as risk
• Manage own development to increase own competencies
• Develop an In-depth knowledge of specified field as well as ability to translate this knowledge into business terms and Solutions

Requirements               

• In accordance with National Credit Act (NCA) candidates applying for this role will require a credit record check.

Qualifications                

• Degree or Diploma

Experience

• 6+ Years

Usability Interface Specialist (UI/UX) Designer
Purpose                          

• To design user interfaces, using best practices and principles.              

Responsibilities             

• Drive business profitability in the context of cost management through Information technology solutions
• Increase operational efficiency and suggest solutions to enhance cost effectiveness
• Advocate for a culture of user-cantered design throughout the organization
• Cultivate and manage objective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including end-users, SME’s, project managers and senior staff members by providing input to business requirements
• Work closely with a cross-functional team to assess product requirements for new and enhanced interface applications
• Promote usability standards and protocols, system changes and enhancements throughout the organization and evaluate the success of changes and enhancements that have a direct, positive impact on the user experience and further impact on business results.
• Translate Business Strategies into actionable goals and execute relevant IT projects / IT initiatives aligned to strategic objectives with specific performance measures and control systems to track progress
• Comply, understand, and implement all steps within IT development and meet governance in terms of legislative and audit requirements
• Analyse results from usability test and quantify results using usability metrics that facilitates the quantification of some characteristic. Conduct ongoing research on web standards and document same.
• Assist with quality assurance testing and ensure new usability standards are implemented and existing standards are updated accordingly
• Participate in the product design process by ensuring templates are designed as per the specifications provided by the Business Analysts, ensuring a consistent user experience across the bank sites with the help of the usability standards and additional resources available
• Manage own development to increase own competencies
• Liaise, advise, and train various business divisions on best interface applications and systems to increase usability and practice

Requirements                             

• Proficient in Adobe and Invision
• UI/UX experience preferably from banking or financial services
• Digital/App/Mobile experience highly advantageous
• Sketch highly advantageous
• Relevant degree required (Candidates with Diploma's and extensive relevant experience will be considered)

Qualifications

• 3 Year industry related Degree

Job Purpose

• To ensure the support and maintain the data warehouse in line with the data model; metadata repository and to provide business intelligence analysis through performing strategic and operational support.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals by participating in the bank's culture building initiatives (e.g., staff surveys etc).
• Participate and support corporate social responsibility initiatives for the achievement of key business strategies. 
• Identify and recommend opportunities to enhance processes; systems and policies and support implementation of new processes; policies and systems.
• Deliver work according to customer expectations by prioritizing, planning, and implementing requirements.
• Utilize resources by adhering to standards, policies, and procedures.
• Align and continuously improve set processes by identifying innovation opportunities.
• Identify and mitigate risk by executing within governance.
• Resolve incidents by logging and tracking through correct channels to ensure work are delivered according to; relevant technical standards Keep abreast of legislation and other industry changes that impacts on role by reading the relevant newsletters; websites and attending sessions. 
• Understand and embrace the vision and demonstrate the values through interaction with team and stakeholders.
• Improve personal capability and stay abreast of developments in field of expertise by identifying training courses and career progression for self through input and feedback from managers ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities by ensuring all learning activities are completed; experience practiced, and certifications obtained and/or maintained within specified time frames.
• Ensure information is provided correctly to stakeholders by maintaining knowledge sharing knowledge with team.
• Structure data into compliance standards by adhering to metadata governance procedures according to banks documented standards and formats.
• Manage final transformed data content by complying to prescribed standards for reviewing and publishing.
• Govern population of data mart and metadata repository by complying to standards; systems; processes and procedures.
• Support business units by providing consulting services that delivers data and information relevant to their business Contribute to internal and external information sharing sessions by attending formal and informal meetings. -Manage vendor relationship interactions by conforming to vendor management office guidelines and principles.
• Ensure customer needs are met through regular customer feedback sessions

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

• Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
• Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

Preferred Qualification –

• Degree in Information Technology or Business Management, Mathematical/Statistics Essential

Certifications

• Data Management (DAMA) Certification, Certification/formal training in relevant technology

Full Stack Engineer (C#, Angular) + (Java, Angular)

• Background and experience
• 2-5 years development experience
• Tertiary education in computer science or related field
• Building a back-office web application to streamline some of the field business processes
• Be an active member of scrum team, mentor junior developers, build good team dynamics and ways of working

Advantageous

• Banking sector experience preferred
• Understanding of banking models

Lacking so far

• Technical proficiency not aligned to skills & requirements (Technical Assessment)

Culture and fit

• Fast paced project environment focused on delivery

Must have

• Strong C# and Typescript skills
• Experience with modern SPA frameworks (we’re using Angular 9)

Angular 4-9 will be considered

Front end Angular Developer
Background and experience

• 5+ years development experience
• Tertiary education in computer science or related field
• Hands on and implements complex Angular Applications directives, Controllers Services

Advantageous

• Banking sector experience preferred

Lacking so far

• Technical proficiency not aligned to skills & requirements (Technical Assessment)

Culture and fit

• Fast paced project environment focused on delivery

Must have

• Strong experience with Angular (9+) willing to consider Angular 4-9
• Experience with modern SPA frameworks (We’re using Angular 9) Angular 4-9 will be considered
• Develop user interfaces for modern rich internet applications with latest Front-End Technologies
• Strong expertise with HTML, CSS, and writing cross browser compatible code

.Net Core Developer
Background and experience

• 5-8 years development experience
• Tertiary education in computer science or related field

Lacking so far

• Technical proficiency not aligned to skills & requirements (Technical Assessment)

Advantageous

• Domain Driven Design (DDD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Experience in containerization technology as Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience in AWS/Azure and laC

Must have

• .NET CORE experience (Linux)
• Experience working on database PostgreSQL and MongoDB experience advantageous
• Good understanding of scrum and Agile practices
• Good understanding of C# Technology
• Experience using ORM such as entity frameworks or NHibernate

DevOps Engineer
Background and experience

• 3-5 years DevOps experience
• University Degree or higher certification in Information Technology preferable
• Working knowledge of public cloud preferably AWS
• Scripting language (PowerShell, Go, Python, ik) Terraform or Ansible

Lacking so far

• Technical proficiency not aligned to skills & requirements (Technical Assessment)

Culture and fit

• Fast paced project environment focused on delivery

Must have

• Full understanding of CI/CD principles
• Fundamental understanding of TCP, IP, DNS, SSL, and load balancing
• Hands on experience with Docker
• At least basic exposure to Kubernetes and Helm knowledge of webservices/ Micro services (REST) Full Stack application development experience is a strong advantage

Experience in the following technologies is beneficial:

• Azure
• DevOps
• Redis
• Rancher
• .NET Core
• RabbitMQ

Elastic stack

Support Engineer
Background and experience

• 3-4 years’ experience in Support Engineer (COBOL)
• University Degree or higher certification in Information Technology preferable
• Experience in dealing with queries level 3 analysis of incidents and queries logged from customer care
• Understanding and experience with application scaling multi- Platform stacks would be preferred
• Must have experience with support / development with support function

Advantageous

• Banking sector experience preferred

Lacking so far

• Technical proficiency not aligned to skills & requirements (Technical Assessment)

Culture and fit

• Fast paced project environment focused on delivery

Must have

• COBOL application development with exposure to working on production incidents
• Knowledge or experience in SQL and DB2 Database
• L3 support engagement
• Ticket management
• Service availability
• System Maintaince

Specialist Solutions Analyst
Background

• Minimum of 5 years in system / solutions Analyst experience
• Experience in working with multidisciplinary with an Agile team/ team (Ability to Define and write detailed user stories)
• Information System Analyst certification for certification of computing professional (Beneficial)

Lacking so far

• Technical ability (Technical Assessment)

Culture & Fit

• Fast paced pressurized environment
• Must have
• Technical Banking domain experience essential
• Expertise in system design and Integration
• Ability to write Java code (Beneficial)
• Strong SQL skills
• Strong knowledge of integration between system (MQ, REST, SOAP, FILE)

Product Engineer .NET Core/C#

• Background and Experience
• 5+ years in Software development experience
• Technical leadership, critical thinking and DevOps focused
• Advanced knowledge of MS SQL
• Excellent programming skills in .NET
• Advance knowledge on microservice architecture

Lack so Far

• Technical expertise (Technical Assessment)

Culture and Fit

• Fast paced project environment focused on delivery

Must Have

• OpenSource technologies (PostgreSQL) and Angular
• Kubernetes (Rancher, Docker) and AWS
• Microsoft services fabric and ELK
• BigData experience (Kafka, Hadoop) and Azure DevOps

Java Developer
Background and Experience

• Minimum of 5 years in development experience
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Excellent understanding of specific coding/Scripting languages e.g., Java, C#, Python, Perl, JavaScripting, ANGULAR, SQL, MYSQL
• Experience with CI/CD tool like (Jenkins, Bamboo, TFS, AZURE
• Ability to create and maintain sophisticated CI/CD Pipelines

Lacking so far

• Strong Technical experience (Technical Assessment)

Culture and fit

• Fast paced and pressurized environment

Must have

• Experience with test-driven development and domain driven design
• Solid understanding of messaging protocols and web services like SOAP and REST
• Knowledge of application server containers: Tomcat, Jetty, Jboss, Nodejs, IIS, .NETcore etc.
• Good understanding of framework and libraries like JavaScript, jQuery, TypeScript, HTML, CSS

QA Engineer (Automation Tester)
Background and Experience

• 5+ years’ experience
• Focus on Automation testing as well as developing software testing script as a means of improving the quality of application software
• Well versed in webservices paradigms such as REST and Protocols such HTTP
• Proficient in multiple forms of test approaching for application test including functional, Cross-browser compatibility, mobile, web services and integration testing etc.
• Experience with SOAP, REST, or other client- Server API testing

Lacking so far

• Technical Cobol expertise (Technical Assessment)

Culture and Fit

• Fast paced project environment focused on delivery

Must have

• Experience with test-driven development and domain driven design
• Solid understanding of messaging protocols and web services like SOAP and REST
• Knowledge of application server containers: Tomcat, Jetty, Jboss, Nodejs, IIS, .NETcore etc.
• Good understanding of framework and libraries like JavaScript, jQuery, TypeScript, HTML, CSS

Xamarin Developer
Required Knowledge
➢ C# and .NET framework
➢ Xamarin. Forms or at least good XAML and MVVM knowledge
➢ Agile practices
➢ Object orientation including the application of the SOLID principles
➢ Unit testing
➢ Smartphone App development
➢ UML
Tasks
➢ Determine the requirements of the software from a UI and service API design.
➢ Verify that the UI and API are aligned.
➢ Design the software in an object-oriented way focusing on simplicity and ensure it aligns with Agile best practices and Absa's guidance
➢ Implement the software, possibly with the help of junior developers which will require direction and supervision.
➢ Ensure the integrity of the code base is maintained
➢ Add or updated code in a way that it is consistent and coherent with the existing code
➢ Add or update unit tests as required
➢ Participate in the different team events, suggest improvements to the way of working and help the team work more efficiently

Big Data Engineer
Job Description
Big Data Engineer that will work on the collecting, storing, processing, and analysing of huge sets of data. The primary focus will be on choosing optimal solutions to use for these purposes, then maintaining, implementing, and monitoring them. You will also be responsible for integrating them with the architecture used across the company.
Responsibilities

• Selecting and integrating any Big Data tools and frameworks required to provide requested capabilities
• Implementing ETL process {{if importing data from existing data sources is relevant}}
• Monitoring performance and advising any necessary infrastructure changes
• Defining data retention policies

Skills and Qualifications

• Proficiency with Hadoop v2, MapReduce, HDFS
• Good knowledge of Big Data querying tools, such as Pig, Hive, and Impala
• Experience with Spark
• Experience with various messaging systems, such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Experience with Big Data ML toolkits, such as Mahout, SparkML, or H2OGood understanding of Lambda Architecture, along with its advantages and drawbacks
• Experience with Cloudera/MapR/Hortonworks
• Proficient understanding of distributed computing principles
• Management of Hadoop cluster, with all included services 
• Ability to solve any ongoing issues with operating the cluster 
• Experience with building stream-processing systems, using solutions such as Storm or Spark-Streaming 
• Experience with integration of data from multiple data sources
• Experience with NoSQL databases, such as HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB
• Knowledge of various ETL techniques and frameworks, such as Flume

OpenShift Solution Architect
The Senior Solution Architect will play an important role be working on Group-wide programs developing solutions and providing guidance on defining business capabilities and system development (understanding applications and end to end review). This role will suit someone with previous experience managing large, fast paced programs, involving multiple complex technology and stakeholder elements.

Key Roles And Responsibilities

• Designs solutions, and system and software architecture according to business strategies and (SA) standards/processes in medium to large programs.
• Resolve complex problems and issues in the Solution design and assess potential risks and determine possible solutions.
• Work with other (SA) staff, technology experts to ensure solutions align with Reference Architectures and cross cutting IT standards and policies.
• Collaborate with other staff, technology experts and business stakeholders to provide functional support to clients on solution architecture updates.
• Work with a variety of internal and external stakeholders; taking a Consulting approach with the delivery team to provide support for execution.
• Work with a talented, personable and ambitious team
• Work in a fast paced, complex, agile environment
• Work with and manage ambiguity

What You Need To Succeed

• Senior consulting and/or architecture background, who thrives in a rapidly changing and evolving landscape
• Experience with producing High Level Solution Architectures, with a focus on technology supporting group operations inclusive of Business Process Management (BPM), document management and digitisation services
• Knowledge of container orchestration platforms like OpenShift/Kubernetes. 
• Knowledge of major cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)-Preferred
• Knowledge of formal architecture frameworks like TOGAF or C4 helpful-Preferred
• Experience with source control and build tools such as Git, Maven, NPM, Jenkins-Preferred
• Knowledge of Single Page Application frameworks such as Angular, Vue, or React preferred. 
• Experience with contract-based API design using specs such as OpenAPI--Preferred
• Knowledge of microservice concepts, patterns, and anti-patterns. -Preferred
• Experience with MicroProfile, Micronaut, or Spring Boot helpful. -Preferred
• Experience with front-end development using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript/TypeScript. -Preferred
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases. -Preferred
• Experience in business architecture and technical architecture in applying platform lifecycle upgrade activities on highly available systems
• Experience in Banking or Financial Services environment would be preferable
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels

Integration Developer

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
DevOps

• Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to solve technical problems (Front End, Back End OR Middleware) with high quality solutions - Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle including - Evaluate analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development & provide recommendations to enable the operational feasibility of solutions
• 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
• Support the development of CI / CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins / similar tools and deploying to multi-site Kubernetes environments
• Supporting and managing your applications all the way to production)
• Use & configure modern observability techniques leveraging e.g. aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via Prometheus / Grafana / NewRElic and tracing using Zipkin/Jaeger
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes - Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
• Work with integrated teams and other developers to improve and evolve technical products and services
• Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture & Infrastructure guidelines
• Provide input into 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 and continuously evolve existing knowledge & skill in preparation for cross domain and other experiences e.g. Secure Side, Testing, Infrastructure solutions etc.

People

• Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team
• Support the people change teams in the development of user material (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption)

Risk & Governance

• Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post release)
• Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks
• Participate in incident management & DR activity applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents

Role Description
This role provides an exciting opportunity to roll out a new strategic initiative within the client in the Data Solutions space. The Backend Engineering role serves as a development and support expert with responsibility for the design, development, automation, testing, support and administration of the applications, services, and technical interfaces between various systems.

The role also offers the opportunity to contribute to open-source solutions and to present at conferences and summits. This is a unique opportunity to help client, a huge and multinational financial corporation, to become data-drive.

Candidate Description
You will have the opportunity to work directly across the firm with developers, operations staff, data scientists, architects and business stakeholders in general to develop and enhance the data science services across the organization.

Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, deploy backend services, components, libraries tools
- Be familiar with the whole lifecycle of data applications
- Be a strong problem solver
- Be eager to learn new approaches and technologies
- Strong communication skills and work directly with teams across multiple geo-located teams

Requirements
- Strong programming skills in one or more of the following: Java, Scala, Python, Go
- Experience with Object-Oriented Design and SOLID principles, and ability to properly apply general design patterns and paradigms
- Experience with SQL and one or more relational database management systems: MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.
- Experience of one or more NoSQL databases like MongoDB, Redis, or DynamoDB
- Experience with web frameworks like Spring, Quarkus, Micronaut, etc.
- Good understanding of web protocols (REST, gRPC) and formats (Json, Protobuf, etc)
- Experience with cloud environments, preferably Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Nice to have:
- A BS degree in computer science, mathematics, engineering, or another technical field
- Experience with messaging systems (Kafka preferred)
- Experience with CI/CD tools (like Github Actions, Jenkins, etc)
- Familiarity with OAuth, Open Connect ID and SAML, preferably with an understanding of AD/LDAP/Kerberos
- Experience with test-driven development

Role Description
This role provides an exciting opportunity to roll out a new strategic initiative within the client in the Data Solutions space. The Backend Engineering role serves as a development and support expert with responsibility for the design, development, automation, testing, support and administration of the applications, services, and technical interfaces between various systems.

The role also offers the opportunity to contribute to open-source solutions and to present at conferences and summits. This is a unique opportunity to help the client, a huge and multinational financial corporation, to become data-drive.

Candidate Description
You will have the opportunity to work directly across the firm with developers, operations staff, data scientists, architects and business stakeholders in general to develop and enhance the data science services across the organization.

Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, deploy backend services, components, libraries tools
- Be familiar with the whole lifecycle of data applications
- Be a strong problem solver
- Be eager to learn new approaches and technologies
- Strong communication skills and work directly with teams across multiple geo-located teams

Requirements
- Strong programming skills in one or more of the following: Java, Scala, Python, Go
- Experience with Object-Oriented Design and SOLID principles, and ability to properly apply general design patterns and paradigms
- Experience with SQL and one or more relational database management systems: MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.
- Experience of one or more NoSQL databases like MongoDB, Redis, or DynamoDB
- Experience with web frameworks like Spring, Quarkus, Micronaut, etc.
- Good understanding of web protocols (REST, gRPC) and formats (Json, Protobuf, etc)
- Experience with cloud environments, preferably Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Nice to have
- A BS degree in computer science, mathematics, engineering, or another technical
field
- Experience with messaging systems (Kafka preferred)
- Experience with CI / CD tools (like Github Actions, Jenkins, etc)
- Familiarity with OAuth, Open Connect ID and SAML, preferably with an understanding of AD/LDAP / Kerberos
- Experience with test-driven development

Integration Developer

• Mandatory skills: Java Development and SQL Dev experience is a must
• Experience in any integration tools such as Jitterbit is a value add
• Location: only the candidates in SA(onshore)

Salesforce Development Managers/Leads
Mandatory skills:

• Overall experience of 7+ and at least 4 years of Salesforce development experience

Certifications:

• Salesforce Platform 1 
• Salesforce Platform 2
• Salesforce Lightning

Role Description
This role provides an exciting opportunity to roll out a new strategic initiative within the firm-Enterprise Infrastructure Big Data Service. The Big Data Developer serves as a development and support expert with responsibility for the design, development, automation, testing, support and administration of the Enterprise Infrastructure Big Data Service. The roles require experience with both Hadoop and Kafka. This will involve building and supporting a real time streaming platform utilized by data engineering community. The incumbent will be responsible for developing features, ongoing support and administration, and documentation for the service. The platform provides a messaging queue and a blueprint for integrating with existing upstream and downstream technology solutions.

Candidate Description
The incumbent will have the opportunity of working directly across the firm with developers, operations staff, data scientists, architects and business constituents to develop and enhance the big data service.

• Development and deployment of data applications
• Design & Implementation of infrastructure tooling and work on horizontal frameworks and libraries
• Creation of data ingestion pipelines between legacy data warehouses and the big data stack
• Automation of application back-end workflows
• Building and maintaining backend services created by multiple services framework
• Maintain and enhance applications backed by Big Data computation applications
• Be eager to learn new approaches and technologies
• Strong problem solving skills
• Strong programming skills
• Background in computer science, engineering, physics, mathematics or equivalent
• Worked on Big Data platforms (Vanilla Hadoop, Cloudera or Hortonworks)
• Preferred: Experience with Scala or other functional languages (Haskell, Clojure, Kotlin, Clean)
• Preferred: Experience with some of the following: Apache Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Pig, Oozie, ZooKeeper, MongoDB, CouchbaseDB, Impala, Kudu, Linux, Bash, version control tools, continuous integration tools

DevOps Engineers

• Mandatory skills: Must have experience in Devops
• Experienced in DevOps they must have done CI/CD (CI=Continuous Integration and CD=Continuous Deployment).If they are experienced in CI/CD, then they must have done most of these tools. 

Mandatory Skills must have :

• DevOps, CI/CD
• Github, Jira, GitLab, or Jenkins or Bamboo
• Agile Methodology 

Nice to Have

• Linux
• Kubernetes / Openshift / EKS
• PowerShell, Bash or Python
• Dynatrace