Specialist Product Engineer

Absa Group LimitedZA

13 days ago

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Job title : Specialist Product Engineer

Job Location : Gauteng,

Deadline : November 30, 2025

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Absa’s CIB Technology team provides technology support to the organization’s Corporate and Investment Banking business.  This technology team is specifically dedicated to our Markets business area and is responsible for the building, support, enhancement and maintenance of all trade and post trade activities for vendor-based and bespoke application suites that fall within the Markets business area.

We are looking for a Lead Product Engineer / Developer with experience in Financial Markets (trading) and with a balance of quantitative knowledge vs technical knowledge to join the Front Arena team.

Job Description

Key critical requirements :

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

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

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

Excellent interpersonal, communication and stakeholder’s management skills

Ability to perform in a challenging and dynamic environment

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

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

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

Key accountabilities :

DevOps

Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems (Front End, Back End and Integration) with high quality solutions

Contribute to and in some cases lead all phases of the development lifecycle including e.g. design process

Determine operational feasibility of solutions by evaluating analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development and proposed solutions

Develop high quality software / application design and architecture in a test driven & domain driven / cross domain environment

Quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions

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

Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions

Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.

Apply version control and related concepts and techniques

Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture, Security & Infrastructure guidelines

Work with project & program teams (when required) to plan & manage the development lifecycle e.g. releases, risk management, testing, integration etc.

Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications

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

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

(Preferable)

Create & Maintain Sophisticated CI / CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI / CD pipelines in Jenkins / Azure Devops or similar tools and deploy to multi-site environments – supporting and managing your applications all the way to production)

Use & configure modern observability techniques to provide a deeper understanding of the application. To do this, leverage e.g. aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via Prometheus / Grafana / NewRelic and distributed tracing like Zipkin / Jaeger etc.

Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes

Work with guilds and other technical SME’s to improve and evolve technical products and services

Apply unit testing frameworks and perform integration, validation and verification testing (apply knowledge of stubbing tools e.g. wiremock, hoverfly etc.)

People

Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team

Provide technical subject matter expertise and support in the attraction and recruitment of Product Engineers for the organization

Participate as a subject matter expert in the development & development planning of the broader product engineering team

Support the people change teams in the design of adoption processes (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption)

Education

Bachelor's Degree : Information Technology

End Date : November 4, 2025

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