Specialist Product Engineer

Specialist Product Engineer

Job Location : Gauteng | Deadline : November 30,

Job Summary

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.

Key Accountabilities

• 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 design process, determine operational feasibility of solutions, evaluate 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, optimised, 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 optimisation and maintenance on applications.
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices e.g. scripting languages, containerisation 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 – 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.).
• Conduct peer reviews, testing and 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).

Key Critical Requirements

Functional Skills Required

People

Education

Bachelor's Degree : Information Technology

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