Job Summary

Work as part of a DevOps team, apply analysis & testing tools, frameworks, techniques and practices to elicit, define and organize business requirements into user stories. And following this analysis, work collaboratively within squads during design & delivery activity with a specific focus on testing.

• Work with products owners, development team, ICT, business and other key stakeholders to ideate software solutions.
• Work hand on hand with ICT team for deploying and handling over solutions for their level 1 and level 2 support
• Analyze, design and develop web applications, mobile applications, chatbots and backend applications.
• Review and enhance existing software solutions which exist in a banking
• Integrate with new and existing platform’s infrastructures which owned by a bank and other partners of the bank
• Benchmark new technologies and solutions which will add value to the bank
• Write technical documentations and release plan
• Participate in all agile ceremonies and events such as sprint planning, sprint review, community of practice, code review etc

Job Description

Requirements and Skills  - Weight: 75%

• Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer
• Extensive knowledge with multiple frontend languages and libraries (eg. ReactJS, Javascripts, XML, jQuery, HTML/CSS, Bootstrap etc)
• Extensive knowledge with backend application languages and their framework (eg. Java, NodeJS, Angular, PHP, Python etc)
• Extensive knowledge with both native and hybrid mobile application languages (eg. Android Java, Kotlin, Swift, Flutter, React Native, Ionic etc)
• Knowledge with multiple database platforms (eg SQL/MySQL, Mongo, Oracle etc)
• Experience with Security frameworks (e.g., JWT, OATH2)
• Experience in API layer like security, custom analytics, throttling, caching, logging, monetization, request and response modifications etc.
• Experience with multiple operating systems (eg Unix, Linux, Windows, MacOS)
• Familiar with Agile methodology’s frameworks and Tools (eg Jira, Git, Trello, Confluence etc)
• Researching, evaluating, and recommending systems/equipment/technologies
• Support existing and newly developed solutions with integrations via API’s based on requirements
• Stay plugged into emerging technologies/industry trends and apply them into operations and activities

Manage risk and compliance - Weight: 15%

• Together with Risk and Compliance review the key risk and compliance challenges identified in the development area.
• Together with the Risk and Compliance team implement measures to address notable risks and regulatory challenges.
• Implement measures to review the risk and compliance performance of the unit/function on a regular basis and take corrective action.
• Complete all relevant Management Assurance or Risk reports and attestations as required.
• Ensure that processes, control requirements and risk management frameworks that impact the area are documented and understood by all members of the team.
• Work with Absa Internal Audit and Management Assurance during the scoping of audits to ensure fair coverage.
• Own and agree corrective action items with Internal Audit and Management Assurance for findings related to the functional area under management.
• Arrange issue assurance for closed audit findings.
• Contribute and deliver to the improvement of the risk profile by delivering improved governance, risk management, controls and compliance requirements.
• Ensure the security controls under servers and Database are within the agreed thresholds

Drive Service Levels - Weight: 10%

• Increase revenue potential for the business by effectively managing service levels of critical solution that will be developed.
• Minimize time-to-resolution(TTR) of business service disruptions through fast real-time root cause analysis that spans complex multi-tiered application environments
• Minimize cost of IT infrastructure through optimizing delivery and performance of business services
• Implement actions resulting from formalized service reviews (including questionnaires, production reporting, loss event reporting, etc.)
• Continuously monitor service levels and implement tactical measures to improve customer satisfaction.
• Build and maintain effective stakeholder relationships within the Bank to understand the business needs and changes in customer needs.
• Participate in Bank wide forums and governance structures as required or directed.
• Communicate and track the achievement of Service levels (documented in Service Level Agreements) on an ongoing basis and take corrective action as required.
• Manage the operational teams to ensure they deliver reliable services.

Competencies

• Excellent written and oral communication
• Problem solving skills and follow through; Pragmatic and thorough
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies.
• Experience with varieties of databases and object-relational Mapping (ORM) frameworks.
• Must be a self-starter and have the ability to work independently with little supervision.
• Deep hands on experience with Web Applications and programming languages such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Objects Oriented Programming and API's.
• Business Processes Improvement and Management

Qualification

• BSc. In Computer Science, Engineering or related field with informatics as core.
• Experience as a full stack developer with extensive familiarization of languages and framework for mobile application, web and backend applications
• Experience with a variety of MVC frameworks/systems preferably Spring, Laravel, Django; Angular is an added advantage.
• Experience with integrations with Bank products/systems is an added advantage.
• Agile/Scrum and/or Oracle/Microsoft SQL MySQL, PostgreSQL Certifications is an added advantage.  
• Must be able to work under pressure, take clear ownership of issues and projects and drive to ensure a successful closure for the customer, peers and IT Production;

Qualifications

Agile ways of working, AWS Developer Associate - Amazon Web Services, Bachelor's Degree - Computer and Information Science, Experience in a similar environment