Absa Group Limited is a diversified financial services provider headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa. It offers a wide range of services across retail, business, corporate, investment, and wealth banking, serving over 12 million customers with a team of 41,000 banking professionals. Originally known as the Amalgamated Banks of South Africa (ABSA), it was rebranded in 2005 and has since become one of Africa’s most respected banks. Absa operates in multiple countries across the continent, providing comprehensive financial solutions.
Job Overview
- 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.
Responsibilities
- 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, and Python-based AI workflows.
- Debug existing source code and AI models, refine feature sets, and optimize algorithms for performance and scalability.
- Work with integrated teams and other developers to improve and evolve technical products and services
- Align all application and AI/ML development & processes 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 and AI/ML models.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
Education
- Bachelor’s Degree: Information Technology
Method of Application
Meet the qualifications?
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