Company Description
Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.
Job Description
To design, code, test, debug, and maintain programs in development environments. Apply agreed standards and tools, to achieve a well-engineers result. Work within a strict framework of programming standards under supervision of senior technical resources.
Qualifications
- A Degree in Information Technology is required.
Experience:
- 5-7 years Broad experience in translating business and functional requirements into technical specifications and developing the programming code to create the solutions.
- 8-10 years Proven experience in modern engineering practices i.e. dev ops, agile etc., Proven experience across multiple, broad IT Engineering disciplines, with demonstrated specialisation in at least one. Experience within the required scope of expertise.
- Azure Cloud Experience: Hands on experience of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a service (PaaS).
- Data engineering skills using Azure Synapse Analytics Studio.
- Data modelling and Extract, Transform and Load process (ETL) experience
- Experience of Azure DevOps and SAFe agile practices.
- Azure cloud knowledge - Build and support cloud platform (IaaS and PaaS).
- Knowledge of data engineering tools in Microsoft Azure e.g. Synpase, Azure data factory
- Knowledge of Azure DevOps setup and management.
Additional Information
Key Responsibilities:
- Adhere to application lifecycle management accountabilities, architectural platforms and guardrails and ensure that all activity is digitally recorded and tracked to enable continuous delivery and development in the engineering environment, by effectively collaborating with stakeholders to deliver on required target to add value to the clients.
- Adopt and adhere to suitable and agreed development methodologies and principles through work outputs and behaviours that enables continuous delivery and development across the production environment as well as ensuring effective collaboration with all colleagues and stakeholders in order to meet required targets and therefore deliver value to the customer.
- Develop code, build, assemble, implement, test and perform data conversion for applications and ensure that processes are accurately documented. Perform system enhancements for the applications as required to ensure the delivery of the engineering function.
- Construct, interpret and execute moderate to complex end to end system and program tests to verify correct operation of completed systems, to ensure that technical requirements are adhered to and test execution activities to ensure seamlessly and effective implementation engineering systems.
- Contribute to programmes and platforms for the processing, analysis and visual display of data, integrating new and existing data sources and ensuring the validity and reliability of data to support data driven decision making as required. Ensuring continuous deployment and operation to deliver the engineering objectives.
- Develop, complete and update all required documentation as per the scope, including guidelines and checklists for development and testing purposes, to ensure that that the state and quality is clearly communicated and documented.
- Engage with leads to receive feedback on work completed and communicate any concerns, issues, risks and progress regarding work output to enable a culture of continuous development and learning and aim to resolve all issues and risks.
Behavioural Competencies:
- Adopting Practical Approaches
- Articulating Information
- Checking Things
- Developing Expertise
- Documenting Facts
- Embracing Change
- Examining Information
- Interpreting Data
- Managing Tasks
- Producing Output
- Taking Action
- Team Working
Technical Competencies:
- Agile Engineering
- API Engineering
- Automation
- Cloud Computing
- Continuous Delivery (CD)
- Continuous Deployment
- Continuous Integration (CI)
- Core Systems
- Data Engineering
- Design Thinking
- Error Budgets
- Incident Response
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Knowledge Management
- Microservices
- Non-abstract Large System Design (NALSD)
- Observability (Application and Web Analytics)
- Platform Engineering
- Policy as Code
- Post-incidence Analysis
- Reliability and Resilience
- Security Engineering
- Service Level Management
- Software Engineering Methods
- Software Engineering Service Level Management
- Software Engineering Tools
- Software Foundations
- System Integration
- Test-driven Design (TDD)
- Threat Modelling
Top Skills
What We Do
As a brand with a legacy of 161 years in Africa, we have a deep understanding and belief in the boundless opportunities that this continent presents. Our vision extends beyond mere geography; it encompasses a profound recognition of the potential for growth that resonates within our people, customers, entrepreneurs, and all who share our unwavering commitment and passion for investing in Africa. With a presence in 20 countries across sub-Saharan Africa, we have cultivated a diverse community of the most skilled, innovative, and creative minds in the industry. Our purpose is to drive Africa's growth, acting as a catalyst for inclusive and sustainable economic development in the regions we serve. We strive to improve the lives of our fellow Africans by conducting business in an ethical and responsible manner. As a trusted partner, we consistently set higher standards and aspire to become better with each endeavour. We are more than just a banking institution; we are a driving force behind Africa's growth. Join us on this transformative journey. Together, we have the collective power to propel Africa into the future, making tangible progress for all who proudly call Africa home.
