Company: Absa Bank Limited | Category: Software Development
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Software Developer at Absa Bank Limited
Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.
With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
Job Summary
Support high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade application design & development in agile teams by producing, testing, documenting & reviewing source code.
Job Description
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 Developer with experience in Financial Markets (trading) and with a balance of quantitative knowledge vs technical knowledge to join the Front Arena team.
Key critical requirements:
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Relevant B-Degree in Computer Science preferred but not essential if minimum requirements of
experience & practical application is evident
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Min 3 years hands-on C# / Python development experience
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Experience in Banking / Investment Banking / Capital Markets IT domain
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Strong technical skills: Software design and development, Business analysis, quality assurance, release management
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Excellent interpersonal, communication and stakeholder’s management skills
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Ability to perform in a challenging and dynamic environment
Beneficial:
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Experience in Front Arena (or equivalent system) development / consulting projects
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Experience in Front Arena AEF: ACM, AEL, ADFL, ASQL, Python, C# .net, C++, MS SQL, XSLT
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Deep knowledge of FA components such as PRIME, ADS, AMB, AMBA, ATS, AMWI, PACE, APS, AFG-AMB, SWIFT adapters, Adaptiv Docs etc.
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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.
Accountabilities: DevOps
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Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle
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Interpret analysis, problem definition & business requirements to identify solution requirements (e.g. features)
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Produce well-organised and documented source code for technical solutions
Apply technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience in code development -
Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions
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Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
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Work with integrated teams and other developers to improve and evolve technical products and services
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Study & apply Group Architecture & Infrastructure guidelines to all development work
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Support reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications
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Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices and continuously evolve existing knowledge & skill in preparation for exposure to Automation, Integration, Messaging, CI/CD etc.
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Update, create and appropriately store application documentation & technical specifications
Risk & Governance
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Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents
Education
Bachelor’s Degree: Information Technology
Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.
Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised
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