Lead Product Engineer
Absa Group
Date: 3 weeks ago
City: Johannesburg, Gauteng
Contract type: Full time
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
Build high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications & build capability in others to do the same. This includes but is not limited to applying 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 & leading all phases of the development lifecycle to deliver.
Job Description
In a DevOps - Setup
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 e.g. design process
Determine operational feasibility of solutions by evaluating 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-organized, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions
Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organization principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience
Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions
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)
Apply unit testing frameworks and perform integration, validation and verification testing (apply knowledge of stubbing tools e.g. wiremock, hoverfly etc.)
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.
Role/Person specification
Education and experience required
Cross domain knowledge
Architecture including Application Architecture, Infrastructure Solutioning, Testing, Web Applications
Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications
Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices e.g. scripting languages, containerization etc.
Contribute to the design & evolution of Group Architecture, Infrastructure & associated technical standards for the organization
Use & configure modern observability techniques leveraging e.g. aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via Prometheus / Grafana / NewRElic and tracing using Zipkin/Jaeger
Experience in: Angular, SQL, PostgreSQL; Python, JAVA; .Net, and an understanding of Data Warehouse products and concepts like Hadoop, Spark, C#, ASP.NET, .Net Core, Web Api + Web Services (REST & Soap)’ SQL Server, Version Control (TFS/Git),
MVC
Meccano
Angular/JavaScript Knowledge
PostgreSQL
Exposure to Work Flow Systems
Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes
Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
Work with integrated teams and other developers to improve and evolve technical products and services
Align all application development & development process 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. / Agile
Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications
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.
Other
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)
Excellent communication, analytical skills and decision making ability in collaborative environments
Experience with API & API Integration
Experience with test-driven development and domain driven design
Experience with open-source relational databases
Knowledge of application server containers: Tomcat, Jetty, JBoss, NodeJS, IIS, .Net Core etc.
Good understanding of frameworks and libraries like JavaScript, jQuery, TypeScript, HTML, CSS
Experience with CI / CD tools (like Jenkins, Bamboo, TFS, Azure Devops) and Artifact Management (preferably Nexus),
Experience with Cloud platforms e.g. Azure, AWS & Google Cloud Platform Ability to create and maintain sophisticated CI / CD pipelines
Strong understanding of version control and related concepts and techniques, particularly Gi
Experience with appropriate unit testing framework(s)
Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills.
Comfortable with stubbing tools like wiremock and/or hoverfly
Experience with scripting languages like Bash and/or Python
Familiar with OAuth, Open Connect ID and SAML, preferably with an understanding of AD / LDAP / Kerberos
Familiar with Containerisation technologies like Docker & or orchestrators like Kubernetes
Understanding of Data & Data Structures
People
Coach & mentor other engineers
Conduct peer reviews, testing, 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)
Risk & Governance
Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post deployment)
Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks
Deliver on time & on budget (always)
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
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
Build high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications & build capability in others to do the same. This includes but is not limited to applying 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 & leading all phases of the development lifecycle to deliver.
Job Description
In a DevOps - Setup
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 e.g. design process
Determine operational feasibility of solutions by evaluating 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-organized, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions
Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organization principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience
Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions
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. To do this, leverage e.g. aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via Prometheus / Grafana / NewRelic and distributed tracing like Zipkin/Jaeger etc.
- Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
Apply unit testing frameworks and perform integration, validation and verification testing (apply knowledge of stubbing tools e.g. wiremock, hoverfly etc.)
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.
Role/Person specification
Education and experience required
- 8+ years’ experience
Cross domain knowledge
Architecture including Application Architecture, Infrastructure Solutioning, Testing, Web Applications
- Service Side, Automation
- Messaging, Virtualisation & Cloud
- Solutioning, SSL Security
- CI/CD etc.
Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications
Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices e.g. scripting languages, containerization etc.
Contribute to the design & evolution of Group Architecture, Infrastructure & associated technical standards for the organization
Use & configure modern observability techniques leveraging e.g. aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via Prometheus / Grafana / NewRElic and tracing using Zipkin/Jaeger
Experience in: Angular, SQL, PostgreSQL; Python, JAVA; .Net, and an understanding of Data Warehouse products and concepts like Hadoop, Spark, C#, ASP.NET, .Net Core, Web Api + Web Services (REST & Soap)’ SQL Server, Version Control (TFS/Git),
MVC
Meccano
Angular/JavaScript Knowledge
PostgreSQL
Exposure to Work Flow Systems
Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes
Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
Work with integrated teams and other developers to improve and evolve technical products and services
Align all application development & development process 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. / Agile
Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications
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.
Other
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)
Excellent communication, analytical skills and decision making ability in collaborative environments
- xcellent understanding of specific coding / scripting languages e.g. Java, C#, Python, Perl, JavaScript
Experience with API & API Integration
Experience with test-driven development and domain driven design
- Experience & Understanding of integration testing & QA Automation
Experience with open-source relational databases
Knowledge of application server containers: Tomcat, Jetty, JBoss, NodeJS, IIS, .Net Core etc.
Good understanding of frameworks and libraries like JavaScript, jQuery, TypeScript, HTML, CSS
Experience with CI / CD tools (like Jenkins, Bamboo, TFS, Azure Devops) and Artifact Management (preferably Nexus),
Experience with Cloud platforms e.g. Azure, AWS & Google Cloud Platform Ability to create and maintain sophisticated CI / CD pipelines
Strong understanding of version control and related concepts and techniques, particularly Gi
Experience with appropriate unit testing framework(s)
Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills.
Comfortable with stubbing tools like wiremock and/or hoverfly
Experience with scripting languages like Bash and/or Python
Familiar with OAuth, Open Connect ID and SAML, preferably with an understanding of AD / LDAP / Kerberos
Familiar with Containerisation technologies like Docker & or orchestrators like Kubernetes
Understanding of Data & Data Structures
People
Coach & mentor other engineers
Conduct peer reviews, testing, 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)
Risk & Governance
Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post deployment)
Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks
- Create business cases & solution specifications for various governance processes (e.g. CTO approvals)
Deliver on time & on budget (always)
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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