Specialist Solution Analyst
Absa Group
Date: 17 hours 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
International Payments for PAN Africa is looking for a passionate, motivated and engaged Solution/System Analyst.
Our area provides systems and capabilities to process both Incoming, Outgoing and Off-Absa cross-border payments via SWIFT.
Our aim is to provide a consistent experience to our customers across Africa and uplift our environment.
As a team we continuously strive to streamline our processes and ways of working, and creating room for innovation.
Job Description
Work as part of a DevOps team, leverage specialist analysis & testing tools, frameworks, techniques and practices to elicit, define and organize business requirements.
Translate & document business requirements into user stories & specifications (Full Stack, Cross System) detailing integration points, business & associated risk / opportunities to be realised.
Following this analysis, work collaboratively within squads during design & delivery activity including assuming responsibility for manual application testing processes, frameworks & outcomes.
Education and critical skills required:
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
International Payments for PAN Africa is looking for a passionate, motivated and engaged Solution/System Analyst.
Our area provides systems and capabilities to process both Incoming, Outgoing and Off-Absa cross-border payments via SWIFT.
Our aim is to provide a consistent experience to our customers across Africa and uplift our environment.
As a team we continuously strive to streamline our processes and ways of working, and creating room for innovation.
Job Description
Work as part of a DevOps team, leverage specialist analysis & testing tools, frameworks, techniques and practices to elicit, define and organize business requirements.
Translate & document business requirements into user stories & specifications (Full Stack, Cross System) detailing integration points, business & associated risk / opportunities to be realised.
Following this analysis, work collaboratively within squads during design & delivery activity including assuming responsibility for manual application testing processes, frameworks & outcomes.
Education and critical skills required:
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or relevant experience
- 5+ years’ experience in software and business analysis & tools.
- Knowledge of MS SQL & Data analytics tools.
- Azure DevOps
- Knowledge of the National Payment System and background in Payments specifically SWIFT/International settlements will be advantageous.
- Technical leadership, critical thinking and DevOps focused
- Excellent communication and relationship building skills.
- Ability to translate & document business requirements into user stories & specifications (Full stack, Cross System), detailing integration points, business & associated risk/opportunities to be realized.
- 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
- Define and monitor overall backlog planning for effective solutions and delivery.
- Evaluate analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development & provide recommendations to enable the operational feasibility of solutions
- Quickly produce well-organized, optimized documented requirements to deliver technical solutions
- Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organization principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience
- Supporting and managing your applications delivery all the way to production
- Work collaboratively within squads during design, build and testing activities including assuming responsibilities for application testing processes, frameworks, delivery management and outcomes.
- 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
- Stay ahead of the curve on emerging payment standards and practices and continuously evolve existing knowledge & skill.
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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