Specialist Software Developer (.Net)
Absa Group
Date: 19 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
The International Payments for PAN Africa team within CIB Technology is looking for an experienced hands on .Net Software Developer to apply critical thinking and problem solving skills to contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle and quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications.
Job Description
Our area provides systems and capabilities to process both Incoming, Outgoing and Off-Absa cross border payments via SWIFT.
As a team, we continuously strive to streamline our processes, ways of working, and creating room for innovation.
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
The International Payments for PAN Africa team within CIB Technology is looking for an experienced hands on .Net Software Developer to apply critical thinking and problem solving skills to contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle and quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications.
Job Description
Our area provides systems and capabilities to process both Incoming, Outgoing and Off-Absa cross border payments via SWIFT.
As a team, we continuously strive to streamline our processes, ways of working, and creating room for innovation.
Education and critical skills required:
- Relevant B-Degree in Computer Science / technical field preferred but not essential if minimum requirements of experience and practical application is evident
- 5+ years in software development experience
- Excellent programming skills in .Net
- Technical leadership, critical thinking and DevOps focused
- Advance knowledge on Microservice’s architecture
- MSSQL
- Angular / Blazor
- Kubernetes (Rancher, Docker)
- Cloud Architecture Patterns
- Event Based Architecture
- Open telemetry knowledge a plus
- Azure DevOps
- 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-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
- Support the development of CI / CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps / 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 / Instana and tracing using Jaeger
- 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.
- 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.
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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