Job Overview
Business Segment: Personal & Private Banking
Location: ZA, GP, Johannesburg, 30 Baker Street
Job Type: Full-time
Job Ref ID: 80444477A-0001
Date Posted: 8/18/2025
Job Description
To identify, develop and drive the development and continuous improvement of Digital Platforms across the entire PPB Technology offering by providing strategic guidance to grow the local and international market footprint, developing a roadmap to specify key client requirements, and provide support in the sale of Digital Platform/ Product Solutions, using expert insight to manage key stakeholders and obtain buy-in towards PPB Technology offerings.
Qualifications
Type of Qualification: Post Graduate Degree
Field of Study: Information Studies
Type of Qualification: Post Graduate Degree
Field of Study: Information Technology
Experience Required
Software Engineering
Technology
8-10 years
Broad experience in translating business and functional requirements into technical specifications and developing the programming code to create the solutions.
More than 10 years
10+ years of experience in multiple technological fields, including solution architecture, with at least 5 years at a technical team lead level. Deep and broad experience required in multiple areas of technology (comb-shaped engineer). It is imperative to have experience in large, transformational projects, and the agile way of work.
Technical Skills & Expertise Required:
Experience with DevOps tools (Azure DevOps, Terraform).
Ability to Design and Implement Cloud Architectures.
Azure Infrastructure Services: Deep knowledge of Azure IaaS (VMs, VNets, NSGs, Load Balancers, etc.)
Platform Automation: Proficiency in scripting (PowerShell, Azure CLI, Bicep, Terraform) for infrastructure automation.
Azure Governance: Experience with policies, blueprints, management groups, and cost management.
Security & Compliance: Strong understanding of Azure Security Center, Defender for Cloud, RBAC, Key Vault, and compliance frameworks.
Monitoring & Operations: Expertise in Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and diagnostics.
Networking: Advanced skills in Azure networking (ExpressRoute, VPN Gateway, Private Link, DNS, etc.)
Soft Skills & Leadership: Stakeholder Engagement: Translating technical requirements into business outcomes.
Mentorship: Guiding junior engineers and fostering knowledge sharing.
Incident Management: Leading troubleshooting and root cause analysis for platform issues.
Documentation & Reporting: Creating clear, actionable documentation and operational runbooks.
Additional Information
Behavioural Competencies:
Articulating Information
Challenging Ideas
Developing Expertise
Developing Strategies
Embracing Change
Empowering Individuals
Examining Information
Exploring Possibilities
Interacting with People
Making Decisions
Showing Composure
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 Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies & Tools
Software Engineering Methods
Software Foundations
System Integration
Test-driven Design (TDD)
Threat Modelling
Please note: All our recruitment processes comply with the applicable local laws and regulations. We will never ask for money or any from of payment as part of our recruitment process. If you experience this, please contact our Fraud line on +27 800222050 or TransactionFraudOpsSA@standardbank.co.za