Company Description
Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.
Job Description
To scope, plan, design and deliver complex end to end solutions against required standards and timelines. To direct, guide and oversee technical solutions delivery, interpreting business requirements, defining technical tasks, engineer quality software, end to end testing and troubleshooting technical questions, software and database issues. To lead, manage and mentor Software-; Quality Engineers across identified delivery teams to build and improve Engineering capability.
Qualifications
Type of Qualification: Post Graduate Degree
Field of Study: Information Technology
Experience Required
Software Engineering
Technology
More than 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
Proven ability to work effectively as both a team leader and as a member of a small team of technical staff working in an agile development environment. Track record in capability and competency building and coaching of staff is required. Minimum 5-7 years' experience as a manager running a portfolio of 20+ technical experts.
Key Responsibilities
- API Strategy Execution: Drive the implementation of BCB’s API-first strategy, aligning with the broader enterprise architecture and leveraging CIB APIs where appropriate.
- Domain Service Engineering: Design and build modular, headless domain services that decouple business logic from presentation layers, enabling omnichannel delivery.
- Platform Enablement: Lead the development of foundational services for BCB Platforms, ensuring alignment with BIAN standards and integration with existing systems.
- Architecture & Governance: Collaborate with the Architecture Governance Committee to define and socialize milestone architectures, including orchestration and customer profile services.
- Technical Leadership: Mentor and guide a team of engineers, ensuring adherence to modern software engineering practices, including CI/CD, test automation, and cloud-native development.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Work closely with product owners, architects, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions that deliver business value.
Technical Competencies
- Proven experience in designing and implementing RESTful APIs and microservices using Java, Node.js, or similar technologies.
- Deep understanding of headless architecture principles and serverless/cloud-native patterns (e.g., AWS Lambda, Azure Functions).
- Familiarity with API management platforms such as MuleSoft and IBM API Connect, including cataloguing, throttling, and analytics.
- Experience with BIAN-aligned service domains and semantic APIs.
- Strong knowledge of integration patterns, event-driven architecture, and data orchestration.
Additional Information
Behavioural Competencies:
- Articulating Information
- Developing Expertise
- Developing Strategies
- Embracing Change
- Empowering Individuals
- Examining Information
- Exploring Possibilities
- Interacting with People
- 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 Engineering Tools
- Software Foundations
- Systems Integration and Build
- Test-driven Design (TDD)
- Threat Modelling
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