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 deliver specialist technical expertise, leadership across the full solution lifecycle to direct the scope, design, quality and refactoring of complex software applications, systems and integration services, against required standards and timelines. To guide teams in the assessment and selection of suitable technologies/approaches, and lead the quality of end-to-end solutions, Engineering artifacts to deliver Engineering excellence and mentor other engineers.
- Execute against strategy and technology landscape leading the assessment and selection of suitable technologies/approaches establishing their relevance and feasibility, advising on the evaluation and impact analysis of major design options to enable the delivery of the software engineering objectives.
- Direct and oversee code, build, assemble, implement, test and data conversion for applications and ensure that processes are accurately documented. Advise on system enhancements for the applications as required to ensure the delivery of functional, quality applications as required by business, and deliver on the software engineering business objectives.
- Collaborate with database design or database administration teams to translate object and data models into appropriate database schemas within design constraints, by providing insights and expertise on software engineering to optimise, modify and improve the engineering environment.
- Challenge assumptions pertaining to the full spectrum of automation, observability, resilience etc. Drive stability, scalability and reliability of systems and technologies and identify principles that may be applied to improve on the quality of software engineering.
- Contribute deep, specialist knowledge of the technological landscape to the team, thereby developing and enhancing the technical capabilities of the
Qualifications
- Post Graduate Degree: Information Studies (Min)
Additional Information
Experience Required: Software Engineering
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.
Behavioural Competencies:
- Articulating Information
- Challenging Ideas
- Developing Expertise
- Developing Strategies
- Embracing Change
Technical Competencies:
- Agile Engineering
- API Engineering
- Automation
- Cloud Computing
- Continuous Delivery (CD)
