11 Oct
1001 Absa Bank
Gauteng
Lead Product Engineer (Payments)
Apply - Remote Type: Hybrid
Location: Sandton
Time Type: Full time
Posted on: 2 Days Ago
Time left to apply: End Date: October 14, 2024 (3 days left to apply)
Job Requisition ID: R-15967706
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
Build high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications & build capability in others to do the same. This includes applying critical thinking,
design thinking, and problem-solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems (Front End, Back End, and Integration) with high-quality solutions.
Job Description
DevOps
Apply critical thinking, design thinking, and problem-solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems (Front End, Back End, and Integration) with high-quality solutions.
Contribute to and in some cases lead all phases of the development lifecycle including the design process.
Determine operational feasibility of solutions by evaluating analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.
Develop high-quality software/application design and architecture in a test-driven & domain-driven/cross-domain environment.
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.
Create & Maintain Sophisticated CI/CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins/Azure DevOps or similar tools).
Use & configure modern observability techniques to provide a deeper understanding of the application.
Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting (e.g., Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes).
Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
Work with guilds and other technical SMEs to improve and evolve technical products and services.
Apply unit testing frameworks and perform integration, validation, and verification testing.
Align all application development & development processes to Group Architecture, Security & Infrastructure guidelines.
Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications.
Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices.
Contribute to the design & evolution of Group Architecture, Infrastructure & associated technical standards for the organization.
People
Coach & mentor other engineers.
Conduct peer reviews, testing, and problem solving within and across the broader team.
Provide technical subject matter expertise and support in the attraction and recruitment of Product Engineers.
Participate as a subject matter expert in the development & planning of the broader product engineering team.
Support the people change teams in the design of adoption processes.
Risk & Governance
Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post deployment).
Update/Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk/governance frameworks.
Create business cases & solution specifications for various governance processes.
Participate in incident management & DR activity.
Deliver on time & on budget.
Key Requirements:
Java Spring Boot
Quarkus
Messaging
Kafka
REST
IBM MQ
Docker
Kubernetes (not required, nice to have)
GitHub
Jenkins
Understand application architecture.
Ability to mentor junior engineers.
Document the application in terms of application diagrams.
Education
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.
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▶️ Lead Product Engineer (Payments)
🖊️ 1001 Absa Bank
📍 Gauteng