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Absa Specialist Product Engineer
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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 PPB Digital Platform Tech team is looking for a Specialist Product Engineer. To build high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications & build capability in others to do the same. This includes but is not limited to 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 & leading all phases of the development lifecycle to deliver. Job Description Qualifications & Experience A relevant tertiary qualification in Information Technology or a related discipline (preferred) 5-8 years’ proven experience in Java software development, including end-to-end project delivery and implementation Technical Skills Expert-level Java development with in-depth knowledge of core language features Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) principles Extensive experience applying design patterns and architectural best practices Solid practical experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL, including basic DBA activities Experience working in Linux-based environments Experience with AWS Experience with Java application servers such as WildFly and/or Thorntail Proficiency in version control systems (Git/Bitbucket) Experience using AI-powered tools or AI agents to enhance development productivity, automate workflows, or support system operations Key Competencies Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with strong attention to detail Ability to analyse and solve complex technical problems across both familiar and unfamiliar technology stacks Capability to define and guide solution patterns and technical approaches for the wider engineering team Strong leadership and mentoring skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively within cross-functional teams Excellent communication skills and the ability to engage with both technical and non-technical stakeholders 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-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions • Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organisation 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 Jenkins / 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 / NewRElic and tracing using Zipkin/Jaeger • Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes • 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. People • Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team • Support the people change teams in the development of user material (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption) Risk & Governance • Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post release) • Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks • Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents 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 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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