ABSA Vacancies – Lead Product Engineer

Job Description:

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 Responsibilities:

• Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applicationsStay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices e.g. scripting languages, containerization etc.
• Apply unit testing frameworks and perform integration, validation and verification testing (apply knowledge of stubbing tools e.g. wiremock, hoverfly etc.)
• Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post deployment)
• Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team
• Work with project & program teams (when required) to plan & manage the development lifecycle e.g. releases, risk management, testing, integration etc.
• Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions
• Provide technical subject matter expertise and support in the attraction and recruitment of Product Engineers for the organization
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
• Apply version control and related concepts and techniques
• Determine operational feasibility of solutions by evaluating analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development and proposed solutions
• Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture, Security & Infrastructure guidelines
• Create business cases & solution specifications for various governance processes (e.g. CTO approvals)
• Develop high quality software / application design and architecture in a test driven & domain driven / cross domain environment
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes
• Deliver on time & on budget (always)
• Quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions
• Create & Maintain Sophisticated CI / CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins / Azure Devops or similar tools and deploy to multi-site environments – supporting and managing your applications all the way to production Use & configure modern observability techniques to provide a deeper understanding of the application. To do this, leverage e.g. aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via
• Prometheus / Grafana / NewRelic and distributed tracing like Zipkin/Jaeger etc.
• Contribute to and in some cases lead all phases of the development lifecycle including e.g. design process
• Risk & Governance
• Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience
• Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks
• Coach & mentor other engineers
• Work with guilds and other technical SME’s to improve solve technical products and services
• Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents
• Contribute to the design & evolution of Group Architecture, Infrastructure & associated technical standards for the organization People
• Support the people change teams in the design of adoption processes (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption)
• Participate as a subject matter expert in the development & development planning of the broader product engineering team
• 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

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree: Information Technology

Job Details:

Company: Absa Group Limited

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

Application Deadline: N/A

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