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

The role entails technical delivery, support, and advisory to business stakeholder demand and Murex programme initiatives, with expected expertise across asset classes and end-to-end solution phases (scope, analyse, plan, design, develope, test, operate). In addition to the hands-on delivery responsibilities, the role requires developing standards, best practice, and ensuring optimal technical performance of the Murex Production Platforms, as well as upskilling and coaching the team to improve overall expertise. As this is primarily a generalist role within MCE, a deep understanding of the service assurance management practice and processes (business, audit, delivery, etc.) is required and/or expected to be built-up and demonstrated over time, all the while T-and-Key shaped individuals who have additional Business domain and Murex expertise across the value GM value chain (Front Office-Back Office).

Provide domain and technical leadership, guidance & expertise to the team on design, delivery, and operational matters, serving as a trusted point of escalation for the team and stakeholders, helping manage and mitigate risksProvide required levels of production support in accordance with established service assurance protocols and frameworks (ITIL, SRE etc.)Participate in agile ceremonies (Stand-ups, Sprint planning, reviews, retros) and co-create agile artifacts (refined work backlogs, sprint backlog, etc.) with the goal of creating predictability in our delivery whilst being flexible and responsive to changing demand without compromising quality of our solutions.Serve as a Murex Prod BSD SME for the MCE team, contributing expertise and demonstrating an in-depth understanding of Business Domain Concepts (Pricing, Financial Product Knowledge, Regulations, BoMs etc.), Key Murex Prod BSD Modules (e-Tradepad, Risk Matrices, GOM, OSP, Datamart, Workflows,  etc.), and technical concepts (Programming, Unix, Scripting (Shell & Ant), Cloud, architecture)

QualificationsFirst Degree: Information Technology

Additional Information

Experience Required: Software Engineering

5-7 years: Broad experience in translating business and functional requirements into technical specifications and developing the programming code to create the solutions.

8-10 years: Proven experience in modern engineering practices i.e. dev ops, agile etc., Proven experience across multiple, broad IT Engineering disciplines, with demonstrated specialisation in at least one. Experience within the required scope of expertise.

Behavioural Competencies:

Adopting Practical ApproachesArticulating InformationChecking ThingsDeveloping ExpertiseDocumenting Facts

Technical Competencies:

Agile EngineeringAPI EngineeringAutomationCloud ComputingContinuous Delivery (CD)