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

Software Engineer with a strong Java skillset who is AWS Certified. The role involves designing, coding, testing, debugging, and correcting programs within software engineering environments that support continuous delivery pipelines. The engineer will also be responsible for the support and maintenance of systems. Additionally, the role includes producing software specifications in line with technical requirements and adhering to software quality assurance standards.

Qualifications

Type of Qualification: First Degree
Field of Study: Information Technology
Certification Required: AWS Developer or AWS Solution Architect 

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.

Extensive hands-on experience in developing JAVA applications for a minimum of 5 years.
Experiences in change deployment in a mid-to-large application.
Experience in automated CI/CD pipeline builds.
AWS Certified Developer Associate and/or AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate.
Technical exposure and hands on experience in managing an application platform.
Knowledge and hands on experience in Docker and Kubernetes.
Familiarization to Angular development and implementations.
Having an understanding of Renovite solution for ATMs.

The individual is intended to have an exposure to maintain standards, guided by design/architecture patterns (in consultation with the Engineering Lead and the Architecture team), and follow best practices across the teams, deliver high-quality and maintainable code maintaining consistency and standardizations.

Additional Information

Behavioural Competencies:

Adopting Practical ApproachesArticulating InformationChecking DetailsDeveloping ExpertiseDocumenting Facts

Technical Competencies:

Agile EngineeringAPI EngineeringAutomationCloud ComputingContinuous Delivery (CD)