Company Description
Standard Bank Offshore is the offshore arm of the Standard Bank Group, a leading Africa focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage. Our international Banking, Lending, Investment, Fiduciary and Wealth Management services 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 and SBO is perfectly positioned to support the growth of our organisation from our office in the Isle of Man, Jersey, London, MAUs and South Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.
Job Description
To scope, plan, design and deliver end to end solutions against required standards and timelines. To oversee and participate in technical solutions delivery, interpreting business requirements, defining technical tasks, engineer quality software, performing end to end testing and supporting and troubleshooting technical questions, software and database issues. To lead, manage and mentor Software-; Quality Engineers across identified delivery teams to build and improve Engineering capability.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualification:
- First Degree in Information Technology
Experience Required :
- 5 - 7 years experience in Technology
- Proven ability to work effectively as both a team leader and as a member of a small team of technical staff working in an agile development environment. Track record in capability and competency building and coaching of staff is required. Minimum 1-2 years' experience as a manager running a portfolio of 10+ technical experts
- 8-10 years
- Broad experience in translating business and functional requirements into technical specifications and developing the programming code to create the solutions.
Key Outputs :
- Accountable for end to end delivery of all technical solution delivery (engineering aspects) in the identified delivery teams(3 to 5 teams, 15 to 25 resources), adhering to set standards, practices and quality expectations.
- Adopt and adhere to suitable and agreed development methodologies and principles through work outputs and behaviours that enables continuous delivery and development across the production environment as well as ensuring effective collaboration with all colleagues and stakeholders to meet required targets and therefore deliver value to the customer.
- Build, code and review user and system interfaces including menus, screen dialogues, inputs, reports, validation and error correction, processing rules, access, security, audit controls, recovery routines and contingency procedures to ensure they are as per agreed specification. Conduct quality assurance and approve developed code linked to supplied specifications for production deployment.
- Construct, interpret and execute end to end system and program tests to verify correct operation of completed systems. Prepare test cases for unit testing purposes and review test cases as produced by other developers for unit testing purposes as required.
- Find ways to improve flow and teams' delivery, removing blockers and ensuring value through the improvement of quality of deliverables. Direct and participate in resolution of incidents and failures, putting in place remediation actions and ensuring appropriate technical support.
Additional Information
Behavioural Competencies:
- Adopting Practical Approaches
- Articulating Information
- Checking Things
- Developing Expertise
- Documenting Facts
- Embracing Change
Technical Competencies:
- Agile Engineering
- API Engineering
- Automation
- Cloud Computing
- Core Systems
- Data Engineering
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Non-abstract Large System Design (NALSD)
- Observability (Application and Web Analytics)
- Platform Engineering
- Security Engineering
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