Job Description

Company DescriptionStandard 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.We are seeking a talented and innovative Software Engineer to join our dynamic team in Johannesburg, South Africa. As a Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining high-quality software solutions that meet our clients' needs and drive our organisation's success.Key responsibilities include:

• Design, develop, test, and maintain efficient, scalable software solutions throughout the full development lifecycle
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into technical specifications
• Conduct code reviews and contribute to continuous improvement of development processes
• Troubleshoot and upgrade existing software systems
• Develop JAVA applications and manage change deployment in mid-to-large applications
• Implement and maintain automated CI/CD pipeline builds
• Utilise AWS services and maintain application platforms
• Apply design patterns and best practices to deliver high-quality, maintainable code
• Work with Docker, Kubernetes, and Angular development as needed

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or Information Technology.
• AWS Certified Developer Associate and/or AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate - Mandatory

Experience

• 5 - 7 years broad experience in translating business and functional requirements into technical

specifications and developing the programming code to create the solutions. * 5 years extensive hands-on experience in developing JAVA applications Mandatory

• Experiences in change deployment in a mid-to-large application - Mandatory
• Experience in automated CI/CD pipeline builds - Mandatory
• Technical exposure and hands on experience in managing an application platform - Advantageous
• Knowledge and hands on experience in Docker and Kubernetes - Advantageous
• Familiarization to Angular development and implementations - Advantageous
• 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 InformationBehavioural Competencies:

• Adopting Practical Approaches
• Articulating Information
• Interpreting Data
• Managing Tasks
• Producing Output

Technical Competencies:

• Agile Engineering
• API Engineering
• Automation
• Cloud Computing
• Continuous Delivery (CD)
• Continuous Deployment
• Continuous Integration (CI)
• Core Systems
• Data Engineering
• Design Thinking
• Error Budgets
• Incident Response
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Knowledge Management
• Microservices
• Non-abstract Large System Design (NALSD)
• Observability (Application and Web Analytics)
• Platform Engineering
• Policy as Code
• Post-incidence Analysis
• Reliability and Resilience
• Security Engineering
• Service Level Management
• Software Engineering Methods
• Software Engineering Service Level Management
• Software Engineering Tools
• Software Foundations
• System Integration
• Test-driven Design (TDD)
• Threat Modelling

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