Job Description

Empowering Africas tomorrow, togetherxe2x80xa6one story at a time.With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.Job Summary The Market Risk Technology team in Investment Banking is looking for a Specialist Support Engineer to work as part of an integrated (run & build) tribe in lower complexity environments to provide enterprise wide application support across multiple stakeholder groups by maintaining & optimizing enterprise-grade applications (tech products & services).Provide support and maintenance of the Market Risk (FRTB) services to ensure stability, availability and reliability of the business processes. Perform day to day BAU support and some risk and compliance projects in the FRTB space.Key critical skills and experience required:

• Relevant B-Degree in Computer Science preferred but not essential if minimum requirements of experience & practical application that enables application support is evident
• Min 5 years Technology experience
• Application Management and Diagnostics Experience
• Hands on Application Support in a Technology environment
• Basic python programming
• Basic SQL programming
• Ability to setup, support and maintain Azure DevOps pipelines
• Proficient in Linux/PowerShell scripting

Functional skills:

• Basic understanding of the CIB and Market Risk (FRTB) concepts (diverse asset classes, Trade Workflow, PNL, PV, Risk Classes, Risk Factors, VaR, SA, PLE, Regulatory reporting).
• Ability to support diverse Market Risk (FRTB) businesses.

Key accountabilities:

• Proficiently support and troubleshoot the Market Risk (FRTB) and Front Arena Trading applications (FIS Adaptiv Analytics, Front Arena, or related Market Risk BI).
• Setup, support and maintain Azure DevOps pipelines.
• Schedule the EOD tasks and run reports/tasks on ad-hoc bases.
• Configuration and maintenance of the Market Risk or FRTB environments which also include deployments and getting servers patched.
• Plan and perform DR testing.
• Perform systems integration support.

Interpersonal skills:

• Willing to share knowledge with others.
• Willing to work overtime/standby on weekly rotational bases.
• Ability to work under pressure in a high pace and performing environment.
• Collaborate with other teams (Dev and Ops) in delivering strategic projects.
• Willing to learn new skills and technologies.

Advantageous:

• Cloud computing (AWS/Azure)
• Use of the application performance monitoring tools (Observability).
• Knowledge of the advanced task scheduling and orchestration systems (Airflow, Wade, Control-M)

EducationBachelor's Degree: Information TechnologyAbsa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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