Lead Product Engineer

Job Summary

Build high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications and build capability in others to do the same. This includes but is not limited to applying critical thinking, design thinking and problem‑solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems (Front End, Back End and Integration) with high-quality solutions and lead all phases of the development lifecycle to deliver.

• At least 8 years’ extensive experience with ABSA Access channel platform development and architecture build
• At least 7 years extensive experience with Payment platform build (Domestic, international, inter‑account transfer, information services)
• Absa Investment Service (AIS) platform build experience

• Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems (Front End, Back End and Integration) with high-quality solutions
• Contribute to and in some cases lead all phases of the development lifecycle including design process
• Determine operational feasibility of solutions by evaluating analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development and proposed solutions
• Develop high quality software/application design and architecture in a test-driven and domain-driven cross-domain environment
• Quickly produce well‑organised, optimised, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions
• Ensure designs and solutions support the technical organisation principles of self‑service, repeatability, testability, scalability and resilience
• Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions
• Create and maintain sophisticated CI/CD pipelines (authoring and supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins or Azure Devops or similar tools and deploy to multi‑site environments)
• Use and configure modern observability techniques to provide a deeper understanding of the application (e.g. aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via Prometheus/Grafana/New Relic and distributed tracing like Zipkin/Jaeger)
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting (e.g. Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes)
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets
• Work with guilds and other technical SMEs to improve and evolve technical products and services
• Apply unit testing frameworks and perform integration, validation and verification testing (apply knowledge of stubbing tools such as wiremock, hoverfly)
• Apply version control and related concepts and techniques
  
  Align all application development and development process to Group Architecture, Security and Infrastructure guidelines
• Work with project and program teams (when required) to plan and manage the development lifecycle (e.g. releases, risk management, testing, integration)
• Conduct reviews, performance monitoring and ongoing optimisation and maintenance on applications
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices (e.g. scripting languages, containerisation)
• Contribute to the design and evolution of Group Architecture, Infrastructure and associated technical standards for the organisation

• Coach and mentor other engineers
• Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team
• Provide technical subject matter expertise and support in the attraction and recruitment of Product Engineers for the organisation
• Participate as a subject matter expert in the development and development planning of the broader product engineering team
• Support the people change teams in the design of adoption processes (Customer, Employee and third‑party adoption)

• Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during and post deployment)
• Update/design all application documentation in line with the organisation technical standards and risk/governance frameworks
• Create business cases and solution specifications for various governance processes (e.g. CTO approvals)
• Participate in incident management and DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving and technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents
• Deliver on time and on budget

Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology

Absa 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.