Mainframe Network Specialist

1 month ago

Randburg, South Africa Absa Bank Limited Full time

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together one 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

Job Description

Platform Engineering, Deployment & Optimisation- Leverage platform engineering expertise & a working knowledge of specific platforms and their constituent parts to positively contribute to platform feature and service designs- Take accountability for deeply understanding & building expertise on the platform, the platform contribution to the broader platform strategy & business and customer requirements & all available technologies- Develop business & customer aligned, lasting & innovative platform feature sets- Positively contribute to, define & implement the development/engineering lifecycle (end to end) and lead lifecycle improvements over successive releases.- Produce simple, extensible, and maintainable features with very few defects. Continually works to find and fix defects.- Leverage platform (service design & code) & engineering technical expertise to proactively identify risks and prevent defects- Identify patterns that reveal errors and unanticipated problems, and influence telemetry analytics design decisions-
- Ensure consistent, usable, forward-looking, maintainable test infrastructure-
- Uphold our technical principles of: self-service, scalability, re-usability, resilience & stability in all development practices and deliver feature sets that sustainably deliver on these principles-
- Proactively identify development practices that work well & leverage & improve these for future solution design and deployment- Document feature set and constituent design information to produce solution design blueprints and validation collateral- Based on engineering & platform expertise and a sound knowledge of the business & customer requirements consistently provide key ideas for the enhancement & optimization of the platform- Develop & document complete designs and implement testing processes that identify and eradicate platform or service-wide problems / improve on platform performance- Demonstrate a strong commitment to the quality & ongoing quality assurance of the product/service’s in use, and take appropriate action to resolve issues throughout the lifecycle of the product or service- Ensure alignment to platform and service release plans for effective deployment of solution designs- Drive & implement design review processes & practices with the team & participate & positively contribute to design reviews for the feature area led by others-
- Cascade review lessons learnt for the benefit of the broader team-
- Continuously review & find ways to optimize team processes & improve engineering quality, productivity, and team responsiveness to feedback and changing priorities- Optimize, refactors and reuse components to improve performance and maintainability - ensuring maximum efficiency, effectiveness, and return on investment- Take accountability for maintaining platform standards and best practices, and drive adoption across multiple service teams- Demonstrate knowledge of, identify & find required data for the ongoing monitoring & improvement of the platform feature area- Proactively monitor the performance of the platform features & solutions- Translate monitoring data into clearly articulated descriptions of opportunities & defects, their impact to the customer scenario and to the product or service as a whole, and the relevance to product and service targets (within scope of the job).- Cascade and communicate these insights across the team to influence platform decision making- Leverage production performance monitoring and customer data to make feature area technical design and implementation decisions.- Synthesize data from multiple sources and present & define concise, impactful conclusions that influence feature teams to solve defects and meet quality targets

Accountability: Financial & Cost Optimization, Risk & Governance- Understand the platform cost model & the optimal cost : serve of the platform, use this understanding to drive the platform efficiency & effectiveness objectives- Proactively identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post release)- Update / Design all feature documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks

Accountability: People- Proactively & effectively (time & quality) collaborate & drive collaboration on features across feature team (e.g. managing dependencies & interdependencies, conflict resolution, information & best practice sharing, problem resolution outside of own area etc.)-
- Contribute to a high performance team environment & culture as a high performing member of a self-directed team aligned to agile working- Leverage coachin

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