Specialist Support Engineer

2 weeks ago

Sandton, South Africa Absa Group Full time R500 000 - R800 000 per year
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

Work as part of an integrated (run & build) CIB and Market Risk (FRTB) environments to provide enterprise wide application support across multiple stakeholder groups by maintaining & optimizing enterprise-grade applications (tech products & services).

Job Description

Functional Skill:

  • 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.

IT Technical Skills:

  • Log, resolve and report Market Risk (FRTB)  or Front Arena production incidents/requests/queries (business support).

  • Proficiency in supporting and troubleshooting the Market Risk (FRTB)  and Front Arena Trading applications (FIS Adaptiv Analytics, Front Arena, or related Market Risk BI).

  • Ability to setup, support and maintain Azure DevOps pipelines.

  • proficiency in Linux/PowerShell scripting.

  • 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.

  • Basic python programming.

  • Basic SQL programming.

  • Perform systems integration support.

Interpersonal Skill:

  • Willing to share knowledge with others.

  • Willing to work overtime/standby on weekly rotational bases.

  • Ability to work under pressure.

  • Collaborate with other teams (Dev and Ops) in delivering strategic projects.

  • Willing to learn new skills and technologies.

Added Advantage:

  • 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)

Education

Bachelor's Degree: 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

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