Job Description

(Land Bank) is South Africa's only specialist agricultural bank established in 1912, the bank's sole objective is to serve South African commercial and emerging farmers and bring specially designed financial services within their reach. These services enable farmers to finance land, equipment, improve assets and obtain production credit. The Land Bank provides financial services that have moved with the times and continues to provide services to agri-business and constantly reviews its offerings to ensure that they match the needs of an industry. As change has swept across the sector in South Africa the socio-economic makeup of agriculture has altered, bringing new entrants from historically disadvantaged backgrounds on to the land, these new farmers, facing the challenges of establishing sustainable agri-businesses across the agricultural value chain, Land Bank has been a commercial lifeline offering appropriately designed financial products that facilitate personal and commercial viability in a sector that is vital to the sustainability of South Africa and its people.
The role of a Lead Core Banking Technology is responsible for the technical aspects of a solution introduced into the core banking technology and related systems (including SAP). This role performs a variety of duties to analyze, design, develop, maintain, test, debug, implement, document and support applications within a banking system team. The Lead, Core Banking Technology Specialist is also responsible for mentoring team members in addition to the overall architectural design and review of deliverables for core banking solutions. The role also include Integrating new technologies and processes into the existing core banking technology and related systems as well as providing supervised optimizations and code refactors. This role is further responsible for translating business requirements into practical core banking system implementation. The role and ensure day to day errors are minimised and addressed with minimal impact to the business operations in the core banking technology platforms.

Skills Required