Job Description

Job Overview

Business Segment:

Personal & Private Banking

Location:

ZA, GP, Johannesburg, 30 Baker Street

Job Type:

Full-time

Job Ref ID:

80444477A-0001

Date Posted:

8/18/2025







To identify, develop and drive the development and continuous improvement of Digital Platforms across the entire PPB Technology offering by providing strategic guidance to grow the local and international market footprint, developing a roadmap to specify key client requirements, and provide support in the sale of Digital Platform/ Product Solutions, using expert insight to manage key stakeholders and obtain buy-in towards PPB Technology offerings.



Qualifications

Type of Qualification:

Post Graduate Degree

Field of Study:

Information Studies

Type of Qualification:

Post Graduate Degree

Field of Study:

Information Technology



Experience Required

Software Engineering

Technology

8-10 years

Broad experience in translating business and functional requirements into technical specifications and developing the programming code to create the solutions.



More than 10 years

10+ years of experience in multiple technological fields, including solution architecture, with at least 5 years at a technical team lead level. Deep and broad experience required in multiple areas of technology (comb-shaped engineer). It is imperative to have experience in large, transformational projects, and the agile way of work.

Technical Skills & Expertise Required:

Experience with DevOps tools (Azure DevOps, Terraform).

Ability to Design and Implement Cloud Architectures.

Azure Infrastructure Services:

Deep knowledge of Azure IaaS (VMs, VNets, NSGs, Load Balancers, etc.)

Platform Automation:

Proficiency in scripting (PowerShell, Azure CLI, Bicep, Terraform) for infrastructure automation.

Azure Governance:

Experience with policies, blueprints, management groups, and cost management.

Security & Compliance:

Strong understanding of Azure Security Center, Defender for Cloud, RBAC, Key Vault, and compliance frameworks.

Monitoring & Operations:

Expertise in Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and diagnostics.

Networking:

Advanced skills in Azure networking (ExpressRoute, VPN Gateway, Private Link, DNS, etc.)

Soft Skills & Leadership:

Stakeholder Engagement:

Translating technical requirements into business outcomes.

Mentorship:

Guiding junior engineers and fostering knowledge sharing.

Incident Management:

Leading troubleshooting and root cause analysis for platform issues.

Documentation & Reporting:

Creating clear, actionable documentation and operational runbooks.

Additional Information

Behavioural Competencies:

Articulating Information

Challenging Ideas

Developing Expertise

Developing Strategies

Embracing Change

Empowering Individuals

Examining Information

Exploring Possibilities

Interacting with People

Making Decisions

Showing Composure

Team Working

Technical Competencies:

Agile Engineering

API Engineering

Automation

Cloud Computing

Continuous Delivery (CD)

Continuous Deployment

Continuous Integration (CI)

Core Systems

Data Engineering

Design Thinking

Error Budgets

Incident Response

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Knowledge Management

Microservices

Non-abstract Large System Design (NALSD)

Observability (Application and Web Analytics)

Platform Engineering

Policy as Code

Post-incidence Analysis

Reliability and Resilience

Security Engineering

Service Level Management

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies & Tools

Software Engineering Methods

Software Foundations

System Integration

Test-driven Design (TDD)

Threat Modelling

Please note:

All our recruitment processes comply with the applicable local laws and regulations. We will never ask for money or any from of payment as part of our recruitment process. If you experience this, please contact our Fraud line on +27 800222050 or TransactionFraudOpsSA@standardbank.co.za