Job Description

Company Description
Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities - plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector's most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We're passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.

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