Job Description

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
Apply critical thinking and problem-solving skills across all phases of the AEM development lifecycle to design, build, and maintain high-performing, scalable, and maintainable Adobe Experience Manager solutions. Produce well-structured, optimised, and fully documented code that adheres to AEM best practices and enterprise development standards.

Development & DeliveryApply critical thinking, design thinking, and problem-solving skills in an agile environment to deliver high-quality AEM solutions (Author, Publish, Dispatcher). Contribute to all phases of the AEM development lifecycle including requirements analysis, design, component development, testing, deployment, and maintenance. Evaluate business requirements and translate them into scalable and maintainable AEM architectures that align with enterprise standards. Develop well-structured, optimized, and documented code following AEM and Java best practices. Ensure all AEM components, templates, and integrations adhere to principles of scalability, reusability, and performance. Apply design patterns and modular development principles to deliver robust AEM solutions. Support and enhance CI/CD pipelines for AEM deployments (using Jenkins, Cloud Manager, or similar), automating build and deployment processes across multiple environments. Implement observability practices--monitoring AEM logs, performance metrics, and error tracing via tools like New Relic, Splunk, or CloudWatch. Automate repetitive tasks and environment setups using scripting or DevOps tools (e.g., Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, AEM as a Cloud Service tooling). Debug, optimize, and maintain AEM components, OSGi services, and integrations with external systems. Collaborate with cross-functional teams (front-end developers, DevOps engineers, architects, and designers) to evolve technical products and services. Align all AEM development with enterprise architecture, security, and infrastructure guidelines. Participate in release planning, testing, integration, and performance tuning activities. Continuously learn and adopt emerging Adobe and web development practices (e.g., SPA Editor, Headless AEM, GraphQL, AEM Cloud Service).

PeopleConduct peer reviews, testing, and collaborative problem-solving within and across the AEM and broader digital teams. Provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior developers on AEM standards, patterns, and deployment processes. Support business and change management teams with user adoption material and technical documentation.

Risk & GovernanceIdentify and mitigate technical risks throughout the AEM development and release cycle. Maintain up-to-date technical documentation and solution design artifacts aligned with organizational governance standards. Participate in incident management and disaster recovery activities, applying analytical and technical expertise to resolve AEM production issues.

Education
Bachelor's Degree: Information TechnologyAbsa 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