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
The Plum team within CIB Risk and Finance Tech is looking for a Lead Analyst with development experience to work in high complexity environments, fully embedded in a DevOps team, leveraging specialist analysis tools, frameworks, techniques and practices to elicit, define and organize business requirements, across multiple stakeholder groups. Translate & document these business requirements into user stories & specifications (Full Stack, Cross System) detailing integration points, business & associated risk / opportunities to be realised. And following this analysis, work collaboratively within squads to ensure the business requirements are met through DevOps design & delivery activity & lead the application of testing processes & frameworks ensuring all products & services are effectively tested. Business complexity is determined by: 1. Customer Impact 2. Number of integration points: o Data o Teams to talk to o Systems o Enabling function o 3rd party vs. internal 3. Complexity of business rules & Processes 4. Level of operational readiness 5. Introduction of new or changing old Tech (e.g. redo platforms)

Key critical requirements:Use SQL to develop and implement procedures and functions Create ongoing Regulatory requirements for technical implementation Ability to understand data and its data structures Build appropriate and useful reporting deliverables Analyze existing SQL queries for performance improvements Suggest new queries Develop procedures and scripts for data loads Investigate exceptions with regard to data and data movements Analysis (including Business Case) Solution Design (within DevOps Context) Solution Delivery and Testing (manual) Process Design and Modelling Provide coaching and mentoring across the DevOps team as well as to developing analysts across the estate Build strong analysis capability across the analysis team

Skills and experience required:Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or relevant degree 8+ years business and systems analysis experience Experience in working with multidisciplinary teams Experience in Agile Methodology and working embedded within an Agile team / teams Exposure to Investment Banking would be beneficial Exposure to Banking / Credit Regulatory reporting. eg (Credit, IFRS9, EC and Reg) Excellent understanding of SQL programming Exposure to Hadoop will be a beneficial Expertise in Systems Design and Integration Development experience Business Continuity Management and Disaster Recovery Expertise in Governance, Compliance and Audit Experience in Quality Assurance and Testing Critical thinker and a team player Good time-management skills and problem-solving skills Great interpersonal and communication skills

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