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.

Job Description

To lead multiple products or work streams relating to the design and implementation of Cloud solutions, operating across a number of Service Teams across the Group, and proactively engaging with internal stakeholders. To guide and coach less-experienced peers to become more productive and effective team members.

Qualifications

Type of Qualification: First Degree
Field of Study: Information Technology

Experience Required
Enterprise Technology & Solutions Architecture
Technology
2-3 years
Leadership experience in driving technical engineering and development teams in the delivery of cloud solutions.

3-4 years
Have experience implementing Continuous Integration or Continuous Delivery processes in engineering teams and lastly, experience leading and integrating test automation into various points in a deployment pipeline and prior programming background in at least one or more languages: C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Go, or scripting experience in Shell and Perl.

More than 10 years
Require experience in using large scale production systems and technologies, for example load balancing, monitoring, distributed systems, micro services, and configuration management. Designing and executing small to medium scale systems automation projects with strong autonomy. Be familiar with and enthusiastic for software engineering best practices such as testing, continuous integration and continuous delivery. Be familiar with systems and configuration management tools.

Additional Information

Behavioural Competencies:

Articulating InformationChallenging IdeasConvincing PeopleDeveloping ExpertiseEmpowering IndividualsExploring PossibilitiesInterpreting DataProducing OutputProviding InsightsPursuing GoalsSeizing OpportunitiesTeam Working

Technical Competencies:

Agile ConceptsBusiness Analysis Environments and PerspectivesBusiness Continuity and Disaster Recovery PlanningInternal & External IT EnvironmentIT ApplicationsIT Business Analysis/ Feature AnalysisSystems Design