Senior Specialist, Data Engineer

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 design, code, test, debug and correct programs in software engineering environments within the continuous delivery pipe line as well as provide support and maintenance of systems. In addition, produce software specifications in accordance with the technical requirements, within the framework of the software quality assurance standards.

Experience with big data and cloud technologies on AWS, including Amazon Athena, AWS Lambda, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon EMR, and Apache Spark.

Advanced SQL proficiency with hands-on experience in Oracle and/or Amazon Redshift.

Qualifications

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

Experience Required
Software Engineering
Technology
5-7 years
Broad experience in translating business and functional requirements into technical specifications and developing the programming code to create the solutions.

Behavioural Competencies:

• Adopting Practical Approaches and Articulating Information
• Developing Expertise
• Documenting Facts
• Examining Information and Interpreting Data

Technical Competencies:

• Agile, API and Data Engineering
• Automation
• Cloud Computing
• Continuous Delivery (CD)
• Continuous Deployment
• Continuous Integration (CI)
• Core Systems
• Incident Response
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Microservices
• Non-abstract Large System Design (NALSD)
• Observability (Application and Web Analytics)
• Platform Engineering
• Security Engineering
• Software Engineering Methods & Tools
• Software Foundations
• System Integration
• Test-driven Design (TDD)

Additional Information