About this role
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 maintain programs in development environments. Apply agreed standards and tools, to achieve a well-engineers result. Work within a strict framework of programming standards under supervision of senior technical resources.
- Build and maintain automated housekeeping procedures to actively manage Application usability.
- Collaborate with FO to develop tools by participating in the rapid development of front end pricing and risk tools for market making activities.
- Configure and develop trading systems to enable new products. Improve mastery through continuous learning in own area of expertise and demonstrate an in-depth understanding of all asset class in Global Markets i.e. front to back.
- Develop and configure front end and back end portions of trading and risk management systems used by Global Markets and Global Market Support functions in all markets inclusive of Interest Rate Derivatives, Credit Derivatives, Equity Derivatives, Foreign Exchange Derivatives, Fixed Income, Foreign Exchange, Equities, Commodities, Structured products and Money Markets.
- Develop new products by configuring the trading system and to enrich the Global Markets Product offering. This will require the coordination of front to back to deliver the outcome.
Qualifications
- Degree : Information Technology
Additional Information
Experience Required: Software Engineering
5-7 years : Broad experience in translating business and functional requirements into technical specifications and developing the programming code to create the solutions.
8-10 years: Proven experience in modern engineering practices i.e. dev ops, agile etc., Proven experience across multiple, broad IT Engineering disciplines, with demonstrated specialisation in at least one. Experience within the required scope of expertise.
Behavioural Competencies:
- Adopting Practical Approaches
- Articulating Information
- Checking Things
- Developing Expertise
- Documenting Facts
- Embracing Change
Technical Competencies:
- Agile Engineering
- API Engineering
- Automation
- Cloud Computing
- Continuous Delivery (CD)