Specialist Solution Analyst

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.

Job Summary

Work as part of a DevOps team, leverage specialist analysis & testing tools, frameworks, techniques and practices to elicit, define and organize business requirements. Translate & document 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 during design & delivery activity including assuming responsibility for manual application testing processes, frameworks & outcomes

Job Description

CIB Payments Technology - Core Banking Multi-Currency is looking for a passionate, motivated and engaged Solution/System Analyst.

We are a legacy application evolving to more modern applications, our area provides forex payments capabilities through various systems and processes.

As a team we continuously strive to streamline our processes and ways of working, and creating room for innovation.

Key Responsibilities:

Analysis (including Business Case)

Solution Design (within DevOps Context)

• Solution Delivery & Testing (manual)

Technical Skills and Experience required:

• Min 5 year business & systems analysis experience in a tech environment
• Experience in software and business analysis and tools
• Proficiency in SQL for data querying and manipulation
• Knowledge of data modeling and database schemas
• Familiarity with ETL processes and data warehousing
• Experience in working with multidisciplinary teams
• Experience in Agile Methodology & working embedded within an Agile team / teams
• Banking domain experience, preferred.
• Expertise in Systems Design & Integration, Business Continuity Management & Disaster Recovery

Payment Systems Knowledge beneficial:

• Understand ISO standards related to financial transactions.
• Familiarity with Swift payments and messaging protocols.

Additional Skills required:

• Cloud Infrastructure (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure):

• Kubernetes and Containerization (Docker):

Docker experience for containerization and deployment is crucial as well.

• Microservices Architecture:
• Microservices architecture, candidates should have experience designing, building, and deploying microservices. Understanding inter-service communication, service discovery, and deployment pipelines is important. Knowledge of tools for monitoring and maintaining microservices like Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK stack is a plus.
• Programming Languages:

Proficiency in languages commonly used in cloud-native environments, such as Python, Java, or Scala, is essential.

• API Development and Integration:

skilled in creating and consuming RESTful and potentially GraphQL APIs.

Experience in secure API design, API gateways, and working with authentication methods like OAuth2 is important.

• Event-Driven Architecture:

Familiarity with event-driven systems and message brokers (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ) for handling asynchronous tasks and real-time data processing.

• SQL and Distributed Databases:

Experience with databases like, MongoDB, SQLto work with large, distributed datasets. Understanding of database scaling, replication, and handling transactions in distributed environments.

• DevOps and CI/CD: Since cloud-native development relies heavily on continuous integration and delivery, developers should have hands-on experience with DevOps practices. Familiarity with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or CircleCI to automate the build and deployment pipelines.
• Security and Compliance:

Security is paramount. Candidates should have knowledge of cloud security best practices, data encryption, identity and access management (IAM), and compliance standards like PCI-DSS and GDPR.

Education

Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

Absa 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