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Specialist Support Engineer at Absa Group Limited, Sandton, South Africa

Absa Group Limited

Specialist Support Engineer at Absa Group Limited, Sandton, South Africa

Absa Group Limited

Full time Job

Date Posted: February 8, 2025

Application deadline:

Expired on: February 13, 2025 5:00pm

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Job description

Provide support and maintenance of the Market Risk (FRTB) services to ensure stability, availability and reliability of the business processes. Perform day to day BAU support and some risk and compliance projects in the FRTB space.

Key critical skills and experience required:

  • Relevant B-Degree in Computer Science preferred but not essential if minimum requirements of experience & practical application that enables application support is evident
  • Min 5 years Technology experience
  • Application Management and Diagnostics Experience
  • Hands on Application Support in a Technology environment
  • Basic python programming
  • Basic SQL programming
  • Ability to setup, support and maintain Azure DevOps pipelines
  • Proficient in Linux/PowerShell scripting

Functional skills:

  • Basic understanding of the CIB and Market Risk (FRTB)  concepts (diverse asset classes, Trade Workflow, PNL, PV, Risk Classes, Risk Factors, VaR, SA, PLE, Regulatory reporting).
  • Ability to support diverse Market Risk (FRTB) businesses.

Key accountabilities:

  • Proficiently support and troubleshoot the Market Risk (FRTB) and Front Arena Trading applications (FIS Adaptiv Analytics, Front Arena, or related Market Risk BI).
  • Setup, support and maintain Azure DevOps pipelines.
  • Schedule the EOD tasks and run reports/tasks on ad-hoc bases.
  • Configuration and maintenance of the Market Risk or FRTB environments which also include deployments and getting servers patched.
  • Plan and perform DR testing.
  • Perform systems integration support.

Interpersonal skills:

  • Willing to share knowledge with others.
  • Willing to work overtime/standby on weekly rotational bases.
  • Ability to work under pressure in a high pace and performing environment.
  • Collaborate with other teams (Dev and Ops) in delivering strategic projects.
  • Willing to learn new skills and technologies.

Advantageous:

  • Cloud computing (AWS/Azure)
  • Use of the application performance monitoring tools (Observability).
  • Knowledge of the advanced task scheduling and orchestration systems (Airflow, Wade, Control-M)

Education

Bachelor’s Degree: Information Technology

Application deadline:

Expired on: February 13, 2025

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