About the 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
The BSD Engineer, Murex Back Office role supports Global Markets, CIB and Technology strategic objectives through the design, development, testing, maintenance and optimisation of Murex Back Office solutions, with a focus on securities issuance and secondary market processing within Money Markets and Treasury. The role translates business and functional requirements into reliable technical solutions for confirmations, settlements, corporate actions, reconciliations and regulatory reporting.
The role requires independent ownership of high-complexity, cross-module Murex Back Office solutions, from requirements elicitation through delivery and ongoing support.
Success in the role depends on effective collaboration with business stakeholders, operations, vendors and connected technology teams. It requires sound engineering practices and strong front-to-back trade lifecycle knowledge to assess downstream impacts and deliver maintainable, supportable solutions that strengthen operational stability and control effectiveness.
The role requires a clear understanding of dependencies across the Global Markets value chain and adherence to the Bank’s policies, architectural guardrails, engineering standards and change governance.
Adhere to application lifecycle management accountabilities, architectural platforms and guardrails and ensure that all activity is digitally recorded and tracked to enable continuous delivery and development in the engineering environment, by effectively collaborating with stakeholders to deliver on required target to add value to the clients.
Adopt and adhere to suitable and agreed development methodologies and principles through work outputs and behaviours that enables continuous delivery and development across the production environment as well as ensuring effective collaboration with all colleagues and stakeholders in order to meet required targets and therefore deliver value to the customer.
Develop code, build, assemble, implement, test and perform data conversion for applications and ensure that processes are accurately documented. Perform system enhancements for the applications as required to ensure the delivery of the engineering function.
Construct, interpret and execute moderate to complex end to end system and program tests to verify correct operation of completed systems, to ensure that technical requirements are adhered to and test execution activities to ensure seamlessly and effective implementation engineering systems.
Contribute to programmes and platforms for the processing, analysis and visual display of data, integrating new and existing data sources and ensuring the validity and reliability of data to support data driven decision making as required. Ensuring continuous deployment and operation to deliver the engineering objectives.
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
Developing Expertise
Documenting Facts
Embracing Change
Technical Competencies:
Agile Engineering
API Engineering
Automation
Cloud Computing
Continuous Delivery (CD)
