Posted on: 04 May 2023
ID 858747

Specialist Product Engineer - Financial Markets

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With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary

Apply critical thinking & problem solving skills to contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle & quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications.

Job Description

Absas CIB Technology team provides technology support to the organizations Corporate and Investment Banking sector. This IT Services team is specifically dedicated to our Markets business area and is responsible for the support, enhancement and maintenance of all Trade and Post Trade vendor and bespoke application suites that fall within the Markets business area.

We are looking for a Specialist Software Engineer with experience in Financial Markets (trading) and with a balance of quantitative knowledge vs technical knowledge.

Key critical requirements:
  • Financial Markets experience
  • Mathematical finance experience
  • Relevant product knowledge
  • Ability to identify and solve problems
  • Ability to build solutions
  • Min 3 - 5 years of experience in Python, C# 4.5 and up, .net core, C++, MS SQL, XSLT
  • Technical skills: Software design and development, Business analysis, quality assurance, release management
  • Excellent interpersonal, communication and stakeholders management skills
  • Ability to perform in a challenging and dynamic environment
Advantageous:
  • Experience in Front Arena (or equivalent system) development / consulting projects
  • Experience in: Front Arena AEF: ACM, AEL, ADFL, ASQL
  • Investment Banking / Capital Markets IT domain experience
  • Functional skills: In depth understanding of asset classes such as equity, Fixed Income, Credit, FX, their valuation models and product lifecycle, Financial Risk Management, Regulatory and risk reporting, trading and Position management.
  • Knowledge of FA components such as PRIME, ADS, AMB, AMBA, ATS, AMWI, PACE, APS, AFG-AMB, SWIFT adapters, Adaptiv Docs etc.
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
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