Desktop Engineer - Absa Bank

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

Support the design, development & Deployment of high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade End User technologies.

Job Description

Solution Design & Deployment (hardware & software)

• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle
• Interpret analysis, problem definition & business requirements to identify system & solution requirements (e.g. configuration features)
• Produce well-organized and documented technical system & solutions feature design, configuration, deployment, etc.
• Apply technical organization principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience in code development
• Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions
• Debug existing End User systems & solutions
• Work with integrated teams and be guided by other engineers to improve and evolve End User Systems & Solutions
• Study & apply Group Development / Architecture & Infrastructure standards
• Support reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization, and maintenance of end-user systems and solutions
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices and continuously evolve existing knowledge & skill in preparation for exposure to Automation, Integration, Messaging, CI/CD etc.
• Update, create and appropriately store application documentation & technical specifications

Risk & Governance

• Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem-solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents
• Maintain technical documentation
• Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem-solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents

Education and Skills Required

• A+ and N+
• MD100 and MD101
• ITIL V4 Foundation (compulsory)
• O365 Certification (beneficial)
• Strong stakeholder engagement experience

Education

National Certificate: 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