Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.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 SummaryThe Core Banking Division within Everyday Banking Core Technology is looking for a Cobol Developer with a minimum of 10 years’ experience in Cobol/IMS. Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time. 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 SummaryThe Core Banking Division within Everyday Banking Core Technology is looking for a Cobol Developer with a minimum of 10 years’ experience in Cobol/IMS.The successful incumbent will Support the Core banking area, Transactional Cheques, Savings and Investments, Personal Loans, Pricing, Statements and Letters area. Provide second line support and Investigation for incidents assigned to the teams.Explore ways to constantly improve quality of existing services, processes, and systems to be efficient, Investigate and analyze incidents and queries raised to provide possible work arounds to assist the user or client, Testing changes from Tech team, Simulation testing to be performed. Attend to User queries, Assist with audit testing on the Applications on request, DR testing to be performed on request and but no limited to Batch support.Job Description DevOps • Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems (Front End, Back End and Integration) with high quality solutions • Contribute to and in some cases lead all phases of the development lifecycle including e.g. design process • Determine operational feasibility of solutions by evaluating analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development and proposed solutions • Develop high quality software / application design and architecture in a test driven & domain driven / cross domain environment • Quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions • Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience • Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions • Create & Maintain Sophisticated CI / CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins / Azure Devops or similar tools and deploy to multi-site environments – supporting and managing your applications all the way to production) • Use & configure modern observability techniques to provide a deeper understanding of the application. To do this, leverage e.g. aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via Prometheus / Grafana / NewRelic and distributed tracing like Zipkin/Jaeger etc. • Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes • Debug existing source code and polish feature sets. • Work with guilds and other technical SME’s to improve and evolve technical products and services • Apply unit testing frameworks and perform integration, validation and verification testing (apply knowledge of stubbing tools e.g. wiremock, hoverfly etc.) • Apply version control and related concepts and techniques • Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture, Security & Infrastructure guidelines • Work with project & program teams (when required) to plan & manage the development lifecycle e.g. releases, risk management, testing, integration etc. • Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications • Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices e.g. scripting languages, containerization etc. • Contribute to the design & evolution of Group Architecture, Infrastructure & associated technical standards for the organization People • Coach & mentor other engineers • Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team • Provide technical subject matter expertise and support in the attraction and recruitment of Product Engineers for the organization • Participate as a subject matter expert in the development & development planning of the broader product engineering team • Support the people change teams in the design of adoption processes (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption) Risk & Governance • Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post deployment) • Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks • Create business cases & solution specifications for various governance processes (e.g. CTO approvals) • Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents • Deliver on time & on budget (always) Education Bachelor's Degree: Information TechnologyAbsa 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 About UsTruly AfricanWe are a diversified standalone African financial services group, delivering an integrated set of products and services across personal and business banking, corporate and investment banking, wealth, investment management and insurance.Absa Group Limited is listed on the JSE and is one of Africa’s largest diversified financial services groups with a presence in 12 countries across the continent and around 41 000 employees.We own majority stakes in banks in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, the Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania (ABSA Bank in Tanzania and National Bank of Commerce), Uganda and Zambia. We also have representative offices in Namibia and Nigeria, as well as insurance operations in Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia.#J-18808-Ljbffr