Technical Specialist

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 To scope, plan, design and deliver complex end to end solutions against required standards and timelines. To direct, guide and oversee technical solutions delivery, interpreting business requirements, defining technical tasks, engineer quality software, end to end testing and troubleshooting technical questions, software and database issues. To lead, manage and mentor Software-; Quality Engineers across identified delivery teams to build and improve Engineering capability. Qualifications Type of Qualification: Post Graduate Degree Field of Study: Information Technology Experience Required Software Engineering Technology More than 10 years Broad experience in translating business and functional requirements into technical specifications and developing the programming code to create the solutions More than 10 years Proven ability to work effectively as both a team leader and as a member of a small team of technical staff working in an agile development environment. Track record in capability and competency building and coaching of staff is required. Minimum 5-7 years' experience as a manager running a portfolio of 20+ technical experts Additional Information Behavioural Competencies: • Articulating Information • Challenging Ideas • Developing Expertise • Developing Strategies • Embracing Change Technical Competencies: • Agile Engineering • API Engineering • Automation • Cloud Computing • Continuous Delivery (CD) • Continuous Deployment • Continuous Integration (CI)