Careers at ABSA – Specialist Platform Engineer

Job Description:

Apply platform engineering expertise, critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to produce well-organised, optimised and documented source code that successfully delivers platform features & components of the service & solves complex technical problems with high quality solutions.

Job Responsibilities:

• Drive & implement design review processes & practices with the team & participate & positively contribute to design reviews for the feature area led by others
• Demonstrate a strong commitment to the quality & ongoing quality assurance of the product/service’s in use, and take appropriate action to resolve issues throughout the lifecycle of the product or service
• Identify patterns that reveal errors and unanticipated problems, and influence telemetry analytics design decisions
• Participate in peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team
• Develop & document complete designs and implement testing processes that identify and eradicate platform or service-wide problems / improve on platform performance
• Identify & Apply metrics to drive the quality and stability of code
• Produce simple, extensible, and maintainable features with very few defects. Continually works to find and fix defects.
• Ensure alignment to platform and service release plans for effective deployment of solution designs
• Coach & mentor other engineers & support engineering teams on technical solutions and problem resolution & proactively seek coaching & mentoring from others
• Cascade platform performance feedback and ensure capability development across teams to enable efficient & effective platform service delivery
• Leverage platform (service design & code) & engineering technical expertise to proactively identify risks and prevent defects

Qualification & Experience:

Bachelor’s Degree: Information Technology

Job Details:

Company: Absa Group Limited

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Rosebank, Gauteng, SA

Application Deadline: N/A

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