Specialist Support Engineer: DataOps

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.

With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned  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.

Work as part of an integrated (run & build) tribe in lower complexity environments to provide fetisisa wide application support across multiple stakeholder groups by maintaining & optimizing enterprise‑grade applications (tech products & services).

Data Engineering is responsible for the central data platform that receives and distributes data across the bank. This is a multi‑platform environment and leverages a blend of custom, commercial and open‑source tools to manage and support thousands of critical data‑related jobs. These jobs are supported and updated in line with changes across the landscape to avoid disruption to downstream data consumers.

• Manage an assigned team through day‑to‑day support tasks

• Oversee development plans for the team and provide mentorship to the team

• Provide guidance and peer review

• Support pipelines end to end

• Build and deploy enhancements and new developments or new data pipelines

• Identify and drive optimisation opportunities across the environment

• Manage the handover of new applications ensuring that required standards and practices are met

• Improvement on recovery time in case of prod failures

• Test prototypes and oversee handover to the Data Operations teams

• Attend and contribute to regular team and User meetings

• Responsible for the actual coding or programming of Hadoop applications

• High‑speed querying

• 3+ years’ experience working in Big data environment, optimising and building big data pipelines, architectures and data sets with e.g. Java, Scala, Python, Hadoop, Apache Spark and Kafka

• Minimum one year experience with Scala programming language

• Minimum one year experience managing a team

• Cross domain knowledge

• Familiarity with Hadoop ecosystem and its components

• Good knowledge of the concepts of Hadoop

• Solid experience in a working environment in Big Data development utilising SQL or Python

• Experience in Big Data development using Spark

• Experience in Hadoop, HDFS and Map Reduce

• Experience in database design, development and data modelling

• Good knowledge in back‑end programming, specifically java

• Experience with development in a Linux environment and its basic commands

• Understanding of Cloud technologies and migration techniques

• Understanding of data streaming and the intersection of batch and real time data

• Should have basic knowledge of SQL, database structures, principles, and theories

• Knowledge of posicionlf/schedulers

• Strong collaboration and communication skills

• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills

• Experience in Quality Assurance

• Experience in Stakeholder Management

• Experience in Testing

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.