Engineer, Business Support & Development, Murex (Global Markets Technology)

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 design, code, test, debug, and maintain programs in development environments. Apply agreed standards and tools, to achieve a well-engineers result. Work within a strict framework of programming standards under supervision of senior technical resources.

Murex is a global fintech leader in trading, risk management and processing solutions for Capital Markets. Standard Bank has partnered with Murex in delivering this solution across its Capital Markets franchise to make it our strategic Markets Platform application of choice.

The purpose of the job is to perform the role of a Risk Business Support and Development Engineer for the Murex Risk BSD team, servicing the Market Risk and Collateral businesses’ regulatory & risk management requirements.

• Provide technical delivery, support, and advisory aligned to business stakeholder demand and Murex programme initiatives
• Apply expertise across asset classes and the full end-to-end solution lifecycle (scope, analyse, plan, design, develop, test, operate)
• Own hands-on delivery while developing standards and best practices for the Murex Risk platform
• Ensure optimal technical performance and platform stability
• Upskill and coach team members to strengthen overall Murex expertise
• Operate as a generalist within the Murex Centre of Excellence, supporting a broad range of initiatives
• Build, demonstrate, and apply strong service assurance management practices (business, audit, delivery, etc.) over time

The opportunity allows you the chance to work on solutions that impact our clients directly, shape the industry, allows you to thrive in a people-centric environment and most importantly contribute towards driving growth in Africa.

Qualifications

Degree: Information Technology (required)

Additional Information

Experience Required: Software Engineering

5-7 years: Broad experience in translating business and functional requirements into technical specifications and developing the programming code to create the solutions.

8-10 years: Proven experience in modern engineering practices i.e. dev ops, agile etc., Proven experience across multiple, broad IT Engineering disciplines, with demonstrated specialisation in at least one. Experience within the required scope of expertise.

Behavioural Competencies:

• Adopting Practical Approaches
• Articulating Information
• Developing Expertise
• Interpreting Data
• Producing Output

Technical Competencies:

• Agile Engineering
• API Engineering
• Automation
• Cloud Computing
• Continuous Delivery (CD)