Our client in the Banking industry is looking for an Ab Initio Developer that will join their team in Jhb.

Responsibilities:

• Design, creation, testing and documentation of new and enhanced applications and systems.
• Produce technical specifications from functional specifications and to write the code for medium to large applications.

Requirements:

• Minimum 3 -5 years’ related experience
• Must have solid Ab Initio and ETL experience
• Exposure to Hadoop (hive), SQL, Data warehousing and Linux

For more information please contact Bongi 011 234 0404, alternatively email your updated CV to Bongiwe@esmartgroup.co.za

Our client in the Banking industry is seeking an IT Executive: Core Banking that will join their team in Sandton.

Responsibilities:

• Create a competitive and commercially successful function through understanding competitor activity and leveraging opportunities.
• Establish and drive the business strategy of the function. Ensuring commercial soundness and relevance through end to end Financial Management. Consistently met all goals and targets.
• Deliver all project portfolios relating to the implementation of IT projects per the project methodology and strategy.
• Ensure structures to drive high performance and delivery across project portfolios.
• Establish project metric to drive project benefits harvesting and delivery and drive compliance to project governance and methodology.
• Be accountable for the implementation of programme and project governance.
• Work with key Group Technology (GT) or business stakeholders to cost or define a cost and/or prioritised programme of systems development that supports the organisation’s objectives and strategic plans and communicate information about the agreed programme to GT and the business.
• Create a climate of cross-organisational cooperation. Lead a functional team and a matrix structure through establishing a clear direction and building critical mass support.
• Understand and influence the client strategic view in relation to their portfolio and participate in building an appropriate rolling three-year plan.
• Facilitate a three-year GT strategic plan.
• Ensure appropriate client collaboration occurs and drive the implementation components of the GT strategy with each client set, to obtain traction against the overall Group IT Strategy per relevant Cluster.
• Make recommendations to the business on how to align IT Investment to address both strategic demands and operational challenges within the Clusters.
• Enable achievement of functional/Business Unit objectives by providing recommendations on Group IT Strategy to Architecture, per relevant client and where appropriate.
• Ensure that the leadership agenda has been embraced by the division/function.
• Manage the performance of reports and hold them accountable for managing the performance of their reports.
• Participate in the recruitment of senior staff. Optimise performance and motivation.
• Empower the team to make decisions and recommend tailored solutions to Business Unit specific problems.
• Ensure effective tactical processes and workflows are in place to drive effective and efficient service or product delivery.
• Support functional area delivery by building and sustaining the core capability required.
• Ensure alignment to governance and compliance requirements.
• Establish the change management capability as a core enabler of project or portfolio management.
• Establish and oversee the operation of systems and procedures for monitoring and reporting on the progress of systems development.
• Deal with exceptions, problems and unforeseen events in a timely manner.
• Ensure that new systems developments are compatible with the existing systems, architecture and strategic plans. Ensure that systems development projects are carried out in accordance with the agreed standards and methods.

Requirements:

• 10-15 years of Business Management
• 4-8 years of Executive Management
• Hands-on experience with delivering enterprise-level change initiatives
• Solid experience with Core banking systems migrations and optimization across systems like Flexcube or Temenos T24
• Design-led thinking experience and exposure
• Project management experience

For more information please contact Bongi 011 234 0404, alternatively email your updated CV to Bongiwe@esmartgroup.co.za

Our client in the Banking industry is seeking a Big Data Specialist that will join their team in Jhb.

Responsibilities will include:

• Data munging, visualization, interpreting and effectively communicating data findings
• Assuring the quality and management of scraped data
• Extrapolating data using advanced computer modelling, triaging code problems, and pruning
• Develop, construct, test and maintain highly scalable data management systems including processing data using
• Collect and store data, do real-time or batch processing, and serve it for analysis via an API
• Log and handle errors, identify when to scale up, ensure seamless integration with new data management technologies and build human – fault-tolerant pipelines
• Design web services for swift data tracking and query data at high speeds
• Test software prototypes, propose standards, and smoothly transfer them to operations

Required Skills:

• Java
• Hadoop
• Hive
• Zeppelin
• SQL
• Apache Camel
• Apache Flink
• Apache Kafka
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• OpenShift
• Spark
• Streaming Analytics Manager
• EIP (Enterprise Integration packages)
• REST API
• DevOps

Responsibilities:

• Produce program specifications and implement system enhancements by addressing specific business needs and resolving queries
• Code, compile, test and implement applications in compliance with the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Responsible for coding standards and peer reviews
• Produce technical specifications and architecture that is in accordance to agreed standards. Design, code, test and debug to obtain a robust solution with supporting documentation
• Monitor systems post change and pro-actively do performance analysis to ensure there is no system failure due to capacity
• Maintain maximum system availability by ensuring that incidents are recorded for future reference and adequate root cause analysis is done to eliminate the risk of a recurrence
• Supervises the work of other developers

Additional Information:

• Develop presentation materials for the Tableau dashboards, documenting best practices
• Assist key stakeholders to achieve important risk reduction goals through meaningful metrics and dashboards
• Identify appropriate source systems and understand how data flows within various systems.
• Perform Data Analysis and develop Visualizations using Tableau, SQL, Excel, and other BI tools
• Database environment will be Hadoop

Minimum requirements:

• Experience with Ab Initio
• Experience with Java (or similar), Kafka and Docker
• Preferred also Hadoop, HDFS, Spark, SQL, Databases MSSQL, and Postgres
• Good to have Camel, Zookeeper
• System Design experience advantageous

Role Purpose:

The right candidate for this role must be able to:

• Ensure that everything in the Data Warehouse including governance decisions, processes and standards are followed
• Be responsible for ensuring the support and maintain the data warehouse in line with the data model; metadata repository
• Provide business intelligence analysis through performing strategic and operational support

Requirements:

• Microsoft BI certification
• Data Management certification
• DMBOK
• Experience in Abinitio
• 6+ Years Management  experience including the following skills set:
  • Data Warehousing
  • Data Analysis
  • Risk Management (Governance or Operational Risk)
  • Netezza
  • DB2
  • SQL
  • SAS

For more information please contact Bongi 011 234 0404, alternatively email your updated CV to Bongiwe@esmartgroup.co.za

Our client in the Banking industry is seeking a SAS Administrator that will join their team in Johannesburg.

Requirements:

• Certification in SAS BASE Programming and SAS Platform Admin for SAS 9
• 2 -5 years’ background in SAS server installation, configuration, testing, and troubleshooting on AIX, Linux, and Windows platforms
• 2 -5 years’ SAS system administration experience and or SAS support with in-depth understanding of SAS metadata server, application server, web server, web application server, stored process server, load-balancing server cluster, using Management Console
• 1 – 2years’ hands on experience with any of SAS BASE, SAS web tools, SAS Stored Processes, Macros, Graph, Stat, OLAP Cube, Information map, SAS BI Dashboard, Enterprise Guide, Visual Analytics

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of SAS enterprise software and solutions
• Integration of SAS software with systems and other third-party software
• Application of hotfixes, maintenance releases, major system upgrades, and license renewal as required
• Testing and quality assurance for all upgrades, enhancements, and changes to SAS software, including new releases, hot fixes, and service packs
• Ensures that the SAS platform is compliant with IT policies and standards and agreed upon service levels
• Serve as technical subject matter expert (SME) for SAS, supporting users of client tools as well as SAS developers with issues and consulting on how to use SAS tools best and efficiently
• Troubleshooting SAS-related performance issues, such as monitoring and logging SAS servers and spawners, and then optimizing memory usage or tuning servers for performance improvement
• Documenting, reporting, and tracking software problems with SAS Technical Support
• Act on incidents and problems raised
• Assist with SAS disaster recovery planning and testing
• Daily housekeeping – ensure that the environment is up and running and available for user connections, with adequate storage, memory, and CPU capacity

For more information please contact Bongi 011 234 0404, alternatively email your updated CV to Bongiwe@esmartgroup.co.za

Our client in the banking institutions is seeking a BI Data Analyst II that will join the business process team. The position is based in Sandton, Johannesburg.

Minimum requirements:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering
• Postgraduate Degree would be an added advantage
• Min 8 years’ working experience
• 6 years’ experience in BI/MI Data Analytics/Data Modelling
• Proficient in executing Data Ingestion Patterns aligned to Data Architecture principles
• Expert in Cube/Tabular development (SSAS) (added advantage)
• Proficient in Data Modelling, Data Warehousing and Data Mart development (Must)
• Familiarity with BI technologies (Power BI, MicroStrategy)
• Advanced Knowledge of SQL queries (SQL Server, Netezza, DashDB), SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
• In-depth understanding of database management systems, online analytical processing (OLAP) and ETL (Extract, transform, load) framework (SSIS, SSAS, Ab Initio, Denodo)

Role Purpose:

• This role is responsible for building new data sets and data structures as required to support business needs. The BI Analyst must thrive in working in a fast-paced and exciting environment. Candidates absolutely must be pro-active, self-starters and have excellent problem-solving skills with minimal supervision. Since you will interface directly with our customers, you must have excellent communication and people skills. You will also be working with a wide range of software development experts including BI Developers, Database Warehouse and Data Scientists.

Information Security Administrator

A large financial service company based in Johannesburg is seeking, an Information Security Administrator with extensive knowledge in infrastructure and managed file transfer system.

Minimum requirements

• 4-6 years’ experience in the IT Security environment
• Degree Qualification
• Security certifications (CCNA, S+ will be an added advantage)
• Maintenance and support of a Managed File Transfer System
• Extensive infrastructure knowledge/understanding
• Extensive managed file transfer system knowledge
• Network protocols knowledge will be an added advantage (AS2 and SFTP)
• A broad understanding security concepts

Role Purpose:

To assist in identifying, defining and maintaining the information security policy.

Responsibilities:

• Increase operational efficiency and suggest solutions to enhance cost effectiveness
• Cultivate and manage objective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including end-users, SME’s, project managers and senior staff members by providing expert advice and consulting on all aspects of IT security
• Support IT security leaders to participate in the risk awareness program and to ensure that staff members are aware of information security risks
• Ensure that operating objectives and standards of performance are not only understood but owned by management and employees and to ensure that appropriate standards of conduct are established and complied with.
• Comply, understand and implement all steps for the IT information security processes and procedures and meet
• Governance in terms of legislative and audit requirements
• Assist in identifying, defining and maintaining the information security policy
• Ensure all information security analysis and research are captured, recorded and reported on to ensure correct actions are implementation are executed
• Ensure that operating objectives and standards of performance are not only understood but owned by management and employees and to ensure that appropriate standards of conduct are established and complied with

For more information please contact Koketso 011 234 7680, alternatively email your updated CV to koketso@esmartgroup.co.za

A large financial Service Company based in Umhlanga Rocks-Durban, is seeking a Senior Test Analyst with:

Minimum requirements

• National Senior Certificate.
• Advanced Diplomas.
• ISTQB foundation – Advanced Test Manager Certificate (added advantage).
• ISEB test practitioner.
• 5-6 years in testing roles.
• 3 years of management experience.
• Must have automation and functional testing experience.
• Proficient in the use of Selenium, Appium, Soap UI, Jira.
• Proficient in using Cucumber, Jbehave, Selenium, Appium, Soap UI, Jira tools.

Role Purpose:

To mentor the test analysts within the team to improve their technical capabilities and encourage them to collaborate across the team to ensure efficient implementation of product and ensure automation governance are adhered to be all in the team.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure participation in the overall test planning of the product execution path and test estimation.
• Ability to create the test charter, strategy or plan and ensure alignment to the product objectives.
• Ensure the product is delivered within the timelines agreed with the delivery team.
• Work closely with test leads, chapter lead, developers, architects, product owner and other stakeholders to meet the expectations of our client.
• Build and foster deep relationship with peers, subject matter expert, developer, product owner and other stakeholders though honest communication which align to the company values.
• Liaise with stakeholders across group technology stakeholders to build a network that will align to the nWoW.
• Participate in the sprint planning, test estimation and success criteria per story/epic.
• Participate in the squad backlog grooming.
• Facilitate the daily stand-up and manage the issues raised by the test engineers and remove any blockers.
• Facilitate the handover of test deliverable’s for all phases of testing.
• Review and ensure all test artifacts are stored centrally.
• Encourage continuous learning and questioning of the business and technology.
• Review and prioritize all issues raised by the test engineers.

For more information please contact Koketso 011 234 7680, alternatively email your updated CV to koketso@esmartgroup.co.za