Senior System Engineer

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

With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as 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.

Job Summary

Work as part of an integrated (run & build) tribe to provide enterprise wide application support across multiple stakeholder groups (in high complexity environments) by maintaining & optimizing enterprise-grade applications (tech products & services) & building capability in others to do the same.

Job Description

Devops & Support
• Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills to solve technical problems on existing applications & to provide recommendations for the continuous improvement of applications
• Partner with senior Product Engineers to support problem resolution & critical thinking processes when the complexity level goes beyond support (coordinate resolution)
• Lead the implementation of all configuration, optimization (e.g. upgrades) & maintenance activity (e.g. regular maintenance patches) for enterprise wide applications
• Schedule and oversee planned maintenance tasks, such as backups and performance tuning, for products & services in production
• Manage & oversee all application documentation updates, inventories & improvements as well as their distribution to end users & other business stakeholders
• Lead the change & communication planning & implementation processes for all application support processes (Across Tribes & Squads)
• Ensure minimal business operations impact due to upgrades and maintenance activities
• Oversee end to end application implementation and configuration, patches, upgrades and maintenance, and ensuring that application performance meets agreed SLAs and OLAs
• Coordinate and execute unplanned maintenance tasks, such as disaster recovery procedures, tech products & services in production to prevent and to minimize issues
• Manage applications throughout their lifecycle and lead the application-related aspects of designing, testing, operating and improving technology products & services
• Coordinate with centres of enablement including service engineering, information security, infrastructure & architecture teams to define permissions, guidelines etc. & ensure that the impact of system / platform migrations / changes on applications is minimised
• Act as the expert in application functionality, user workflow, and business processes & build the team to do the same
• Develop expertise in application infrastructure (server, network, security) & broader organization architecture to coach & mentor teams in application support such as upgrades, maintenance etc. and complex issue resolution
• Manage the delivery of SLA’s across application support teams for a particular product & service
• Work with business & tribe leads to define & agree SLA’s for various applications
• Lead the governance, risk & control processes across application teams for a particular product / service including e.g. backup systems, business operations files etc.
• Provide advisory & lead software installation and upgrades, troubleshooting problems and providing resolutions.
• Manage application vendors and suppliers and corresponding license and support contracts where applicable
• Review user programming requests for new applications or modifications, and determine appropriate priority and response.
• Lead RFP processes & make recommendations (feasibilities, business case etc.) for applications being considered for purchase, and provide recommendations based on findings.
• Act as a liaison between business stakeholders and customers, external solution providers, and Tech stakeholders for all application support specific requirements
• Lead the development & implementation of all project & associated integration planning requirements for application support
• Ensure sustainable & consistent efficient and effective application support across application support team including continued development of the application and security, software patches, reliability, disaster recovery and ensure the application meets the business needs
• Drive all capability building through a defined and integrated capability building plan for the application across multiple stakeholder groups (end users, 3rd parties etc.)
• Supervise and maintain the organization's repository of applications
• Lead & manage best practice development practices across the application

Application Monitoring & Performance Management
• Conduct