BSD Engineer, Murex Back Office (Global Markets Technology)

About the role

Standard Bank Group is hiring a BSD Engineer for its Murex Back Office team within Global Markets Technology, based in Johannesburg. The role supports the strategic objectives of Global Markets, CIB and Technology by designing, developing, testing, maintaining and optimising Murex Back Office solutions focused on securities issuance and secondary market processing in Money Markets and Treasury. It turns business and functional requirements into reliable technical solutions for confirmations, settlements, corporate actions, reconciliations and regulatory reporting.

Key responsibilities

• Own high-complexity, cross-module Murex Back Office solutions independently, from requirements elicitation through delivery and ongoing support.
• Translate business and functional requirements into technical solutions and collaborate with business stakeholders, operations, vendors and technology teams.
• Follow application lifecycle management, architectural guardrails and engineering standards, and record all activity digitally so that targets can be met.
• Develop code, build, assemble, implement and test applications, perform data conversion and document processes accurately.
• Build system enhancements and run moderate to complex end-to-end system and program tests to verify correct operation.
• Contribute to data processing, analysis and visualisation platforms, integrating new and existing data sources and ensuring data validity and reliability.

Required profile

• Degree in Information Technology.
• 5-7 years of software engineering experience, including translating business requirements into technical specifications and writing code.
• 8-10 years of experience with modern engineering practices such as DevOps and Agile, across several IT engineering disciplines with specialisation in at least one, and within the required scope of expertise.

Required skills

• Agile engineering
• API engineering
• Automation
• Cloud computing
• Continuous delivery (CD)