DC-Applications Support Specialist at Absa Bank

DC-Applications Support Specialist  

Truly African

We are a diversified standalone African financial services group, delivering an integrated set of products and services across personal and business banking, corporate and investment banking, wealth, investment management and insurance.

Absa Group Limited is listed on the JSE and is one of Africa’s largest diversified financial services groups with a presence in 12 countries across the continent and around 41 000 employees.

Absa Group Limited is listed on the JSE and is one of Africa’s largest diversified financial services groups with a presence in 12 countries across the continent and around 41 000 employees.

We own majority stakes in banks in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, the Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania (ABSA Bank in Tanzania and National Bank of Commerce), Uganda and Zambia. We also have representative offices in Namibia and Nigeria, as well as insurance operations in Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia.

Bring your possibility to life! Define your career with us

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

Responsible for the support, implementation and service delivery of Core Banking application and business/branch systems both physical and cloud.

Job Description

• Ensure and support availability of Core Banking, Branch and Payments Systems.
• Act as a single point of contact at all levels of the organisation as well as vendors.
• Ensure the business initiatives for various applications are met and problems are resolved.
• Manage overall solution and service delivery of enhancements and projects.
• Responsible for the Service Management in terms of Incident, problem and change, by ensuring that the systems, methodologies and procedures are in place and followed.
• Manage solutions implementation and rollouts for the Core Banking enhancements.
• Ensure licence management on Core Banking applications.
• Implement industry best practices for solution as well as service delivery.
• Identify issues with cost, risk, inter-dependencies, impact on current business activities and the strategic benefits to be realized.
• Ensure SLA’s are followed and met, through the monitoring and reporting of targets and the undertaking of corrective action where necessary.
• Ensure all projects, small enhancements and business initiatives are aligned and compliant to establish the Bank’s compliance with the Central Bank.
• Ensure that proper testing occurs for all Application changes released into the Core Banking environments.

 Education

Higher Diplomas: Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences (Required)

The deadline for submitting the application is 23 February, 2021

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