Personal and Private Banking (PPB) Software Engineer Graduate Programme
Financial Services, Banking
Minimum Requirements
- Computer Science
- Electronic Engineering
- Informatics, Information Systems
- Information Technology
- Software Development
- Software Engineering
- Must be a South African citizen
- Must be under 30 years of age
- No more than two years’ work experience
- Minimum of 65% average over all years of study
- Working collaboratively with others
- Resilience
- Creative problem solving and considered decision making
- Curiosity and willingness to learn
- Positive attitude and self confidence
- Business acumen
Responsibilities
- Design, code, test, debug, and correct programs in software engineering environments within the continuous delivery pipeline, as well as provide support and maintenance of systems. In addition, produce software specifications in accordance with technical requirements and within the framework of software quality assurance standards.
- Adopt and adhere to suitable and agreed development methodologies and principles through work outputs and behaviours that enable continuous delivery and development across the engineering environment, while ensuring effective collaboration with colleagues and stakeholders to meet required targets and deliver value to clients.
- Construct, interpret, and execute end‑to‑end system and program tests to verify correct operation of completed systems and enable the delivery of quality code.
- Develop, complete, and update all required documentation as per the scope, including guidelines and checklists for development and testing purposes, to enhance the technical engineering function.
- Participate in the evaluation and impact analysis of major design options, new systems, and databases to enable sound, objective decision‑making by ensuring the validity and reliability of data to support data‑driven decisions.
- Engage with leads to receive feedback on completed work and communicate any concerns, issues, risks, and progress regarding work outputs to enable a culture of continuous development and learning, create awareness of available solutions, and contribute to the bank’s engineering objectives.
- Actively seek opportunities to shorten development timelines, improve team skills, and enhance cost efficiency of application development activities by contributing to knowledge sharing and training through various channels to support business objectives.
- Continuously learn and apply new skills and technologies to improve team software delivery and code quality by sharing knowledge and solutions to effectively deliver engineering objectives.
- Strive to reach mature levels on the Continuum model by building individual and team competence to operate effectively within a continuous delivery environment.
- Document all work and develop technical support documentation in line with agreed standards, methods, and tools within the portfolio.
