Lead, Technology - Market Risk (Corporate & Investment Banking)

Company Description

Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.

Job Description

As Tech Lead for Market Risk, your role will be to shape, plan, and lead the delivery of technology solutions that enable the Market Risk function. This includes providing expert engineering leadership, directing system capabilities, prioritizing resources, and ensuring solutions are developed and maintained to the highest standards and practices.

Responsible for synthesizing and maturing engineering disciplines — spanning Software Engineering, Quality Assurance, Change & Release Management, and DevOps — across portfolio delivery teams. A key part of the role is leading and managing technology teams, while building capacity, capability, and competencies within the engineering function.

Success in this role requires strong stakeholder engagement, with the ability to build and maintain trusted relationships across Market Risk, Technology operations, and governance forums. Drive alignment between business and technology, foster a proactive risk culture, and ensure operational excellence in data delivery, system readiness, and incident resolution.

• Advise, maintain and implement the Engineering standards, methods and procedures across Portfolio to ensure a consistent and best practice approach in the development of end-to-end solutions. Direct the delivery and quality of the technical solution being delivered against Engineering standards, practices and quality performance metrics and manage solution quality related escalations that may impact delivery
• Collaborate with Platform Owners in ensuring that the platform is engineered to be secure, meet service level objectives in terms of availability, reliability and performance. Set-up appropriate processes to quality assure all code deployed onto the platform.
• Perform detailed analysis (quality, delivery performance and application value), develop and provide insight into Engineering performance, deliver consolidated Portfolio reporting and advise on adjusted strategies based on global trends and expertise. Conduct quality assurance and approve developed code linked to supplied specifications and ensure that applications are built in line with continuous delivery/ continuous integration standards.

Qualifications

• Post Graduate Degree: Information Technology

Additional Information

Experience Required: Software Engineering

More than 10 years: Broad experience in translating business and functional requirements into technical specifications and developing the programming code to create the solutions

More than 10 years: Proven ability to work effectively as both a team leader and as a member of a small team of technical staff working in an agile development environment. Track record in capability and competency building and coaching of staff is required. Minimum 5-7 years' experience as a manager running a portfolio of 20+ technical experts

Behavioural Competencies:

• Articulating Information
• Challenging Ideas
• Developing Expertise
• Developing Strategies
• Embracing Change

Technical Competencies:

• Agile Engineering
• API Engineering
• Automation
• Cloud Computing
• Continuous Delivery (CD)