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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. My Career Development Portal: Wherever you are in your career, we are here for you. Design your future. Discover leading-edge guidance, tools and support to unlock your potential. You are Absa. You are possibility.

We’re looking for a QRM Engineer who can blend hands-on technical depth with smart problem-solving to keep our QRM platform stable, scalable, and future-ready. This role sits at the intersection of Risk, Finance, and Technology—you’ll support, enhance, and automate QRM functionality while guiding how the platform evolves across cloud, DevOps, and infrastructure domains. If you enjoy diving deep into systems, tightening processes, and making complex environments behave, you’ll fit right in.

Responsibilities or duties

• Maintain, support, and enhance the QRM platform, ensuring uptime, accuracy, and efficient performance.
• Implement configuration changes, scenario updates, and model adjustments within QRM.
• Build and maintain automation, deployments, and infrastructure to support QRM environments.
• Partner with Risk, Treasury, Finance, and Engineering teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Drive modernization initiatives—cloud migration, containerization, infrastructure-as-code, and improved deployment practices.
• Participate in troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, stability improvements, and performance tuning.
• Ensure security, access controls, and compliance standards are consistently met across all environments.
• Contribute to documentation, standards, and best practices.
• Daily monitoring, job schedules, and workflow management in QRM.
• Metadata maintenance, data feed troubleshooting, and import/export processes.
• Supporting regulatory and internal risk reporting cycles.

Qualifications or requirements (e.g., education, skills)

• Cloud (AWS)
• EC2
• Lambda
• IAM
• DynamoDB
• ECS
• SNS
• EventBridge
• DevOps / Infrastructure
• CI/CD pipelines (ADO preferred)
• Docker containerization
• Terraform (Infrastructure as Code)
• Basic networking (firewall rules, NACLs)
• SMB share management
• Windows Server 2019 / 2022 / 2025
• Microsoft SQL Server 2019 / 2022 / 2025
• Scripting & Automation
• Python
• PowerShell
• Understanding of ALM, Liquidity, IRRBB, FTP, and Balance Sheet modelling within QRM (advantageous).
• Experience with QRM upgrades, patches, and vendor interactions (preferred).
• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.
• Strong analytical thinker with excellent troubleshooting instincts.
• Comfortable owning problems end-to-end.
• Collaborative, articulate, and confident engaging with senior stakeholders.
• Continuous improvement mindset—always looking to automate, optimise, and strengthen system stability.

Experience needed

• 3–7 years’ experience in engineering, DevOps, or cloud roles—preferably supporting complex financial systems.
• Prior exposure to QRM, Treasury, or Risk systems is a strong bonus.
• Proven ability to work across technical and business teams.

• Maintain, support, and enhance the QRM platform, ensuring uptime, accuracy, and efficient performance.
• Implement configuration changes, scenario updates, and model adjustments within QRM.
• Build and maintain automation, deployments, and infrastructure to support QRM environments.
• Partner with Risk, Treasury, Finance, and Engineering teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Drive modernization initiatives—cloud migration, containerization, infrastructure-as-code, and improved deployment practices.
• Participate in troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, stability improvements, and performance tuning.
• Ensure security, access controls, and compliance standards are consistently met across all environments.
• Contribute to documentation, standards, and best practices.
• Daily monitoring, job schedules, and workflow management in QRM.
• Metadata maintenance, data feed troubleshooting, and import/export processes.
• Supporting regulatory and internal risk reporting cycles.

• AWS (EC2, Lambda, IAM, DynamoDB, ECS, SNS, EventBridge)
• DevOps / Infrastructure (CI/CD pipelines (ADO preferred), Docker containerization, Terraform (Infrastructure as Code), Basic networking (firewall rules, NACLs), SMB share management)
• Windows Server 2019 / 2022 / 2025
• Microsoft SQL Server 2019 / 2022 / 2025
• Scripting & Automation (Python, PowerShell)
• Understanding of ALM, Liquidity, IRRBB, FTP, and Balance Sheet modelling within QRM (advantageous)
• Experience with QRM upgrades, patches, and vendor interactions (preferred)
• Strong analytical thinker with excellent troubleshooting instincts.
• Comfortable owning problems end-to-end.
• Collaborative, articulate, and confident engaging with senior stakeholders.
• Continuous improvement mindset—always looking to automate, optimise, and strengthen system stability.

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.
• 3–7 years’ experience in engineering, DevOps, or cloud roles—preferably supporting complex financial systems.
• Prior exposure to QRM, Treasury, or Risk systems is a strong bonus.
• Proven ability to work across technical and business teams.