Junior Specialist: Software Engineer

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.

Job Summary

To provide specialist advice, support, development and implementation of business use-cases associated with a delivery of ML solutions.

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Write clean, efficient code for software applications (web, mobile, backend).
• Assist in the development and deployment of machine learning models.
• Preprocess and clean datasets for ML applications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define requirements and implement solutions.
• Perform unit testing and debugging of code.
• Continuously learn and stay updated on best practices in software development and ML.

Key Skills:

• Python
• SQL
• Git
• Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
• Unit Testing

Nice-to-Haves:

• Background in Machine Learning (ML) and model deployment.
• Familiarity with LLM (Large Language Models) and Transformer architectures.
• Experience with PySpark for big data processing.

Skills & Traits:

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
• Willingness to learn and take on new challenges in software engineering and machine learning.

Education

Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences (Required)

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised