About this QRM Product Engineer role at Absa
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
Support high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade application design & development in agile teams by producing, testing, documenting & reviewing source code.Job Description
Role Overview
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.
Key Responsibilities
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.
Core Technical Skills (Non-Negotiables)
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
QRM Responsibilities & Knowledge
(Can be adjusted based on maturity of the QRM environment)
Daily monitoring, job schedules, and workflow management in QRM.
Metadata maintenance, data feed troubleshooting, and import/export processes.
Understanding of ALM, Liquidity, IRRBB, FTP, and Balance Sheet modelling within QRM (advantageous).
Supporting regulatory and internal risk reporting cycles.
Experience with QRM upgrades, patches, and vendor interactions (preferred).
Qualifications & Experience
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.
Soft Skills
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.
Education
Bachelor's Degree: Information TechnologyAbsa 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
