About South African Reserve Bank (SARB

The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) is South Africa’s central bank, primarily mandated to protect the value of the currency (the rand) in the interest of balanced and sustainable economic growth. The bank is headquartered in Pretoria and is one of the few central banks in the world with private shareholders.

Brief description

The main purpose of this position is to support, maintain and enhance the Business Solutions and Technology Department’s (BSTD) applications to ensure systems availability, health and optimal performance.

Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Support the BSTD applications by monitoring the underlying environments (databases and application servers) to ensure capacity management, systems availability and optimal performance.
• Maintain the BSTD applications by applying corrective measures (e.g. patches, upgrades, bug fixes).
• Proactively monitor all application upgrades, new releases and product replacements which would affect the assigned application.
• Configure the application infrastructure to ensure optimal performance and install new features to enable new functionality.
• Investigate and resolve technical issues of a medium to high complexity by interacting with users, developers and other stakeholders on allocated applications.
• Provide reports and recommendations on solution performance and system availability to senior management and relevant stakeholders.
• Proactively manage business and stakeholder relationships with respect to application support.
• Keep abreast of best practices and technologies related to BSTD and ensure the application thereof, where relevant.
• Impart knowledge of the technical environment to the system development team.
• Maintain compliance to security and application standards.

Requirements

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (NQF 7), Information Management/Information Technology (IT) or an equivalent qualification;
• six to eight years’ experience in supporting, maintaining and enhancing IT business applications; and
• three years’ experience in working with IWMS, BIM or smart building environments.