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Lead Product Engineer - Hybrid - Contract (PDG2000483519)

Overview

Reference
PDG2000483519

Salary
ZAR500 - ZAR530/hour

Job Location
- South Africa -- Gauteng

Job Type
Contract

Posted
19 July 2025

Closing date
19 Aug 2025 21:59


Our Client a Global tech firm is seeking a Lead Product Engineer to join their team in Gauteng (Hybrid) on a contract basis.

Responsibilities:

  • Working knowledge of Credit, Debit and Prepaid Card functionalities and life cycle
  • Experience with MasterCard and Visa regulations is compulsory.
  • Responsible for end-to-end development ensuring quality, clarity, depth and attention to overall scope of project
  • Have excellent hands-on experience in Base 24 classic and knowledge on TACL, ATM, POS application programming
  • Payment experience is added advantage. T
  • Have ability to understand, analyse, debug and resolve production support issues. The pre-requisite should be:
  • Able to attend daily queries from helpdesk/ stakeholder
  • Checking the system and informing the helpdesk/ stakeholders about the problems on tandem.
  • Should be proactive and be able to analyse the problems from batch system.
  • Should be able to handle configuration in Base24 system.

Work experience in Switching environment with prior experience in below areas:

  • Acquiring business (exposure to EFT, ATM and POS is must)
  • Transaction Switching and routing
  • Cryptography
  • Host interface
  • Device holders
  • Issuing business (functional knowledge is must)
  • Good understanding of Base24 product with proven technical skills in
  • Development, unit testing, implementation and post implementation support
  • Base24 Switch migration
  • Base24 Switch configuration
  • Base24 Switch set-up
  • Certification with schemes
  • Expertise in full project life cycle development for implementation on the SDLC development model

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
  • Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer with a focus on AWS, Java, Spring Boot, and Angular.
  • Strong understanding of concepts like high availability and their application in software development.
  • Familiarity with SWIFT standards and their integration into financial systems.
  • Proficiency in Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD practices
  • Experience with Rancher, Trace Transformer, and Postgres will be highly regarded.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work effectively in a team-oriented environment.

Skills:

Some of the routing work the resources will have to perform are as follows:

  • Check the disk space on all tandem system.
  • Check the refresh on classic as well as ES.
  • Check the node, Process and Station status
  • Check the Batch files.
  • Disk cleanup
  • Check the EOF (end-of-file).
  • Checking the filter EMS message.
  • Check the EMS log for CAF, PBF refresh on Classic
  • Verify the transactions from TLF/PTLF in Base24 as well as GUI.
  • Transactions verification through ENFORM/
  • Check OPS MENU
  • Transaction audit file
  • Check the TLF and PTLF extract
  • Verify the cut over problem.
  • Check the BICI cutover and the file creation.
  • Important error messages to be checked on the EMS.

Experience:

  • AWS, Java, Spring Boot, and Angular.
  • Strong understanding of concepts like high availability and their application in software development.
  • Familiarity with SWIFT standards and their integration into financial systems.
  • Proficiency in Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD practices
  • Experience with Rancher, Trace Transformer, and Postgres will be highly regarded.

Methodologies Required (Mandatory):

  • Min 8 years Java experience, exposure to EFT, ATM and POS is must
  • 5 years + experience with AWS, Java, Spring Boot, and Angular.
  • SWIFT standards and their integration into financial systems.
  • Proficiency in Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD practices
  • Languages: Tandem COBOL, SCobol, TAL, TACL (Batch and online servers), PATHWAY
  • Experience in ENFORM, FUP, SCUP, DBU, DDL, INSPECT, SPOOLER
  • Database like Enscribe, Non-stop SQL, DB2 and VSAM


Contact information

Ashley Singh