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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
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