Trading Systems Specialist (Enablement)

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Johannesburg, Gauteng, ZAF
In-Office
Mid level
Financial Services
The Role
Supports the operational health of production trading systems across market access, execution, risk, settlement, finance, and regulatory services. Responsibilities include incident ownership, complex issue diagnosis, service restoration, software quality assurance, release testing, access administration, defect and upgrade management, stakeholder and vendor coordination, outage management, requirements gathering, user training, monitoring, alerting, and automation. Requires trading systems experience, AI project exposure, API and FICS knowledge, SQL, database and networking fundamentals, scheduling tools, and SDLC understanding.
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Job Description

RMB Global Markets operates in a highly available, regulated and time-critical environment. The role supports technology services spanning market access, pricing, execution, trade capture, risk, valuations, confirmations, settlement, finance, regulatory reporting and control processes. Service failure, stale data, delayed processing or unresolved exceptions may affect trading continuity, risk visibility, financial control and client outcomes.
The Trading Systems Support Analyst / Specialist owns the operational health of assigned services once they are in production. The incumbent diagnoses complex application and infrastructure issues, coordinates service restoration, manages operational exceptions, supports change and release activity, and engineers preventative improvements through monitoring, AIOps, machine learning and automation. The role also participates in analysis, testing and implementation to ensure that solutions are supportable, observable, secure and resilient by design.

Key Responsibilities:


Macro environment


  • Is aware of emerging technologies and remains abreast of industry/ technology concepts and ideas which could impact on their area of accountability
  • Remaining technologically savvy with all platforms in the teams’ portfolio of applications
  • Create a repository of internal learnings and external knowledge materials which could benefit the execution of work within the team.
  • Continuously look at improving service delivery through proactive monitoring and alerting

Software Quality Assurance


  • Understand the release
  • Prepare test scenarios to test the release
  • Execute the test cases
  • Hold triage sessions with vendors and stakeholders

Business service alignment 


  • Apply experiential knowledge to trouble-shoot and resolve instances where service levels do not meet the agreed requirements
  • Responsible for software quality assurance

Service handover 


  • Compile and Enhance user training material and business readiness assessments

Access management 


  • Maintain security administration processes and ensure that all requests for support are dealt with according to agreed procedures

Incident management 


  • Incident Ownership – Owns incident until resolved
  • Prioritise and diagnose incidents within the relevant areas according to agreed procedures
  • Investigate causes of incidents and seek resolution within diverse but standardised precedents and procedures by applying operational knowledge and learnings
  • Escalate unresolved or complex incidents to the appropriate level
  • Document and close resolved incidents according to the agreed procedures and tools
  • Communicate the resolution actions and outcomes to the relevant business stakeholder

Defect management, upgrades/enhancements and projects


  • Ability to scope, plan, execute and close tasks which include defect management, upgrades/enhancements and projects effectively
  • Facilitate one-on-one or group workshops to elicit, analyse, communicate and validate requirements
  • Ensure the consistent and accurate documenting of requirements

Stakeholder & Vendor Management


  • Anticipates, recognises, and meets the needs of internal and external clients / stakeholders (however these are defined in the role), taking responsibility for maintaining the highest service standards and developing and sustaining productive client relationships
  • Act speedily to resolve problems, queries and complaints
  • Initiate meetings with key stakeholders to track progress, manage expectations, and ensure stakeholder requirements are delivered
  • Provide effective feedback to stakeholders - both written and verbal communication
  • Own the outage management process by running the event with vendors and stakeholders
  • Demonstrate the capacity to put people at ease and build sound relationships based on mutual trust and openness

Minimum Qualifications and Knolwedge


  • Diploma, IT, Degree, Business Intelligence or related qualification

Experience


  • Exposure to AI and implementation of AI related projects
  • 2-5 years’ experience in Trading Systems across all asset classes
  • Experience in API’s and FICS Protocol basics
  • Experience in monitoring and alerting tools
  • Experience in scheduling tools
  • Experience with databased and networking protocols basics
  • Experience in SQL

 

Technical Pre-requisite


  • Relevant applications and process knowledge
  • Understanding of SDLC
  • Basic understanding of backups

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Important Closing Date Note

Take note that applications will not be accepted on the below date and onwards, kindly submit applications ahead of the closing date indicated below.

29/10/26

All appointments will be made in line with FirstRand Group’s Employment Equity plan. The Bank supports the recruitment and advancement of individuals with disabilities. In order for us to fulfill this purpose, candidates can disclose their disability information on a voluntary basis. The Bank will keep this information confidential unless we are required by law to disclose this information to other parties.

Skills Required

  • Diploma or degree in Information Technology, Business Intelligence, or a related field
  • Exposure to artificial intelligence and implementation of AI-related projects
  • 2-5 years of experience in trading systems across all asset classes
  • Experience with APIs and FICS Protocol basics
  • Experience with monitoring and alerting tools
  • Experience with scheduling tools
  • Basic knowledge of database and networking protocols
  • Experience with SQL
  • Relevant application and process knowledge
  • Understanding of the software development life cycle
  • Basic understanding of backups

FirstRand Limited Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about FirstRand Limited and has not been reviewed or approved by FirstRand Limited.

  • Healthcare Strength — Employees typically have access to structured medical scheme membership through providers such as Bankmed, Discovery Health, or Bonitas, with optional gap cover. Certain campuses also offer wellbeing resources like gyms, wellness screenings, and health facilities.
  • Retirement Support — The group provides pension or umbrella retirement funds alongside group risk benefits such as life insurance, funeral plans, and permanent health/disability insurance, supporting long‑term financial security.
  • Strong & Reliable Incentives — Structured incentive programs and performance bonuses complement base pay in many roles, and commission-based positions can offer stronger earning potential.

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The Company
HQ: Johannesburg
49,989 Employees
Year Founded: 1998

What We Do

FirstRand is a portfolio of integrated financial services businesses offering transactional, lending, investment and insurance products and services. The group seeks to build long-term franchise value and deliver superior, sustainable returns within acceptable levels of volatility. Its corporate centre houses key functions—including risk, compliance, governance, internal audit, treasury, finance and tax—that support the broader group and its operating businesses.

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