Division Summary

Standard Bank is a firm believer in technical innovation, to help us guarantee exceptional client service and leading edge financial solutions. Our digital footprint reflects our commitment to the latest solutions, the best people, and a uniquely flexible and vibrant working culture. To help us drive our success into the future, we are looking for an experienced Atlassian Developer/Admin Confluence Specialist our dedicated GIT Core Channel and System our JHB offices. Standard Bank is a leading African banking group focused on emerging markets globally. It has been a mainstay of South Africa's financial system for 150 years, and now spans 16 countries across the African continentJob Purpose
As a Atlassian Specialist, you will be responsible for driving a team and managing the set-up, maintenance, and ongoing development of continuous build/integration infrastructures. You will manage tasks to create and maintain fully automated continuous integration (CI) build processes for multiple software environments, including writing, building and deploying scripts. You will oversee application engineers and various stakeholders to design, configure and support the Atlassian suite of products including JIRA, Confluence, Service Desk, and other popular add-ons. This position requires close collaboration with the client and multiple team members to manage Atlassian and other Software as a Service (SaaS) vendor applications to drive and lead implementation of innovative solutions

Key Responsibilities/Accountabilities
• 3+ years experience working and training in an Agile environment, including experience in the complete software development lifecycle (SDLC)
• 3+ years experience using Agile Methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, Lean) Continuous Integration (e.g., Jenkins, Hudson), and executing Continuous Delivery (CD) tasks to ensure a common front-end and consistent delivery process for application developers
• 3+ years leading teams in a technical environment, managing the flow of day-to-day operations
• 3+ years supervising project planning and implementation efforts to ensure supervised team achieves goals in production and/or service
• 3+ years performing issue reporting, research, analysis, confirmation and support resolution on assigned projects
• 3+ familiarity using software versioning / revision control applications (e.g. Subversion, Git, etc.)
• 3+ years experience training users administrators using wikis, technical documentation, use cases, process flows and test cases
• 3+ years experience in the Atlassian suite and other tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence, JSD, BitBucket, etc.) with current Atlassian professional certification:
• JIRA design, implementation, optimization, migration, administration and customization
• Familiarity JIRA project workflows, vocabulary, security schemes, screen schemes, permission and notification schemes
• Familiarity Confluence security, spaces, design, and integration with JIRA
• Experience deploying and customizing Confluence, JIRA, and other Atlassian products using standards and best practices
• Experience with hosted environments and remotely collocated systems
• Provide training to technical and non-technical teams to use JIRA and associated tools

Preferred Qualification and Experience
• 5 Years of Relevant Information Technology Experience.
• Minimum 3 years supporting SaaS software solutions for corporate technology
• Minimum 3 years managing teams in a relevant field
• Preferred Atlassian certified expert, with minimum 2 years supporting Atlassian products (or the ability to obtain one within 6 months of hire)

Knowledge/Technical Skills/Expertise
• Previous experience in a dedicated DevOps Engineer role
• Experience and high understanding of cloud and virtualization technologies
• Familarity with CI/CD tools such as
o Atlassian (JIRA, Confluence, Stash/BitBucket, JIRA Service Desk (JSD), Bamboo, Crowd)
o Jenkins

Competencies
• Ability to manage diverse virtual teams both on customer site and in geographically dispersed locations
• Strong team player with ability to take charge of their area of expertise; works creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
• Able to coach, teach and motivate team members and provide feedback to improve performance
• Able to work independently when required to prioritize and manage complex tasks
• Strong interpersonal skills in interacting with customers communicates clear instructions to staff ;to accomplish tasks and increase team productivity
• Excellent communication skills (oral, written, and listening)
• Able to build relationships with both technical staff and non-technical senior executives
• Ability to manage diverse virtual teams both on customer site and in geographically dispersed locations
• Strong team player with ability to take charge of their area of expertise; works creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
• Able to coach, teach and motivate team members and provide feedback to improve performance
• Able to work independently when required to prioritize and manage complex tasks
• Strong interpersonal skills in interacting with customers communicates clear instructions to staff to accomplish tasks and increase team productivity
• Excellent communication skills (oral, written, and listening)
• Able to build relationships with both technical staff and non-technical senior executives