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Imagine a world where people live healthier, more enhanced and protected lives… A world in which each organisation is a powerful influencer and responsible corporate citizen, committed to being a force for social good. As a leading innovator in healthcare, wellness, insurance, investments, financial and life planning, Discovery works ceaselessly to...
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Key Purpose
The successful candidate will be responsible for implementing and supporting various middleware technologies and ensuring their performance, availability and security as a member of the Life Infrastructure Application team.
Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to
- Day to day maintenance of the Middleware environments
- Responsible for ensuring availability and performance
- To proactively monitor the systems to ensure minimum downtime
- Responsible for the improvement and maintenance of the solutions, including upgrades and security patches.
- Responsible for implementation and release of middleware solutions on-premise and in AWS / OCI / Azure.
- Providing technical middleware and performance advice to development teams
- Middleware capacity management
- General middleware troubleshooting
- Implementation and enforcement of Discovery standards and procedures
- Life Infrastructure standby and shift duties
Education and Experience
Essential:
- Matric
- BSc Comp Sc/ BSc Info Systems or equivalent tertiary qualification
- The applicant MUST have 5 years experience managing complex solution stacks without direct supervision
- Certification in a middleware j2ee offering. (JBOSS, Weblogic, Websphere)
Advantageous:
- Dynatrace APM Experience
- AWS SysOps , DevOps or Associate Architect Certification
- ITIL
Technical Skills and Knowledge
Essential:
- Experience in managing
- Experience in configuration and release automation
- Experience in managing complex middleware solutions on native servers and containerized platforms such as Openshift, EKS, Fargate, VMWare Tanzu.
- Experience in monitoring and tuning middleware solutions
- Experience configuring and using automation tooling for the provisioning and management of the entire development and runtime environment.
- (Jenkins, Chef/Puppet/Salt etc, ansible/terraform/cloud formation).
Advantageous:
- Advanced troubleshooting skills
- AWS Cloud deployments using S3, EC2, ALB, CloudWatch, EKS, Fargate.
Competencies:
- Ability to work both independently and participate as a member of a cross-functional team.
- Ability to prioritize and work on multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
- Attention to detail
- Solution oriented
- Delivery focused
- Ability to deal with pressure
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Key Purpose
Design and implement robust, scalable and optimally performing systems using Oracle related technologies, according to provided specifications, standards and procedures, while ensuring compliance with the architectural standards and guidelines laid out by Discovery
Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to
Design:
- Translate business requirements into technical designs adhering to Discovery Insure processes, standards and guidelines, taking cognisance of performance, security and scalability requirements. Deliver within agreed timeframes.
- Liaise with relevant parties where clarification of business requirements or resolution to technical issues is needed
- Research and find effective solutions to technical issues that arise
- Estimate development timelines based on business requirements
Development:
- Construct robust, maintanable, scalable, optimally performing system code in line with technical specifications, following prescribed process, standards and procedures. Deliver within agreed timeframe
Testing:
- Verify build stability and quality with development team before releasing to test team, aiming to release with zero defects
- Assist the Business analyst in ensuring the test pack includes relevant scenarios and test data.
- Consult and assist in reviewing risk / impact of defects found in testing, and assist with fixing where necessary
Support / Troubleshooting:
- Assist system users with technical support issues and handle according to defined procedures
- Ability to effectively analyse root cause of system errors (data errors, performance and stability issues)
Mentoring / Team development:
- Actively coach other developers to understand and apply the Insure coding and architectural standards correctly, as well as any technologies in use
- Perform code review to ensure logical correctness, maintainability, scalability, performance, compliance with architectural standards and frameworks
- Assist in identifying training needs of team members
Personal development:
- Keep abreast of current technological trends and how these might be applied in the Discovery environment
- Constant improvement of knowledge of the various applications, their functionalities and data models
General:
- Ability to communicate clearly, constructively and effectively. Easily able to follow and participate in technical, business process, and other discussions
- Able to build business relationships with other members of team and the business areas we support.
Personal Attributes and Skills
Technical Competencies:
- Data Modelling specifically related to OLTP
- PLSQL
- SQL
- XML
- Dynamic SQL
- SQL and PLSQL performance tuning
- Report writing
- BI/Warehouse/ETL
- Java SE
Education and Experience
Essential:
5-7 years of consistent experience in the listed core competency areas.
Working knowledge of:
- Software development within SDLC
- Unit Testing
- Data modelling and design of database structures
Advantageous:
- BSc Computer Science or equivalent 3 year qualification
- Oracle Certified Professional - Advanced PLSQL developer
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Key Purpose
The main purpose of the role is to verify and maintain complex actuarial products on the in-house systems. This will involve the setting up and regular execution of checks, and identifying and driving fixes for issues identified.
The successful candidate will be expected to perform detailed monthly policy anniversary letter value checks. In addition, regular values testing of both new product features as well as fixes of existing product features will be required. Various ad-hoc investigations and reporting may be needed from time to time.
Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to
- Setting up and maintaining checking tools
- Monthly sign off of client anniversary letter values
- Testing new product features being rolled out on the system
- Ad hoc investigations to identify issues
- Driving fixes for issues identified
- Reporting of issues to management
Education and Experience
Essential:
- Matric with Mathematics
- Relevant Bachelor’s / Honours degree in Actuarial Science from an accredited institution
- Qualified/Nearly qualified actuary
- At least 5 years Actuarial experience preferably within the Life Insurance Industry
- Building and maintenance of checking processes & tools
Advantageous:
- Working within a systems environment
- Life insurance industry experience
- Team and project management
Technical Skills and Knowledge
Essential:
- Proficient with SQL (Oracle SQL & PLSQL preferred)
- Competent in MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook
- Strong mathematical and analytical skills
Advantageous:
- Knowledge of the Life Insurance market
- Strong interpersonal skills
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