Career Opportunities at Discovery Limited

Key Purpose

To investigate and validate non-motor claims to determine validity based on the Discovery Insure contract. To correctly quantify and validate losses and serve as a mediator between clients and/or brokers. Provide feedback and support to claims consultants and foster good relationships between brokers and clients.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Non-motor claims investigation and validation, including settlement, rejection and repair within service level agreement.
• Turn-around time and predetermined mandates.
• Loss adjustment by correctly quantifying losses and/or verifying claimed amounts. Mediation between Insure client and/or broker.
• Reporting on all assessed claims and making recommendations.
• Analyse client behaviour to determine legitimacy of claims.
• Investigate and report on fraudulent claims.
• Perform administrative tasks and meet strict deadlines.
• Make recommendations to prevent fraud.
• Analyse, collecting, evaluating and handling of evidence.
• Claims forum presenting of claims.

Education and Experience

• Matric (Essential)
• 5 years’ minimum short term insurance claims experience (Essential)
• 5 years’ short-term insurance non-motor claims validations and investigations experience (Essential)
• Interviewing techniques (Essential)
• Investigation terminology (Essential)
• Tertiary qualification relating to investigations and interviewing e.g. Certified Fraud Examiner (Advantageous)
• Hold a valid driver licence
• Willing to travel

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY   

The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.

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Job Purpose 
Discovery Bank is recruiting an exceptional architect for a strategically important project.  This person will drive ongoing design and development of a highly performant, scalable system that combines data science, microservices and leading-edge marketing technology to improve business outcomes.  If you enjoy designing and building robust and performant systems and enjoy taking ownership, if you want to learn continuously, bring us your openness, enthusiasm and attention to detail and we’ll build great things together.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to 

• Collaborate with the RnD, development, marketing, business, data and operations teams to:
• Understand the goals and vision of the project stakeholders
• Balance long-term design thinking with near-term goals
• Develop the architecture of a scalable, high-performance microservices solution that integrates with many systems and technologies
• Building SQL / Java solutions
• Document all architectural artifacts

Education and Experience 

• IT related Degree or Diploma (BSc/BTech or similar) 
• Minimum 5 years’ experience as a solutions architect
• Experience with containerized environments (Openshift/Kubernetes/Docker) advantageous

Personal Attributes and Skills 

• Strong architecture experience
• Strong software development understanding
• Openshift / Kubernetes / Docker
• Integration via REST, SOAP and messaging platforms (e.g. IBM MQ)
• Strong database / SQL Server experience
• CI/CD pipelines, e.g., Jenkins
• Understanding of marketing technology / next-best-action / nudges advantageous
• Agile principles and methodologies
• Ability to think creatively and pursue innovative, alternative approaches
• Strong focus on the business outcomes
• Ability to deal with complexity, ambiguity and constant change
• Passion for personal development and growth, with a high learning potential
• Commitment to excellence and high quality delivery
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY   

The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.

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Key Purpose

Within the Application Platform Services system area, the Java Developer must work together with Business Analyst, UX & Content Teams, System Architect and managers to understand the overall business need and the requirements, design the system solution using various approaches and technologies, implement the designed solution in the system with high quality source codes.

The Java Developer will support the projects throughout the project life-cycle, including requirements, design, implementation, release and post release support.

The Java Developer in the Application Platform Services area must be technically able support and maintain the deployed applications on dev, test and production environments.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Develop, test, and maintain the deployed application software with high quality
• Analyse, maintain and enhance existing application and troubleshoot issues with efficiency
• Perform accurate development estimation
• Produce technical specifications and designs.
• Analytical and problem solving skills
• Self-starter who takes ownership, is accountable, and is able to work under minimum supervision
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Can help with quality assurance and provide comments
• Present to senior stakeholders
• Offer support and guidance to peers
• Perform analysis at a strategic level and understand principles of business, technical and enterprise architecture

Personal Attributes and Skills

• Passionate about technology and development.
• Results oriented with the ability to work under pressure and juggle multiple concurrent projects with changing priorities and deadlines
• Analytical thinking
• Personal organisation and time management skills
• Technical and business writing skills
• Presentation and facilitation skills
• Communication skills (written, verbal/presenting and listening)
• Stress management
• Customer focused
• Results oriented
• Able to resolve conflict
• Creative
• Innovative
• Self-driven
• Attention to detail
• Ability to build relationships with people from all different backgrounds and at different job levels

Education and Experience

Minimum

• Matric/Grade 12 and formal Java qualifications.
• 3 years Java systems development experience
• Java EE knowledge and experience
• Experience with SOAP and REST services
• Unit testing and mocking frameworks
• Source control, experience with GIT
• Experience with industry standard Application Servers (preferably WebLogic)
• Knowledge of OO design principles and development patterns

Preferred

• IT related Degree or Diploma (BSc/BTech or similar).
• Angular Framework
• Spring Framework
• SQL and ORM experience
• Presentation layer development (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, GWT, Spring MVC)
• Experience using formal modelling languages (UML, etc) and modelling tools (Enterprise Architect, Visual Paradigm etc.)
• Exposure to Agile principles and methodologies, including Continuous Integration and Test Driven Development

Advantageous

• Honours degree
• DevOps/Continuous integration
• Exposure to the Atlassian tool suite (Jira, Confluence, Bamboo and Bitbucket)

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY   

The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.

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Key Purpose

Within the Digital Channels system area, the Senior Java Developer must work together with Business Analyst, UX & Content Teams, System Architect and managers to understand the overall business need and the requirements, design the system solution using various approaches and technologies, implement the designed solution in the system with high quality source codes.

The Senior Java Developer will support the projects throughout the project life-cycle, including requirements, design, implementation, release and post release support.

The Senior Java Developer in the Digital Channels area must be technically able support and maintain the deployed applications on dev, test and production environments.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Develop, test, and maintain the deployed application software with high quality
• Analyse, maintain and enhance existing application and troubleshoot issues with efficiency
• Perform accurate development estimation
• Produce technical specifications and designs
• Analytical and problem solving skills
• Self-starter who takes ownership, is accountable, and is able to work under minimum supervision
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Can help with quality assurance and provide comments
• Present to senior stakeholders
• Offer support and guidance to peers
• Perform analysis at a strategic level and understand principles of business, technical and enterprise architecture

Personal Attributes and Skills

• Passionate about technology and development.
• Results oriented with the ability to work under pressure and juggle multiple concurrent projects with changing priorities and deadlines
• Analytical thinking
• Personal organisation and time management skills
• Technical and business writing skills
• Presentation and facilitation skills
• Communication skills (written, verbal/presenting and listening)
• Stress management
• Customer focused
• Results oriented
• Able to resolve conflict
• Creative
• Innovative
• Self-driven
• Attention to detail
• Ability to build relationships with people from all different backgrounds and at different job levels

Education and Experience

Minimum

• Matric/Grade 12 and formal Java qualifications.
• 6 years Java systems development experience
• Java EE knowledge and experience
• Experience with SOAP and REST services
• Unit testing and mocking frameworks
• Source control, experience with GIT
• Experience with industry standard Application Servers (preferably WebLogic)
• Knowledge of OO design principles and development patterns

Preferred

• IT related Degree or Diploma (BSc/BTech or similar).
• Angular Framework
• Spring Framework
• ORM/Hibernate/JPA experience
• JMS, Tibco EMS experience
• Oracle and PL/SQL knowledge
• SOAP and REST (XML/JSON)
• Presentation layer development (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, GWT, Spring MVC)
• Experience with Business Rules Management Frameworks
• Experience using formal modelling languages (UML, etc) and modelling tools (Enterprise Architect, Visual Paradigm etc.)
• Exposure to Agile principles and methodologies, including Continuous Integration and Test Driven Development

Advantageous

• Honours degree
• DevOps/Continuous integration
• Exposure to the Atlassian tool suite (Jira, Confluence, Bamboo and Bitbucket)

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY   

The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.

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Key Purpose

Construction of complex BI Solutions based on specifications produced by the BI Architects and Systems Analysts. (BI Solutions imply ETL / Analytics / Presentation).

Driving Engagement and building relationships with key stakeholders which include Systems Analysts, BI Architects and QA Manager

Key Outputs:

• Develop and maintain SSIS packages
• Create required database structures
• Develop and maintain T-SQL code
• Analyse SQL execution plan to optimise performance
• Version control of developed solutions within a code repository
• Workshop solutions with Systems Analysts and Architect to compile relevant technical specifications
• Contribute to the development of architectural guidelines and standards
• Prototyping, Research and Development of new techniques and solutions
• Peer review of code and solutions developed
• Team engagement champion
• Improving robustness and stability of ETL batches
• Scheduling business processes via ETL tools
• Experience in developing and maintaining an ETL Framework e.g. ETL controller
• Create and maintain Metadata and Code repositories
• Dynamic Sql
• Develop and maintain SSAS models

Competencies

Knowledge:

• Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)   Advanced level
• Data Security and Protection Policies  Intermediate/Advanced
• Data Warehouse principles and practises   Intermediate/Advanced
• Kimball Methodology  Intermediate/Advanced
• Financial Services industry knowledge  Advantageous

Technical Skills:

• T-SQL, SQL  Advanced
• SQL Server BI Stack (SSIS, SSMS)   Advanced
• MS Excel     Advanced
• MDX    Advantageous
• DAX   Advantageous
• Dimensional Modelling   Basic
• Data Mining    Basic

Competencies:

• Creating and Innovating
• Applying Expertise and Technology
• Analysing
• Persuading and Influencing
• Deciding and initiating action
• Adapting and Responding to Change
• Learning and Researching
• Presenting and Communicating Information

Qualification and Skills

• National Diploma in Information Technology or a Bachelor’s degree
• Certification on Microsoft  or other ETL Tools                  
• Kimball related courses (dimensional modelling)  

Minimum Required Experience

• Minimum of 4 years’ experience in BI Development in SQL Server Integration Services & Management Studio.

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Key Purpose of the role

The position is responsible for the day-to-day administration and managing a small team within Umbrella Fund Operations, within the Retirement Funds business unit. This is a core administration function, and the incumbent would be required to holistically manage and control a portfolio of different Retirement Fund disciplines, Section 14, Section 27, Section 28 and Special Rules processes. The incumbent must ensure that processes and procedures are implemented, maintained and improved. The incumbent needs to ensure operational activity is conducted within regulatory frameworks, accurately, effectively and efficiently. The incumbent must ensure that he/she has the knowledge, skills, tools and competencies required to perform the required job within service level agreements. The incumbent must have an appetite to be part of a growing new business unit, continuous improvement, able to adapt to change easily and play a role in change management within the team, challenge the status quo, inspire and motivate others. The incumbent will continually review existing processes and procedures in order to ensure the delivery of committed services to the Umbrella Funds Clients.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Processing of all daily and monthly transactional activity within agree service levels.
• Performing QA function for document verification where necessary.
• Liaise with the transferor fund, transferee fund, Brokers, Clients and all stakeholders.
• Drafting of Special Rules, Rule Amendments and Section 14 FSCA documents.
• Process tax applications and ROT submissions to SARS.
• Ensure that day to day administration is accurate, compliant and abreast with regulatory frameworks such as, Pension Funds Act, Tax Act, Rules of the Discovery Life Umbrella Pension and Provident Funds, Participating employer special rules. Ensures delivery of key operational attributes such as data completeness and data quality.
• Dealing with queries from internal stakeholders, communicate effectively with clients to resolve queries and escalations, ensure client expectations are met.
• Dealing with the Human Resources function for staff managed. Ensure others are trained on the processes and systems. Provides staff with clear direction. Sets appropriate standards of behaviour and outputs. Delegates work appropriately and fairly. Motivates and empowers others.
• Prepare management and client report for submission to superiors.
• Dealing with escalated calls or queries from internal stakeholders, communicate effectively with clients to resolve queries and escalations, ensure client expectations are met.
• Develop and maintain excellent business relations with internal and external brokers.
• Managing projects.
• The incumbent is the Subject Matter Expert in Retirement Fund areas under management. Produces new ideas, approaches or insights. Produces range of solutions to problems and do root cause analysis. Effective decision-making by “out of the box” thinking and weighing up risks involved.

Personal Attributes and Skills     

• The successful candidate must demonstrate the following competencies:
• Communication Skills: able to communicate clearly both verbally and in writing.
• Reporting Skills: ability to consolidate information and compile reports reflecting the necessary relevant information
•  Ability to communicate logically and objectively is essential components of this role.
• Attention to detail
• Very organised
• Conflict Management
• Expresses opinions, information and key points of an argument clearly.
• Probes for further information or greater understanding of a problem.
• Relates well to people at all levels.

Education and Experience

Matric - essential

• 5 years Employee Benefits , Retirement Funds, Umbrella Fund experience – Essential
• 3 years’ experience in a supervisory role- Essential
• NQF level 6 or similar is advantageous
• Relevant Industry Qualifications – Wealth Management, Introduction to Retirement Funds – Advantageous
• MS Office – Advanced Excel Skills, Retirement Fund and Umbrella Fund operations, Accounting, Investments,

 EMPLOYMENT EQUITY

The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.                    

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Key Purpose

To partner with line managers to drive business results through people enablement via recruitment, development, engagement and retention of top talent to contribute towards delivery of the division and the Group’s strategic ambition and ensuring alignment with the implementation of all People initiatives.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Administer the end-to-end recruitment process for the teams supported.
• Writing and compiling job profiles where necessary.
• Tracking the onboarding process.
• Booking new staff on induction and liaising with trainers.
• Implement specific project activities as determined through the HR planning process.
• Report on key people drivers, proactively highlight key trends, risks and recommend action plans.
• Recommend new approaches, policies, and procedures to effect continual improvements in efficiency and services performed.
• Act as a liaison between the business unit and centre of excellence to ensure that HR services are aligned with internal stakeholder needs.
• Assisting with driving employee engagement through proactive Stay and Exit interviews and providing feedback analysis.
• Provide SmartPeople support to the areas that are supported by the team.
• Maintain the employment records on the HR system.
• Database management and statistical HR analysis.
• Contribute and execute people initiatives as per the strategic objectives and ad hoc projects.
• Identifying potential challenges in the processes and recommending solutions.  
• Assisting with HR related projects and compilation of ad hoc reports as requested.
• Providing IR support in relation to the execution of employee disciplinary actions.
• Ad Hoc projects.

Qualification

• Matric (Essential)
• Human Resources qualification (min 3 years)

Experience

• 3+yrs experience in a similar role

Knowledge

• HR Policies, procedures and best practice
• Employment Equity and Transformation
• Labour Law

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY   

The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.

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What you will do?

The Master Data Management (MDM) Specialist is responsible for building, implementing and supporting a master data repository. The right individual will build and grow the master data strategy and possess experience in all stages of BI project work (requirements and logical design, physical design, implementation, testing and deployment). The MDM specialist should have a firm grasp of BI implementation methodologies and will have had in-depth experience with the Microsoft Azure Stack.  To qualify for the position, the candidate should possess the following:

• Strong business acumen in understanding business processes and the data that each produces
• Deep change management expertise in the implementation of new data and information management strategies
• Relationship builder cultivating strong business relationships with operational and systems users mapping data to each business operation
• Hands on experience with data tools include integration, data quality, etc

The role is based in Sandton, South Africa.

Core responsibilities include:

• Strategically implementing Master Data architecture and understand it’s integration with organization data
• Define data quality rules with business users to fix bad data
• Embedding master data principles in the data management process
• Work with business users understanding the business processes that generate different data and the downstream analytic, predictive, and reporting dependencies
• Assisting in the definition of data taxonomies and ontologies and implementing production versions of the data
• Handling change management processes that introduce new data into the data platform
• Identifying tools and technologies that management the creation, maintenance, approval, and auditability of newly generated data outside system processes
• Lead MDM projects and implement through a reusable architecture
• Drive engagement of solutions with Business Analysts, Data Engineers, Data Architects, and business users
• Training of business users in the usage of MDM tools for different business processes
• Be able to profile data and report on the data anomalies when it comes to completeness, consistency, accuracy, reliability, timeliness
• Document solutions and architecture

 What you need to be successful

Technical skills:

• Expert SQL
• Master Data Services
• Azure Purview
• Azure Synapse
• Azure Data Factory
• Lakehouse architecture
• Relational database SQL Server, Synapse experience plus Data Lake Gen2
• Dimensional modelling skills and Data Architecture
• Data taxonomies and Ontologies
• DevOps/DataOps and CI/CD experience

Technical skills additional:

• Profisee

Behavioural skills:

• Strong leader
• A passion for data
• Attention to detail
• Highly analytical and critical thinker
• Self-starter
• Willingness to learn and grow exponentially
• A restless curiosity in learning new technology
• Ability to work cohesively in a team environment and balance multiple priorities
• A team player who can work alone when required and without supervision
• High level of attention to detail, resilience, enthusiasm, energy and drive
• Positive, can-do attitude
• Ethical and able to maintain confidentiality and manage boundaries
• Aligned to Amplify values and core purpose

Qualifications:

• A BSc in Computer Science or Btech In IT
• An honours or master's degree in a related field preferred.
• 5 to 10 years of experience in data management