Job Opportunities at Discovery Limited

Key Purpose

The core purpose of this role is for the individual to take a technical lead within the PAAS team, demonstrating the ability to run and support the other team members as well as our customers at a senior level. Focusing on solving complex problems and finding solutions for new and unsolved issues.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

Strategic Objectives

• Provides input into strategic objectives for Platform as a Service with regards to one or two platform services, whether it be on-premises or in the cloud.

People Leadership

• Liberate the best in people. Support the team and departmental objectives, delivering a high standard of results and accountability. Support and coach the other team members while supporting the team manager to achieve the team’s goals.

Operational Excellence

• Drive operational metrics as set for the team and help maintain and improve all metrics while focusing on delivering the highest standards.

Service Availability

• Ensure the reliability and availability of one to two platform services on-premise and in the cloud by ensuring that operational metrics are monitored.

Technical Leadership

• Demonstrate technical leadership to his or her fellow team mates as well as support to the team manager. Keeps abreast of technological advancements impacting the platform services of the team.

Execution / Project Delivery

• Drives the successful delivery of medium sized projects, with impact to the team or department, or multiple smaller projects for the team, within the agreed, communicated timelines and budget.

Business Astuteness And Prudence

• Support the teams mandate to work within the allowed budget by optimizing where possible.

Customer Experience

• Monitor metrics and work closely with our customers to improve the customer experience of the platform services for the team.

Vendor Engagement

• Work with vendor Technical Account Managers and Solution Architects to uplift the stability and effectiveness of the supported platforms.

Technical Skills

• Deep technical skill in supporting the core platform that support the services offered. The ability to own complex problems and drive to resolution
• Strong technical skills with the ability to support a team of technical resources to achieve team and departmental goals
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• Demonstrated ability in people relationships, risk management, project management and change management across all platform services or products and typically within a single team.
• Good Communication and interpersonal skills, dealing with people at Specialist level and below
• Good cross-functional collaboration skills and relationship building skills
• Ability to achieve results in supporting large-scale projects impacting multiple teams in the department or multiple smaller projects within a team context
• Strong Customer Focus
• Ability to prioritize in a complex fast-paced environment

Education And Experience

• Completed Matric
• At least 3 years of IT experience in a technical support role.
• One of the following:
• Working within a team that provision, maintain and operate Platform Services which may include virtualization through VMWare or Cloud Services in AWS and/or Azure, or Containerization
• Working with a team utilizing VMWare virtualization, automation, logging, networking, storage or cloud management products
• Working with a team utilising and operating services in AWS
• Exposure to Kubernetes and Public cloud services like AWS
• VMWare or similar Associate level Qualification in Virtualization, Automation, Networking, Operating Systems, Storage or DevOps
• AWS or similar Associate level Qualification in Solutions Architecture, SysAdmin, DevOps, Security or networking
• VMWare certification in virtualization, networking, storage, operations, automation, security and/or containerization (Advantageous)
• AWS Associate and/or professional level certification in solutions architecture, systems administration, DevOps, security and/or networking (Advantageous)
• ITIL Certification (Advantageous)

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Key Purpose

Understand the business requirements, and through a structured process, document, validate and translate it into functional specifications that are used by developers to develop a technical solution. Test and validate the functionality of the technical solution against the business requirements. Ensure that the business requirements are delivered in the implemented solution. Interface between the business customer and the development team with regards to the business, non-functional and functional requirements.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

Business Requirements Development

Elicit the business requirements either directly, or from a documented set of business requirements

• Facilitate activities such as workshops/JAD sessions to expand the understanding of the business requirements and ensure alignment between stakeholders
• Assist the business to articulate the benefits they wish to realize with the solution
• Pursue enquiries with clients to understand the ‘why’ rather than the ‘what’ of the business request
• Challenge the business in their thinking, and develop alternative proposals, to ensure that the intent of the business requirement is met

Functional Requirements Development

• Identify and describe the set of requirements for the solution, functionally and non-functionally, including user stories and/or user interface requirements, system interface requirements, system processing requirements and/or configuration of existing solutions
• Perform formal modelling to simulate the solution and elicit detailed requirements
• Identify and Involve other teams and domains that must be integrated to for the solution to work
• Identify the key set of test cases/acceptance criteria to accompany the set of functional requirements
• Validate the requirements with the business and development team to ensure ongoing alignment of expectations
• Ensure the solution architecture is aligned with the business and functional requirements
• Defend the business requirements during the technical design and implementation of the project

Business Solution Architecture

• Participate in meetings and workshops during the sales process to understand business opportunities and apply knowledge of existing system capabilities to formulate a possible solution that will meet the client need
• Technical product owner for client implementations, ensuring all client needs are met by the technical solution through configuration and/or development
• Technical product owner for newly developed capabilities, ensuring they are build efficiently and to the client need

Project Management

• Provide estimates on business analysis activities required for the project
• Where necessary, facilitate the development of formal estimations for the entire project using standard techniques and involving all impacted parties
• Co-ordinate work activities between the client and development team (e.g. scheduling JAD sessions)
• Ensure own work, and work of more junior Business Analysts, is completed according to schedule and quality expectations
• Maintain and update the scheduling system as needed (e.g. Jira)
• Manage and prevent scope creep

Personal Attributes And Skills

BehavioralSkills

• Client focus
• Stress Management
• Time management and prioritization
• Learning orientation
• Innovation
• Bias for action
• Teamwork and co-operation

Technical Skills

• BPMN 2.0
• UML Modelling
• Data modelling (minimum being able to understand these. Intermediate and Senior systems analyst must be able to model data)
• Use Cases
• High standards for delivery
• Requirement’s definition
• User Story definition
• Webservices exposure
• Data modelling
• Sparx Enterprise Architect
• Agile project delivery
• Structured and analytical problem solver
• Process Mapping
• Coaching and mentor to junior teammates
• Understanding of JIRA and Agile principles

Other

Overtime may be required from time to time

Required

Education and Experience

• NQF Level 5: Certified in at least one of the following: 3-year National Diploma/B-Degree in Information Technology.
• Advanced UML course, BPMN Course would be advantageous
• BA Certification or BA Diploma or Advanced BA Qualification is advantageous

Experience

• 5 + years+ experience in business/systems analysis in a business/client facing capacity
• V1 platform experience strongly preferred

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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.

Competencies

• Using a rating scale of 1 to 5 (where 1 = beginner and 5 = expert)
• Data Modelling specifically related to OLTP [Mid Level=3]
• PLSQL [Mid Level=3]
• SQL [Mid Level=3]
• Dynamic SQL [Mid Level=2]
• SQL and PLSQL performance tuning [Mid Level=3]
• Report writing [Mid Level=3]

Advantageous Experience

• MSSQL server + SSIS
• BI / Warehouse/ ETL

Working Knowledge Of

• Software development within SDLC
• Unit Testing
• Data modelling and design of database structures-

Behavioural Skills

• Action orientated go-getter, hungry to learn and add real value
• Structured and analytical problem solver: Obsessive about finding solutions to problems: action oriented problem solver.
• Able to plan, organise and prioritize own work
• Able to multitask
• Able to work independently
• Able to work under pressure
• Team player: reliable, works actively with others towards common goal, communicates constructively, shares information, knowledge and experience, treats others in a respectful and supportive manner
• Flexible and able to adapt to changing requirements

Education And Experience

• 2-5 years of consistent experience in the listed core competency areas – Essential
• BSc Computer Science or equivalent 3 year qualification
• Oracle Certified Professional - Advanced PLSQL developer

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Key Purpose

Define the systems architecture, standards, and methodologies in accordance with industry best practices. Ensure the good functioning of the System Architecting Process. Serve as the high-level designer of the systems to be implemented. Establish the basic structure of the system, defining the essential core design features and elements that provide the framework for all that follows. Provide the architects view of the users' vision for what the system needs to be and do, and the paths along which it must be able to evolve, and strive to maintain the integrity of that vision as it evolves during detailed design and implementation.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Adhere to enterprise architecture standards, procedures, policies.
• Match system requirements with IT strategy and objectives.
• Balance system properties with internal design properties.
• Balance stakeholder needs with system context, during the entire system life cycle.
• Manage consistency across the various organizational and design boundaries.
• Maintain repository of systems architecture artefacts
• Monitor high-level system performance
• Data Security Management
• Develop systems architectures containing logical models of the components and interfaces involved.
• Produce detailed component specifications from systems architectures, taking into consideration the intended uses of the architectures as a whole.
• Translate component specifications into detailed designs for implementation using selected products.
• Produce documentation for systems architectures, making sensible use of both text and graphics (UML).
• Maintain a good knowledge of current practice and awareness of current developments within own area(s) of expertise.
• Demonstrates awareness of areas outside own specialism, as appropriate. Lead architecture developments for small systems.
• Establish policy for the selection of systems architecture components. Co-ordinate design activity between the systems architecture, application development and service delivery functions to ensure consistency.
• Contribute to the organization’s enterprise architecture technology and vision, and ensure alignment with the group strategic architecture direction
• Document and communicate information about emerging technologies to relevant functional management.
• Establish policy for the selection of systems architecture components.
• Help to develop systems architecture strategy in an organization.
• Help to improve systems architecture design techniques and to promote the discipline.
• Provide architecture guidance to assigned projects.
• Provide the architectural view of the users' vision for the system.
• Take full responsibility for ensuring that systems architectures balance functional, service quality and systems management requirements as indicated by the business requirement.

Personal Attributes And Skills

• Excellent understanding of Object Orientated principals and Java language fundamentals
• Knowledge of commonly used design patterns
• EJB
• HTML
• JSF
• JAXB
• UML
• XML/XSD
• SQL

Behavioural Skills

• Action orientated go-getter, hungry to learn and add real value
• Structured and analytical problem solver: Obsessive about finding solutions to problems: action oriented problem solver.
• Able to plan, organise and prioritize own work
• Able to multitask
• Able to work independently

Team player: reliable, works actively with others towards common goal, communicates constructively, shares information, knowledge and experience, treats others in a respectful and supportive manner

Education And Experience

• B. Sc (Informatics or Mathematics) beneficial
• At least 1 to 2 year’s experience in an architectural role with at least 6 - 7 years exposure to software development in Java and J2EE

Or

3 – 5 year’s experience in a technical lead / governance role.

• SDLC. Project Management. Systems Architecture
• Technologies [Java, JavaEE, SQL, UML, JMS, MOM, Web-Services, JSON, RESTful, SOAP, EJB, Camel]
• Technical Architecture, Process & Data Mapping, Entity Diagram mapping Advanced Problem solving. Analytical and systemic thinking.

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Key Purpose

Responsible to c ollaborate with software developers, system operators and other IT staff members to manage system and code releases. Cross and merge the barriers that exist between software development, testing and operations teams and keep existing platforms and applications t 99.99% available.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Build scalable, efficient cloud infrastructure solutions
• Implement automation tools and frameworks (CI/CD pipelines)
• Build, Manage and Support environments in Azure and AWS cloud
• Deploy updates and fixes via automated pipelines
• Troubleshoot production issues and coordinate with the development team to streamline code deployment.
• Evaluate existing applications and platforms, recommendation and implement alternative solutions for enhancing performance
• Conduct systems tests and manage security, performance, and availability
• Design, develop, and implement software integrations
• Analyze code and communicate detailed reviews to development teams to ensure a marked improvement in applications and the timely completion of projects.
• Develop and maintain design and troubleshooting documentation

Required Skills

Personal Attributes and Skills

• AWS and Azure Cloud
• Jenkins
• Strong Linux skills
• Kubernetes
• Ansible
• Terraform
• Puppet
• CFEngine

Behavioural Competencies

• Drives Results
• Values Driven
• Optimistic
• Learns on the Fly
• Resilient
• Instils Trust
• People Savvy
• Problem Solver
• Manages complexity
• Balances Stakeholders
• Transparency
• Multitasking
• Organizational skills
• Analytics

Additional Attributes

• Strong Ownership qualities
• Ability to assess and prioritize
• Excellent planning and organizational skills
• Able to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment
• A strong passion for customers and technology
• Self-motivated, self-thinker and pro-active
• Excellent communications skills and good team player
• Strong interpersonal skills specifically with the ability to establish and grow relationships with diverse stakeholders
• Well-developed conflict handling skills
• Willing to learn and develop oneself

Education

Education and Experience

• B.Sc. Degree in Computer Science,

Experience

• 3+ years’ experience as a DevOps Engineer or equivalent software-engineering role.
• Expert in code deployment tools (Puppet, Ansible, and Chef)
• Managing AWS infrastructure which includes setup, monitoring and alerts, resource allocation, and deployment architecture.
• Automation of development processes
• Experience in network, server, and application-status monitoring
• Strong command of software-automation production systems (Jenkins and Selenium
• Working knowledge of Ruby or Python and known DevOps tools like Git and GitHub
• Working knowledge of databases and SQL (Structured Query Language)

Knowledge

• SDLC
• ITIL
• ServiceNow

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Key Purpose

If you have an entrepreneurial mind-set, a passion for innovation and can bring strategic projects to life, then Discovery Invest can liberate you to realise your full potential. The role is based in Johannesburg and will comprise of marketing, technical marketing, data analysis, investments research and distribution responsibilities.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Working with product development to develop solutions for clients and tools for intermediaries in an environment where Discovery competes head-to-head with other product providers.
• Developing research material that can be used to position Discovery as a thought leader in the market.
• Compiling material that can be rolled out through PR campaigns and to technical intermediaries.
• Designing the marketing campaigns for both clients and brokers and a framework to measure the effectiveness of different marketing campaigns.
• Developing actuarial level papers.
• Compiling communications and technical presentations for intermediaries.
• Presenting to various intermediaries on technical product information.
• Liaising with investment specialists, consultants, brokers and financial advisers in handling technical product queries and performing calculations.
• Working with the new business team and the Chief Digital Officer to propose and help build digital solutions for clients and brokers and bring actuarial insights into these solutions.
• Internal training to invest staff on invest products, technical details and calculations.
• Working within the product development and the Digital team to establish a position of brand leadership.
• The candidate must be able to liaise at different levels and build relationships. This liaison will include interactions with:
• Discovery sales consultants, agents and IFA intermediaries
• Back-office operations
• Training teams
• Marketing services
• Product development
• Distribution heads
• Discovery management and executives

Personal Attributes And Skills

• Drives Results
• Values Driven
• Optimistic
• Learns on the Fly
• Resilient
• Instils Trust
• People Savvy
• Problem Solver
• Manages Complexity
• Business Acumen
• The ability to multitask various projects effectively
• Ability to plan, organize and deliver on individual deliverables.
• Ability to deal with pressure, tight deadlines and setbacks in order to deliver results and meet customer expectations
• Must be able to present and communicate information effectively
• Data Analytical Skills - ability to understand and work with big data sets in order to achieve desired outcome. Excel proficient.
• Self-starter – able to show initiative and drive projects to completion with guidance.

Education And Experience

• Matric
• Completed degree with a strong analytical focus in Actuarial Science / Mathematical Statistics/ Engineering, Business Science or related qualification
• Track record of innovation, delivery and performance
• Minimum of 2 – 3 years working experience within an Investment Technical Marketing environment or similar Industry