Job Opportunities at Old Mutual

Job Description

The My Old Mutual team is a dynamic division within Old Mutual Limited, which seeks to drive digital engagement with customers by being at the forefront of digital development and innovation. Old Mutual’s longstanding history and unquestionable success in the financial industry, provide a solid foundation for expansion of its digital platform. The Digital & Data team applies customer-focused design thinking, agile and lean development methodologies, and continuous delivery practices.

The Tech Lead API Developer leads the development of high-quality designs and solutions. This role requires participation in technical designs and the development and maintenance of software and other digital applications or services. The incumbent will be expected to create prototypes, develop user-centred software, and advise on technical specifications. This role requires fundamentals in engineering practices, an analytical and data-driven approach to problem solving, while following the DevOps, SRE and Cloud Based practices.

Responsibilities

Develop technical specifications and software application architecture and designs

• Create and test software prototypes
• Follow Agile methodologies (SCRUM / Kanban)
• Work in a DEVOPS culture
• Design and implement test strategy and/or test plans.
• Provide sizing and scoping for development work required
• Operate as a subject matter expert across program initiatives
• Responsible for the software development life cycle, taking the lead on software development projects
• Apply engineering principles for design, development, maintenance, testing and evaluation of software
• Management of development tasks
• Facilitate code design and code reviews
• Ensure that software development tasks are well coordinated
• Apply knowledge relating to the Architecture of relevant systems
• Develop and improve the tools to enable software development
• Balance trade-offs between design and implementation
• Identify issues that will enhance system quality, development, and standard operating procedures
• Client engagement to drive new products/ features and to ensure operational excellence
• Work closely with multi-skilled and cross-functional teams e.g., architects, developers, UX designers, business analysts
• Drive technology design and implementation
• Enable rapid iteration
• Draft technical specifications
• Monitor application performance
• Operational support for product issues raised to the development team
• Ensure systems are scalable, responsive, robust, and secure

Experience & QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

• Matric, with a degree in Computer Science/ Engineering/ Mathematics or related
• 5+ years of experience in API development
• 3+ years of experience in leading application development
• Knowledge and experience in technologies such as:
• Containerisation: Kubernetes, Docker
• CI/CD - Jenkins, AWS Code Commit
• AWS (preferred) or another cloud provider such as AZURE or Google Cloud Platform
• Confluence, Jira
• Microsoft Teams, Slack
• IaC: Terraform/Cloudformation
• .Netcore/ Kotlin/Java
• Performance testing (Locust/Jmeter/Gatling etc.)
• Contract testing (e.g., Pact, Postman, Neman)
• Familiarity with Architecture and Design: Microservice, Serverless architectures, Event Driven Architecture / API First / Domain driven design
• Familiarity with Test-Driven Development Build cloud based functional APIs at an enterprise level
• Knowledge of coding design patterns

Competencies Required

Customer focus

• Multi-functional team collaboration
• Data-driven and attention to detail and big picture
• Action Oriented
• Continuous Improvement Management
• Automation
• Problem Finding and Solving
• Conflict management and resolution
• High EQ

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Job Description

We are looking for a Full Stack Developer to produce scalable software solutions who will be part of a cross-functional team responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment.

As a Full Stack Developer, you should be comfortable with front-end and back-end coding languages, development frameworks, and third-party libraries.

You should also be a team player with a knack for visual design and utility.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

Work with the development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions

• Design client-side and server-side architecture
• Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design
• Write effective APIs
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
• Build features and applications with responsive designs
• Write technical documentation
• Work with analysts to improve software

Role Requirements And Personal Qualities

• 5- 8 years + web application development experience using the ASP.NET framework
• Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies
• Experience developing web applications.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies, frameworks and libraries
• Advanced knowledge of C# programming language.
• Familiarity with databases web servers
• Experience with common version control systems such as Git
• Good communicator at multiple levels and across multiple disciplines
• Team Player, able to provide input into a multifunctional team
• Self-motivated, capable of working with limited supervision, pro-actively reporting on status and tasks
• Adaptable.
• The role requires a willingness to take on tasks outside of a narrowly defined role, and ideally a desire to be multi-skilled
• Capable of working to both tactical and strategic time-scales
• Great attention to detail

Skills

Agile Methodologies, Coding Languages, C Sharp (Programming Language), Web Application Development

Education

• Bachelor of Information Technology (BIT

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Job Description

This role is responsible for providing advanced or specialist legal support. It also partakes in actions related to commercial lease agreements, legal risk management, and compliance control. The incumbent is individually accountable for achieving results through own efforts over periods of up to 3 months

Key Responsibilities 

• Contract management:
• The successful candidate will be responsible for drafting, reviewing, negotiating terms of complex commercial lease agreements.
• Drafting, reviewing and negotiating property procurement / vendor agreements, brokerage and other agreements within the retail & office property sector.
• Offer legal advice on the structuring of above agreements to the Property Shop’s team members responsible for contracting.
• Ensure proper recording of contractual transactions’ terms and conditions in accordance to property and procurement committees’ approvals, as well as communication to all impacted stakeholders (e.g. rental payments, beneficial occupation dates, lease periods etc).

Legal advisory

• The successful candidate will be responsible to fulfil a legal advisory role to the Property Shop and Anchorage on all legal matters.
• Provide legal opinions / comments on legislation and common law as far as it related to the business activities of the Property Shop and Anchorage.
• Accountable for advising the legal aspects of the Properties Shop and Anchorage in order to support their operations and strategy, including engagement with landlords, property management companies, clients, vendors/suppliers etc in matters of dispute.
• Attend to legal issues in respect of properties, maintenance and general disputes. Risk management & compliance:
• Contributes to the appropriate management of legal risk and compliance within the area of responsibility.
• Facilitates mitigating potential risk situations.
• Ensure compliance with relevant legislation impacting the Property Shop and Anchorage, including but not limited to the Estate Agency Affairs Act & Regulations, Property Practitioners Act & Regulations, POPIA, Companies Act etc.
• Ensure compliance with OML & OMF policies
• Performing internal lease audits: reconciliation of contents of Agreements of Lease with Minutes. Offer to Lease, Vetting requirements, Letters of Acceptance, Legal and Project Memos in terms of the Property Shop Protocol.
• Compiling and Finalizing the Agenda and Minutes for the Property Committee Meetings.

Personal Effectiveness

• Accountable for service delivery through own efforts.
• Individually accountable for managing own time, tasks and output quality.
• Collaborates effectively with others to achieve personal results.
• Accepts and lives the company values.

Skills

Education

• Bachelor Of Laws (LLB) (Required), Matriculation Certificate (Matric) (Required)

Closing Date

• 30 August 2022

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To complement the existing cross-functional team, Old Mutual is looking for a Senior Lead Data Engineer who will design and implement scalable and robust processes to support the data engineering capability. This role will be responsible for implementing and supporting large-scale data ecosystems across the Group. This thought leader will use best practices in cloud engineering, data management and data storage to continue our drive to optimize the way that data is stored, consumed and ultimately democratized. The incumbent will also collaborate with stakeholders across the organisation with use of the Data Engineering practices to facilitate the improvement in the way that data is stored and consumed.

Design and implement scalable and robust processes for ingesting and transforming complex datasets.

• Designs, develops, constructs, maintains and supports data pipelines for ETL from a multitude of sources.
• Creates blueprints for data management systems to centralize, protect, and maintain data sources.
• Focused on data stewardship and curation, the data engineer enables the data scientist to run their models and analyses to achieve the desired business outcomes
• Ingest large, complex data sets that meet functional and non-functional requirements.
• Enable the business to solve the problem of working with large volumes of data in diverse formats, and in doing so, enable innovative solutions.
• Design and build bulk and delta data lift patterns for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data.
• Ensure that all data solutions support the organisation’s cloud strategy and aligns to the data architecture and governance including implementation of these data governance practices.
• Engineer data in the appropriate formats for downstream customers, risk and product analytics or enterprise applications.
• Development of API’s for returning data to Enterprise Applications.
• Identify, design and implement robust process improvement activities to drive efficiency and automation for greater scalability. This includes looking at new solutions and new ways of working and being on the forefront of emerging technologies.
• Work with various stakeholders across the organisation to understand data requirements and apply deep technical knowledge of data management to solve key business problems.
• Provide specialised support in the operational environment with all relevant support teams for data services.
• Effective management of demand across the various data streams and use cases.
• Create and maintain functional requirements, system process and system specifications in support of data architecture and detailed design specifications for current and future designs.
• Support test and deployment of new services and features.
• Provides technical leadership to a team of intermediate and junior data engineers, and Quality Assurance engineers.
• Ensure robust collaboration and alignment with Group Solution, Data and Security Architects and manages engagement with business stakeholders effectively.

Role & Qualifications Requirements

• Matric, with a degree in Computer Science, Business Informatics, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics or Engineering.
• 5+ years of data engineering experience
• 5+ years of experience with any data warehouse technical architectures, ETL/ELT, and reporting/analytics tools including , but not limited to , any of the following combinations (1) SSIS and SSRS, (2) ETL Frameworks, (3) Data conformance, (4) Caching, (5) Spark (6) AWS data builds
• The candidate having DBA ability and knowledge across at least 2 platforms (example: TSQL, SAS, PSQL, IBM VSAM, DynamoDB and DB2) will also be beneficial.
• Tends towards Full-Stack engineer with experience across a broad spectrum of technology domains, technologies and Engineering practices
• Highly Proficient in at least one of Python, Java, C/C++ or similar
• Should be Proficient in bash/ksh, perl, SQL
• Experience with R, AWS, XML, json, cron
• Experience with designing and implementing Cloud (AWS) solutions including full use of all APIs available.
• Experience with Dev/OPS architecture, implementation and operation.
• Knowledge of Engineering and Operational Excellence using standard methodologies. Best practices in software engineering, data management, data storage, data computing and distributed systems to solve business problems with data.
• Experience in applying SAFe/Scrum/Kanban methodologies.
• Knowledge and understanding of business process management lifecycle which covers the design, modelling, execution, monitoring, and optimization as well as business process re-engineering.
• Strong problem solving skills demonstrating the ability to exercise judgment in solving technical, operational, and organizational challenges.
• Identify issues proactively and present solutions and options leading to a stable and resilient resolution.
• Expert programming, performance tuning and troubleshooting skills, using the latest popular programming languages such as python, scala, java and suite of Microsoft languages C# and F# preferable.

COMPETENCIES

• Collaboration and precise communication
• Establishing and maintaining strong working relationships with stakeholders across all levels
• Strategic thinking
• Leading with Influence
• Innovating and being curious about technology
• Quality in execution and outcomes
• Customer First attitude
• Personal Mastery (Learning)
• Problem Solving
• Data Management
• Working with ambiguity
• Working independently and within a team

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Job Description

Responsible for processing of all cancellation or surrender requests of policies including but not limited to handling inbound and outbound calls.

• Handle incoming and outgoing sales calls in accordance with predetermined schedules, campaigns and targets.
• Deal with all customers in a professional manner in strict accordance with businesses culture, products and quality standards.
• Manage time and workloads to ensure that deadlines and targets are met.
• Demonstrate an excellent knowledge of the business product offerings, campaigns, rules and conditions in order to recommend the right solution to the customer.
• Perform proactive and reactive activities designed to retain customers including but not limited to contacting clients to advise them of unsuccessful premium collection.
• Offer retention solutions appropriate to the product, recording insights related to the activity performed.
• Maintain accurate and complete record of all retention actions taken.
• Analyse clients portfolio in terms of loss ratio rates, discounts and assess whether the client can be retained within retention guidelines.
• Accept full responsibility for all telephone calls, emails and messages to the department relative to retention in line with the business policies.
• Utilize the in-depth knowledge of in-house policy wordings, underwriting rules, policy and procedures, as well as that of competitors to offer a compelling value proposition for customer retention.
• Maintain and build client relationships with all relevant business stakeholders.

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Job Description

• The Senior Solution Architect primarily works with the business domain experts and business leadership to craft a solution that is fit for purpose from a business perspective.
• Consequently they focus their attention on a smaller facet of service (the solution package) to make sure that it operates effectively as part of the whole as well as independently as a stand-alone solution.
• Focusses on the technical and business feasibility of a solution and ensure that it fits within well-established patterns and guidelines laid down by the enterprise architects and solution practice architects.
• Takes responsibility for the quality, commercial compliance and technical integrity of the solution being delivered back into the business.
• Works actively with senior technology / platform systems analysts from across the operational space (both internal subject matter experts and those of the chosen suppliers).
• Could have a small team of solution architects under his/her guidance.
• Defines and maintains solution design standards, patterns and guidelines for the development, deployment and operation of secure solutions across the application, information and technology domains for the allocated Segment.
• Governs and assists secure solution development (with a a focus on cloud-based solutions) to ensure conformance to the enterprise IT architectural standards and industry best practices.
• Governs and assists in the Secure Systems Development Life Cycle Management of solutions to promote adherence to enterprise IT architecture principles and support the OML IT stategy.
• Sucessfully employs behavioural skills critical for the workplace such as communication, documentation, presentation skills, conflict resolution, collaboration, stakeholder management, emotional intelligence, team leadership, time management, problem solving and working well under pressure.
• Researches material, sells concepts and encourages business to assess and refocus both its business and IT strategy, using multiple architectural models or views, e.g. conceptual, physical and logical designs.
• Provides options and recommendations to business stakeholders to ensure that they can make the best business decisions based on the different solution alternatives and patterns.
• Uses the Design Thinking process to focus on distinct customer-centric purpose-led solutions, framing the product or service around the needs, wants, and limitations of end-users.
• Contributes toward the development and maintenance of a detailed enterprise IT architecture through the involvement of relevant stakeholders, as well as key internal and external forums.
• Provides long-term management of the IT Architecture Practice and Strategy for the allocated Segment.
• Provides input to Enterprise IT Strategy, Policies and Principles.
• Ensures that solution designs are presented and approved through the Solution Review processes.
• Acts on expert advice and supports engagements with strategic vendors including playing a key role i.t.o RFx processes.
• Collaborating with architects to design and implement cloud-based solutions, emphasizing security, usability, performance, integrity, reliability, scalability and supportability.
• Mentoring and upskilling of solution architects.

Requirements

• 5 - 8 years architecture experience plus a relevant tertiary qualification.
• Multi-disciplinary application of wide knowledge spanning business and technology.
• Relevant cloud-platform (AWS is preferred) architectural certifications and best practice implementations, with a minimum of 2 years experience of working with cloud technologies.
• Experience with various architecture frameworks - e.g. TOGAF.
• Experience with the Lean and Agile philosophies as well as DevOps practices.
• Knowledge of scaled agile frameworks - e.g. SAFe.

Closing Date

• 20 September 2022