Job Opportunities at Sanlam

Location: Bellville, Western Cape, South Africa

What will you do?

1. Selling products telephonically
2. Achievement of sales targets and objectives
3. Adherence to Quality and Compliance processes to minimize business risk
4. Manage your quality & compliance against benchmarks to minimize business risk, with the client in mind
5. Maintain optimal operational efficiencies based on productivity measures
6. Adapt and change to fit in with changing business operational requirements
7. Resolve complaints and objections
8. Build and maintain good client relationships
9. Managing information regarding new products, rate changes, rulings, training updates etc.
10. Keep abreast of developments and trends in the Industry – self learning
11. Ensure commitment to the FAIS Fit & Proper qualification requirements
12. What will make you successful in this role?

Qualification & experience

1. Grade 12 or a relevant NQF 4 qualification
2. 2 years’ experience within a Sales Outbound Call Centre, or at least 2 years’ face to face sales experience (with targets attached to the sales)
3. Financial services experience (advantageous)

Knowledge and skills

1. Good understanding of Financial Services Industry related legislation and regulation
2. Understanding of sales processes and servicing industry
3. Outbound Sales experience is required
4. Fluency in English and one other South African official language
5. A clear criminal and credit record
6. Commitment to the FAIS Act and meeting Fit & Proper qualification requirements
7. Willingness to work overtime

Personal qualities

1. Selling skills
2. Computer literacy
3. Communication
4. Planning and organising
5. Building and maintaining relationships
6. Treating Customers Fairly 
7. Results Driven/Achievement orientated
8. Continuous learning
9. Tenacity

Core Competencies

1. Cultivates innovation - Contributing independently
2. Customer focus - Contributing independently
3. Drives results - Contributing independently
4. Collaborates - Contributing independently
5. Being resilient - Contributing independently

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What will you do?

Under general supervision schedules operational time of information systems in order to ensure that the information systems equipment is effectively utilised. Recommends standard policies and procedures for providing routine service. Coordinates preventive maintenance requirements with operating requirements.

What will make you successful in this role?

• Assist with management, implementation and configuration of application deployments to multiple target environments.
• Manage and maintain application platforms to ensure stability and continued high performance of said platforms and applications deployed thereon.
• Assist in implementing, managing and configuration of environment, platform and application monitoring.  
• Assisting in the constant investigation and configuration of the monitoring solution products to obtain best value for Business. 
• Continual investigation into best practices, methodologies and tooling for deployment, monitoring, release and configuration management and all other relevant disciplines. Documentation of the aforementioned investigation is compulsory.
•  Assist Change, Incident, Project and Release Management resources with reporting and provide consultation around runtime and deployment operations.
• Build, manage and maintain application platforms and ensure that best practices and governance is adhered to in current and future environments. 
• Ensure that tooling and platform obsolesce is avoided and managed in the form of roadmaps and upgrades. 
• Support of the currently employed toolsets and process. 
• Facilitate the automation of deployment workflows and processes, as well as platform/infrastructure provision and maintenance.

Qualifications and Experience
Qualifications

1. Matric
2. NQF5 or Undergraduate Degree in Information Technology/CompSci/Information Systems

Experience (preferable)

• 2-4 years in the field of Information Technology
• 1-3 years runtime operations support in some form
• 1-3 years as a basic Linux user
• 1-3 years in deployment operations

Knowledge

Application platform, maintenance, implementation and configuration of the following (or similar):

1. Apache Tomcat
2. Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
3. RedHat JBoss EAP (or Wildfly)
4. Infrastructure/Application configuration management tooling including the following (or similar):
5. DevOps tooling exposure
6. Atlassian JIRA (Issue tracking/work-piece Management)
7. Ansible
8. Chef
9. Puppet
10. Understand the concept of integration of web-based services and practical use of APIs, REST and SOAP services.
11. Understand conceptual makeup of the SDLC and in particular, with regards to the implementation phase, the change in responsibilities based on level of agility. 
12. Understanding and practical exposure to the generally accepted CI/CD principles and makeup of the pipeline.
13. Understanding of relationships and integration between host, operating system, platform and application layers. Knowledge of integration between application touch-points such as directory services (ie LDAP), databases, load balancers and reverse-proxies are also beneficial.

Personal Attributes

1. Interpersonal savvy - Contributing dependently
2. Decision quality - Contributing dependently
3. Action orientated - Contributing dependently
4. Optimises work processes - Contributing dependently
5. Build a successful career with us
6. We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping  our employees to realise their worth. Through its four business clusters – Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.

Core Competencies

1. Cultivates innovation - Contributing dependently
2. Customer focus - Contributing dependently
3. Drives results - Contributing dependently
4. Collaborates - Contributing dependently
5. Being resilient - Contributing dependently

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Job Purpose

Guided by senior developers you will be responsible for establishing new technology components and reusable solution patterns that can be leveraged by business facing development teams in their day-to-day solutions. You will constantly be developing and setting new principles, standards, processes, procedures, and guidelines for the wider BI community.

You should be able to communicate technical information to technical teams, as well as be competent in communicating challenges and solutions to project and operational leadership. An understanding of data management solutions and a keen sense of the strategic value of information to an organisation will be of importance. You will also be responsible for developing data warehousing blueprints, evaluating hardware and software platforms and integrating systems; translating business needs into long-term architecture solutions.

What will you do?

Main Responsibilities:

The performance of the Data Engineer can be described and measured by:

1. Define a structured approach to problem solving and delivery against it. 
2. Create role specific design standards, patterns and principles 
3. Assist the planning and management of the workload of the team and to ensure delivery
4. Load large, complex data sets to and make data available for other data engineers
5. Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing models for greater scalability
6. Working with other data engineers and data modellers, you will design, implement, and manage data vaults, data transformations and the data pipeline
7. Identify, design, and implement vault access layers to enable BI products to leverage the data within data vaults
8. Monitor and fine-tune data vaults and data transformations on the Cloudera Hadoop stack
9. Use modern development and modelling techniques and tools to implement BI and data management solutions, including data quality, metadata and reference data
10. Engage with a wide range of technical stakeholders including data scientists, data analysts, business analysts, other data engineers and solutions architects
11. Support data stewards to establish and enforce guidelines for data collection, quality improvements, integration, and processes

What will make you successful in this role?

Role Requirements:

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems, Engineering or another quantitative field / National Diploma in an Information Technology related discipline preferred

Work Experience:

The Data Engineer must have at least 3 to 4 years of relevant experience in a similar environment working with the relevant tools and techniques

Technical Knowledge and Experience:

• The Data Engineer is someone with a strong understanding of data, data structures and data sources. Required skills include:
• Application and data engineering background with a solid background in SQL is required 
• Knowledge of database management system (DBMS) physical implementation, including tables, joins and SQL querying.
• Data architecture design and delivery experience preferred
• Experience in Database technologies (e.g. SAP Hana, or similar) or Hadoop components including HDFS, Hive, Spark, Oozie and Impala preferred and highly advantageous.   
• Object-oriented/object functional scripting languages (e.g. Python, Java, Scala or related)
• Knowledge and experience of structured data, such as entities, classes, hierarchies, relationships and metadata.
• Strong Data Engineering background with a specific focus on staging high quality data
• Understanding of data warehousing principles (e.g. Kimball and Vault).
• Experience in agile development
• Ability to comply to and manage data assets under a strict governance framework
• Desirable/ preferred skills include:
• Data warehousing (Kimball and Data Vault patterns are preferred) and dimensional data modelling (e.g. OLAP and MDX experience)
• Experience in developing data pipelines using ETL tools (e.g. SAP Data Services), automation (e.g. Wherescape), scheduling and test automation (e.g. Robot) is desirable
• A solid background in SQL, Information Architecture and ETL procedures is required
• Experience with object-oriented/functional/scripting languages (e.g. Python, Unix Shell scripting, Java, Scala etc.) is preferred but not essential. 
• Data Management technologies (e.g. Informatica Data Quality (IDQ), Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog (EDC), Axon, EBX) 
• Event/Streaming based data pipelines (e.g. Kafka or Nifi) nice to have

Competencies:

1. Strong analytical & numerical ability
2. Problem solving skills
3. Conceptual thinker
4. Good communication / interpersonal skills
5. Action / results orientation
6. Quality orientation
7. Knowledge seeking / learning orientation
8. IT Data Analysis 
9. Database Knowledge and Monitoring 
10. Data Security 
11. Risk Management 
12. Strong analytical-thinking and problem-solving abilities
13. Ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information 
14. Strong technical and operational ability 
15. Deadline-driven, even in pressurised and fast-paced environments

Personal Attributes

1. Organisational savvy - Contributing through others
2. Manages complexity - Contributing through others
3. Plans and aligns - Contributing through others
4. Optimises work processes - Contributing through others

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What will you do?

1. Selling products telephonically
2. Achievement of sales targets and objectives
3. Adherence to Quality and Compliance processes to minimize business risk
4. Manage your quality & compliance against benchmarks to minimize business risk, with the client in mind
5. Maintain optimal operational efficiencies based on productivity measures
6. Adapt and change to fit in with changing business operational requirements
7. Resolve complaints and objections
8. Build and maintain good client relationships
9. Managing information regarding new products, rate changes, rulings, training updates etc.
10. Keep abreast of developments and trends in the Industry – self learning
11. Ensure commitment to the FAIS Fit & Proper qualification requirements

What will make you successful in this role?

Qualification & experience

1. Grade 12 or a relevant NQF 4 qualification
2. 2 years’ experience within a Sales Outbound Call Centre, or at least 2 years’ face to face sales experience (with targets attached to the sales)
3. Financial services experience (advantageous)

Knowledge and skills

1. Good understanding of Financial Services Industry related legislation and regulation
2. Understanding of sales processes and servicing industry
3. Outbound Sales experience is required
4. Fluency in English and one other South African official language
5. A clear criminal and credit record
6. Commitment to the FAIS Act and meeting Fit & Proper qualification requirements
7. Willingness to work overtime

Personal qualities

1. Selling skills
2. Computer literacy
3. Communication
4. Planning and organising
5. Building and maintaining relationships
6. Treating Customers Fairly 
7. Results Driven/Achievement orientated
8. Continuous learning
9. Tenacity

Core Competencies

1. Cultivates innovation - Contributing independently
2. Customer focus - Contributing independently
3. Drives results - Contributing independently
4. Collaborates - Contributing independently
5. Being resilient - Contributing independently
6. Build a successful career with us

We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping  our employees to realise their worth. Through its four business clusters – Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.

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What will you do?

This role will report to the Business Manager.

Your primary focus will be to work with brokers being the interface between themselves and Sanlam to reach business objectives in a dynamic, innovative and high performance business. This is a third party marketing role and the Broker Consultant markets and promotes Sanlam products to Brokers. The Broker Consultant seeks to build a trusting and partnering relationship that seeks to build new business opportunities; supports and up-skill Brokers with relevant information, tools and technologies that will enable them in their practice.

Output/Core Tasks:

Your success will come from:

• Promoting and marketing the company products
• Building strong relationships with brokers
• Providing efficient service
• Meeting and exceeding your targets
• Supporting brokers in their practices and assist them to grow their businesses

What's in it for you?

• Unique remuneration structure that will see you well rewarded for your success
• Get to manage your own income
• Work with visionaries in the industry who value entrepreneurship and creativity
• Represent one of the top well-respected South African companies
• Be invested in and grow your talents

What will make you successful in this role?

Qualification and Experience:

• Completed Business/Commerce/Marketing degree
• Preferably Post graduate diploma in Financial Planning/RFP3/Wealth Management 3
• Goal and target motivated
• Sales and marketing orientation
• Natural relationship-builder
• At least three years Broker Consultant experience and currently in a Broker Consultant role

Knowledge and Skills:

To be successful you will need to demonstrate good experience in:

• The financial services industry, specifically in life insurance
• Marketing principles and sales skills in order to meet your targets
• Experience in third-party marketing
• Relevant regulatory legislation and compliance knowledge
• Willingness to travel
• Must have a valid driver's licence and reliable motor vehicle

Personal qualities:

• Cultivates innovation
• Client centricity
• Results driven
• Collaboration
• Flexibility and adaptability
• Decision quality
• Action orientated
• Plans and aligns
• Business insights
• Treating customers fairly

Build a successful career with us

We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping  our employees to realise their worth. Through its four business clusters – Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.

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What will you do?

Guided by Architecture and a Technical Team Lead you will be responsible for establishing new technology components and reusable solution patterns that can be leveraged by business facing development teams in their day-to-day solutions. You will constantly be developing and setting new principles, standards, processes, procedures and guidelines for the wider BI community.

You should be able to communicate technical information to technical teams, as well as be competent in communicating challenges and solutions to project and operational leadership. An understanding of data management solutions and a keen sense of the strategic value of information to an organisation will be of importance. You will also be responsible for developing data warehousing blueprints, evaluating hardware and software platforms and integrating systems; translating business needs into long-term architecture solutions. 
 

What will make you successful in this role?

• Ability to define a structured approach to problem solving and delivery against it. 
• Ability to create design standards, patterns and principles. 
• Ability to define a structured approach to problem solving and delivery against it. 
• Creation of role specific design standards, patterns and principles. 
• Data management, development and modelling.
• Engage with a wide range of technical stakeholders including data scientists, business analysts, data engineers, database administrators and solutions architects.
• Mentor Junior Full Stack Developers.

Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems, Engineering or another quantitative field or,
• National Diploma in an Information Technology related discipline preferred

Experience

• 3 - 8 years related experience
• Application and data engineering background with a solid background in SQL is required
• Data architecture design and delivery experience preferred
• Experience in 3 or more of the following areas are required:
  • Database technologies (e.g. SAP Hana, Teradata or similar) and database development (Views, Functions and Stored Procedure development)
  • Hadoop components including HDFS, Hive, Spark, Oozie and Impala
  • Object-oriented/object functional scripting languages: Python, Java, Scala or related
  • ETL tools (e.g. SAP Data Services)
  • Event/Streaming based data pipelines (e.g. Kafka or Nifi)
  • Data warehousing (Kimball and Data Vault patterns are preferred) and dimensional data modelling (OLAP and MDX experience)

Knowledge and Skills

• IT Data Analysis
• Project Oversight
• Reporting and Administration
• Quality, Compliance and Accreditation
• Business Requirements Definition
• Technologies

Personal Attributes

1. Manages complexity - Contributing independently
2. Optimises work processes - Contributing independently
3. Organisational savvy - Contributing independently
4. Plans and aligns - Contributing independently

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Our local and offshore investment products cover the full investment spectrum: active and passive; single and multi-manager – both locally and internationally. Our active funds range are managed according to our pragmatic value investing style.

What will you do?

• Build, maintain and strengthen the relationship between SCI and allocated institutional clients, ensuring to deliver excellent client service.
• Identification & translation of client needs & servicing requests
• Ensure all client requests, enquiries and complaints are resolved and communication to the client within our internal or contracted SLAs
• Oversee client on boarding and new fund launch for allocated clients
• Oversee and sign off on all fund related changes and all fund related changes
• Oversee regulatory compliance breaches of allocated clients in line with internal policies and regulations.
• Negotiate and review Partner Agreements (incl. SLAs & fee agreements)
• Perform Due Diligences (including onsite visits) for allocated clients, and produce reports highlighting areas of concern and the mitigation actions to resolve.
• Reporting on client relationship status to the Exco.

What will make you successful in this role?

Qualifications & Experience:

• Relevant tertiary qualification (BCom/ BBusSci or similar)
• A minimum of 7  years’ experience within the Financial Services industry.

Technical Competencies:

• Previous experience within the unit trust industry would be beneficial
• Knowledge and understanding of legislation such as CISCA, BN90, BN 52 and Regulation 28, etc. would be beneficial
• Negotiation skills would be essential
• Proficiency on MS Office (word, excel and PowerPoint)

Behaviour/characteristics

• Client centric at all times
• Sense of urgency
• Ongoing self-development
• Self-starter
• initiative

Core Skills:

• Communication: As the liaison for the customer and the rest of the company, the KAM has to excel at communicating in person, telephonically, via email, and across teams.
• Company and Client Expertise: The KAM must possess an in-depth knowledge of the SCI and its outsourced vendors’ processes, systems, team structures and individual roles and responsibilities, regulatory requirements and its customer needs. This expertise allows them to identify the best opportunities for growth and service to the client.
• Strategic Perspective: As the key contact between SCI and our strategic clients, they must possess an ability to develop mutually beneficial client relationships. They must have a thorough understand of SCI’s strategic objectives and initiatives and ensure fund managers and our service to them remain aligned with the organisation at all times.  Also have a good understanding of our industry
• Negotiation skills: the KAM’s goal is to build the lifetime value of their client and have the negotiation skills to ensure a mutually beneficially partnership for both client and SCI. They also have to negotiate with internal delivery teams of specialists to support the resolution of client enquiries and complaints.
• Critical thinking/problem solving: The KAM needs to engage with the right people and ask relevant questions in order to establish the root causes of problem and ensure effective solutions are reached.
• Discretion: Know your own limitations or gaps in knowledge to ensure the clients receive the most professional service at all times.

Qualification and Experience

Degree or Diploma with 6 to 8 years related experience.

Knowledge and Skills

• Technical advice and support
• Production target achievement and budgeting
• Compliance and risk management
• Client relationship management
• Business plan development and implementation

Personal Attributes

1. Business insight - Contributing through others
2. Interpersonal savvy - Contributing through others
3. Decision quality - Contributing through others
4. Plans and aligns - Contributing through others

Build a successful career with us

We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping  our employees to realise their worth. Through its four business clusters – Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.

Core Competencies

Cultivates innovation - Contributing through others

Customer focus - Contributing through others

Drives results - Contributing through others

Collaborates - Contributing through others

Being resilient - Contributing through others

Turnaround time

The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers. 

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What will you do?

Guided by Architecture and a Technical Team Lead you will be responsible for establishing new technology components and reusable solution patterns that can be leveraged by business facing development teams in their day-to-day solutions. You will constantly be developing and setting new principles, standards, processes, procedures and guidelines for the wider BI community.

Communicate technical information to technical teams, as well as communicating challenges and solutions to project and operational leadership. An understanding of data management solutions and a keen sense of the strategic value of information to an organisation will be of importance. You will also be responsible for developing data warehousing blueprints, evaluating hardware and software platforms and integrating systems; translating business needs into long-term architecture solutions. 

What will make you successful in this role?

• Ability to define a structured approach to problem solving and delivery against it. 
• Ability to create design standards, patterns and principles 
• Ability to define a structured approach to problem solving and delivery against it. 
• Creation of role specific design standards, patterns and principles 
• Data management, development and modelling
• Engage with a wide range of technical stakeholders including data scientists, business analysts, data engineers, database administrators and solutions architects.
• Mentor Junior Full Stack Developers

Qualification and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems, Engineering or another quantitative field / National Diploma in an Information Technology related discipline preferred
• 3- 8 years related experience
• Application and data engineering background with a solid background in SQL is required 
• Data architecture design and delivery experience preferred

Experience in three (3) or more of the following areas is required:

• Database technologies (e.g. SAP Hana, Teradata or similar) and database development (Views, Functions and Stored Procedure development)
• Hadoop components including HDFS, Hive, Spark, Oozie and Impala
• Object-oriented/object functional scripting languages: Python, Java, Scala or related.
• ETL tools (e.g. SAP Data Services)
• Event/Streaming based data pipelines (e.g. Kafka or Nifi)
• Data warehousing (Kimball and Data Vault patterns are preferred) and dimensional data modelling (OLAP and MDX experience)

Skills

• IT Data Analysis 
• Database Knowledge and Monitoring 
• Data Security 
• Risk Management 

Core Competencies

1. Being resilient - Contributing independently
2. Collaborates - Contributing independently
3. Cultivates innovation - Contributing independently
4. Customer focus - Contributing independently
5. Drives results - Contributing independently

Personal Attributes

1. Manages complexity - Contributing independently
2. Optimises work processes - Contributing independently
3. Organisational savvy - Contributing independently
4. Plans and aligns - Contributing independently

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What will you do?

As a member of the Sanlam Group Technology(SGT) Managed Applications team, you will be is responsible for implementation, integration & deployments for various standalone applications across the Sanlam group, however this role is mostly focused on support for our WordPress Solutions. These websites are developed by external vendors or internal dev teams & you will form part of the team that ensures it is implemented within our environment according to SGT standards as well as managed and maintained within business agreed SLA’s.

For this role, we require a candidate who is eager to learn backend application configuration and installations.  Your role will be to deploy and manage and number of WordPress solutions and ensure it meets our deployment and security standards.

What will make you successful in this role?

• Experience in managing, hosting and supporting WordPress websites
• Experience in managing, hosting and supporting WordPress ecommerce websites
• Exposure to DB platforms like MSSQL, Mariadb, MySql, MongoDb, etc
• Exposure to Moodle LMS
• Understanding Linux OS, esp RHEL, Debian or Ubuntu
• Able to troubleshoot WordPress issues and knowledge on WordPress backend
• Understanding the concept of automated/continuous deployments and branching on repos eg: git, tortoise svn, etc
• Able to troubleshoot issues related to application hosting on a server level
• Have a basic understanding of the Windows & Linux Server environments
• Install applications on a server, based on online or vendor documentation 
• Provide written progress reports to colleagues and managers 
• Create weekly / monthly reports on environment stability
• Create weekly / monthly reports on incidents and requests
• Perform Release Management (Software, Hardware & Services) Activities
• Perform Change Management Activities, including Logging of changes, Attending Pre- / E- & Weekly CAB
• Assist with Operation Support
• Assist with application documentation 

Qualifications and Experience

Qualifications

• Matric
• Degree or Diploma in Information Technology

Experience

• Minimum of 1 year experience in WordPress
• Some experience in jquery and bootstrap would be advantageous
• Knowledge of one of more of SGT’s Clients Business and Systems will be advantageous

Knowledge and Skills

1. Problem Tracking Tools
2. Computer Installation
3. Compliance Monitoring
4. Computer Operations Knowledge
5. Information Reporting

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What will you do?

As an API Gateway Integration resource in the GSA: Managed Application Services team, you will be is responsible for managing implementations, integration & deployments for various standalone applications across the Sanlam group on. You are expected to ensure 99% uptime for all hosting platforms, especially platforms related to the API solution.  Your responsibility includes dealing with various stakeholders including application developers, architects, end-to-end architects, project managers, management teams, change management, incident management, etc. It will be your responsibility to ensure standards are implemented and maintained, and also manage and maintained SLA’s with various clients.

What will make you successful in this role?

• Be a trusted subject matter expert in System Integration and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
• Previous work experience in an Integration and/or API gateway platform
• General understanding of good API Management practices
• Ensuring stability in the API integration platform through appropriate DevOps practices (documentation, monitoring, performance monitoring, automated deployment, CI/CD pipelines)
• Maintain or improve on current High Availability of platform during outages or Disaster Recovery exercises.
• Interacting with internal and external stakeholder including developers, project manager, product management, technical support to understand and support their API needs
• General knowledge and understanding of Linux RHEL (or similar) operating system
• Understanding of following DB technologies: MS SQL, Mariadb, MySql, MySql Enterprise, DB2, Oracle, Postgres
• Understanding the following concepts: Load balancing, DNS configuration, Firewalls and whitelisting, network perimeters, server proxies, SSL/TLS encryption, REST services, SOAP services, API management
• Able to troubleshoot issues related to application hosting on a server level
• Create weekly / monthly reports on environment stability
• Create weekly / monthly reports on incidents and requests
• Perform Release Management (Software, Hardware & Services) Activities
• Perform Configuration Control Activities
• Perform Change Management Activities, including Logging of changes, Attending Pre- / E- & Weekly CAB

Qualification and Experience

Qualifications

• Matric
• IT related Degree or Diploma in Information Technology

Experience

• 3+ years relevant IT experience.
• 3+ Years IT Experience in a technical specialist role / leadership role
• Experience in Client relationship management
• Knowledge of one of more of Sanlam Group Technology's Clients Business' and Systems will be an advantage

Personal Attributes

1. Decision quality - Contributing through others
2. Organisational savvy - Contributing through others
3. Optimises work processes - Contributing through others
4. Plans and aligns - Contributing through others

Build a successful career with us

We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping  our employees to realise their worth. Through its four business clusters – Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.