Job Vacancies at Sanlam

What will you do?

As a member of the BI / Data Platform team, analyse, design and enable processes and solutions aimed at improving the ability of the delivery streams leveraging the data platform to deliver business value from data, orchestrating and automating the data analytics development and release pipeline to make it more flexible while maintaining a high level of quality.

This role enables change in the organisation by defining needs and recommending solutions that deliver value to stakeholders. The candidate will work in a platform enablement and delivery team, in an Agile environment with a specific focus on the Business Intelligence (BI) and/or Data domain.

What will make you successful in this role?

Analysis

• Systems and data analysis of business value stream and/or platform requirements.

• Document and maintain the set of system, functional and/or technical requirements together with the associated rationale, effort, decisions, dependencies and assumptions.

• Development of technical specifications for product and process requirements, including integration mapping.

• Manage traceability between the system requirements and derived artifacts including system models to the relevant detail.

• Creation of the needed system designs as required, including but not limited to logical system design, Logical Data Models, high level and /or conceptual solution designs, UI prototypes, end user and reports. 

• Identification of potential risks/issues and give input to risk mitigation plan.

• Scoping and estimation.

• Ensure adequate tests are performed for all configuration and development tasks and ensure results are successful. Ensure testing yields an acceptable level of performance for the changes being delivered and the systems is not adversely affected.

• Continuously assess own performance, seek timely and clear feedback and request training where appropriate.

 

Stakeholder Engagement

• Cultivate and manage objective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including end-users, SME’s, project managers and senior staff members by providing input to validate business requirements.

• Liaise and communicate the system requirements to the necessary audiences e.g. testers, developers, business analysts, infrastructure, production support, systems analyst (other areas of the business), etc.

• Advise and enable platform and delivery workstreams data development and release pipeline.

 

Coaching/Mentorship

• Coaching and mentoring of junior analysts.

• Participate and contribute to a development culture where information regarding successes, issues, trends and ideas are actively shared.

• Provides problem solving assistance to other team members.

• Coach and assist junior team members.

 

DataOps

• Defining and supporting the workspace process and technologies that others use to source, transform and manifest BI solutions.

• Definition of, enablement and optimisation of effective data engineering and release processes, practices and tooling.

• Enablement of a high-performance data analytics team that rapidly produces new analytics and flexibly responds to marketplace demands while maintaining impeccable quality.

• Establishment and optimisation of environment and processes through which the delivery teams build the data products, including the monitoring of data pipelines and infrastructure as well as the governance of the data engineering practices.

Qualification

Diploma/Bachelor Degree (Information Systems; Statistics; Data or Computer Science; Engineering) or equivalent (preferred but not essential)

Experience

• 2-5 years of experience in planning and management of business and/or system analysis activities through delivery
• 2-5 years of experience in a complex Data and or BI environment preferred
• Ability to translate business requirements into non-technical terms
• Strong stakeholder management experience
• Experience in leading complex projects
• Self-starter with the ability to work in a fast-paced, agile environment
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and decision-making skills
• Excellent presentation and facilitation skills
• Experience in agile development desired
• Experience of working in the technology/ digital industry (or similar)
• Business experience in financial services would be advantageous
• Background and/or qualifications related to business and systems analysis preferred
• Ability to translate business requirements into non-technical terms
• Strong analytical-thinking and problem-solving abilities
• Ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information 

 

Knowledge and Skills

• Operating system software and hardware and utility software
• Software installations and upgrades
• Business requirements
• Security management

Personal Attributes

• Interpersonal savvy - Contributing independently
• Decision quality - Contributing independently
• Plans and aligns - Contributing independently
• Optimises work processes - Contributing independently

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 independently
• Customer focus - Contributing independently
• Drives results - Contributing independently
• Collaborates - Contributing independently
• Being resilient - Contributing independently

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. 

Closing Date: 30 October 2021

Our commitment to transformation

The Sanlam Group is committed to achieving transformation and embraces diversity.  This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace as we believe that these are key components to ensuring a thriving and sustainable business in South Africa.  The Group's Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the selection process.

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What will make you successful in this role?

Logical Access Administration:
Service new requests to create, adjust  and remove users and access on the following environments:

• Microsoft Active Directory

• IBM Tivoli Identity Manager

• Sanlam Mainframe applications

• Santam Mainframe

• J.D.Edwards

• AJS

• Web-E

• Service requests to grant access to File Shares and Exchange

• Microsoft Exchange

Logical Access Incident Management:

• Investigate and resolve logical access incidents

• Document and report risks if incident points to a larger problem

• Escalate according to agreed procedures if risk is high.

Project Interactions:

• Provide Information security requirements (related to logical access administration and review) to projects

• Support projects by testing administrative user interfaces and processes

Qualifications and Experience:

• Grade 12

• A minimum of 2 to 5 years Microsoft Administration experience (scripting, helpdesk type experience)

• Some IBM Mainframe experience will be beneficial.

• Experience in logical access administration or a good understanding of information security principles (Security+) will be beneficial.

• MCSA/MCSE will also be beneficial

Personal Attributes

• Action orientated - Contributing independently
• Decision quality - Contributing independently
• Interpersonal savvy - Contributing independently
• Optimises work processes - Contributing independently

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

• Being resilient - Contributing independently
• Collaborates - Contributing independently
• Cultivates innovation - Contributing independently
• Customer focus - Contributing independently
• Drives results - Contributing independently

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. 

Our commitment to transformation

The Sanlam Group is committed to achieving transformation and embraces diversity.  This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace as we believe that these are key components to ensuring a thriving and sustainable business in South Africa.  The Group's Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the selection process.

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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 

 

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Core Competencies

• Being resilient - Contributing independently
• Collaborates - Contributing independently
• Cultivates innovation - Contributing independently
• Customer focus - Contributing independently
• Drives results - Contributing independently

Personal Attributes

• Manages complexity - Contributing independently
• Optimises work processes - Contributing independently
• Organisational savvy - Contributing independently
• Plans and aligns - Contributing independently

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.

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. 

Closing date: 30 October 2021

Our commitment to transformation

The Sanlam Group is committed to achieving transformation and embraces diversity.  This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace as we believe that these are key components to ensuring a thriving and sustainable business in South Africa.  The Group's Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the selection process.

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What will make you successful in this role?

 

Qualification & experience

• Matric or equivalent qualification

• Commercial/Marketing or business related diploma/degree (HR diploma/degree)

 

 

Knowledge and skills

• Financial services, distribution/sales experience will be a strong recommendation

• Experience with regards to the recruitment of staff, either in a managerial capacity and/or Human Resources capacity

• MS: Office (Word, PP, Excel); Lotus Notes and Internet search engine

• Business/Management knowledge: Good knowledge of overall company information (history, successes, value offering)

• SFA Recruitment/Selection policy, governances and practices

• Sanlam brand and image representation

• Advertising and marketing

• Manpower planning

• Employment Equity Act, Basic Conditions of Employment Act

• Targeted recruitment sources (i.e.: worksites, universities etc.)

• Candidate profiles (Competencies, skills, qualifications, demographic fit etc.)

• SFA Remuneration and Benefits (basic, commission structure, pension, medical aid, tax, group life etc.)

• Interviewing, referencing and screening knowledge and skills

• FA/ Employment contracts and contracting process

 

Personal qualities

• Customer Focus

• Cultivate Innovation

• Drives Results

• Collaborates

• Being Flexible and Adaptable

• Business Insight

• Decision Quality

• Plans and Aligns

• Builds Networks

• Communicates Effectively

• Persuades