Junior Software Engineer at Sanlam Group

What will you do?

• Design, develop and maintain appropriately scaled effective solutions to support the Sanlam Private Wealth business. This covers frontend to the backend work including integration.
• Ensure design and development take into account all aspects of requirements – including data quality, customer experience architecture, security & operations – so that software is fit for the purpose.
• Deliver a robust, testable, repeatable framework of jobs and scripts for migrating data and producing reconciliation reports to confirm success or failure.
• Work with third party suppliers to understand their software APIs and integrate them with SPW solutions to load and extract data.
• Use approved technologies when developing systems and adhere to department, industry and regulatory standards.
• Provide support for solutions, including analysis, issue tracking and resolution. Take pro-active ownership of support tasks and see them through to completion.
• Report progress on development at daily stand-ups and escalate issues or slippage in a timely fashion, identifying remedial action to keep the project or business as usual on track.
• Demonstrate a logical and structured approach to time management and task prioritisation.  Work within project/business as usual timelines and budgets. Be able to organise own time, schedule tasks for completion and deliver work to that schedule.
• Be proactive, and investigate problems without the constant need for oversight.

Qualification and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or Diploma in IT preferred or equivalent combination of education, training and experience
• 2+ years solid experience in C# development and the .net framework
• 2+ years Angular/React experience
• 2+ years experience working across front-end, integration and back-end
• 2+ years of practical experience with SQL Server
• 2+ years scripting, tuning, debugging, troubleshooting and other advanced SQL concepts
• Experience in the financial services industry

Knowledge and skills

• Experience with HTML, JavaScript and web development frameworks (AngularJS, Bootstrap, jQuery)
• Exposure to the MVC pattern
• Understanding of C# which you leverage to build all sorts of code in the language
• Ability to transition your understanding of fundamental coding practices to any language
• Proven experience with software design and OOD methodologies
• Implement, test, and bug-fix functionality
• Excel, OLAP and presentation skills.
• ETL knowledge (SSIS).
• Exposure to MS PowerQuery and PowerBI is an advantage.
• Advanced knowledge of SQL and SQL server skills is an advantage.

Personal qualities

• Strong numerical orientation
• Highly organized with a high level of customer focus
• Accurate and detail orientated
• Critical and analytical capability
• Ability to perform well under pressure and show maturity, confidence and resilience
• Excellent listening, communication and interpersonal skills
• Pro-Active approach to work, clients, problem solving
• Learning agility and curiosity
• Assertive
• Passionate ownership for results

Closing Date: 17 April 2026