Lead Product Engineer at Sanlam Group

What will you do?

• The Lead Product Engineer (GPA) will be responsible for building high performing, scalable, enterprise grade applications. This includes applying critical thinking, design thinking and problem-solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems (Front End, Back End and Integration) with high quality solutions & leading all phases of the development lifecycle to deliver. 

Key outcomes

• The following outcomes will be expected to be achieved by Lead Product Engineer

DevOps: 

• Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem-solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems (Front End, Back End and Integration) with high quality solutions leveraging C# (.NET), SQL Server, JavaScript/Typescript, ReactJs, Jenkins, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, Git
• Determine operational feasibility of solutions by evaluating analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development and proposed solutions
• Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience
• Create & Maintain Sophisticated DevSecOps CI/CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins and AzureDevOps for deployment to multi-site environments). 
• Use & configure modern observability techniques to provide a deeper understanding of the application using AppDynamics, Instana and OpenTelemetry.
• Automate tasks through Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes, Powershell, Groovy
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
• Apply unit testing frameworks and perform integration, validation and verification testing using Moq and MsTest

People

• Coach & mentor other engineers
• Support the people change teams in the design of adoption processes (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption)

Risk & Governance

• Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post deployment)
• Create business cases & solution specifications for various governance processes (e.g. CTO approvals)

Qualifications and experience  

• Relevant qualification in IT, preferably a degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Informatics or Equivalent 
• 5 - 10 years’ experience in development lifecycle 
• Experience in reading code written in C#, SQL Server, JavaScript/Typescript, Groovy, JSON/YAML
• Experiencing in translating business problems into technical solutions
• Understanding of relational databases including stored procedures and ETL
• Understanding of modelling language such as UML and BPMN
• Experience in investments/LISP would be advantageous

Competencies

• Client Focus 
• Cultivates Innovation 
• Collaborates 
• Drives Results 
• Being Resilient 
• Ability to translate technology into understandable concepts

Attributes

• Positive, enthusiastic attitude
• Teamwork
• Ability to work under pressure
• Honesty, integrity and respect

What will make you successful in this role?

Qualification and Experience

• Degree or Diploma and/or Certification with 5 to 8 years related experience.

Knowledge and Skills

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