OMF Software Engineer at Old Mutual

About the job

Your time is now to be your exceptional best at Old Mutual!

Job Description

If you're looking for a company that offers great culture, leadership, learning opportunities, challenges, rewards and recognition, then look no further than Old Mutual.

Who are We?

Old Mutual is a premium African financial services organisation that offers a broad spectrum of financial solutions to retail and corporate customers across key market segments in 17 countries. The lines of business include Life and Savings, Property and Casualty, Asset Management and Banking and Lending.

Old Mutual Finance was established in 2008 to provide unsecured lending products and services to the SA market. The business started with a staff compliment of 34 and has since grown to over 3000 staff with more than 300 branches nationally. Within our branches we offer insurance, transactional banking and lending products as well as servicing.

Why Join Old Mutual?

Enabling our people to be their exceptional best is at the core of what we do. We are rooted in our purpose of Championing Mutually Positive Futures Every Day and believe that a great customer experience is anchored in a great employee experience.

We will provide you with a holistic experience to realise and unleash your potential.

What we Offer

• In partnership with you, we promise to challenge and help you grow in your career through a personalised development plan. We strive to create and expose our people to diverse learning opportunities through formal and informal learning. Most importantly you work in diverse teams made up of enthusiastic people who strive for excellence.

The Opportunity

• Old Mutual Finance is currently seeking to hire a Senior Programmer. This is a nationally based role that forms part of the Old Mutual Finance Information Technology Team. The objective of this role is to define, develop, test, analyze, and maintain new software applications in support of the achievement of business requirements. This includes coding, testing and analyzing software programs.

In This Role, You will Get To:

• Conduct full System Design process.
• Draft implementation plans, write programmes according to business specifications and conduct unit testing.
• Work closely with Business Analysts to ensure sufficient clarification of specifications.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to Junior Programmers.
• Contribute to Old Mutual Finance body of knowledge (Documentation, Wikis, How-To Guides).
• Identify inefficiencies and work towards continuous improvement of existing systems and/or processes.
• Participate actively in Scrum delivery ceremonies (Stand-ups, Planning, Design Retrospectives and Reviews).

What You Will Need To Succeed:

A Matric or Grade 12 equivalent and a Bachelor diploma or degree in computer related field e.g:

• B/Tech : Computer Science
• BSc : Computer Science
• BSc : Computer Systems
• BSc : Information Technology
• 3 to 5 Years relevant experience.

You will also need to have experience in working with the following technologies in an Agile environment:

• Java
• ANT
• Source control – Git, SVN
• XML
• Html
• Patterns
• UML
• Relational databases
• SQL
• Web servers (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty/Netty
• Soap API
• REST API

The time is now to find your greatness by becoming part of a company where potential is revealed and growth is inevitable

Skills

• Apache Web Server, Git, Git Svn, Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), Java, Jetty, Netty (Software), RESTful APIs, SOAP APIs, SQL, Unified Modeling Language (UML), Web Servers, XML Schema

Education

• Bachelor Of Business Science In Information Systems, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), High School (Grade 12) (Required)

Closing Date

• 26 August 2022