OMF Software Engineer at Old Mutual

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)