Specialist Product Engineer at Sanlam Group

What will you do?

• The Specialist Product Engineer (GPA) will be responsible for building high performing and 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 Specialist 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
• Contribute to and in some cases lead all phases of the development lifecycle including e.g. design process
• Develop high quality software / application design and architecture in a test driven & domain driven / cross domain environment
• Create & Maintain Sophisticated DevSecOps CI/CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins for deployment to multi-site environments – supporting and managing your applications all the way to production). 
• Use & configure modern observability techniques to provide a deeper understanding of the application using AppDynamics, Instana and Splunk.
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
• Work with guilds and other technical SME’s to improve and evolve technical products and services
• Apply unit testing frameworks and perform integration, validation and verification testing using Moq and MsTest

People

• Coach & mentor other engineers

Risk & Governance

• Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post deployment)
• Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks

Qualifications and experience  

• Relevant qualification in IT 
• 5 years’ experience in development lifecycle 
• Experience in an agile environment 
• Solid experience in reading code written in C#, Sql, Javascript/Typescript, Groovy and JSON/YAML
• Understanding of relational databases including stored procedures and ETL
• Experience in investments/LISP would be advantageous

Competencies

• Client Focus
• Cultivates Innovation
• Collaborates
• Drives Results 
• Being Resilient
• Strong analytical & problem-solving skills

Attributes

• Positive, enthusiastic attitude
• Teamwork
• Ability to work under pressure
• Honesty, integrity and respect
• Self-starter and self confidence