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Old Mutual Limited (OML) is a premium African financial services group that offers a broad spectrum of financial solutions to retail and corporate customers across key markets in 14 countries.
Job Description
The My Old Mutual team is a dynamic division within Old Mutual Limited, which seeks to drive digital engagement with customers by being at the forefront of digital development and innovation. Old Mutual’s longstanding history and unquestionable success in the financial industry, provide a solid foundation for expansion of its digital platform. The team applies customer-focused design thinking, agile and lean development methodologies, and continuous delivery practices.
The Mobile App Technical Lead is responsible for leading the development of high-quality designs and solutions. This role requires participation in technical designs and the development and maintenance of software and other digital applications or services. The incumbent will be expected to create prototypes, develop user-centred software, and advise on technical specifications. This role requires fundamentals in engineering practices, an analytical and data-driven approach to problem solving, while following DevOps, SRE and Cloud Based practices.
ROLE OVERVIEW
Responsible for taking the lead on software development initiatives throughout the software development life cycle
Follow Agile methodologies (SCRUM / Kanban)
Work in a DevOps culture
Partner with scrum master and product owner to ensure optimized project delivery
Provide sizing and scoping for development work required
Operate as a subject matter expert across the development initiatives
Develop technical specifications and software application architecture and designs
Build Front-end and/or back-end solutions on the mobile digital channel/platform
Build cloud based functional mobile applications at an enterprise level
Build and test software prototypes
Design and implement test strategy and/or test plans based on continuous testing principles (TDD, BDD)
Apply engineering principles for design, development, maintenance, testing and evaluation of software
Facilitate and conduct code design and code reviews
Management of development tasks
Ensure that software development tasks are well coordinated
Apply knowledge relating to the architecture of relevant systems
Develop, implement and improve the tools to enable software development
Balance trade-offs between design and implementation
Identify issues that will enhance system quality, development and standard operating procedures
Client engagement to drive new products/ features and to ensure operational excellence
Work closely with multi-skilled and cross-functional teams e.g., architects, developers, UX designers, business analysts
Drive technology design and implementation
Enable rapid iteration
Ensure systems are scalable, responsive, robust and secure through monitoring and responding to application performance, stability and availability
Operational support for product issues raised to the development team
Coach and mentor software engineers
Provide guidance and support to software engineers as part of performance management activities
EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS REQUIREMENTS
Matric, with a degree in Computer Science/ Engineering/ Mathematics or related
5+ years of experience in mobile application development
3+ years of experience in leading application development
Knowledge of, and experience in mobile frameworks and technologies such as:
Collaboration tools e.g., Confluence, Jira, Microsoft Teams, Slack
Containerization technologies e.g., Kubernetes, Docker
CI/CD technologies e.g. Jenkins, Git, App Center / Bitrise /Azure DevOps
AWS (preferred) or another cloud provider such as AZURE or Google Cloud Platform
IaC technologies e.g. Terraform/Cloudformation
Kotlin/Java
Swift
Android Studio/IntelliJ
Xcode/AppCode
Spring Framework
Mobile and API Testing Frameworks: TDD
Architecture and Design: Event Driven Architecture / API First / Domain driven design
Familiarity with architecture styles such as Microservice and Serverless architectures
Knowledge of coding design patterns and experience working with information architecture and design interfaces
Ability to explain and articulate complex topics to various levels stakeholders
COMPETENCIES REQUIRED
Customer focus
Multi-functional team collaboration
Data-driven and attention to detail and big picture
Action Oriented
Continuous Improvement Management
Automation
Problem Finding and Solving
Conflict management and resolution
High EQ
Closing Date
14 February 2022
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