Technical Lead: Mobile Development at Old Mutual South Africa

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