Web Technical Lead at Old Mutual South Africa

Job Description

• The Digital & Data 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 finanicial industry, provide a solid foundation for expansion of its digital platform. The Digital & Data team applies customer-focused design thinking, agile and lean development methodologies, and continuous delivery practices.
• The Web Technical Lead oversees and leads 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 the DevOps model.

ROLE & QUALIFICATIONS REQUIREMENTS

• Matric, with a degree in Computer Science/ Engineering/ Mathematics or related
• 10+ years of experience in web application development
• Knowledge of, and experience in mobile frameworks and technologies such as:
• Containerisation: Kubernetes, Docker
• CI/CD - Jenkins, AWS Code Commit
• AWS (preferred) or another cloud provider such as AZURE or Google Cloud Platform
• Confluence, Jira
• Microsoft Teams, Slack
• Terraform
• .Net Core 
• NodeJS
• Kotlin
• Asp.Net Core framework
• Angular / Vue.js / REACT
• HTML / CSS/SCSS/Sass / Javascript / Typescript
• Kubernetes / Docker
• CI/CD - Jenkins
• AWS Services
• Front-end and/or back-end development across digital channels, and experience working with information architecture and design interfaces
• Familiarity with architecture styles such as Microservice and Serverless architectures
• Build cloud based functional mobile applications at an enterprise level
• Create and test software prototypes
• Develop technical specifications and software application architecture and designs
• Knowledge of coding design patterns
• Follow Agile methodologies (SCRUM / Kanban)
• Work in a DEVOPS culture
• Design the test strategy and/or test plans.
• Provide sizing and scoping for development work required
• Operate as a subject matter expert across program initiatives
• Responsible for the software development life cycle, taking the lead on software development projects
• Apply engineering principles for design, development, maintenance, testing and evaluation of software
• Management of development tasks
• Facilitate code design and code reviews
• Ensure that software development tasks are well coordinated
• Apply knowledge relating to the Architecture of relevant systems
• Develop 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
• Draft technical specifications
• Monitor application performance
• Operational support for product issues raised to the development team
• Ensure systems are scalable, robust and secure

Closing Date

• 28 May 2021