Job Vacancies at Absa Group

Actuarial Pricing Specialist

• There is an opportunity in the Absa Life Pricing Team for a structured, methodical and technically oriented individual who is passionate about getting into the detail and taking ownership of end to end pricing projects. This opportunity is ideal for a colleague with a strong analytical and project management mindset who is willing to enhance their business acumen through pricing of different products across different channels and entities.

The role will be responsible for the following:

• Investigating product performance related issues and queries and recommend pricing solutions to product owners, product managers and other functional areas of the business
• Investigate new pricing trends, methodologies and recommending new rating factors
• Support product managers in designing new products or features and highlight impact of proposals on premium rates, competitiveness, fair treatment of customers and profitability
• Support product managers in developing business cases and socializing them with management and business partners
• Develop and socialise pricing assumptions with key stakeholders including product managers, management, reinsurance partners, Financial Risk team and Head of Actuarial Function
• Pricing of new products in line with pricing guidelines and Model Risk Standard
• Socializing new rates with product managers and business partners and supporting them in getting buy-in from management
• Managing all pricing exercises in accordance with all applicable governance processes and Standards, including engagements with Head of Actuarial Function to ensure rates are signed-off
• Supporting the product managers and IT to ensure successful implementation of new rates

If this sounds exciting and you tick the following boxes, please send your CV to us!

• You are making good progress with exams - completed A100 and A200 (CT’s) as a minimum
• You have at least 3 years pricing, product development or valuation related life insurance experience
• Ability to work independently, are self-motivated and passionate about executing effectively and with high quality
• You are willing and keen to learn new programming languages and have some experience in Prophet and SQL

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The Role

• This role provides an exciting opportunity within the Chief Technology Office - Artificial Intelligence team. The Fullstack Engineer / Developer serves as a development and support expert with a responsibility for the design, development, automation, testing, on-going support and administration, along with documentation of their delivery. The position balances a fast-paced work environment with the expectation of the completion of work activities meticulously and effectively; working independently within our highly collaborative integrated teams; creating new code with ensuring it doesn't disrupt previous versions. The ideal candidate is required to be passionate about solving complex technical problems across all levels of software architecture, development, and debugging. 

Technologies/skills:

• C#.NET, ASP.NET MVC 4+ (dotnet core a plus)
• WEB API.
• Angular  
• RESTful services
• SCSS/LESS/TypeScript - having worked with preprocessor languages
• UI charting (D3/highcharts/etc.)
• Experience with material design is a plus
• Experience with application dev in AWS is a plus
• Attention to detail for UI design
• Understanding large scale systems
• Familiar with Agile methodologies
• Experience and knowledge on CI/CD and tooling used – Azure DevOps, Jenkins

Preferred: Experience with some of the following:

• SQL, Apache Hadoop, Spark, AWS, Kubernetes, Linux, Bash, version control tools, continuous integration tools 

Candidate Description

The incumbent will have the opportunity of working directly across the firm with developers, operations staff  data scientists, architects and business constituents to develop and enhance the Big Data service.  

• Development and deployment of data applications 
• Design and Implementation of infrastructure tooling and work on horizontal frameworks and libraries
• Creation of data ingestion pipelines between legacy data warehouses and the big data stack
• Automation of application back-end workflows
• Building and maintaining backend services created by multiple services framework
• Maintain and enhance applications backed by Big Data computation applications
• Be eager to learn new approaches and technologies
• Must be a clear methodical thinker with good problem solving skills
• Strong programming skills with drive and strong work ethic
• Background in computer science, engineering, physics, mathematics or equivalent
• Worked on Big Data platforms (Vanilla Hadoop, Cloudera or Hortonworks)
• Experienced and technically strong UI developer (Angular) that is backend (C#) savvy
• Preferred: Experience with Scala or other functional languages (Haskell, Clojure, Kotlin, Clean) 
• Preferred: Experience with some of the following: Apache Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Pig, Oozie, ZooKeeper, MongoDB, CouchbaseDB, Impala, Kudu, Linux, Bash, version control tools, continuous integration tools.