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Key Purpose
Vitality Group is a global organization that has adopted a modern, multi-region cloud-native architecture to deliver the vitality solution to its Global customers. The purpose of this role is to define, codify and centralize all verified configuration under the discipline of configuration management which will serve as inputs for automated provisioning and deployments. This includes configuration stored in source code repositories, artifact repositories and discovered resources in the CMDB.

Key Outputs

• Establish configuration management process that ensures configuration changes are approved and verified before deployment.
• Identifying and Cataloguing system-wide configuration dependencies and rules across environments
• Reporting on configuration inconsistencies and invoking remediation steps to correct
• Monitor configuration consistency to avoid configuration drift
• Ensure that binaries, packages and versions are verified and supported
• Developing and maintaining the versioning standard and integrity of build scripts, infrastructure provisioning scripts, software configuration scripts (application and database) and deployment configuration files.
• Manage configuration polices as configuration as code
• Leverage discovery tools to verify that the configuration provisioned and deployed is correct
• Conduct configuration audits across environments to understand configuration drift or items not under configuration control that supposed to be
• Provide reporting on resources that attract costs and their net financial impact (trends, increase or decrease)
• Establish a configuration management system that can queried for configuration data across environments
• Analyse configuration item data, configuration item relationships, identify data inconsistencies or anomalies, and report on data discrepancies
• Work with the configuration owners to verify version of configuration
• Reconcile configuration items from other trusted data sources into the CMS
• Participate in Capacity and Fault tolerant initiatives
• Participate in Procurement and Financial Management activities

Technical Competencies

• Strong Cloud computing background
• Strong Reporting and Data Analysis skills
• Have a practical understanding of source code repositories, artefact repositories and ITIL CMDB
• Have a practical understanding of configuration as code and management thereof.
• Have a practical understanding of DevOps and CI/CD related processes
• Have a practical understanding of a Microservices Architecture
• Have a practical understanding of Site Reliability principles and processes.

Qualifications And Experience

• ITIL or CMMI qualification (preferably on configuration management)
• +5 years’ experience in working with configuration as code.
• +3 years working with Cloud Services
• +3 years working in within a Microservices based environment
• Qualification in software development
• Experience in supporting cloud-native enterprises
• Experience in designing and implementing a Configuration Management System

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About Group Risk Management: 

This position forms part of the Quants and Capital Modelling team in Group Risk Management. The jobholder will be studying towards qualifying as an actuary with strong technical skills. The jobholder will report to a Senior Actuary in the Quants and Capital Modelling Team.

Responsibilities
The jobholder’s responsibilities will be to support the deliverables of the team, which include:

• Risk management function – To support in the execution of the risk management function for the South African insurance entities; to perform and review measurements of risk exposures against risk appetite statements; to identify, scope and perform stress and scenario tests for the purposes of risk understanding and management, statutory reporting and business planning; to contribute to the preparation and review of the Own Risk and Solvency Assessment (“ORSA”) process and reporting.
• Corporate actuarial function – Building, reviewing and running various models to calculate and project the Group’s funding position, regulatory and economic solvency position, as well as risk appetite metrics. This role includes assisting with the calculation of the embedded value for Health and Vitality, performing the Group embedded value consolidation and preparing the published embedded value statement.
• Actuarial function – To support in the execution of the actuarial function for the Group as a whole and the relevant South African insurance entities. This will include reviewing various calculations and drafting reports to support the Head of the Actuarial Function to fulfil their function.

Key Performance Measures

• Work is conducted on time and accurately, with minimum rework and hands on guidance.
• Evidence of genuine thought leadership and implementation of improvements.
• Support of the Head of the Risk Management Function in executing their duties as required.
• Support of the Head of the Actuarial Function in executing their duties as required.
• Contribute meaningfully to the development and ongoing operation of an appropriate ORSA process, incorporating technical actuarial models.
• Development and maintenance of an appropriate Group capital and funding model that meets the needs of the CRO, CFO and Board.
• Production of regular and ad hoc analyses and reports relating to the Group wide and business unit position against agreed limits and thresholds.
• Contribution to production of the Group and solo entity ORSA Reports.

Skills And Abilities
The successful candidate must demonstrate the following skills and abilities:

• Able to use technical and business knowledge to understand the risks inherent across all Discovery’s businesses.
• Able to comprehend, challenge, analyse and develop complex actuarial models.
• Able to interpret, rationalise and communicate the results of own work.
• Ability to communicate efficiently and effectively with business at all levels, both verbally and in writing.
• A conceptual understanding and a good technical grounding of the concepts of long term insurance business reserving, capital requirements and business projections.
• Delivery focussed, practical and pragmatic where necessary. Sound judgement of material and immaterial issues in relation to own work. Delivers work required on time and to a high standard with minimal rework.
• Good team player, able to work with other team members to deliver the objectives of the team.

Qualifications And Experience

• Actuarial student with at least 5 exemptions/passes.
• Expert knowledge of Excel and some knowledge of an actuarial modelling tool (e.g. Prophet) would be beneficial.
• Solid technical actuarial knowledge of actuarial modelling techniques and principles with long term insurance business experience preferable.
• Some knowledge of relevant legislation, including SAM, Solvency II, IFRS, The Insurance Act, as well as ASSA’s Advisory Practice Notes and Standards of Actuarial Practice.