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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
If you're looking for a company that offers great culture, leadership, learning opportunities, challenges, rewards and recognition, then look no further than Old Mutual.
Who are We?
Old Mutual is a premium African financial services organisation that offers a broad spectrum of financial solutions to retail and corporate customers across key market segments in 17 countries. The lines of business include Life and Savings, Property and Casualty, Asset Management and Banking and Lending.
Old Mutual Finance was established in 2008 to provide unsecured lending products and services to the SA market. The business started with a staff compliment of 34 and has since grown to over 3000 staff with more than 300 branches nationally. Within our branches we offer insurance, transactional banking and lending products as well as servicing.
Why Join Old Mutual?
Enabling our people to be their exceptional best is at the core of what we do. We are rooted in our purpose of Championing Mutually Positive Futures Every Day and believe that a great customer experience is anchored in a great employee experience.
We will provide you with a holistic experience to realise and unleash your potential.
What we Offer:
In partnership with you, we promise to challenge and help you grow in your career through a personalised development plan. We strive to create and expose our people to diverse learning opportunities through formal and informal learning. Most importantly you work in diverse teams made up of enthusiastic people who strive for excellence.
The Opportunity:
Old Mutual Finance is currently seeking to hire a Business Analyst. This is a nationally based role that forms part of the Old Mutual Finance Information Technology Team.
The objective of this role is to enable change in the organisation by defining needs and recommending solutions that deliver value to stakeholders. This includes analysis of data to inform business decisions and finding technological solutions to business needs.
In This Role, You will Get To:
Work within an IT Delivery team in an Agile environment and through collaboration with Delivery Teams, Product Owners and other Stakeholders:
What You Will Need To Succeed:
The time is now to find your greatness by becoming part of a company where potential is revealed and growth is inevitable.
Skills
Adaptable, Agile Methodologies, Business Acumen, Business Analysis, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Interactions, Interpersonal Relationships, Problem Solving
Education
High School (Grade 12) (Required)
Closing Date
27 January 2022
Job Description
If you're looking for a company that offers great culture, leadership, learning opportunities, challenges, rewards and recognition, then look no further than Old Mutual.
Who are We?
Old Mutual is a premium African financial services organisation that offers a broad spectrum of financial solutions to retail and corporate customers across key market segments in 17 countries. The lines of business include Life and Savings, Property and Casualty, Asset Management and Banking and Lending.
Old Mutual Finance was established in 2008 to provide unsecured lending products and services to the SA market. The business started with a staff compliment of 34 and has since grown to over 3000 staff with more than 300 branches nationally. Within our branches we offer insurance, transactional banking and lending products as well as servicing.
Why Join Old Mutual?
Enabling our people to be their exceptional best is at the core of what we do. We are rooted in our purpose of Championing Mutually Positive Futures Every Day and believe that a great customer experience is anchored in a great employee experience.
We will provide you with a holistic experience to realise and unleash your potential.
What we Offer:
In partnership with you, we promise to challenge and help you grow in your career through a personalised development plan. We strive to create and expose our people to diverse learning opportunities through formal and informal learning. Most importantly you work in diverse teams made up of enthusiastic people who strive for excellence.
The Opportunity:
Old Mutual Finance is currently seeking to hire a Senior Data Scientist. The successful candidate is individually accountable for designing, producing, analyzing, documenting and enhancing a range of predictive models across the entire credit life cycle.
In this role, you will get to:
Play a leading role in the development and application of predictive models across the entire credit life cycle.
Conduct continuous research aimed at identifying predictors and enhancing model development practice and techniques.
Monitor and report on the effectiveness of scorecard strategies.
What you will need to succeed in the role:
Degree with Stats/Math/Applied Maths/Financial Risk Management/Data Science/Engineering/Computer Science or related disciplines
An Honours / Masters would be advantageous
Understanding & knowledge of predictive modelling practices, performance standards & methodologies
Minimum 3 years’ experience developing credit risk scorecards
R or Python proficiency, one of the two languages is compulsory
SQL proficiency is compulsory
Exposure to extracting data from databases is compulsory
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The time is now to find your greatness by becoming part of a company where potential is revealed and growth is inevitable.
Skills
Active Learner, Change Agility, Credit Risk Analysis, Data Science, Machine Learning, Predictive Modeling, Problem Solving & Analytical, Python Programming, R Code, SQL, Statistical Data Analysis
Education
Bachelor of Commerce Honours (BCom Hons): Mathematical Sciences (Required), Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) (Required), Bachelor of Science Honours (BSc Hons): Computer and Information Science (Required), Bachelor of Science Honours (BSc Hons): Mathematical Sciences (Required)
Closing Date
28 January 2022
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
Job Description
Senior Scrum Masters are leaders, facilitators, and coaches for an Agile Team. Leads a team in Agile, Scrum, and SAFe principles, ensuring that the agreed Agile practices are being followed. Senior Scrum Masters leads and facilitates the removal of impediments and foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement.
Senior Scrum Master’s primary responsibility is managing the self-organizing, self-managing team achieve its goals. Scrum Masters do this by facilitating, teaching, and coaching team practices, implementing and supporting SAFe principles and practices. Senior Scrum Master empower the team to coordinate with other teams in the programme.
Drive & facilitate the team engagements for better efficiency of the team. Bringing stakeholders and team closer to ensure total alignment on work required.
Drive & Facilitate the removal of impediments for the team.
Drive & Facilitate events such as daily stand-up meetings, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives, and decision-making processes to ensure optimal value.
Acts as a safeguard for the team.
Aligns across other teams at Scum of Scrums to improve overall programme delivery.
Leads team effort in relentless improvement.
Builds a high-performing team, focuses on ever-improving team dynamics and performance, and coaches the team in self-management.
Drive & Facilitates preparation and readiness for ART events.
Ability to run and facilitate core meetings and activities: Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, story writing, sizing, prioritising, Daily stand ups, Sprint Reviews and Sprint Retrospectives.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE (REQUIRED FOR THE JOB)
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Commerce, or Information Systems.
8 – 10 years’ experience in project/software delivery.
Familiarity and experience in Agile/Scrum/Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
Certification as a Scrum Master Certified SAFe® Advanced Scrum Master or Advanced Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM) or Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) desirable.
Knowledge of Kanban/Lean desirable.
Knowledge and experience in using tracking and collaboration tools such as Jira, Miro and TFS.
Knowledge and experience with typically used Agile techniques such as User Stories, ATDD, TDD, etc.
COMPETENCIES REQUIRED
Strategic: Can understand, identify and acts on broader opportunities to drive longer term, value-adding change. Applies judgement effectively. Identifies and acts on market and/or competitor trends/opportunities
Technical competency: the knowledge and abilities required to apply technical principles
Executing: Displays consistent energy, drive, and perseverance to deliver results. Demonstrates a willingness to take calculated risks to achieve stretch performance goals.
Customer: Putting the customer at the heart of business decisions and driving to improve value for customers.
Leading with Influence: Influences and rallies people behind common goals; actively supports growth and inspires others to exceed expectations. Communicates clear strategies and objectives for own function.
Collaboration: Creates trust, respect and builds meaningful relationships. Able to handle a wide range of relational challenges to ensure collaboration across boundaries.
Innovation: Generates creative/out of the box solutions. Challenges the status quo and/or demonstrates ability to relate to challenges from a range of diverse but relevant perspectives. Willing to take calculated risks when introducing novel ideas.
Delivery: responsible for achieving outcomes and documenting plans
Personal Mastery: Learns and actively works to build self-awareness; develop through experience and feedback from others. Copes effectively with stress and has the resilience to take on stretching and challenging assignments. Adjusts effectively to work within new work structures; processes; requirements and cultures.
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