Job Opportunities at Discovery Limited

Key Purpose

To fulfil a pivotal role within a software development team that designs, develops and maintains the systems for Discovery’s dynamic Life Insurance business.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Perform a high-level impact analysis, establish Scope and provide estimates based on technical requirements.
• Create required planning tasks in SDLC tool and set due dates according to agreed milestones.
• Perform an analysis of the business requirement and clarify any unknowns with the Business Analyst, User and technical lead.
• Translate technical requirements into executable code without errors.
• Ensure optimally performing system code in line with technical specifications, following prescribed process, architecture standards and procedures.
• Assist the Test Analyst in ensuring that a comprehensive test pack is produced, which includes all the required scenarios.
• Ensure that the root cause of system errors are effectively analysed and prioritized for fixing.
• Proactively bring issues and problems to the attention of the team and propose solutions to solve them.
• Assist system users and the infrastructure teams with technical support issues.

Essential

Education and Experience

• Matric (minimum C symbol pass advantageous)
• IT related Degree or Diploma (BSc/BTech or similar).
• 4 years of experience in software development
• Java EE knowledge and experience.

Advantageous

• Formal Java qualification(s), Object-Oriented Analysis & Design, etc…

Technical Skills And Knowledge

• Excellent communication skills
• Java systems development.
• Object-oriented design and development.
• Design patterns
• Unit Testing
• Systems Integration testing
• XML/XSD/JAXB and Web Services.
• JSF
• HTML 5.0
• Industry standard Application Servers (preferably JBoss).
• PL/SQL and RDBMS
• UML
• SDLC methodologies

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Key Purpose

The successful candidate will be responsible for implementing and supporting various middleware technologies and ensuring their performance, availability and security as a member of the Life Infrastructure Application team.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited t

• Day to day maintenance of the Middleware environments
• Responsible for ensuring availability and performance
• To proactively monitor the systems to ensure minimum downtime
• Responsible for the improvement and maintenance of the solutions, including upgrades and security patches.
• Responsible for implementation and release of middleware solutions on-premise and in AWS / OCI / Azure.
• Providing technical middleware and performance advice to development teams
• Middleware capacity management
• General middleware troubleshooting
• Implementation and enforcement of Discovery standards and procedures
• Life Infrastructure standby and shift duties

Essential

Education and Experience

Matric

• BSc Comp Sc/ BSc Info Systems or equivalent tertiary qualification
• The applicant MUST have 5 years experience managing complex solution stacks without direct supervision
• Certification in a middleware j2ee offering. (JBOSS, Weblogic, Websphere)

Advantageous

• Dynatrace APM Experience
• AWS SysOps , DevOps or Associate Architect Certification
• ITIL

Essential

Technical Skills and Knowledge

• Experience in managing
• Experience in configuration and release automation
• Experience in managing complex middleware solutions on native servers and containerized platforms such as Openshift, EKS, Fargate, VMWare Tanzu.
• Experience in monitoring and tuning middleware solutions
• Experience configuring and using automation tooling for the provisioning and management of the entire development and runtime environment.
• (Jenkins, Chef/Puppet/Salt etc, ansible/terraform/cloud formation).

Advantageous

• Advanced troubleshooting skills
• AWS Cloud deployments using S3, EC2, ALB, CloudWatch, EKS , Fargate .

Competencies

Ability to work both independently and participate as a member of a cross-functional team.

• Ability to prioritize and work on multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Attention to detail
• Solution oriented
• Delivery focused
• Ability to deal with pressure

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Key Purpose of the role

This Learnership leads to a nationally recognised NC: Wealth Management NQF Level 5 qualification which consists of structured learning components combined with practical/workplace experience in the Financial Services industry.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Wealth Management
• Life benefits
• retirement funds
• funeral policies
• client servicing
• pre-sale underwriting and new business

Personal Attributes And Skills

• Innovative/ critical thinking/ and problem solving skills
• Good attention to detail and levels of accuracy
• Sets high standards for quality and quantity and works in a systematic, methodical and orderly manner.
• Time management and planning skills
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high pressure environment
• Ability to work independently and in a team orientated environment
• Service driven, a sense of urgency and a team player.
• Adapts to changing circumstances and handles criticism well and learns from it.
• Speaks fluently and writes in a well-structured and logical manner.

Education And Experience

Grade 12 is essential.

• Maths (Minimum Level 4 – 50%)
• English (Minimum Level 4 – 50%)
• Maths Literacy (Minimum Level 5 - 60% )
• 2nd language (Minimum Level 4 – 50%)
• May have an incomplete tertiary (financial) qualification (advantage)

Specific Requirements

• Not be engaged in post Matric studies or formal employment;
• Not have completed any previous Learnership.
• Be between the ages of 18 and 30 years;
• Have effective communication skills in the written & verbal English language;
• Possess basic computer skills mainly MS Excel & MS Outlook
• Only South African candidates by birth will be considered.