Job Opportunities at Old Mutual South Africa

• The role of Software Engineer – Senior Android Developer is responsible for the development of high-quality mobile solutions. This role requires participation in the development and maintenance activities of software and other digital applications or services. The incumbent will be expected to develop user-centred software and contribute to developing 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.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Follow Agile methodologies (SCRUM / Kanban)
• Work in a DevOps culture
• Work closely with multi-skilled and cross-functional teams e.g., architects, developers, UX designers, business
• Participates in team design, scoping and prioritization discussions
• Document & Design solutions at an Application Level with guidance from seniors
• Participates in team design, scoping and prioritization discussions
• Contributes to and develop technical specifications and software application architecture and designs
• Build cloud based functional mobile applications at an enterprise level
• Build Front-end and/or back-end solutions on the mobile digital channel/platform
• Implement complex Business Features and solutions autonomously
• Contribute to the technical roadmap and vision of the Digital & Data team
• Understand, communicate and/or translate complex procedures
• Writes secure, stable, testable, maintainable code with minimal defects.
• Assumes responsibility for the state of the code you both inherit and produce.
• Responsible for getting designs and code reviewed,
• Writes unit tests and tests code thoroughly
• Classifies, stores, and handles data in accordance with Old Mutual policies
• Clearly documents software to ensure that future generations of developers understand the intention behind the features and components built.
• Knowledgeable of and implements coding design patterns
• Review and refactor code according to coding standards
• Refactor complex code to improve maintainability
• Provide after-hours support of applications (you build it, you run it)
• Understands the maintenance characteristics, runtime properties, and dependencies of the team’s software, including hardware platform, operating system and build dependencies.  
• In the event of a problem, troubleshoots, researches the root cause of problems, and thoroughly resolve defects. 
• Drive monitoring and alerting for solutions
• Continuously develop skills
• Seek to learn the business context and technologies behind teams' software.
• Work effectively with customers and/or internal partners to understand business impacts and identify any opportunities/problems arising from technical decisions
• Understand and contribute to the technical roadmap and vision of the Digital & Data team
• Seek to learn the business context and technologies behind the team’s software.
• Work effectively with customers and/or internal partners to understand business impacts and identify any opportunities/problems arising from technical decisions
• Research and share programming/technology-related advances to team(s)
• Build and test software prototypes
• Provide higher-level technical and programming support to fellow-developers/engineers
• Mentor and coach developers
• Research and recommend programming-related advances to team(s)
• Create and test software prototypes

EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS REQUIREMENTS

• Matric certificate with relevant tertiary qualification
• 4+ years of experience in Android mobile application development
• Knowledge of, and experience in mobile frameworks and technologies such as:
• Kotlin/Java
• Android Studio
• Spring Framework
• Containerisation technologies e.g., Kubernetes, Docker
• CI/CD Tools e.g., Jenkins, AWS Code Commit
• AWS (preferred) or another cloud provider such as Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform
• IaC technologies e.g., Terraform/Cloudformation
• Collaboration tool e.g., Confluence, Jira, Microsoft Teams, Slack
• Familiarity with architecture styles such as Microservice and Serverless architectures
• Critical thinking, root cause identification skills and attention to detail
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly
• Good communications skills and a team player
• Comfortable with pair programming
• Possess commercial and business awareness

COMPETENCIES

• 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

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• The role of Software Engineer – Senior IOS Developer is responsible for the development of high-quality mobile solutions. This role requires participation in the development and maintenance activities of software and other digital applications or services. The incumbent will be expected to develop user-centered software and contribute to developing 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.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Follow Agile methodologies (SCRUM / Kanban)
• Work in a DevOps culture
• Work closely with multi-skilled and cross-functional teams e.g., architects, developers, UX designers, business
• Participates in team design, scoping and prioritization discussions
• Document & Design solutions at an Application Level with guidance from seniors
• Participates in team design, scoping and prioritization discussions
• Contributes to and develop technical specifications and software application architecture and designs
• Build cloud based functional mobile applications at an enterprise level
• Build Front-end and/or back-end solutions on the mobile digital channel/platform
• Implement complex Business Features and solutions autonomously
• Contribute to the technical roadmap and vision of the Digital & Data team
• Understand, communicate and/or translate complex procedures
• Writes secure, stable, testable, maintainable code with minimal defects.
• Assumes responsibility for the state of the code you both inherit and produce.
• Responsible for getting designs and code reviewed,
• Writes unit tests and tests code thoroughly
• Classifies, stores, and handles data in accordance with Old Mutual policies
• Clearly documents software to ensure that future generations of developers understand the intention behind the features and components built.
• Knowledgeable of and implements coding design patterns
• Review and refactor code according to coding standards
• Refactor complex code to improve maintainability
• Provide after-hours support of applications (you build it, you run it)
• Understands the maintenance characteristics, runtime properties, and dependencies of the team’s software, including hardware platform, operating system and build dependencies.  
• In the event of a problem, troubleshoots, researches the root cause of problems, and thoroughly resolve defects. 
• Drive monitoring and alerting for solutions
• Continuously develop skills
• Seek to learn the business context and technologies behind teams software.
• Work effectively with customers and/or internal partners to understand business impacts and identify any opportunities/problems arising from technical decisions
• Understand and contribute to the technical roadmap and vision of the Digital & Data team
• Seek to learn the business context and technologies behind the  team’s software.
• Work effectively with customers and/or internal partners to understand business impacts and identify any opportunities/problems arising from technical decisions
• Research and share programming/technology-related advances to team(s)
• Build and test software prototypes
• Provide higher-level technical and programming support to fellow-developers/engineers
• Mentor and coach developers
• Research and recommend programming-related advances to team(s)
• Create and test software prototypes

EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS REQUIREMENTS

• Matric certificate with relevant tertiary qualification
• 4+ years of experience in Android mobile application development
• Knowledge of, and experience in mobile frameworks and technologies such as:
• Swift 5 on IOS for Native App Development
• Xcode/AppCode
• Kotlin (advantageous)
• Containerisation technologies e.g., Kubernetes, Docker
• CI/CD Tools e.g., Jenkins, AWS Code Commit
• AWS (preferred) or another cloud provider such as Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform
• IaC technologies e.g., Terraform/Cloudformation
• Collaboration tool e.g., Confluence, Jira, Microsoft Teams, Slack
• Familiarity with architecture styles such as Microservice and Serverless architectures
• Critical thinking, root cause identification skills and attention to detail
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly
• Good communications skills and a team player
• Comfortable with pair programming
• Possess commercial and business awareness

COMPETENCIES

• 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

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• The role of Software Engineer – Intermediate Android Developer is responsible for the development of high-quality mobile solutions. This role requires participation in the development and maintenance activities of software and other digital applications or services. The incumbent will be expected to develop user-centered software and contribute to developing 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.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Follow Agile methodologies (SCRUM / Kanban)
• Work in a DevOps culture
• Work closely with multi-skilled and cross-functional teams e.g., architects, developers, UX designers, business
• Participates in team design, scoping and prioritization discussions
• Document & Design solutions at an Application Level with guidance from seniors
• Participates in team design, scoping and prioritization discussions
• Contributes to and develop technical specifications and software application architecture and designs
• Build cloud based functional mobile applications at an enterprise level
• Build Front-end and/or back-end solutions on the mobile digital channel/platform
• Implement complex Business Features and solutions with minimal guidance
• Generate, contribute and drive technical documentation according to OML guidelines
• Understand, communicate and/or translate complex procedures
• Writes secure, stable, testable, maintainable code with minimal defects.
• Assumes responsibility for the state of the code you both inherit and produce.
• Responsible for getting designs and code reviewed,
• Writes unit tests and tests code thoroughly
• Classifies, stores, and handles data in accordance with Old Mutual policies
• Clearly documents software to ensure that future generations of developers understand the intention behind the features and components built.
• Knowledgeable of and implements coding design patterns
• Review and refactor code according to coding standards
• Refactor complex code to improve maintainability
• Provide after-hours support of applications (you build it, you run it)
• Understands the maintenance characteristics, runtime properties, and dependencies of the team’s software, including hardware platform, operating system and build dependencies.  
• In the event of a problem, troubleshoots, researches the root cause of problems, and thoroughly resolve defects. 
• Continuously develop skills
• Seek to learn the business context and technologies behind teams' software.
• Work effectively with customers and/or internal partners to understand business impacts and identify any opportunities/problems arising from technical decisions
• Understand and contribute to the technical roadmap and vision of the Digital & Data team
• Seek to learn the business context and technologies behind the team’s software.
• Work effectively with customers and/or internal partners to understand business impacts and identify any opportunities/problems arising from technical decisions
• Research and share programming/technology-related advances to team(s)
• Build and test software prototypes
• Provide higher-level technical and programming support to fellow-developers/engineers
• Mentor and coach junior developers and trainees
• Research and recommend programming-related advances to team(s)
• Create and test software prototypes

EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS REQUIREMENTS

• Matric certificate with relevant tertiary qualification
• 3+ years of experience in Android mobile application development
• Knowledge of, and experience in mobile frameworks and technologies such as:
• Kotlin/Java
• Android Studio
• Spring Framework
• Containerisation technologies e.g., Kubernetes, Docker
• CI/CD Tools e.g., Jenkins, AWS Code Commit
• AWS (preferred) or another cloud provider such as Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform
• IaC technologies e.g., Terraform/Cloudformation
• Collaboration tool e.g., Confluence, Jira, Microsoft Teams, Slack
• Familiarity with architecture styles such as Microservice and Serverless architectures
• Critical thinking, root cause identification skills and attention to detail
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly
• Good communications skills and a team player
• Comfortable with pair programming
• Possess commercial and business awareness

COMPETENCIES

• Customer focus
• Attention to detail and big picture 
• Action Oriented
• Continuous Improvement
• Conflict management and resolution
• Multi-function team collaboration

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Job Description

• The Teleconsultant markets Old Mutual products and services to brokers telephonically and are individually accountable for achieving results through their own efforts. . This role operates on salary / bonus / commission system.

Skills

Strong interpersonal skills

• Organized and self-driven
• Knowledge of Reinsurance Treaty, Facultative wording and Reinsurance slips
• Good analytical skills
• Computer knowledge
• Ability to communicate effectively
• Good understanding of general Insurance products

Education

• Matriculation Certificate (Matric) (Required)

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• To complement the existing cross-functional team, Old Mutual is looking for a Data Engineer who will assist in designing and also implement scalable and robust processes to support the data engineering capability. This role will be responsible for implementing and supporting large-scale data ecosystems across the Group. This incumbent will use best practices in cloud engineering, data management and data storage to continue our drive to optimize the way that data is stored, consumed and ultimately democratized. The incumbent will also engage with stakeholders across the organisation with use of the Data Engineering practices to facilitate the improvement in the way that data is stored and consumed.

KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Assist in designing and implementing scalable and robust processes for ingesting and transforming complex datasets.
• Designs, develops, constructs, maintains and supports data pipelines for ETL from a multitude of sources.
• Creates blueprints for data management systems to centralize, protect, and maintain data sources.
• Focused on data stewardship and curation, the data engineer enables the data scientist to run their models and analyses to achieve the desired business outcomes
• Ingest large, complex data sets that meet functional and non-functional requirements.
• Enable the business to solve the problem of working with large volumes of data in diverse formats, and in doing so, enable innovative solutions.
• Design and build bulk and delta data lift patterns for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data.
• Supports the organisation’s cloud strategy and aligns to the data architecture and governance including the implementation of these data governance practices.
• Engineer data in the appropriate formats for downstream customers, risk and product analytics or enterprise applications.
• Development of API’s for returning data to Enterprise Applications.
• Assist in identifying, designing and implementing robust process improvement activities to drive efficiency and automation for greater scalability. This includes looking at new solutions and new ways of working and being on the forefront of emerging technologies.
• Work with various stakeholders across the organisation to understand data requirements and apply technical knowledge of data management to solve key business problems.
• Provide support in the operational environment with all relevant support teams for data services.
• Provide input into the management of demand across the various data streams and use cases.
• Create and maintain functional requirements and system specifications in support of data architecture and detailed design specifications for current and future designs.
• Support test and deployment of new services and features.
• Provides technical leadership to junior data engineers in the team

Role & Qualifications Requirements

• Matric, with a degree in Computer Science, Business Informatics, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics or Engineering.
• 3+ years of data engineering experience
• 3+ years of experience with any data warehouse technical architectures, ETL/ELT, and reporting/analytics tools including , but not limited to , any of the following combinations (1) SSIS and SSRS, (2) ETL Frameworks, (3) Data conformance, (4) Caching, (5) Spark (6) AWS data builds
• The candidate having DBA ability and knowledge across at least 2 platforms (example: TSQL, SAS, PSQL, IBM VSAM, DynamoDB and DB2) will also be beneficial.
• Should be at least at a proficient level in at least one of Python, Java, C/C++ or similar
• Should be Proficient in bash/ksh, perl, SQL
• Some experience with R, AWS, XML, json, cron will be beneficial
• Experience with designing and implementing Cloud (AWS) solutions including use of APIs available.
• Some experience with Dev/OPS architecture, implementation and operation would be advantageous.
• Knowledge of Engineering and Operational Excellence using standard methodologies. Best practices in software engineering, data management, data storage, data computing and distributed systems to solve business problems with data.
• Some experience in applying SAFe/Scrum/Kanban methodologies.
• Knowledge and understanding of business process management lifecycle which covers the design, modelling, execution, monitoring, and optimization as well as business process re-engineering.
• Good problem solving skills: The ability to exercise judgment in solving technical, operational, and organizational challenges, to identify issues proactively, to present solutions and options leading to resolution
• Good programming, performance tuning and troubleshooting skills, using the latest popular programming languages such as python, scala, java and suite of Microsoft languages C# and F# preferable.

COMPETENCIES:

• Collaboration and precise communication
• Establishing and maintaining strong working relationships with stakeholders and user community
• Strategic thinking
• Leading with Influence
• Innovating and being curious about technology
• Quality in execution and outcomes
• Customer First attitude
• Personal Mastery (Learning)
• Problem Solving
• Data Management
• Working with ambiguity
• Working independently and within a team

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Job Description

• Responsible for supporting and promoting Old Mutual Investment Group funds in the retail investment market.

Key Result Areas

• Acts as regional technical specialist for all queries related to Old Mutual Investment Group funds via the PF channels (BD, AFD & PFA).
• Assist planners to choose most appropriate funds to meet their clients' investment objectives.
• Work closely with distribution channels to strengthen the Old Mutual Investment Group brand amongst planners and clients.
• Identify opportunities to promote and utilize Old Mutual Investment Group funds.
• Work closely with fund managers to understand fund positioning and interpret this in market-appropriate manner
• Assists the distribution channels (tied and independent) in strengthening the OMIG brand amongst targeted brokers and potential clients.
• Assists with the development of sales staff in terms of product knowledge, industry knowledge, competitor knowledge, product positioning and sales abilities.
• Partners the Internal distribution channels (tied and independent) to identifying opportunities with planners to utilize OM products and services.
• Partners the Internal distribution channels (tied and independent) in retaining existing business.
• Work alongside the Wealth distribution team to ensure we get to the correct planners across the distribution channels.

Requirements: Skills, Qualifications and Experience required

• BComm or equivalent
• 3-5 years of experience within Asset Management
• CFP advantageous

Competencies

• Collaboration (Relating)
• Customer First
• Execution
• Innovation (Perspective)
• Leading with Influence
• Personal Mastery (Learning)
• Strategic

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• The Tech Lead API Developer 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, SRE and Cloud Based practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop technical specifications and software application architecture and designs
• Create and test software prototypes
• Follow Agile methodologies (SCRUM / Kanban)
• Work in a DEVOPS culture
• Design and implement 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, responsive, robust, and secure

Experience & QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

• Matric, with a degree in Computer Science/ Engineering/ Mathematics or related
• 5+ years of experience in API development
• 3+ years of experience in leading application development
• Knowledge and experience in 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
• IaC: Terraform/Cloudformation
• .Netcore/ Kotlin/Java
• Performance testing (Locust/Jmeter/Gatling etc.)
• Contract testing (e.g., Pact, Postman, Neman)
• Familiarity with Architecture and Design: Microservice, Serverless architectures, Event Driven Architecture / API First / Domain driven design
• Familiarity with Test-Driven Development Build cloud based functional APIs at an enterprise level
• Knowledge of coding design patterns

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

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• The Investment and Risk Application Specialist is responsible for taking functional and business support ownership of the integrated quantitative modeling, risk, and trade order management application and acting as the subject matter expert to business process owners and application users.
• The ideal candidate is a professional, who is comfortable in a business support environment, as well as to work with the internal and external quantitative and application development teams and occasionally debug code. The candidate can quickly understand, interpret, and resolve both business and technical requests. Previous experience in an application support role is a requirement, with proven time spent delivering functional and technical application support.
• In this role, you will be required to interact with and provide specialized IT services, technology product management, and Information Security services to high-performing Investment and Risk functions. Your duties will include collaboration with colleagues across the business’ various front office, quantitative, risk and technology teams to achieve joint success and ensuring we deliver the best possible solution and service to all stakeholders.

Responsibilities And Key Result Areas

• This role will work closely with other technology, quantitative and risk teams as well as traders, portfolio managers, and stakeholders, to provide application support under the supervision of the technical lead. You will be required to gain a deep understanding of the vendor applications as well as support in-house applications used by our teams.

Specifically, you will be responsible for:

Business support

• Learn the businesses and the investment, hedging and trading requirements to provide business support to all stakeholders
• Work directly with portfolio managers, traders, financial engineers, and risk analysts in supporting various ALM hedging and other investment strategies
• Provide front end support to front and middle office users and colleagues in other areas of the business and wider Old Mutual Group
• Provide support for Fixed Income, structured finance, FX, and other asset classes
• Administer and support trading platform functionality, setup new users, maintain user permissions and, regulatory rules and other financial risk limit configurations
• Onboard new and maintain existing brokers, trading counterparties, and trading activity in new global markets

Change Management

• Co-ordinate the analysis and testing of workflow and integration for new instruments and products with internal and external stakeholders
• Keeping a record of configuration changes and scheduling application updates.
• Management and coordination of regression, system, component, and User acceptance testing and, release and change management processes across environments to ensure continued and synchronized functionality.
• Performing analyses on the investment and risk application functionality and suggesting improvements.
• Consulting with the vendor development team, internal and external stakeholders to improve application performance.

Incident management

The role includes business support escalation in accordance to agreed service level agreements, including incident, change, problem management and incident analysis reporting:

• Ensure that client requests and incidents are handled correctly
• Identify root cause of issues and isolate the area where a defect exists. Provide guidance to development team to resolve the issue.
• Collaborate with other teams in technology on issue resolution and projects
• Establishing the root causes of application errors and escalate serious concerns to your TL.
• Maintain documentation on new issues, work arounds, and support processes

Integration and continuous improvement

• Identify integration opportunities and participate in integration projects that is designed to deliver solutions that provide a unified business experience
• Work with stakeholders to identify opportunities for continuous improvements to processes, products.

General

• Develop industry, product and expertise through training, events, internal resources, and self-study (personal investment in lifelong learning)
• Able to support different time zones. This may mean an earlier start or an occasional meeting outside normal working hours. Flexible working hours.
• The role may evolve and require you to manage staff

Requirements: Skills, Qualifications and Experience required

• B.Sc. Computer Science or B.Sc.(Hons) majoring in a quantitative field such as Risk Management, Mathematics, Computational Finance, Statistics or a related discipline.
• 4 -6 years’ experience with a Financial Institution in application support role.
• Programming skills would be advantageous.
• Practical experience with ITIL processes e.g., problem management, incident management, change control, etc.
• Experience with Investments systems, Investments Risk analysis systems and technologies.
• Experience working in a multi-disciplined Agile and DevOps environment.
• Experience with application systems including Windows, local client, VM, etc.
• Experience with cloud hosted solutions
• Familiar with programming and scripting languages e.g., C++, python, SQL
• Familiar with data warehouses and data lakes.
• Integration and automation techniques
• Configuration Management