Job Vacancies at Old Mutual South Africa

Job Description

This role manages a team in a technical environment - disability claims assessment - with some individual deliveries and is individually accountable for achieving results through others, over periods of 3 months to one year. The candidate must have be experienced in disability claims assessment and preferably hold a medical or medically aligned qualification

• Responsible for the management of a unit of technical specialists (mostly role size M) in the CSOA Job Family in support of business objectives - namely medically qualified disability claims assessors who need to be managed
• Normal functions pertaining to management (people, production, customer and finance) apply, but in a technical environment.
• Team size would vary but would mostly be between 10 and 15 specialist staff.
• Also responsible for technical deliveries themselves (high level of technical knowledge in related field to their own staff) in terms of claims assessment; escalations and queries
• The candidate must be qualified to deal with complex disability claims and queries
• Technical skills would relate to a field within the CSOA ambit, i.e. product / process / MIS etc - specifically related to disab
• Carries responsibility to deliver on operational projects within field of expertise

Role requirements

• Completed medical / medically aligned degree, e.g. Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy.
• Disability Claims assessing experience
• Management experience will be advantageous.

Closing Date

27 March 2023

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Job Description

• The Senior Solution Architect primarily works with the business domain experts and business leadership to craft a solution that is fit for purpose from a business perspective.
• Consequently they focus their attention on a smaller facet of service (the solution package) to make sure that it operates effectively as part of the whole as well as independently as a stand-alone solution.
• Focusses on the technical and business feasibility of a solution and ensure that it fits within well-established patterns and guidelines laid down by the enterprise architects and solution practice architects.
• Takes responsibility for the quality, commercial compliance and technical integrity of the solution being delivered back into the business.
• Works actively with senior technology / platform systems analysts from across the operational space (both internal subject matter experts and those of the chosen suppliers).

Compliance

• Provides critical input into the operational readiness and resilience components of the solution.
• Ensures delivery fits within the Solution Architecture patterns and guidelines.
• Provides input to the implementation of new solutions through review and input thus ensuring solutions adhere to agreed Solution Architecture patterns and guidelines.

Continuous Improvement

• Continuous research and development of solution architecture technologies, patterns and designs for scale, resilience and innovation.
• Benchmark and monitor current practices against best practices and implement improvements within the allocated area of responsibility.
• Lead initiatives to improve software engineering, quality engineering, and operational excellence best practices in one or more teams/squads.

Financial Control

• Understands the fiscal components of a solution to ensure it satisfies the commercial requirements in terms of capital and operation expenditure.
• Evaluates potential solutions by considering buy vs build options
• Understand and applies FinOps principles as part of the design/architecture process so that spending increases on running infrastructure can be predicted and monitored.
• Defines business cases for technology initiatives and clearly articulates the business value.

Personal Effectiveness

• Ability to explain the complex in layman’s terms to bring technology to the masses
• Accepts and lives the company values
• Accountable for service delivery through own efforts
• Collaborates effectively with others to achieve personal results.
• Individually accountable for managing own time, tasks, and output quality for periods of 3 months to 1 year.
• Plans workload vs work demand for a small team of solution architects.
• Leads the design, implementation, and successful delivery of large-scale, critical, or difficult software efforts for the business or that resolves architecture deficiencies, involving a significant amount of work. Requires one or more members of the team to execute architecture and design.

Strategy

• Models and defines the financial implications and considerations of potential solutions.
• Models, defines and collaborates around designs with business and enterprise stakeholders.
• Provides options and recommendations to business stakeholders to ensure that they can make the best business decisions based on the different solution alternatives and patterns.
• Responsible for defining technical strategy and delivering on it with limited guidance.
• Take the lead in identifying and solving ambiguous problems, architecture deficiencies, or areas where your team/squad’s software bottlenecks the innovation of other teams/squads.
• Deliver solutions/architecture simpler.
• Considers the impact of a single business process across multiple system touchpoints and ensures that the solution improves the process end-to-end.
• Has detailed knowledge of team/squad software architecture and proactively works to improve consistency and integration between your software and related software (owned by other teams/squads).
• Makes technical trade-offs between short-term team/squad needs and long-term business needs.

Technical Consultation

• Analyses business processes to determine how IT investment could deliver value through improved cycle times, lower costs, and improved quality.
• Builds a detailed transition plan for the more effective exploitation of IT investments.

Defines a solution and ensure that it:

• Meets the business requirements
• Meets the non-functional requirements
• Is based on DevOps, Cloud-Based and SRE practices
• aligns with the guidelines laid down by the Solution Architecture Chapter.
• Is compliant with the IT strategy.
• Can be readily leveraged by other parts of the business
• Leverages past development experience to design and architect solutions.
• Works on team/squad architecture. Design and architecture impact on dependent systems and yield significant performance, availability/resilience, or business value. Your designs, architecture and implementation decisions set a great example to others. You take ownership of the outcome. (“You ‘ship it’, you own it.”). You work very efficiently and routinely deliver the right things.
• Solves difficult or complex architecture and business problems. Solutions are extensible. Works to simplify, optimize, remove bottlenecks, etc. You lead design reviews for your team/squad and actively participate in design reviews of related software or other software for the business unit.

Scope of Influence

• Advises Peers, Engineers, Manager, Senior Manager
• Responds to stakeholder needs and influences the development of alternative solutions.
• Influences team/squad software architecture (may extend to related teams/squads).
• Actively mentors/develops others - improving their skills, their knowledge of your solutions, and their ability to get things done.
• Assesses readiness of intermediate/senior software engineers for promotion. You actively participate in the hiring process.

Requirements:

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in relevant IT domains such as Software Engineering, Software Quality Assurance and/or Business/System Analysis
• A minimum of 4 years of experience as a Solution Architect
• Hands-on experience in designing enterprise-grade architectures,
• Experience with cloud-native solutions or container technologies,
• Good experience in software architecture/engineering from an overall platform perspective,
• Solid understanding of agile principles and proven experience applying them,
• Matric
• Relevant Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in Information Technology.
• Cloud certification

Closing Date

31 March 2023

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Job Description

• This role manages the area's distribution infrastructure, sales activity and processes through teams of Business Consultants, to ensure area profitability, and to achieve and exceed business plan and grow market share.

Key Result Areas:

Management Effectiveness

• Manages service delivery and sales performance through teams of Business Consultants.
• Manages the HR function for the area as well as all day-to-day staff administration.
• Drives operational excellence through area of supervision.
• Assumes accountability for managerial work, including selection, performance management and talent management.
• Develops Business Consultants

Sales/ Productivity

• Manages sales processes through the teams to ensure branch profitability and to achieve business plan.
• Identifies potential new markets & opens up the markets with assistance of relevant resources to grow market share.
• Monitors area results.
• Ensures that the branch has Marketing and Sales plan.

Stakeholder Management:

• Responsible for internal and external relationship management with key stakeholders.

Formulate and implement area distribution strategy:

• Aligns with national and regional stratgies
• Reviews effectiveness of strategy and re-align continuously
• Gathers market intelligence and incorporate information into branch strategy
• Provides information to appropriate stakeholders e.g. product providers, resources etc.

Finance and Risk Management/Budget Control:

• Manages the branch by practicing sound business principles in accordance with OMSA/BD’s business governances
• Manages areas budget

Job Requirements:

Role Qualifications

• Grade 12
• FAIS compliance (RE 1 or RE5) will be an added advantage
• Relevant 3-year tertiary qualification
• At least 8 years experience in marketing/sales within the financial/life assurance industry
• Previous managerial experience in marketing/sales within the financial/life assurance industry will be an added advantage
• Experience and knowledge of the Broker environment
• Own reliable transport and a valid driver's license
• Fluid in English and Afrikaans
• Incumbent must be willing to be transferable in future

Closing Date

29 March 2023