Job Vacancies at Old Mutual South Africa

Job Description

• The role will also entail taking ownership of projects, developing and maintaining technical documents and operational procedures and implementing opportunities to mature self-serviceable of infrastructure and automation capabilities. The successful incumbent must possess a suitable tertiary qualification with 10 years’ experience working in the IT sector, 8 years’ Windows Server, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and Certificate Management and 3 years’ proficiency in Azure Active Directory and associated MS Office Cloud services

Primary responsibility is to define and own all aspects of Active Directory including the strategy, architecture and standards of both on-premises and cloud base environments

• Responsibility includes the management of Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, ADFS and Certificate Management
• Develop and maintain technical documents, operational procedures, and security standards.
• Highlight and implement opportunities to mature self-serviceable of infrastructure and automation capabilities across the environment
• Take ownership of projects and enhancements, driving delivery with the broader EUC CORE Technology team
• Manage the configuration and life cycle of environments, ensuring that the systems remain complaint and adhere to our security policies and industry security standards
• Ensure that platform performance is in line with requirements and have sufficient monitoring and capacity to cater for growth and future requirements
• Ensure environments are highly available, resilient, and backed up in line with business RPO’s and RTO’s
• Maintain hardware and software standards, asset inventories where required
• Adhere to change management processes ensuring all changes are correctly captured, understood, and communicated for any changes planned for the environment
• Act as a technical escalation point to the Support Teams as and when required
• Maintain platform service ticket queues, ensuring that SLAs are met in accordance with the agreed incident, service, and problem management processes
• Ensure Windows time synchronization and Manage DFS, share creation and administration
• Provide DHCP Services and Manage, create and configure the DHCP scope
• DNS Management: Perform DNS forwarders and root hints, aging and scavenging, record creation and modification, and also perform DNS name resolution
• Perform AD Integrated DNS In-Scope creation and modification
• Manage and maintain manual DNS entries

Required Skills and Experience:

• Relevant tertiary qualification / Microsoft AD Certification / AWS Certification
• 10 Years of experience working in the IT industry
• 8 Years of experience with Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Certificate Management and Windows Server
• 3 Years' experience of:
• Azure Active Directory and associated MS Office Cloud services
• Managing AD Group Policies and CIS/NIST Security controls
• Automation: PowerShell scripting
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) Infrastructure
• Managing backup and storage environments both on-premises and cloud environments
• Experience in virtualization (Hyperconverged platforms)
• Experience in managing Disaster Recover planning
• Experience in KEMP Load Balancers will be advantageous
• Active Directory and Azure AD Technologies
• Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows Server, with some experience on Linux based OS being an advantage
• Hypervisor: Hyper-V Technology
• Backup Technology experience and understanding
• Storage: Pure or any flash-based storage
• Cloud Technologies: Azure, M365 and AWS
• Monitoring: SCOM Operations
• Scripting: PowerShell, JSON, YAML
• Networking: Good understanding of Networking concepts

Closing Date

08 April 2023

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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 Digital & Data team applies customer-focused design thinking, agile and lean development methodologies, and continuous delivery practices.
• The Senior 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  

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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Job Description

• As chatbot Specialist you will develop applications that automate communication and customer services. You will create software applications that use artificial intelligence and machine learning to communicate with humans (customers) via text or audio

KEY RESULT AREAS

• Collaborate with teams and other developers to design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain chatbot (virtual assistant)
• Use Artificial Intelligence, NLP technologies, and cognitive machine learning to develop chatbot applications
• Maintain and enhance chatbot platform to meet changing needs
• Integrate chatbot solutions with multiple platforms
• Troubleshoot bots, debug, and deploy chatbots on various channels
• Refactor or reengineer chatbot applications as per requirements
• Enhance user effectiveness of chatbot with the help of advanced technologies
• Involve in all the stages of chatbot development from architecting to implementing
• Conduct Chabot demo/training and other activities
• Act as an expert on the various AI capabilities and actively participate in future product development opportunities
• Continuously monitor performance, report on the progress, and define strategies for enhancements
• Manage data coming from chatbot conversations and analyze them
• Work closely with innovation labs, researchers, and chatbot team for enhancement and end-to-end development of product
• Identify, analyze, and interpret the pattern, trends, and conversational flow in complex data sets
• Design and implement processes and strategies to enhance the end-user experience

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

• Relevant qualification
• Minimum 2 years relevant experience
• Real-world experience in building projects from ideation to completion
• Strong analytical skills and programming skills
• Knowledge of data collection and data management tools
• Excellent communication skills and learning mindset
• Ability to work with multiple projects at the same time
• Ability to drive change and take leadership as required
• Identify, analyze, and interpret trends, patterns, and correlations in complex datasets
• Sound understanding of chatbot architecture
• The customer-first mindset with a positive attitude

Closing Date

07 April 2023

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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 Digital & Data team applies customer-focused design thinking, agile and lean development methodologies, and continuous delivery practices.
• The Intermediate API developer is responsible for the development of high-quality solutions. This role requires participation in development and maintenance of software and other digital applications or services. The incumbent will be expected to 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

• Enabling teams by defining standards and building reusable artifacts for API development that not only suit their needs but retain a high level of security and reusability
• Delivering with automation in mind, across infrastructure and backend services
• Creating reusable patterns and solutions
• Supporting junior developers where required
• Contributing to the technical roadmap and vision
• Researching and assessing programming related advances and feeding back to team members
• Creating and testing software prototypes
• Communicating complex procedures to colleagues and stakeholders

Experience & Qualifications Requirements

• Matric, with a degree in Computer Science/ Engineering/ Mathematics or related  
• 3+ years of experience in mobile 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 
• Knowledge of with Architecture and Design: Microservice / Serverless architectures / Event Driven Architecture / API First / Domain driven design
• Familiarity Test-Driven Development 
• Build cloud based functional APIs at an enterprise level 
• Developing applications to meet technical specifications
• Knowledge of coding best practices 
• Follow Agile methodologies (SCRUM / Kanban) 
• Work in a DEVOPS culture bonus
• Implement test strategy and/or test plans.  
• Estimating sizing for development work required  
• Responsible for the software development life cycle, taking ownership on software development projects  
• Apply engineering principles for design, development, maintenance, testing and evaluation of software 
• Participate in code design and code reviews 
• Apply knowledge relating to the Architecture of relevant systems  
• 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 
• Draft technical specifications 
• Monitor application performance 
• Ensure systems are scalable, responsive, robust, and secure  

Competencies Required

• Customer focus 
• Attention to detail and big picture 
• Action Oriented 
• Continuous Improvement Management  
• Automation 
• Problem Finding and Solving 
• High EQ 

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We are looking for self-motivated and dynamic individuals who have a passionate entrepreneurial spirit to join one of Africa's leading insurance companies.

The role at a glance is about championing our valued customers to achieve their lifetime goals by identifying their financial needs, providing sound financial advice, recommending and implementing "fit for purpose" financial plans and solutions.

• Responsible for the procurement of new business
• Expand sales of products and services with existing customers
• Work mainly on own leads