Jobs at Flash Group

The Flash Group is looking for a Scrum Master to facilitate, guide and drive agile frameworks over multiple teams within our Cape Town office. 

Requirements:

• 2+ years’ experience in Software Development/Tech Team.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Experience in implementing Agile in an organization.
• Preferably hold a relevant Scrum Master certification:
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
• ICP – Agile Certified Professional
• A-CSM – Advanced Certified Scrum Master
• PMI – Agile Certified Practitioner
• Sound understanding of agile software development methodologies, principles and procedures.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with diverse personality types.
• Project Management and/or Technical Product Owner experience with the ability to apply this to multi-disciplined teams is advantageous.
• Any experience with Azure DevOps and Microsoft Power BI would be an advantage.
• Any experience within a Fintech industry will be an advantage.

 Responsibilities:

• Support & coach Teams to understand the Scrum Framework.
• Assist in the preparation (where required), & the facilitation of Scrum ceremonies with the Agile Team.
• Assist in educating & guiding Tech Teams in building and improving on velocity.
• Improve transparency within the teams.
• Assist in the removal of organizational impediments.
• Build a safe and trusting environment where conflict can be managed in a healthy way without fear of blame
• Follow a servant leadership approach.
• Support & empower the Technical Integrations Team when it comes to prioritizing the backlog, managing expectations with Product Managers & Stakeholders, & forecasting work.
• Keep abreast on Agile methodologies to promote ways to improve.

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In this role, you will develop and implement a compliance framework, including management plans, policies, processes and monitoring to ensure the organisation complies with relevant laws and regulations, and statutory and supervisory requirements. Communicate with Group / External Compliance Officers, Regulators and Legal Department.

Key Performance Areas:

• Develop and maintain a compliance framework in collaboration with the relevant stakeholders
• Assist Risk Department to review the Company’s internal controls, policies and procedures and that such controls conform to legislation.
• Assist in maintaining the Company’s compliance with both industry and business legislation.
• Identify potential compliance breaches and investigate compliance irregularities or areas of concern
• Where possible non-compliances exist, through collaboration with other stakeholders, provide a risk analysis and propose a workable solution to ensure compliance
• Maintain the key business policies
• Ensure compliance records are up to date
• Review and resolve recommendations from internal audit relating to compliance areas
• Maintain the compliance procedures and manuals
• Conduct and report on compliance reviews in the business
• Monitor and interpret industry developments and relevant laws and regulations.
• Provide advice, awareness and training on matters pertaining to compliance
• Establishes and embeds compliance culture across the Company and its divisions/departments.
• Fulfils functions required in terms of FAIS legislations such as monitoring and reporting to the financial services provider and the FSCA.
• Maintain RICA business rules.
• Prepare compliance reports.

Job Experience & Skills Required:

• Relevant post graduate degree
• Qualifications in Risk Management / Compliance / Legal or Governance Registered with Institute of Risk Management South Africa (IRMSA) will be preferred or
• Registered with Compliance Institute Southern Africa (CISA) (preferred), or
• Registered with Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA) (preferred), or Admitted attorney, or advocate in South Africa (preferred)
• 5 + years' related experience in risk management, compliance, legal or governance
• Must be a registered and FSCA Compliance Officer, in possession of necessary Compliance certifications
• Working knowledge of RICA, FICA, POPIA, Banking Act, National Credit Act and PAIA (Would be advantageous)

Soft skills:

• Attention to detail, analytical and diagnostic skills
• Creative thinking and Problem Solving
• Works well under pressure
• Ability to work in a team and independently
• Interpersonal skills
• Good communicator
• Deadline Driven
• Ability to implement policies
• Policy writing
• Attention to detail.
• Embrace and adapt to change.
• Accountable and responsible.

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To build and maintain a high performance, highly scalable and robust online transaction processing system as well as leading your technical team to ensure a pristine outcome of this.

Skills that are a "must have" in this position:

• Microsoft .NET / C#
• MVC
• Some Java coding experience and/or sound knowledge of the language
• SQL Server experience
• Entity Framework
• Web experience
• SSIS
• SSRS
• Leadership and Management skills
• To think creatively, and plan strategically, while leading a team of developers
• To innovate/write/implement code
• Excellent communication / interaction skills on all levels
• Confidence in yourself
• Ambition to lead and grow a talented team

Advantageous Skills:

• Java
• Some mobile front-end dev experience
• Understanding of domain driven design
• Docker, Kubernetes

Responsibilities:

• Ability to design and clearly communicate all requirements to the rest of the team to ensure everyone is on the same page and pace.
• Develop and implement solutions in line with business requirements with adherence to existing processes and procedures
• Develop solutions that meet strict industry security standards
• Communicate with the relevant Business Units to assist in developing requirements and functional specifications
• Work closely with other members of the Development Team to both develop detailed specification documents with clear project deliverables and timelines
• Provide project estimates, whether high level or detailed, in a manner that has considered all aspects of the task and as accurate as possible
• Provide written and verbal feedback to all relevant stakeholders, team members and management as and when required
• Provide subject matter expert support that is relevant, concise and considers all aspects of the subject matter in context to and its systems
• Translate every functional and non-functional requirement into system requirements without omission
• Own an assignment, including taking personal accountability of defects in process, to delivering full SDLC support for the assignment given
• Guide junior developers in technique, best practices, and QA
• Follow software development best practices and SDLC.
• Attend weekly tech meetings

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To work as part of the software development team to build and maintain a high performance, highly scalable and robust online transaction processing system.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Relevant IT Tertiary Qualification
• At least 5 years’ relevant experience relating to the skills listed below
• Experience in a Retail, Payments or Banking environment is preferred

SKILLS:

• Microsoft .NET / C#
• .NET Core
• API design
• MVC
• SQL Server
• Entity Framework
• Web front-end experience (HTML + CSS + JS)
• OAuth 2.0 + OpenID Connect

ADDITIONAL ADVANTAGEOUS SKILLS:

• Experience in Event-driven architecture and/or Domain-driven design (DDD)
• Blazor or Angular or React or Vue (SPA) experience
• Azure Pipelines
• Azure DevOps knowledge
• Microservices experience
• App Containerization e.g. Docker, containerd, CRI-O, podman, buildah
• K8s experience
• CI/CD experience
• Jenkins knowledge
• SSIS
• SSRS
• Some knowledge of Java

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop and implement solutions in line with business requirements with adherence to existing processes and procedures
• Develop solutions that meet strict industry security standards
• Communicate with the relevant Business Units to assist in developing requirements and functional specifications
• Work closely with other members of the Development Team to both develop detailed specification documents with clear project deliverables and timelines
• Provide project estimates, whether high level or detailed, in a manner that has considered all aspects of the task and as accurate as possible
• Provide written and verbal feedback to all relevant stakeholders, team members and management as and when required
• Provide subject matter expert support that is relevant, concise and considers all aspects of the subject matter in context to and its systems
• Translate every functional and non-functional requirement into system requirements without omission