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Since our establishment in 1918, Sanlam has been a prominent part of the South African business landscape. We have always held a long-term view of how business adapts to the demands of the environment in which it operates. Today, in a dynamic world, we see an evolving set of social, economic, political and environmental imperatives that require our skilfu...
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Who are we?
Sanlam Group Technology is responsible for the provision of a digitally enabled technology service as a group COE, drive business and transformation and provide group-wide digital and data architecture. We operate the various technology platforms and shared services, ensure Cyber and Information Security resilience, and act as technology governance and risk orchestrator for technology across Sanlam.
What will you do?
As a member of the BI / Data Platform team, analyse, design and enable processes and solutions aimed at improving the ability of the delivery streams leveraging the data platform to deliver business value from data, orchestrating and automating the data analytics development and release pipeline to make it more flexible while maintaining a high level of quality.
This role enables change in the organisation by defining needs and recommending solutions that deliver value to stakeholders. The candidate will work in a platform enablement and delivery team, in an Agile environment with a specific focus on the Business Intelligence (BI) and/or Data domain.
What will make you successful in this role?
Analysis
Systems and data analysis of business value stream and/or platform requirements.
Document and maintain the set of system, functional and/or technical requirements together with the associated rationale, effort, decisions, dependencies and assumptions.
Development of technical specifications for product and process requirements, including integration mapping.
Manage traceability between the system requirements and derived artifacts including system models to the relevant detail.
Creation of the needed system designs as required, including but not limited to logical system design, Logical Data Models, high level and /or conceptual solution designs, UI prototypes, end user and reports.
Identification of potential risks/issues and give input to risk mitigation plan.
Scoping and estimation.
Ensure adequate tests are performed for all configuration and development tasks and ensure results are successful. Ensure testing yields an acceptable level of performance for the changes being delivered and the systems is not adversely affected.
Continuously assess own performance, seek timely and clear feedback and request training where appropriate.
Stakeholder Engagement
Cultivate and manage objective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including end-users, SME’s, project managers and senior staff members by providing input to validate business requirements.
Liaise and communicate the system requirements to the necessary audiences e.g. testers, developers, business analysts, infrastructure, production support, systems analyst (other areas of the business), etc.
Advise and enable platform and delivery workstreams data development and release pipeline.
Coaching/Mentorship
Coaching and mentoring of junior analysts.
Participate and contribute to a development culture where information regarding successes, issues, trends and ideas are actively shared.
Provides problem solving assistance to other team members.
Coach and assist junior team members.
DataOps
Defining and supporting the workspace process and technologies that others use to source, transform and manifest BI solutions.
Definition of, enablement and optimisation of effective data engineering and release processes, practices and tooling.
Enablement of a high-performance data analytics team that rapidly produces new analytics and flexibly responds to marketplace demands while maintaining impeccable quality.
Establishment and optimisation of environment and processes through which the delivery teams build the data products, including the monitoring of data pipelines and infrastructure as well as the governance of the data engineering practices.
Qualification
Diploma/Bachelor Degree (Information Systems; Statistics; Data or Computer Science; Engineering) or equivalent (preferred but not essential)
Experience
Knowledge and Skills
Personal Attributes
Build a successful career with us
We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its four business clusters – Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.
Core Competencies
Turnaround time
The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers.
Closing Date: 28 January 2022
Our commitment to transformation
The Sanlam Group is committed to achieving transformation and embraces diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace as we believe that these are key components to ensuring a thriving and sustainable business in South Africa. The Group's Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the selection process.
Who are we?
Sanlam Group Technology is responsible for the provision of a digitally enabled technology service as a group COE, drive business and transformation and provide group-wide digital and data architecture. We operate the various technology platforms and shared services, ensure Cyber and Information Security resilience, and act as technology governance and risk orchestrator for technology across Sanlam.
What will you do?
Guided by Architecture and a Technical Team Lead you will be responsible for establishing new technology components and reusable solution patterns that can be leveraged by business facing development teams in their day-to-day solutions. You will constantly be developing and setting new principles, standards, processes, procedures and guidelines for the wider BI community.
Communicate technical information to technical teams, as well as communicating challenges and solutions to project and operational leadership. An understanding of data management solutions and a keen sense of the strategic value of information to an organisation will be of importance. You will also be responsible for developing data warehousing blueprints, evaluating hardware and software platforms and integrating systems; translating business needs into long-term architecture solutions.
What will make you successful in this role?
Ability to define a structured approach to problem solving and delivery against it.
Ability to create design standards, patterns and principles
Ability to define a structured approach to problem solving and delivery against it.
Creation of role specific design standards, patterns and principles
Data management, development and modelling
Engage with a wide range of technical stakeholders including data scientists, business analysts, data engineers, database administrators and solutions architects.
Mentor Junior Full Stack Developers
Qualification and experience
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems, Engineering or another quantitative field / National Diploma in an Information Technology related discipline preferred
3- 8 years related experience
Application and data engineering background with a solid background in SQL is required
Data architecture design and delivery experience preferred
Experience in three (3) or more of the following areas is required:
Database technologies (e.g. SAP Hana, Teradata or similar) and database development (Views, Functions and Stored Procedure development)
Hadoop components including HDFS, Hive, Spark, Oozie and Impala
Object-oriented/object functional scripting languages: Python, Java, Scala or related.
ETL tools (e.g. SAP Data Services)
Event/Streaming based data pipelines (e.g. Kafka or Nifi)
Data warehousing (Kimball and Data Vault patterns are preferred) and dimensional data modelling (OLAP and MDX experience)
Skills
IT Data Analysis
Database Knowledge and Monitoring
Data Security
Risk Management
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Core Competencies
Personal Attributes
Build a successful career with us
We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its four business clusters – Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.
Turnaround time
The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers.
Closing date: 28 January 2022
Our commitment to transformation
The Sanlam Group is committed to achieving transformation and embraces diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace as we believe that these are key components to ensuring a thriving and sustainable business in South Africa. The Group's Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the selection process.
Who are we?
Sanlam Developing Markets [SDM] (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sanlam Life Limited) is one of the top financial services providers in the South African entry-level and emerging middle market. It aims to understand the unique requirements of clients and offers a wide range of simple and affordable financial solutions that cover needs such as funeral insurance, savings for education, life cover and personal accident plans. In terms of the Sanlam Group Governance Policy, SDM is managed by the SA Retail Mass cluster, which is part of the Sanlam Life and Savings cluster within the Sanlam Group. The cluster focusses on retail porducts, as well as group schemes.
What will you do?
Enabling business
Responsible for supporting the business by ensuring that all SQL environments are running optimally
Take responsibility for capacity management and performance tuning of a database
Security and risk management of the SQL estate
Communication
Interface with multiple business users across the organization.
Work closely with the development teams - assist with any queries (performance tuning, best practices, troubleshoot logic issues etc)
Coaching
Review team members’ code and advise on enhancements
Assist with up skilling team members by assisting Jnr staff, system analysts, and application developers and showcasing new and interesting technologies/methodologies
Deployments
Ensure stable releases to Test and/or Live environments.
Manage ETL environment, assist in project deployments
What will make you successful in this role?
Matric
Relevant tertiary qualifications
Minimum 10 years extensive working experience in a SQL DBA role
Must have work experience with SQL security and a very good understanding on how to design and implement security roles for enterprise type databases
Must have experience in designing and building large/high volume transactional and analytical Databases
SQL SSAS deployment, security models and design knowledge are advantageous
Extensive knowledge of SSRS, SSAS, T-SQL and SSIS.
A solid understanding of how the SQL engine works
Solid understanding of performance tuning principles within SQL, SSAS, SSRS.
SQL High availability experience is critical. 5+ years of experience on SQL HA.
Must have SQL performance tuning experience on large systems
Must have solid T-SQL development skills.
Must have 2-3 years team lead/management experience, leading SQL DBAs
Qualification and Experience
Degree or Diploma with 10 to 12 years related experience.
Knowledge and Skills
Personal Attributes
Build a successful career with us
We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its four business clusters – Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.
Core Competencies
Turnaround time
The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers.
Our commitment to transformation
The Sanlam Group is committed to achieving transformation and embraces diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace as we believe that these are key components to ensuring a thriving and sustainable business in South Africa. The Group's Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the selection process
Who are we?
Sanlam Group Technology is responsible for the provision of a digitally enabled technology service as a group COE, drive business and transformation and provide group-wide digital and data architecture. We operate the various technology platforms and shared services, ensure Cyber and Information Security resilience, and act as technology governance and risk orchestrator for technology across Sanlam.
What will you do?
Guided by Architecture and a Technical Team Lead you will be responsible for establishing new technology components and reusable solution patterns that can be leveraged by business facing development teams in their day-to-day solutions. You will constantly be developing and setting new principles, standards, processes, procedures and guidelines for the wider BI community.
You should be able to communicate technical information to technical teams, as well as be competent in communicating challenges and solutions to project and operational leadership. An understanding of data management solutions and a keen sense of the strategic value of information to an organisation will be of importance. You will also be responsible for developing data warehousing blueprints, evaluating hardware and software platforms and integrating systems; translating business needs into long-term architecture solutions.
What will make you successful in this role?
Ability to define a structured approach to problem solving and delivery against it.
Ability to create design standards, patterns and principles.
Ability to define a structured approach to problem solving and delivery against it.
Creation of role specific design standards, patterns and principles.
Data management, development and modelling.
Engage with a wide range of technical stakeholders including data scientists, business analysts, data engineers, database administrators and solutions architects.
Mentor Junior Full Stack Developers.
Qualification
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems, Engineering or another quantitative field or,
National Diploma in an Information Technology related discipline preferred
Experience
3 - 8 years related experience
Application and data engineering background with a solid background in SQL is required
Data architecture design and delivery experience preferred
Experience in 3 or more of the following areas are required:
Database technologies (e.g. SAP Hana, Teradata or similar) and database development (Views, Functions and Stored Procedure development)
Hadoop components including HDFS, Hive, Spark, Oozie and Impala
Object-oriented/object functional scripting languages: Python, Java, Scala or related
ETL tools (e.g. SAP Data Services)
Event/Streaming based data pipelines (e.g. Kafka or Nifi)
Data warehousing (Kimball and Data Vault patterns are preferred) and dimensional data modelling (OLAP and MDX experience)
Knowledge and Skills
Personal Attributes
Build a successful career with us
We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its four business clusters – Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.
Core Competencies
Turnaround time
Closing date: 28 January 2022
Our commitment to transformation
The Sanlam Group is committed to achieving transformation and embraces diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace as we believe that these are key components to ensuring a thriving and sustainable business in South Africa. The Group's Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the selection process.
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