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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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What will you do?
You will be responsible for the overseeing and providing guidance to the scrum teams in BI, Analytics and Digital environment. The additional responsibilities will include but not limited to:
Ensuring that development teams follow scrum framework values and agile practices
Mentoring and motivating the teams to improve processes, facilitating meetings and decision-making processes, and eliminating team impediments.
The Scrum Master will be considered a subject-matter expert, have excellent logic and problem solving skills and a drive to make a difference. They will be responsible for enforcing the rules of Scrum, removing impediments from their team while promoting self-management and constantly improving our standards of work.
Main responsibilities:
Establishes and manages team cadence throughout delivery lifecycle, facilitation of all scrum ceremonies
Ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
Stakeholder management and playback, including product owners, executive sponsors and other external teams
Work closely with leadership to define product and establish product backlog. Owns delivery roadmap.
Support execution team with resolution of roadblocks and interdependencies, managing risks and issues.
Assist with bedding down BI capability operating model (People and process)
Using agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions.
Training, mentoring, and supporting scrum teams to follow agile values, principles, and practices.
Determining and managing tasks, issues, risks, and action items.
Manage each project’s scope and timeline
Coordinate sprints, retrospective meetings and daily stand-ups
Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint
Scheduling and facilitating scrum events, meetings, and decision-making processes.
Monitoring progress and performance and helping teams to make improvements.
Planning and organizing demos and product/system testing.
Ensuring the proper use of collaborative processes and removing impediments for the scrum team.
Tracking project processes, deliverables, and financials.
Be the point of contact for external communications as well as prepare and present status reports to stakeholders.
Coach team members in Agile frameworks
Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration
Work with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests
Help teams implement changes effectively
Guide development teams to higher scrum maturity
What will make you successful in this role?
Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a relevant field preferred.
Certified Scrum Master
5+ years of experience as a Scrum Master or in a similar role.
Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artefacts (such as definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement)
Working knowledge of agile methodology, techniques, and frameworks, such as Scrum or Kanban etc. to deliver solutions would be essential
Leadership and management experience. Excellent people and project management skills.
Strong communication and presentation skills.
Strong analytical, problem-solving and conflict resolution skills.
Knowledge of various toolsets such as SAP Hana Studio, SAP Data Services, Informatica Data Quality Suite, Cloudera big data storage and Microsoft Power BI will be advantageous.
Experience in a Dev Ops environment and leading the development automation
Hands-on experience with software delivery life cycle and Agile/Scrum delivery management
Experience in project management/Team lead roles mandatory.
Experience in delivering BI products preferable
Qualification and 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 business clusters – Sanlam Personal Finance, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Sanlam Investments, Sanlam Corporate, Santam, Miway, as well as 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 ensure 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.
What will you do?
Analysis of change requests received.
Provide recommendations and cost / man-day estimates for implementing changes.
Design prototypes for change requests.
Design Web Interfaces (graphic design) if applicable.
Maintain existing programmes according to change requests.
Produce appropriate software programs that satisfy the specifications.
Test own programs / artefacts to ensure correctness.
Test Interfaces to other systems.
Debugging of programs.
Provide test information to Testers.
Implement changes into the Production environment.
Document changes implemented and programs.
Updates of data model documentation.
Problem solving, root cause analysis and user assistance (functional).
Technical support / assistance to others on own programs / systems.
Provision of user guides / training material.
Provide hands-on training for own system.
Provide standby / support (if and when applicable).
Correct errors / bugs in production.
What will make you successful in this role?
Qualifications:
Relevant IT Qualifications (degree or diploma)
Minimum of 5 years’ experience within application development
Experience:
Proven record of exceptional work performance
Experience with Agile methodologies will be a strong recommendation
Knowledge:
Understanding of the SDLC Methodology
Understanding of Microsoft C# in the context of the Microsoft.NET framework
Basic understanding of UML (Class, Activity, Entity Relation Diagrams, etc.)
Understanding of OO concepts, design principles and patterns
Good knowledge of the following technologies will be a strong recommendation:
• .NET C#, ASP.NET/CORE
• MVC, WCF/SOAP, LinQ
• HTML, CSS, XML
• JavaScript/ Ajax, JQuery, Json
• SOA
• SQL and /or Express
• Angular 2 and above
Understand XML, XSD, HTTP and SOAP protocols
Knowledge of Persistence frameworks (EF would be beneficial)
Basic understanding of Microsoft Patterns and Practices
Problem Analysis and Problem Solving Techniques
Impact Analysis Techniques
Documentation Frameworks, Tools and Standards
Coaching / Mentoring Techniques
Understanding of Domain Driven Design concepts
Understanding Planning ,Software design
Software Quality and metric
High level understanding of Enterprise Test Methodology
SOLID Principles
Sound knowledge of the Financial Services industry will be a strong recommendation
Kentico CMS (would be beneficial)
Competencies:
Strong analytical & numerical ability
Problem solving skills
Conceptual thinker
Good communication, people interaction / interpersonal skills
Action / results orientation
Quality Assurance orientation
Knowledge seeking / Continuous learning
Building and Maintaining relationships
Adaptability
Strong team work orientation
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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
Closing date: 10 September 2021
What will you do?
The Business Analyst’s primary role is helping businesses implement technology solutions (in the RA SanlamConnect Support environment) in a cost-effective way by determining the requirements of a project or program, and communicating them clearly to all stakeholders, facilitators, and partners. This will include defining, analysing and documenting requirements; managing requirements at the project level, leads to fulfilling business needs, liaising with all impacted stakeholders, testing the changes and managing the implementation/release of the new solutions back into the business environment. The Business Analysts also use requirements to drive the design or review of test cases, process change requests.
What will make you successful in this role?
Defining, analysing, documenting, and managing requests
Identify & define business requirements for new business models or changes to existing models
Produce BRS/Functional Specification
Analyse, design & define new business processes or changes to existing processes
Define and document requirements in the Interface Document for technical solutions between source system(s) and CMS/KOM/SANPAY systems
Participate in transitioning the requirements & use cases to Systems Analysts, Developers to ensure a clear & complete understanding of what is required
Review test approach & test cases to ensure coverage of relevant business scenarios, use cases and functionality defined
Participate in testing to ensure that business requirements have been met
Ensure integration of changes into process environment
Give input to finalize scope of releases and confirm tasks for link to production
Ongoing support query resolution, reporting
Respond to and assist clients and stakeholders with any ad-hoc and ongoing queries and support that they may have regarding changes, systems errors etc.
Provide guidance & expert advice and information from data sources
Qualification and experience
Grade 12 (matric) or equivalent qualification
A related qualification will be advantageous
Business Analyst and/or Test Analyst experience both in process and systems application (commission and intermediary)
Preference will be given to candidates with experience in testing in Financial Services
Knowledge and skills
Experience and knowledge of administration and remuneration of intermediaries within the Life assurance industry would be advantageous
Knowledge of SDLC (Systems Development Life Cycle) process in IT/new WOW
Personal attributes
Analytical Thinking
Work Standards
Coaching
Communication
Decision Making
Building and Maintaining Relationships
Planning and Organising
Continuous Learning
Core competencies
Customer Focus
Collaborates
Cultivates Innovation
Drives Results
Being flexible and adaptable
Turnaround time
Closing date: 8 September 2021
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