Engineering Lead: Digital and Workflow

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Engineering Lead: Digital and Workflow

Apply locations Johannesburg posted on Posted Yesterday job requisition id JR-53653

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Job Description

Old Mutual Insure is looking for an Engineering Lead: Digital and Workflow. This is a senior technical role including solutions design, development, implementation, testing, data conversion and documentation and system enhancements. Accountabilities for this role include software development, systems analysis, interpreting functional requirements and engaging with relevant stakeholders.

Software Development, Build and Release Management – Responsible and accountable for ensuring high-quality input into the build and release management processes to ensure high availability and predictability of releases

• Technical role with about 70:30 split with direct contribution to code production and architectural and strategic planning with peers and developers and the day-to-day people management and development required of a high-performing and successful team.

• Develops, tests and implements new systems and system changes in accordance with agreed coding standards and principles.

• Performs code review of the solutions after development has been completed

• Contributes to Test Driven Development (TDD) Framework and upskills feature team members where needed

• Assists Scrum Master and other team members in estimation of features

• Business Analysis knowledge and ability to analyse business requirements to be met by IT solutions and document it.

• Ensures code commit standards and conventions are adhered to by the Development team, using agreed tools.

• Actively contributes to improving the quality of code commit standards and conventions.

• Ensures stability of Continuous Integration (CI) builds as it relates to the feature team’s commits and overall DevOps practices.

• Defines and implements appropriate measures to deal swiftly with the coordination, communication and resolution of unstable builds where impacted by the feature team & the broader.

• Ensures adherence to the Software Engineering team with respect to the source code branch strategy.

• Initiates process and service improvement programs as identified.

• Provides thought leadership and industry expertise in all aspects of software engineering. Identifies opportunities for improvement and drives change.

• Ensures the development of a scalable and fit for purpose approach to implementing best practice software engineering disciplines.

• Drives the translation of the software engineering strategy into tangible action plans and outcomes.

• Identifies and drives opportunities for continuous improvement and innovation.

• Collaborates with the various teams in order to enable an efficient, effective release pipeline.

• Contributes towards achieving goals of continuous integration, continuous delivery through automation. 

• Formulates high-level and detailed design for business and technical solutions according to the architectural roadmap.

• Formulates technical guardrails within relevant domain and technology stack

• Leads and plays an active role with Architecture team on appropriate choice of technologies within relevant domain, based on business directions and objectives.

• Coaching

• Quality Management

• Continuous improvement to ensure effective service

• Service delivery to ensure customer satisfaction

• Ensure cost efficiency through financial and corporate governance

• Manage quality people practices

• Understands technology trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models and present to appropriate forums.

Experience, knowledge and skills required

• Degree in Computer Science/Engineering (or 7-10 years equivalent experience)

• Experience leading a team technically, with a focus on a very high-quality output

• Experience mentoring and developing technical teams

• Experience working within an Agile and DevOps team, and an advocate of that culture

• Experience in developing solutions using robotics process automation software, including frameworks and DevOps pipelines.

• Excellent problem-solving skills

• Experience developing an OO test-driven environment

• Java (React)

• HTML and CSS

• JavaScript (React, Angular, Backbone)

• SQL and MySQL

• SOAP, REST

• CI/CD Pipelines

• Salesforce

• ConnexOne

• AWS

• Azure (DevOps)

• Micro Service Architecture

The Recruitment process:   

• TA Interview: This will be a discussion with a member of the TA Team to give you an understanding of our business, our culture & values and more context on the role. It will also allow us the opportunity to get to know you a little better, and ensure OMI can meet your needs 

• Panel Interview: This will be with members of the hiring team 

• Technical & Psychometric Assessments: These will depend on the role and will sometimes happen concurrently with MIE & Internal Verification 

• Offer

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Closing Date

01 July 2024

The appointment will be made from the designated group in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question.

Old Mutual Limited is pro-vaccination and encourages its workforce to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19.

All prospective employees are required to disclose their vaccination status as part of the recruitment process.

Please refer to the Old Mutual’s Covid-19 vaccination policy for further detail. Kindly note that Old Mutual reserves the right to reinstate the requirement to vaccinate at any point if it is of the view that it is imperative to do so.

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Old Mutual is a premium African financial services organisation that offers a broad spectrum of financial solutions to retail and corporate customers across key market segments in 14 countries. The lines of business include Life and Savings, Property and Casualty, Asset Management and Banking and Lending.
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