Let's Write Africa's Story Together!

Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this.

Job Description

If you're looking for a company that offers great culture, leadership, learning opportunities, challenges, rewards and recognition, then look no further than Old Mutual.

Who are We?
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 17 countries. The lines of business include Life and Savings, Property and Casualty, Asset Management, and Banking and Lending.
Old Mutual Finance was established in 2008 to provide unsecured lending products and services to the SA market. The business started with a staff compliment of 34 and has since grown to over 3000 staff with more than 300 branches nationally. Within our branches, we offer insurance, transactional banking, lending products, and servicing.

Why Join Old Mutual?
Enabling our people to be their exceptional best is at the core of what we do. We are rooted in our purpose of Championing Mutually Positive Futures Every Day and believe that a great customer experience is anchored in a great employee experience.
We will provide you with a holistic experience to realise and unleash your potential.

What we Offer:
In partnership with you, we promise to challenge and help you grow in your career through a personalised development plan. We strive to create and expose our people to diverse learning opportunities through formal and informal learning. Most importantly you work in diverse teams made up of enthusiastic people who strive for excellence.

Old Mutual Finance is currently seeking to hire a Lead Software Engineer. This is a nationally based role that forms part of the Old Mutual Finance Information Technology Team. The objective of this role is to define, develop, test, analyse, and maintain new software applications in support of the achievement of business requirements. This includes coding, testing, and analysing software programs.

In This Role, You Will Get To:

Conduct full System Design process.Draft implementation plans, write programmes according to business specifications, and conduct unit testing.Work closely with Business Analysts to ensure sufficient clarification of specifications.Provide coaching and mentoring to Junior Programmers.Contribute to Old Mutual Finance body of knowledge (Documentation, Wikis, How-To Guides).Identify inefficiencies and work towards continuous improvement of existing systems and/or processes.Participate actively in Scrum delivery ceremonies (Stand-ups, Planning, Design Retrospectives, and Reviews).

What You Will Need To Succeed:

A Matric or Grade 12 equivalent, relevant Tertiary Qualification as well as a minimum of 8 years experience in a similar role.

You will also need to have experience in working with the following technologies in an Agile environment:

JavaRelational DatabasesSQLSource Control – GitWeb servers (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty/Netty)Webservices (Soap and Rest)XML

 Experience in the following will be advantageous

ANTDockerHtmlCI/CD (e.g. Jenkins)jQueryKubernetesMavenObject DatabasesPatternsSpring BootUMLXSLXSL:fo

Skills

Education

Closing Date

17 November 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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