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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.

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:

• Java
• Relational Databases
• SQL
• Source Control – Git
• Web servers (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty/Netty)
• Webservices (Soap and Rest)
• XML

Experience in the following will be advantageous:

• ANT
• Docker
• Html
• CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins)
• jQuery
• Kubernetes
• Maven
• Object Databases
• Patterns
• Spring Boot
• UML
• XSL
• XSL:fo

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.