Job Description
The Digital & Data team is a dynamic division within Old Mutual Limited, which seeks to drive digital engagement with customers by being at the forefront of digital development and innovation. Old Mutuals longstanding history and unquestionable success in the finanicial industry, provide a solid foundation for expansion of its digital platform. The Digital & Data team applies customer-focused design thinking, agile and lean development methodologies, and continuous delivery practices.
The role of Senior Mobile Developer facilitates the development and delivery of quality software. This role requires established coding skills, proven experience in the digital and/or financial sector, and relevant qualifications. The incumbent will work in a multi-functional team to ensure continuous delivery of quality solutions.
Role & Qualifications Requirements
Matric certificate with relevant tertiary qualification
5+ years of experience in Android mobile application development
Knowledge of, and experience in mobile frameworks and technologies such as:
- Containerisation: Kubernetes, Docker
- CI/CD - Jenkins, AWS Code Commit
- AWS (preferred) or another cloud provider such as AZURE or Google Cloud Platform
- Confluence, Jira
- Microsoft Teams, Slack
- Terraform
- AppCode
- Kotlin
- Android Studio
- Xcode
- Spring Framework
- App Center
Build cloud based functional mobile applications at an enterprise level
Create and test software prototypes
Develop technical specifications and software application architecture and designs
Review and refactor code according to coding standards
Contribute to the technical roadmap and vision of the Digital & Data team
Ability to understand and communicate and/or translate complex procedures
Analyse system requirements and provide estimations within a team setting
Work closely with multi-skilled and cross-functional teams e.g. architects, developers, UX designers, business
Write clean, testable code
Knowledge of coding design patterns
Follow Agile methodologies (SCRUM / Kanban)
Work in a DEVOPS culture with analysts, testers and scrum masters
Provide after hours support of applications (you build it, you run it)
Provide higher-level technical and programming support to fellow-developers/engineers
Research and recommend programming-related advances to team(s)
Critical thinking, root cause identification skills and attention to detail
Ability to learn new technologies quickly
- Good communications skills and a team player
- Comfortable with pair programming
- Possess commercial and business awareness
Education
Closing Date
28 July 2023
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 Mutuals 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.
