Lead Python Backend Engineer
Lead Python Backend Engineer
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Job Description
Lets Write Africas Story Together!
Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this.
Job Description
- Build solutions from requirements received from product owner
- Be able to work in agile environment.
- Able to build POC solutions and demonstrate/present.
- Maintain a stable server with zero downtime
- Work with the product and design teams to understand enduser requirements formulate use cases and then translate that into a pragmatic and elective technical solution.
- Identify prioritize and execute tasks in the software development life cycle
- Develop tools and applications by producing clean code
- Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting
- Review and debug code
- Develop software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems ow data usage and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle
- Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis problem denition requirements solution development and proposed solutions
- Mentor junior engineers
- Collaborate with team to brainstorm and create new products
- Be able to report on his work using agile tools such as JIRA.
- Be able to elaborate and document their work in confluence.
- Communicative and proactive.
ROLE REQUIREMENTS
Qualifications & Professional Affiliations
- Relevant University Degree and Professional Qualification.
Experience
- AWS components such as Lambda SQS Dynamo DB
- AWS API Gateway
- Terraform
- Python 3.9
- Pytest
- Knowledge of Rest API integrations
- Openapi swagger
- GitHub actions for CI CD
- Docker and Docker compose
- Makefile
- Apache velocity language
- Proven experience as a Backend developer
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.
Responsibilities
Analysis of As Is and To Be
Document complex as is and to be processes and describe the changes required to migrate to the to be capability to record accurately the change required.
DataDriven Product and Service Improvement
Develop datadriven analyses to surface new opportunities to differentiate and improve products and user experiences ensuring consistency across digital products services and channels.
Digital Strategy/Transformational Projects
Manage and deliver endtoend digital programs and initiatives leveraging agile and designthinking principles to drive sustainable implementation.
Digital Talent Development
Develop digital training and development programs to meet identified needs; run leadership development programs to enable personal transformations around the digital work environment.
Digital Vision and Strategy
Conceptualize elements of digital strategy and digitalenabled business change projects. Develop approaches to programmatically deliver successful digital innovation engagements.
Project Management
Manage a portfolio of projects while reporting to senior colleagues.
Quality Assurance
Develop new methods tools and programs for quality assurance. Lead developmental initiatives or programs within an area of expertise.
Budgeting
Develop and/or deliver budget plans with guidance from senior colleagues.
Information Security
Lead in detecting and analyzing security incidents including attacks breaches and identified vulnerabilities and remediate any security gaps in line with the security incident management procedure.
Leadership and Direction
Communicate the actions needed to implement the functions strategy and business plan within the team; explain the relationship to the broader organizations mission vision and values; motivate people to commit to these and to do extraordinary things to achieve local business goals.
Organizational Capability Building
Use the organizations formal development framework to identify the teams individual development needs. Plan and implement actions including continuing professional development specified by professional or regulatory institutions to build their professional capabilities. Provide informal training or coaching to others throughout the organization in own area of expertise to enable others to improve performance and fulfill personal potential.
Performance Management
Manage and report on the performance of a substantial diverse team; set appropriate performance objectives for direct reports or project/account team members and hold individuals accountable for achieving them; take appropriate corrective action where necessary to ensure the achievement of team/personal objectives.
Application Software Development
Develop existing and new applications by analyzing and identifying areas for modification and improvement. Develop new applications to meet customer requirements.
Application Software Road Map
Define and maintain a roadmap to facilitate application software development and ensure the development work is prioritized in line with business requirements.
Information and Business Advice
Provide specialist advice on the interpretation and application of policies and procedures resolving complex or contentious queries and issues and enabling others to take appropriate actions.
Skills
Action Planning Action Planning Adaptive Thinking Agile Project Management Budget Management Change Management Current State Assessment Data Compilation Evaluating Information Executing Plans Futures Thinking Gaps Analysis IT Implementation Learning and Development (L&D) Managing Stakeholder Expectations Oral Communications Policies & Procedures Project Life Cycle Management Project Performance Management (PM) Project Quality Assurance Project Reporting Project Risk Management Project Schedule Management Project Scope Management Project Strategy 1 moreCompetencies
Business InsightCollaboratesCommunicates EffectivelyCourageCultivates InnovationCustomer FocusDecision QualityDevelops TalentEducation
Closing Date
10 April 2025 23:59The 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.
The Old Mutual Story!
Employment Type
Full-Time
