Senior Python Backend Engineer
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Lets Write Africas Story Together!
Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this.
Job Description
ROLE OVERVIEW
The role of the Serverless Backend Engineer is responsible for understanding requirements and building solutions under a serverless architecture model. The Serverless Backend Engineer reports directly to the Product Owner and the Chapter Leader.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- 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
- 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 their work using agile tools such as JIRA.
- Be able to elaborate and document his work in confluence.
- Be 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.
Design code develop test and implement integration and supporting application development components and systems. Perform business analysis and software analysis. May coordinate projects and perform system maintenance activities. OML roles mapped to this profile are: Lead iOS Engineer Lead Android Engineer Senior Platform Engineer Senior Software Engineer RoA: Lead: Development & Customisation Application Product Owner Tech Lead Web Tech Lead Senior Analyst Programmer OMF IT Senior Analyst Programmer Developer2 and Technical Lead API Development.Responsibilities
Application Software Development
Develop the mostcomplex existing and new applications by analyzing and identifying areas for modification and improvement. Develop new applications to meet customer requirements.
Applications Software Maintenance
Monitor identify and correct the mostcomplex software defects to maintain fully functioning applications software.
Design and Conceptualization
Work effectively with crossfunctional teams to conceptualize products and services leveraging data to drive original design ideas and decisions.
Technical Developments Recommendation
Discuss and recommend more complex or innovative technical developments to improve the quality of the website/portal/application software and supporting infrastructure to better meet users needs.
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.
Faults Diagnosis and Correction
Provide fault isolation and resolution for complex challenges to limit and address issues promptly.
Documentation
Create and maintain complex technical and/or user documentation to a high standard.
Testing Information Technology (IT) Performance
Design and monitor the quality of website/applications software tests and respond to user emails to monitor diagnose and correct performance issues.
Operational Compliance
Monitor and review performance and behaviors within area of responsibility to identify and resolve noncompliance with the organizations policies and relevant regulatory codes and codes of conduct.
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.
Horizon Scanning
Explore and develop a detailed understanding of external developments or emerging issues and evaluate their potential impact on or usefulness to the organization.
Data Collection and Analysis
Use data from a wide range of sources to analyze key themes and identify possible impacts on the business.
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.
Technical Database Support
Design distribution of complex database resources and provide physical modeling and design services to tune database applications for optimum performance.
Skills
Action Planning Application Development Business Process Design Computer Literacy Data Management Data Modeling Evaluating Information Identifying Customer Needs Information Technology (IT) Support Market Analysis Oral Communications Product Development Technical Support Technical Troubleshooting Test Case Management User Requirements Documentation Web DevelopmentCompetencies
Business InsightCollaboratesCourageCultivates InnovationDecision QualityDrives ResultsEnsures AccountabilityManages ComplexityEducation
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.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
