Data & Digital Academy 2025

2 weeks ago

Bellville, Western Cape, South Africa Sanlam Full time

Who are we?


Sanlam Group Technology is responsible for the provision of a digitally enabled technology service as a group COE, drive business and transformation and provide group-wide digital and data architecture.

We operate the various technology platforms and shared services, ensure Cyber and Information Security resilience, and act as technology governance and risk orchestrator for technology across Sanlam.


Data and Digital Academy Graduate

  • An exciting opportunity is available for soontobe or recent graduates to join the Sanlam Data & Digital Academy. We are seeking bright minds who are eager to build and develop technical, analytical, and business skills while working on real business cases within the Sanlam Business Intelligence and Group Technology ecosystems.

Being selected for a Data & Digital Academy Graduate position will entail:

  • Permanent employment from the onset.
  • Marketrelated benefits and rewards.
  • Handson experience in one of the largest and most diverse Financial Services organisations in Africa.
  • Access to secondments in a variety of agilefocused delivery teams to solve problems and cocreate innovative solutions for the business.
  • Participation in real case studies that have been tailored for Sanlam, thus providing technical training and domain knowledge simultaneously.
  • Constant growth, facilitated through tech focus days, experimentation programmes and participation in dedicated innovation competitions.
  • Collaboration with experienced Sanlam employees participating in the programme.
  • Opportunity to build a career at Sanlam, and gain access to opportunities across a diverse set of capabilities, propositions, and geographies.

All about Sanlam

  • Sanlam is one of the largest internationally active insurance organisations in the world and has the biggest nonbanking financial services footprint on the African continent. The Group has an active presence in 43 countries, operating across the African continent, India, Malaysia, and selected developed markets. It is listed on the Johannesburg, A2X, and Namibian stock exchange.

Further to this, Sanlam has:
- formed an InsurTech partnership with Africa's largest telco, MTN
- formed an African operations partnership with one of the world's largest insurers, Allianz
- structured a deal with Absa to create the largest black-owned asset manager in South Africa, Sanlam Investment HoldingsThe Sanlam Data & Digital Academy (SDDA) forms part of Sanlam Group Technology. It is designed to build data analytical and technical skills which are critical in a fast-growing technological and data-driven environment.
  • As a group Centre of Excellence, Sanlam Group Technology is responsible for the provision of digitally enabled technology services, driving business and transformation while providing the Group with its data and digital architecture. Much of our focus falls into the domains of cloudnative architecture, regenerative artificial intelligence (AI), data mesh architecture, machine learning (ML), insurance telematics, advanced cyber security, event streaming, and other technologies such as virtual reality.
    What will you do?
  • The Sanlam Data & Digital Academy is offering two exciting development opportunities over a 13month period, aimed at launching your career in either the Data or Digital track

Data Track:

  • You are passionate about all things related to data: finding patterns in data, using data to build insight, aid decisionmaking and process action, and to create real value.
  • You want to establish strong foundations in data management and data engineering, in a fastmoving and complex enterprise data domain.
  • You aspire to develop your analytical skills to grow your career in roles such as Data Analyst, Data Scientist, Data Engineer, or AI/ML engineer.

Digital Track:

  • You have a passion for engineering and solving complex problems.
  • You seek a career as a Software Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Test Engineer, Integration Specialist or Architect.

During the 13-month program you will receive

  • Ongoing technical training, realworld enterpriselevel experience, business acumen and competency based training in a professional environment.
  • The opportunity to work crossfunctionally in order to learn across various disciplines and be equipped with a diverse skillset, gaining access to multiple parts of the data and tech capabilities, and working with multiple parts of the business.
  • Rotate to different IT teams to get exposure to a variety of IT disciplines enabling you to find the best fit for your skills and interests.
  • The opportunity to participate in innovation competitions and tech learning days, such as the SGT data day, and SGT VR day, as well as vendorfacilitated hackathons.
  • Functional training and handson experience with the leading IT & BI tools and technology that will enable you to play a key role in Sanlam's strategy to modernise the IT agenda and drive the data driven decis

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