Product Owner of Xceptor Practices

2 weeks ago


Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa LRI Invest S.A. Full time

Product Owner Xceptor

The Role

  • Position: Product Owner Xceptor
  • Department: Integration Automation
  • Location: Cape Town
    About Apex
Apex Group Ltd ("Apex" or "the Group"), established in Bermuda in 2003, is a global financial services provider.

With over 80 offices worldwide and 12,000 employees in 38 countries, Apex delivers an expansive range of services to asset managers, financial institutions, private clients, and family offices.

Apex's purpose is to be more than just a financial services provider.

The Group is committed to driving positive change to address three core areas:
the environment and climate change, women's empowerment and economic independence, and education and social mobility. Life at Apex isn't just about the work you do. It's about embracing the culture and loving what you do.

Every employee plays a part in making Apex who we are today, and the more we grow, the more important that becomes.

The international nature of our business and global network of offices means that there are opportunities to broaden your life experiences and take short-term or permanent relocation options.


Job S

ummary
This role represents a combination of strong technical, people and leadership skills as well as business acumen.

This role requires extensive hands-on experience in designing and developing Xceptor Implementations as well as a passion for learning and understanding features and products emerging in a rapidly changing Xceptor low-code development market.

You will be a part of the Apex Group Technology team developing our modern solutions, process development and automation to improve business process efficiencies; provide superior client digital services and support the scaling of our operational model.


You will be responsible and accountable for the overall delivery of the Xceptor developer team, from development through to implementation stages, including operationalisation of the solutions.


Key Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with business stakeholders on feasibility and optimization of their processes.
  • Manage workload of the Xceptor team, delivering through agile methodologies.
  • Manage Optimization build of processes and release of processes.
  • Work with Business Users (SMEs and other stakeholders), Business Analysts and your team of Xceptor developers to sign off on the business automation and technical requirements.
  • Design automation solutions using Xceptor and other relevant technologies including wellstructured Solution Design documentation thereof.
  • Manage relationship with the Xceptor vendor and contribute to technology enhancements for new and existing capabilities.
  • Decide on the development methodologies and best practices around design, coding, quality, and performance and drive the adoption of these with the Xceptor development team.
  • Oversee the development of automation projects by conducting regular checkins with the Xceptor development team to:
  • ensure components are being done according to the solution design and requirements; and
- to identify and resolve bottlenecks/blockers and exceptions.

  • In addition to overseeing development within the Xceptor development team, you will also be required to develop automation projects yourself.
  • Perform code reviews with the Xceptor development team and facilitate knowledge transfers.
  • Oversee technical testing with the Xceptor developer and/or Quality Assurance Tester (QA) through all stages of the testing process. In addition to overseeing testing with the Xceptor development team, you will also be required to perform testing for your own automation projects which you have developed yourself.
  • Participate and oversee in all stages of the automation project lifecycle, including production deployment, hypercare, and monitoring.
  • Define and create technical documentation for the automations developed, according to global best practices.
  • Responsible for educating the business on best practices and how Xceptor can assist them.

Skills, Qualifications
and Experience**- Soft Skills:
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to business audience.
  • Strong conceptual and analytical skills with demonstrated strong problem solving skills
  • Ability to effectively engage with and lead a team
  • Ability to plan and manage your team and your own work loads
  • Results driven
  • Zero tolerance for error
  • Experience and Education
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, or similar field.
  • Proven successful delivery of solutions resulting in cost savings and efficiency improvements.
  • Experience on Microsoft.
NET and API development

  • Microservices, API and Event Driven Architecture
  • Experience with SQL and Oracle databases
  • Advance experience with standard tools used for software development such as git, VSTS etc.
  • Xceptor Knowledge and Skills
  • Knowledge of all components of the Xceptor Platform and the way they are integrated, Data Hub, Reco

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