Snr Delivery Lead

20 hours ago

Bellville, South Africa Sanlam Full time

Who are we?
Sanlam Life and Savings (SLS) is focused on serving our retail and corporate clients in South Africa and further developing our strategic advantages in the South African market. Sanlam Life and Savings consists of three clusters - Sanlam Corporate, Sanlam Retail Mass and Sanlam Retail Affluent. The Sanlam Life and Savings Office provides strategic direction, coordination and support to the three clusters, as well as performing governance oversight that includes assurance provided by second line of defense functions in SLS, to enable us to meet our business objectives. Role Description
You will lead our Liability Data Warehouse team that provides information to our Actuarial Reporting and Product teams. In this role, you will be responsible for the delivery of software features within our legacy Liability (LDW)data warehouse as well as our modern Product Data Hub (PDH). You will form part of the Actuarial Hub (AH) leadership team and play an integral role in the integration of data across data and BI assets within AH.
You will play the role of Agile Facilitator to manage the budget and delivery of team members. You will also be responsible to mentor software developers, data engineers, data analysts and testers.
What will you do?

**Output/Core Tasks**:
Ensure systems and processes across LDW are operated efficiently and effectively and deliver against business needs
Prepare and manage costs budget for development and maintenance work for the portfolio.
Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration to Actuarial Hub stakeholders
Be the point of contact for external communications (e.g., from customers or stakeholders)

**Facilitates and supports all scrum events**: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
Works with Squad, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support organizational project or product teams.
Work closely with leadership to define product and establish product backlog. Owns delivery roadmap.
Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards in accordance with SBI and SGT processes and standards (i.e., architecture and security standards, project management and quality assurance methodologies etc.) at the end of each sprint
Acts as a leader who coaches and supports Agile teams assigned to mainly Business as Usual (BAU) work and to a lesser degree, important department initiatives and applicable portions of corporate projects and initiatives.
Gets team to a high performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques.
Help build a productive environment where team members ‘own’ the product and enjoy working on it
Resolve conflicts and remove obstacles that occur
Help teams implement software changes effectively
Drive the upskilling/ reskilling of team members to operate on the modern BI platform
Partner with business stakeholders to embed the new Ways of Working
Adopt a process measuring framework (metric based) to drive a continuous performance improvement culture What will make you successful in this role?

**Role Requirements**:
**Qualifications**:
An Appropriate IT Qualification (Diploma/Degree) will be a strong recommendation.
Strong delivery and project management knowledge
Financial acumen in budgeting and management of IT costs to business unit/s
Excellent organizational and problem-solving abilities
Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills
Knowledge of an agile framework or method (i.e., Scrum, Kanban), or understanding of software development life cycle models as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices
Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams

**Knowledge and Experience**:
Bachelor's degree and 4 years of product or project development experience, or 3 years of project development experience on an Agile Team or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
Experience in Actuarial reporting processes (e.g. profit reporting)
Experience in leading a team of software developers and analysts
Experience in managing services provided by 3rd party vendors
Experience in using collaboration and backlog grooming tools are required
Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and an understanding of facilitation techniques

**Competencies**:
A proactive self-starter
Excellent written and oral communication skills
A strategic mindset,
Client focused
Strong interpersonal skills and a passion for building new data services, offerings and solutions.
Attention to detail with self-discipline,
Strong ownership and accountability
Takes initiative on work-related matters; proactively
Ability to drive your ideas throughout the business, influencing others to understand the value in your opinions.
Knowledge and Skills Object and data models Defines, designs and builds

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