Platform Owner: Digital

2 weeks ago


Bellville, South Africa Sanlam Full time

Who are we?
Sanlam Corporate forms part of Sanlam Life and Savings Cluster which offers retail and corporate life insurance, health and investment products in South Africa. Our vision is to be the preferred partner to the Corporate and Public Sector by providing an awesome client experience and comprehensive solutions that enable the financial resilience and prosperity of those entities and their employees. We tap into over 100 years of expertise to provide cost-effective Employee Benefits and Healthcare Solutions that enable financial confidence for our members. We enable our clients to make better retirement and risk decisions today through determined and passionate thought leadership and best-in-class people, innovative products and proven processes all designed to help people live a better life tomorrow.
We believe in creating and cultivating a positive, energised working environment that gives every individual the opportunity to achieve success by embracing diversity and growing our talent. We do this through living our values of having the courage to be bold, care, collaboration and intolerance for mediocrity. We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future - your career, your personal development and of achieving awesome things. We pride ourselves on helping our employees to realise their worth and live with confidence. Purpose of the role
Key responsibilities
- Resource management.
- Support agile events, including presentations, introductions, show& tells, and retrospectives
- Maintain an understanding of the existing and potential platform capabilities.
- Proactive identification of platform enhancements (including non-functional), lead business case approval process, facilitate communication of roadmaps and ensure stakeholder engagement.
- Work collaboratively with business stakeholders and operational teams to lead prioritisation of changes and lead defect backlog prioritization.
- Build and maintain a relationship network with key stakeholders
- Ensure system designs support the goal of “right first time”, reduce time to market and / minimises cost to deliver and support - whilst meeting agreed business requirements
- Define, drive and adhere to the adoption of platform principles / standards/ governance
- Share knowledge and expertise to support business and IT change, Scaled Agile Framework as a system for implementing Agile, Lean, and DevOps practices at scale.
- Contribute to business case / ROI proposals in relation to platform enhancements
- Help to provide training within the department
- Review and approve estimation and impact assessment activities to support capacity and capability planning as well as key system documentation
- Act as point of escalation for Platform related Defects and Major Incidents
- Define target platform structure, drive transformation to reach the target and govern adherence
- Assistance to Head of Digital in the SC Business Unit

Qualification and Experience
- Degree in Computer Science/Engineering
- Software development background
- Enterprise level software delivery experience with Agile/SAFE

**Skills**:

- Vast experience of designing software systems
- Working knowledge of software engineering best practices and frameworks
- Strong knowledge of software methodologies, tools and processes
- Working knowledge of Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
- Experience working with software delivery teams
- Technical background and willingness to work agnostically
- Stakeholder management experience
- Strong decision-making capability
- Ability to see the bigger picture
- Ability to align with Company/Business strategy
- Systems thinking
- Excellent communication and influencing skills Knowledge and Skills Complex systems process analysis Business requirements Business process mapping IT governance, compliance and quality improvements Technologies Core Competencies Cultivates Innovation by creating new and better ways for the organisation to be successful. Client Focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions. Drives Results - Consistently achieving results and meets deadlines, even under tough circumstances. Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives. Resilience - Rebounding from setbacks and adversity when facing difficult situations. Build a successful career with us

We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future - your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its four business clusters - Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office - the group provides many opportunities for growth and development. Turnaround time
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