Lead Product Engineer

Lead Product Engineer

Date: 27 Nov 2024
Location:

Johannesburg, Gauteng, ZA

Company: Sanlam Group

Who are we?

Glacier by Sanlam brings together leading experts and respected financial services companies to meet clients’ investment needs. We deliver focused investment services through specialist teams, partner with acclaimed financial intermediaries and pride ourselves on our superior products and solutions and high quality service. We offer a comprehensive range of investment solutions, designed to assist in the creation and preservation of wealth. Our offering encompasses local investments, including fixed term investments and investments with guarantees, international investments, retirement saving solutions, and retirement income solutions. While each solution has its own distinct purpose, they all share the world-class quality and commitment that have come to distinguish Glacier.

What will you do?

The Lead Product Engineer (GPA) will be responsible for building high performing, scalable, enterprise grade applications. This includes but is not limited to applying critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems (Front End, Back End and Integration) with high quality solutions & leading all phases of the development lifecycle to deliver. This role will be residing at the Glacier Office in Rosebank, Johannesburg, reporting directly to the Lead Product Engineer in GPA.

Key outcomes

The following outcomes will be expected to be achieved by Lead Product Engineer
DevOps:
• Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem-solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems (Front End, Back End and Integration) with high quality solutions leveraging C# (.NET), Sql Server, Javascript/Typescript, ReactJs, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Kafka, Git
• Contribute to and in some cases lead all phases of the development lifecycle including e.g. design process
• Determine operational feasibility of solutions by evaluating analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development and proposed solutions
• Develop high quality software / application design and architecture in a test driven & domain driven / cross domain environment
• Quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions
• Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience
• Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions
• Create & Maintain Sophisticated DevSecOps CI/CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins for deployment to multi-site environments – supporting and managing your applications all the way to production).
• Use & configure modern observability techniques to provide a deeper understanding of the application using AppDynamics, Instana and Splunk.
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
• Work with guilds and other technical SME’s to improve and evolve technical products and services
• Apply unit testing frameworks and perform integration, validation and verification testing using Moq and MsTest
• Managing branching and merging in support of project delivery. Setup quality gates to ensure conformance to team best practices
• Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture, Security & Infrastructure guidelines
• Work with project & program teams (when required) to plan & manage the development lifecycle e.g. releases, risk management, testing, integration etc.
• Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices e.g. scripting languages, containerization etc.

What will do you - continued

People
• Coach & mentor other engineers
• Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team
• Provide technical subject matter expertise and support in the attraction and recruitment of Product Engineers for the organization
• Participate as a subject matter expert in the development & development planning of the broader product engineering team
• Support the people change teams in the design of adoption processes (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption)

Risk & Governance
• Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post deployment)
• Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks
• Create business cases & solution specifications for various governance processes (e.g. CTO approvals)
• Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents
• Deliver on time & on budget (always)

What will make you successful in this role?

Qualifications and experience

• Relevant qualification in IT
• 5 - 10 years’ experience in development lifecycle
• Experience in an agile environment
• Experience in coaching and mentoring other engineers
• Experience in reading code written in C#, Sql Server, Javascript/Typescript, Groovy, JSON/YAML
• Experiencing in translating business problems into technical solutions
• Understanding of relational databases including stored procedures and ETL
• Understanding of modelling language such as UML and BPMN
• Experience in investments/LISP would be advantageous

Competencies
• Ability to translate technology into understandable concepts
• Ability to multi task
• Business and Commercial Acumen

Attributes

• Positive, enthusiastic attitude
• Teamwork
• Ability to work under pressure
• Honesty, integrity and respect
• Self-starter and self confidence

Qualification and Experience

Degree or Diploma and the required Certification with 8 to 10 years related experience.

Knowledge and Skills

Personal Attributes

Interpersonal savvy - Contributing through others
Decision quality - Contributing through others
Plans and aligns - Contributing through others
Optimises work processes - Contributing through others

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 five business clusters – Sanlam Fintech, Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Allianz, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.

Core Competencies

Cultivates innovation - Contributing through others
Customer focus - Contributing through others
Drives results - Contributing through others
Collaborates - Contributing through others
Being resilient - Contributing through others

Turnaround time

The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers.

Our commitment to transformation

The Sanlam Group is committed to achieving transformation and embraces diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace as we believe that these are key components to ensuring a thriving and sustainable business in South Africa. The Group's Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the selection process.