Software Developer at Old Mutual

Duties and Responsibilities

Software Engineering and Architecture Practice:
Work closely with business and other IT teams to advise on technical feasibility, and engineering solution options.
Estimate economic value, cost, risk of the alternative engineering solution options
Recommend the optimal systems structure and design with its associated cost, value & risk.
Work closely with procurement team in external sourcing of software systems ensuring convergence to architectural design goals and economic value goals.
Work closely with legal and project managers to shape software contracts ensuring contracts address architecture and economic value goals of software systems.
Work closely with other stakeholders to accurately estimate work schedules.
Prepare software engineering budgets

Software Engineering Delivery Process Practice:
Lead and practically demonstrate established OM Fintech Software Engineering process practice – beginning from inception, prototyping, build, testing, deployment and launch, with a focus on agile development, DevOps and software engineering process automation.
Identify, evaluate, recommend, deploy and enforce the use of relevant software engineering process automation and productivity tools.

Software Construction Practice:
Lead and directly participate in the detailed design of integrated digital systems composed of web and mobile front ends, USSD, SMS, mobile payment gateways, Microservices, workflow systems, financial and insure information systems.
Lead and directly participate in the coding of the integrated digital systems.
Lead and directly participate in the configuration and deployment of software solutions.
Provide second level engineering support to the deployed systems.

Engineering Thought Leadership:
Leverage your engineering prowess to implement the businesses engineering strategy
Proactively propose and demonstrate through proofs of concept new innovative ideas.
Build and mentor junior software engineers