Digital Engineering Lead at Old Mutual Kenya

Introduction...

The Job holder will provide digital engineering architecture, design, build and innovation leadership, and accountable for implementing, enforcing, shaping, challenging and evolving the established Oldmutual digital engineering strategy for MyOldmutual pan African digital platform using best agile engineering and best cloud engineering practices mainly enabled by Amazon Webservices.

Minimum Requirements...

ACADEMIC & PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelors Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or Electronic Engineering
• Vendor neutral IT architecture certification such as Zachman or ToGAF or equivalent.
• AWS Solution Architect certification – Associate or professional level required.
• Previous practical exposure to other cloud platforms, particularly Microsoft Azure, a plus.
• Professional qualifications in Mobile and or Web Application development is a plus.

SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

• 7+ years Significant experience in full software engineering lifecycle within complex business environments – from feasibility and economic value analysis and concept definition, product design, through solution design evaluation and recommendation, cost estimation, sourcing and contract administration, construction and delivery management to deployment, maintenance and evolution.
• Practical knowledge of software engineering processes – particularly agile software engineering.
• Practical knowledge of software engineering economics
• Knowledge of common cloud engineering principles and design patterns
• Skilled in Infrastructure design, cloud architectural patterns, and cloud software particularly on Amazon Webservices.
• 7+ years of building and integration of massively distributed high performance software systems with at least 5 years as a senior engineer.
• Expert in service oriented architecture and micro-service architecture
• Experience in serverless computing technology.
• Practical knowledge in of software engineering productivity and continuous integration and continuous delivery processing and the supporting technologies, particularly based on AWS cloud.

Skilled in data engineering and Big Data management systems
Job Specification...

• Digital Architecture, Digital Platform Design and  Digital Engineering Management
  • Lead digital IT architecture governance for a portifolio of digital engineering projects
  • Lead digital IT detailed solutions design, systems architecture and technology solution stack choices.
  • Lead digital software engineering projects quantities estimation:- schedule, cost and risk.
  • Lead feasibility, value and RoI analysis for proposed digital engineering projects
  • Contribute to shaping high value business cases for digital engineering project proposals
  • Working closely with project managers, responsible for detailed planning and prioritization of digital engineering project with emphasis on the engineering aspects of the project.
  • Contribute to shaping legal contracts related to digital engineering projects
  • Collaborate and foster relationships with other digital software engineers, IT engineers, product owners, project managers, business analysts, UI/UX designers,  data management specialists, data scientists, subject matter experts, heads of digital, marketing, legal, finance, procurement etc for efficient and effective delivery of digital projects.
  • Work very closely with IT operations engineering teams to do digital systems capacity planning and budget forecasting.
• Digital Engineering Delivery
  • Lead system architecture reviews  of inflight and closed digital engineering projects
  • You will be the chief implementation engineer capable of leading the integration of several distributed digital systems, primarily leveraging AWS cloud– you will be required to give both conceptual guidance as well as hands on software development support.
  • Lead the end to end testing of complex distributed systems that primarily leverage AWS cloud tools, to ensure fast ad high quality digital solutions.
  • Manage digital engineering partners and vendors to ensure effectively and timely delivery
  • Prepare, track and communicate detailed engineering project progress updates.
  • Preparation and communication of digital engineering performance reports.
• Managing and Directly Contributing to Engineering Innovation
  • Continuously scan the internal business environment for ideas, trends in software engineering best practice and digital technologies, and recommend software engineering process innovations, business process innovations and or technology innovation opportunities to improve value from digital investments.
  • Proactively propose or lead tech innovation proposals that support our pan African digital platform agenda, and demonstrate through proofs of concept the new tech innovative ideas.
• Nurturing engineering teams
  • Nurture other engineers.