Technical Lead : Ingestions Squad (Group Data & ML Platform Tribe)
Date: 6 Oct 2024
Location: Bellville, Western Cape, ZA
Who are we?
Sanlam Group Technology is responsible for the provision of a digitally enabled technology service as a group COE, drive business and transformation and provide group-wide digital and data architecture. We operate the various technology platforms and shared services, ensure Cyber and Information Security resilience, and act as technology governance and risk orchestrator for technology across Sanlam.
We’re on a transformation journey to be an innovative company at the forefront of the financial services industry's digital transformation. By harnessing advanced technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), we aim to redefine the financial landscape with intelligent, advice-led solutions. To do this, we need to be a net producer of technology, rather than a net consumer and engineering leaders are a critical part of this mission.
Reporting to the Group Data & ML Platform Tech Lead, this is an engineering leadership role focusing on empowering and accelerating autonomous value creation through Insights and ML across Sanlam Group. With your mastery of engineering, your expertise in Data & ML Platforms and your experience of building and leading high performing, autonomous technology teams, you’ll ensure business teams across the group make data a source of competitive advantage for them in their markets.
What will make you successful in this role?
What success will look like for you 12 months into the role.
- Build a configurable data ingestion platform: Through a mixture of building and buying, you’ve assembled a tool suite of ingestion tools, optimized for cost efficiency and reliability. Success will be measured by the consistent achievement of the two-week ingestion target while maintaining high reliability and security.
- Build a high performing engineering team: You've built a lean, high-ownership, high-agency team with clear missions and success metrics and ensured continuous performance improvement each month. Success will be measured by the consistent delivery against your service level objectives and the achievement of your yearly OKRs.
- Define and measure team success: Define or refine success metrics and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for your part of the platform to cover adoption, satisfaction, cost, and reliability. Inspire your entire team to take full ownership of their performance as measured through these metrics.
- Ensure your teams have everything they need to be successful: Identify the capability and capacity your team needs to be successful, with little dependency on other teams throughout execution. Attract, hire, and onboard all talent you identify in your planning.
- Ensure the team has what they need from other teams: Contract with the other teams you depend on to ensure clear boundaries and high performance to the level you need to enable your own high performance.
- Cultivate and maintain a culture of excellence and continuous improvement: Foster a culture of ownership, curiosity, and continuous learning in your teams. Work with the delivery lead to carry out pre and post-mortems, sharing lessons learned across the organization.
Qualification
Matric
National Diploma in an Information Technology related discipline or a bachelor's degree in computer science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems, or a quantitative field is recommended.
Experience
- 7+ years' experience in leading engineering teams with at least 2 in a modern context with cloud technologies and autonomous high performing team organizational patterns.
- A track record of high impact and investing in your own development.
Skills and Thinking Preference
- Look for ways to do, instead of reasons not to: You are high agency, high ownership in everything you do.
- Where some see impossible, you see a way: You have strong conviction in our ability to innovate and bring financial services to everyone across the continent.
- You move fast and fix things: You publish early and often, and when you fail, you learn and move forward again.
- You are creating more with less: Knowing that the biggest impact is born of the smallest acts.
- You seek out and value different perspectives: Believing that when we change how we look at things, how things look for us also changes.
Personal Attributes
Manages complexity - Contributing through others
Plans and aligns - Contributing through others
Optimises work processes - Contributing through others
Tech savvy - Contributing through others
Strategic mindset - Contributing strategically
Collaborates - Contributing strategically
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.
Core Competencies
Collaborates - Contributing through others
Being resilient - Contributing through others
Cultivates innovation - Contributing through others
Customer focus - Contributing through others
Drives results - Contributing through others
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.
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