Latest Job Opportunities at Old Mutual Kenya (April, 2020 Recommended Jobs)

Old Mutual Kenya is based in Nairobi and is part of a larger group that offers solutions in long-term savings, asset management and investment. We offer solutions to individuals and corporates underpinned by our core values which are: Respect, Integrity, Accountability and Pushing beyond boundaries.

1. Senior IT Manager – Infrastructure: Rest of Africa

Minimum Requirements…

Skills, Qualifications and Experience

• Relevant tertiary qualification and/or recognition of prior learning.
• Minimum of 7 years of relevant Information Technology Infrastructure Management Experience, including experience in supporting cloud technologies.
• Strong working of financial management and project management.
• Highly Focused Attention to Detail

2. Principal Software Engineer

Minimum Requirements

• 5+ 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

3. Senior Software Engineer

Minimum Requirements

• 3-5 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 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

4. Digital Engineering Lead

Minimum Requirements

• 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

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Senior IT Manager – Infrastructure: Rest of Africa at Old Mutual Kenya

Old Mutual Kenya is based in Nairobi and is part of a larger group that offers solutions in long-term savings, asset management and investment. We offer solutions to individuals and corporates underpinned by our core values which are: Respect, Integrity, Accountability and Pushing beyond boundaries.

Responsible for provision and continuous improvement of a future fit and cloud ready IT infrastructure for Rest of Africa to support the business objectives. This role is accountable for achieving results individually, via project delivery and through the influencing and support of ROA country IT heads and their teams. The role manages delivery over periods from 3 months to a year.

Minimum Requirements…

Skills, Qualifications and Experience

• Relevant tertiary qualification and/or recognition of prior learning.
• Minimum of 7 years of relevant Information Technology Infrastructure Management Experience, including experience in supporting cloud technologies.
• Strong working of financial management and project management.
• Highly Focused Attention to Detail
• Extensive Technical Knowledge – Be intimately familiar with technologies such as Microsoft, Cisco, VMware. Experience with storage area networks, WAN acceleration, virtualization, firewalls, routers. Increasing knowledge and experience of cloud services – specifically AWS and Microsoft Azure
• Management Skills – excellent people skills in order to effectively influence and manage infrastructure strategy and delivery across multiple countries
• Certification – Preference will be given to IT Infrastructure Managers with relevant certifications – e.g. AWS certified cloud practitioner, AWS certified solutions architect – associate, AWS certified advanced networking, relevant Cisco associate or professional certifications, Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
• Communication Skills – Stellar communication skills required to strategize, plan and collaborate with both higher- and lower-level colleagues.
• Disciplined execution – management of financial performance, delivery of processes to required standards and outcomes and project delivery
• Innovation – drive a high performing workforce and learning organization where individuals constantly strive to increase knowledge and capacity to produce best practice

Job Specification…

• Delivery of IT strategy projects
• Management of enterprise infrastructure vendors for value
• Development and compliance to OML infrastructure policies
• Transparency of infrastructure performance
• Service delivery of infrastructure
• Continuous development of infrastructure teams

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Principal Software Engineer at Old Mutual Kenya

Old Mutual Kenya is based in Nairobi and is part of a larger group that offers solutions in long-term savings, asset management and investment. We offer solutions to individuals and corporates underpinned by our core values which are: Respect, Integrity, Accountability and Pushing beyond boundaries.

The overall responsibility shall be to lead the design and development of an integrated ecosystem of high performance distributed cloud based software systems encompassing mobile apps, web, USSD, SMS, mobile data platforms, payments, workflow systems, Microservices and core financial and insurance information systems, powered by cloud engineering practices mainly based on Amazon Webservice

Minimum Requirements…

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Software Engineering, electronic engineering
• +5 years software engineering practice with a focus on front end, middle layer, backend systems (including Big Data platforms) design and development.
• AWS Solution Architect – Associate or Professional Certification

SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

• 5+ 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.
• 5+ years of building and integration of massively distributed high performance software systems with at least 2+ years as a senior engineer.
• Expert in service oriented architecture and micro-service architecture
• Experience in serverless computing technology is a plus
• 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 Big Data system development
• Practical knowledge of a wide range of mobile and web development frameworks, tools and emerging trends; particularly:- programming in Android, IOS, React, Ionic, Vue, Javascript.
• Proficiency in Java or Python.
• A practical and conceptual appreciation of artificial intelligence and machine learning engineering systems and technology is highly desirable.
• Practical knowledge of common systems engineering modelling and business process modelling tools with supporting modelling tools is imperative.
• Demonstrated record of initiating high impact technology innovation.
• Ability to lead collaboration and influence decision making.

Job Specification…

• Solution Design and System Architecture
  • Work closely with business digital teams, program and portifolio managers, 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 solution design with its associated cost, value & risk in line with the established group IT architecture governance standards
  • 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.
• Lead Software Engineering Delivery Process Practice
  • Lead and practically demonstrate established OldMutual 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 powered by AWS.
  • Identify, evaluate, recommend, deploy and enforce the use of relevant software engineering process automation and productivity tools in compliance with group cloud engineering practice
• Lead 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, data platforms, 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 challenge the group’s engineering strategy
  • Proactively propose and demonstrate through proofs of concept new innovative ideas.
  • Build and mentor junior software engineers

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Senior Software Engineer at Old Mutual Kenya

Old Mutual Kenya is based in Nairobi and is part of a larger group that offers solutions in long-term savings, asset management and investment. We offer solutions to individuals and corporates underpinned by our core values which are: Respect, Integrity, Accountability and Pushing beyond boundaries.

The overall responsibility shall be to lead the development of an integrated ecosystem of high performance distributed cloud based software systems encompassing mobile apps, web, USSD, SMS, mobile data platforms, payments, workflow systems, microservices and core financial and insurance information systems, powered by cloud engineering practices mainly based on Amazon Webservices.

Minimum Requirements…

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Software Engineering, electronic engineering
• 3+ years software engineering practice with a focus on front end, middle layer, backend systems (including Big Data platforms) design and development.
• AWS Cloud Solution Architect or AWS Developer certification

SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

• 3-5 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 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
• Awareness of Infrastructure design, cloud architectural patterns.
• Skilled in cloud software development particularly on Amazon Webservices.
• 3-5 years of building and integration of massively distributed high performance software systems with at least 2+ years as a senior engineer.
• Expert in service oriented architecture and micro-service architecture
• Experience in serverless computing technology is a plus
• Practical knowledge software engineering productivity and continuous integration and continuous delivery processing and the supporting technologies, particularly based on AWS cloud.
• Skilled in Big Data system development
• Skilled in desktop, app and web software development using a combination of the following tools: – Android, IOS, React, Ionic, Vue, Javascript, Java, Python, C Sharp.
• Skilled in systems administration, particularly on Linux Operating systems
• Knowledgeable and skilled in containerization technology
• Hands on programming of webservices leveraging REST and SOAP
• Hands on programming experience with Message Oriented Protocols and Middleware
•  Experience in  USSD/SMS/Mobile and Electronic Payment systems development and integration

Competency requirements

• Negotiation and Stakeholder Management: Ability to convince and steer multiple stakeholders with diverse perspectives and opinions on a subject, towards a common strategic goal.
• Effective Communication – Capability to transmit and receive information clearly and communicate effectively to others
• Teamwork – Capability to contribute to effective team performance

Job Specification…

• Planning, Feasibility Analysis and Solution Design
  • Participate in detailed systems solution design ensuring designs that conform to established group IT architecture governance standards and established digital engineering practice standards.
  • Contribute to preparation of cost, effort and work schedules for proposed engineering projects
  • Contribute to shaping high value business cases for proposed software engineering projects
  • Participate in infrastructure capacity planning, budgeting and forecasting
• Delivery, Continuous Development and Integration
  • Build, test, deploy, and maintain scalable distributed cloud based software systems primarily supported by AWS cloud infrastructure and conforming to project specific solution designs.
  • Contribute to solution design reviews for assigned projects
  • Manage contractors for effectively delivery
• Engineering Thought Leadership
  • Meaningfully challenge the group’s engineering strategy
  • Proactively propose and demonstrate through proofs of concept new innovative ideas.

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Digital Engineering Lead at Old Mutual Kenya

Old Mutual Kenya is based in Nairobi and is part of a larger group that offers solutions in long-term savings, asset management and investment. We offer solutions to individuals and corporates underpinned by our core values which are: Respect, Integrity, Accountability and Pushing beyond boundaries.

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.

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Data Support Intern at Medic Mobile

As Data Support Intern, you will work very closely with the MoH-Kenya (Siaya) team to develop a data dictionary for the project. You will be expected to document the data elements collected during the project implementation with the data types and possible responses to the different fields. You will also be expected to document the changes in the forms and the versioning of the different forms used in the project. You will be part of the Research and Learning team expected to contribute to the documentation that will support Data Science work expected to improve the Medic Mobile products to end-users and Medic Mobile implementing partners.

Reports to: Impact Lead

Duration of engagement: 4 Months

Responsibilities: 

• Work with the project deployment team to identify points of project data changes
• Develop data dictionary for MoH Siaya project highlighting all data fields used in the current project deployment
• Document project data changes highlighting all the current project data fields, retired data fields as well as merged data fields.
• Explore ideas and make suggestions for the best ways to document these data products
• Support in the development of a concept dictionary for the MoH Siaya Project detailing the terminologies used and changes over time.
• Work closely with the Data Science team to identify possible data inconsistencies in the project.
• Work with Project Tech team to create and update on existing form views.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics or Economics; equivalent combination of education

Essential Qualifications

• Be based in and have legal rights to work in Nairobi, Kenya.
• Be a technology power user and excited to learn even more
• Have knowledge of relational databases, Postgres and MySQL
• Be committed to frequent and timely communication, both in-person and online (via email, Internet Relay Chat, and other online chat applications).
• Have interest in working with and learning from a globally distributed team of mHealth technology experts.
• Have good communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to pass on information clearly to users and to grasp difficulties perceived by users.
• Ability to work under high pressure, meet deadlines, monitor and follow-up on pending matters under minimum supervision.

Desirable Qualifications

• Previous experience in ICT4D with a focus on mHealth implementation
• Comfort and proficiency in HTML, Javascript, Node.js, and JSON
• Working understanding of health service provision, public health systems, and community health, which can be demonstrated through your work history or educational background.

You are also:

• Extremely detail-oriented
• Proactive in identification and resolution of issues

Applicants are encouraged to apply as early as possible, as interviews will be held on a rolling basis until the role is filled

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Medical Device Field Sales Representative at Ilara Health

Ilara Health is seeking a full-time Medical Device Field Sales Representative to support the growth of the business and drive our outreach to clinics in and around Nairobi and other counties. Ilara Health distributes modern, high quality diagnostic devices to underserved primary health clinics that struggle to afford even basic equipment. To meet our objectives, we are looking to strengthen our sales team and give you the opportunity to challenge yourself. You will play a pivotal role in achieving the sales targets and eventually generating revenue for the organization. You will be the face of Ilara Health’s brand to our customers. You will establish plans and strategize on methods for expanding the customer base in your assigned sales territory in conjunction with the VP of Sales.About Ilara Health

Ilara Health was founded to make common diagnostics affordable and accessible to the 500m people in Africa who today struggle to access even simple diagnostic tests such as blood tests and ultrasound screening. The problem is that primary care doctors cannot offer many diagnostics in their clinics so must refer patients. But given the infrastructure challenges in Africa (time and money it takes to get anywhere) patients often do not go.
We solve this problem by partnering with companies using robotics and AI to create lower cost diagnostics, integrating their devices into our tech platform, and sell this bundle to doctors with financing. Doctors can now offer tests directly in their clinic, improving care and growing their revenue.

Responsibilities

• Achieve sales targets as set forth in the sales projections
• Manage time and expectations on the field daily
• Manage your sales funnel by reaching out to potential clients and maintaining relationships in a very organised manner
• Ensure sales are conducted in accordance with documented processes and procedures
• Ensure to only sell to customers that are able to pay for the products during the loan period
• Coordinate customer installations, while maintaining the agreed SLA
• Manage use of Ilara Health’s assets and vigilantly contain selling costs
• Drive the implementation of the aftersales process by ensuring that the customers are aware, trained and performing in accordance with it
• Ensure proper documentation and handling of the administrative work involved in the on-boarding of new facilities
• Collaborate with the VP of Sales in planning & implementing training programs for facilities

Qualifications

• Required education: Undergraduate degree in a relevant field with a record of strong academic performance
• Preferred education: Diploma in Medical/Science Laboratory Technology, Clinical Medicine orNursing
• Proven experience as a field sales representative / sales associate in a medical equipment or pharmaceuticals distributor company
• Adaptable & comfortable in a complicated and constantly evolving business environment. Fast learner. Willing to contribute in areas beyond formal job description
• Experience of working in a startup or other fast paced environments
• Strong communications & highly organized and structured individual
• Strong analytical skills
• Willingness to work a variety of hours as the business demands, including occasionally late nights & weekends
• Knowledge of healthcare systems in Kenya and the challenges they present (e.g. cost constraints, human resource constraints)
• Familiarity with office applications (especially Excel) as well as Google Drive, Google Forms, Skype etc.
• Linguistic capabilities: Swahili, and EnglishBenefits of working at Ilara Health
• At Ilara Health, we are a diverse team of highly energized local and international individuals, committed to listening to the needs of our customers in peri-urban/rural primary healthcare facilities that do not have access to common diagnostic tests
• Every individual from our interns to the company founders contributes to the success of the company in different ways
• Every team member at Ilara Health has the same drive and excitement towards achieving the collective goals. Working hard and being creative are synonymous in our start-up ethos
• You will have the opportunity to directly/indirectly impact primary healthcare facilities/patients by dramatically improving the quality of healthcare for millions
• Competitive Salary package based on a fixed and variable component

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