Actuarial Modernization Lead & Financial Software Architect

Old Mutual South Africa; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Old Mutual Corporate seeks an experienced software professional to drive the modernisation of the actuarial environment. You will work across actuarial, IT and data to simplify modelling, valuation and reporting using automation, modern tech and scalable data solutions.

You will translate complex business challenges into practical technology solutions and shape the future of actuarial processes within financial services.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering and related IT roles.
• Experience converting business requirements into enterprise-grade software solutions.
• Familiarity with actuarial, data, and reporting processes is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead the reimagination of our actuarial reporting value chain and build a sustainable, future-fit actuarial environment.
• Develop and execute the actuarial modernisation roadmap aligned to business and actuarial strategy.
• Influence actuarial modernisation priorities through engagement with senior management and governance forums.
• Identify opportunities to simplify and optimise actuarial modelling, valuation and reporting processes.
• Lead initiatives that reduce operational complexity, manual intervention and risk across actuarial processes.
• Test and develop modern actuarial technologies, platforms and automation capabilities.
• Champion best practice architecture, reusability and standardisation.
• Partner with enterprise data teams to align actuarial solutions with broader data strategy.
• Drive integration between actuarial models, data platforms and reporting environments.
• Ensure embedment of new solutions via training and knowledge share with production teams
• Liaise with stakeholders across the group as well as external parties to source solutions and develop best practice methodology

Skills

Situated Software Engineer

IT Software Engineer

Financial services experience

6+ years of experience

Education

Master's degree in a relevant field

Actuarial, engineering, computer science or similar

Postgraduate quantitative finance qualification advantageous

Job description

Old Mutual Corporate seeks an experienced software professional to drive the modernisation of the actuarial environment. You will work across actuarial, IT and data to simplify modelling, valuation and reporting using automation, modern tech and scalable data solutions.

You will translate complex business challenges into practical technology solutions and shape the future of actuarial processes within financial services.