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Job Purpose
The Assistant Manager Enterprise Applications Architecture is responsible for defining, maintaining and evolving the emerging Applications Architecture to enable the digital vision and business objectives, maximizing the value of technology disruptions into current and future capabilities.

This role is responsible for;
• Identifying, analyzing, and directing the execution of change towards the application architecture vision and digital business vision, by providing and prioritizing “technical epics”, through documenting of target application architectures, roadmaps & application architecture change management.
• This role support continuously assessing, valuing, and sizing initiatives to inform the Portfolio Backlog and related decisions.
• This role is responsible for transferring the vision and objectives to Solution Architects across the digital organization, fostering establishment of architecture practices, patterns and innovations.

Key Responsibilities
• Define and manage target applications architecture vision and roadmap in alignment with the Digital Architecture blueprint.
• Oversee and lead the design, development, and deployment of applications architecture practices, standards, and patterns.
• Scout new technologies and vendors to enable innovation and identify technical enablers.
• Manage Applications Architecture innovations and establish the capability to monitor new technology developments and trends in the industry.
• Provide thought leadership on foundational applications architecture best practices and disruptive technology trajectory and implications.

Academic qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology or related fields from a recognized university.

Professional Qualifications / Membership to professional bodies
• TOGAF
• COBIT
• ITIL
• PRINCE 2 or PMP
• ISACA and other ICT Professional Bodies

Work experience required
• Four (4) years of business experience in relevant field and in strategic and operations planning and/or business analysis and at least one (1) year at Supervisory level
• Extensive experience in IT strategic planning, organization design and development.
• Experience in leading large architecture teams in an agile context, operating and influencing effectively across the organization and within complex contexts.
• Experience in business capability modelling and Applications Architecture development.

Functional and Technical Skills
• Definition of long-term business, data and IT architecture strategy and roadmap
• Enterprise Architecture governance in agile software delivery
• Definition of integration APIs and ecosystem strategy
• Technology Innovation: scouting, screening and evaluation
• Cost of ownership of technology, Application portfolio management
• Estimation techniques for scaled agile
• Web-scale cloud-native architectures including IaaS, PaaS and SaaS
• Design of Applications Architecture strategy and roadmap
• Design of web-scale architectures and systems of innovation and engagement
• DevOps practices and automation tools
• Artificial intelligence, Machine Learning and Big data technologies and architectures

Behaviours and Competencies
• Trusted and respected as a thought leader and change agent who can influence and persuade business and IT leaders.
• Organizationally savvy, and understanding of the political climate of the enterprise and how to navigate obstacles and politics.
• Comfortable, experienced and accomplished at working with business executives, and able to push back in a professional and diplomatic way.
• Excellent analytical, technical, and problem-solving skills, with high-levels of creativity and a practical approach that is principle-driven.
• Ability to balance the long-term (“big picture”) and short-term implications of individual decisions and effective at driving short term actions that are consistent with long-term goals.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills, able to distil complex technical concepts into simple terms, with strong persuasion skills to gain support for and establish principles, standards, and change.
• Excellent relationship building, teamwork, and collaboration skills that enables the provision of effective support and guidance across programs.
• Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies, with natural intellectual curiosity and integrity.
• Vendor and technology neutral –driven primarily by long-term business outcomes rather than personal preferences.

Provider Negotiator will be responsible for developing and executing negotiation strategies working directly with contracted providers such as clinics, outpatient facilities, pharmacies, among others, in order to deliver best in class service to CGHB’s providers, customers and clients and act as the Subject Matter Expert regarding the local market’s environment, healthcare delivery practices and pricing for the Africa region.

Key Responsibilities:
• Manages the contracting and relations with medical facilities, including but not limited to: Hospitals, clinics, pharmacies and physicians.
• Analyzes and determines in which countries, regions and cities our network of providers must grow.
• Works with Network Leads in performing service area analysis and cost analysis to identify network development and network renegotiation opportunities.
• Negotiate with clients and client managers the most appropriate network extension efforts in the allocated region.
• Negotiates and discuss agreements (direct payment agreements and/or discounts fees and price agreements).
• Visits clients and manages the relationship with the providers under agreement in allocated regions and monitor the quality of their services and execution of the agreements in conjunction with a more Senior Provider Negotiator or Network Lead.
• Acts as an expert with regards to the medical landscape in the countries within your region and continuously monitor evolutions in that respect
• Ensures the correct handling of all administrative aspects of the agreements with the providers,
• Maintains the Provider Data Base (PIMS) and make overviews of provider networks for all providers within the assigned region.
• Analyzes price lists and data, write clear conclusions and identify cost containment opportunities.
• Act as the internal key person for all other Units and departments for issues relating to the providers in the allocated regions. Especially intensive communication with Clinical, Service OPS and Sales and Client Management.
• Act as representative in the Outpatient Direct Payment project (OPDP)
• Effectively communicates and interacts with other business units to achieve goals; e.g. Medical Management, CGHB Service Operations (NA, UK and Antwerp), Sales and Client Management (NA, UK, and Antwerp), and CGHB Strategy & Operations.

Qualifications:
• University degree or equivalent experience
• With University degree, 2 – 3 years of relevant experience. Otherwise, 6 – 7 years.
• Working knowledge of the Provider Network is required.
• Good communication skills.
• Good negotiation and convincing skills.
• Analytical and critical mind.
• Proficiency with MS Office programs including: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Project required.
• Experience/Knowledge Requirements:
• Knowledge of high priority healthcare providers, third party administrators, CGHB competitor capabilities within the region of responsibility – Africa.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and motivational skills, including negotiation and presentation skills
• Strong influencing skills and ability to work in a complex, highly matrixed, environment, including balancing priorities of multiple organizations to deliver end results.

Personal Competencies Required:
• Fluent in written and spoken English, French is a must. Any other language skills (particularly Portuguese) are a plus
• Results orientation – ability to define goals, establish plans and manage work to achieve desired outcomes. Creates meaningful business related metrics and tracks progress/results.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
• Ability to communicate own and/or company visions clearly while performing active listening to the message from the provider.
• Comfortable working in a fast paced environment with shifting priorities
• Energetic and enthusiastic
• A team player
• Willing to travel regularly (up to 20%)

Job Purpose:
• Assists in managing, administering, monitoring, and maintaining the enterprise databases including Oracle & SQL databases.
• Assists in ensuring database integrity, stability, and system availability
• Assists in maintaining database backup and recovery infrastructure
• Assists in ensuring that all service level agreements (SLAs) for database services across the organization are delivered according to specifications.

Key responsibilities
• Assists in maintaining database backup and recovery infrastructure
• Making requested changes, updates and modifications to database structures and data
• Addressing data quality issues with users and management
• Developing database objects and structures for data storage, retrieval and reporting according to specifications
• Implementing and testing database design and functionality and tuning for performance
• Providing support to systems developers and interfacing with business users to ensure the database is satisfying business requirements
• Managing the user expectations. Periodic, planned proactive visits to internal customers with reports and requests action within agreed timeframes.
• Define service level agreements (SLAs) both internally and with our customers.
• Define metrics to ensure we are meeting those SLAs and holding the support team accountable.
• Set goals for MTR (Mean Time to Resolution) for all support issues, including escalated incidents.
• Create and/or put in place metrics for reporting the management and effectiveness of SLAs compared to desired performance.
• Monitor SLA performance for compliance with organizational needs and requirements, including follow-up checks for corrective action.
• Provide recommendations based on analysis of trending information.
• Oversee continuous service level improvement initiatives associated with core processes and mission-critical systems.

Key Performance Measures
• As described in your Personal Score Card

Knowledge, experience and qualifications required
• Degree in science/Engineering/Computer Science
• Oracle Certified Database Administrator
• Microsoft Certified Database Administrator
• ITIL intermediate
• In-depth understanding of Microsoft Azure cloud
• Knowledge of kubernetes
• Knowledge in NoSql database
• Minimum of 2 - 4 years’ experience in a 24x7 service provider environment

Leadership category responsibility framework (Core Competencies)
Individual Contributors in Britam need to:
• Plan, direct and apply efficiencies and resources in order to optimize output and profitability against time, cost, and team targets;
• Effectively communicate strategic and operational departmental goals and objectives to peers and others in order to ensure proper implementation;
• Ensure that department priorities are adhered to and effectively communicated;
• Ensure competent and effective people resources through appropriate coaching, development and people supervision as appropriate;
• Embody a high-performance, proactive culture;
• Effectively ensure the adherence to key performance areas, deadlines, and goals in order to optimize operational effectiveness;
• Effectively communicate resource needs, possible opportunities, and achievements to management in order to aid them in their decision-making;
• Effectively set and monitor priorities and objectives for more junior staff;
• Understand and communicate objectives in relation to the larger organizational impact;
• Effectively disseminate knowledge within the correct context, towards subordinates as well as management;
• Appropriately model the company values while setting the pace and energy for delivering;
• Effectively manage and communicate change within the department in order to increase staff and process effectiveness;
• Provide access to accurate and consistent information and services across all channels;
• Ensure a seamless experience for clients;
• Improve service delivery for clients;
• Engage in continuous brand building to become the trusted partners to clients.

Technical/ Functional competencies
• Strong technical skill/knowledge spanning enterprise infrastructure, Web-based application hosting, and internet technologies
• Knowledge of software, hardware, systems administration, and network technology
• Thorough understanding of relational database theory and practice
• Effective staff management and leadership skills.
• Detail-oriented and process-focused
• Self-motivated, self-starter who works well in a fast pace, growth-orientated entrepreneurial environment.


Engineering at Canonical requires hands-on code contribution and review, as well as architectural leadership. You will need to demonstrate insight into performance and quality engineering practices and ensure your team embraces effective disciplines on both fronts. You will need to be comfortable holding contributors accountable for work ethic and results. You must also have an understanding of security practices and principles and the impact that engineering choices have on product security. We expect teams to deliver well-documented products and work with design professionals to shape the product experience. You should relish the opportunity to shape and direct and develop an engineering team that is happy and brilliant, and produces a product that will be a pleasure to use and to evolve. For this role you must have deep, proven experience with Python and preferably some experience with Go. Experience with IAM tools and protocols is a must. This role is centred around driving a team that delivers high quality software, not just the integration of existing solutions.

What you'll do
• Deliver high-quality, rigorously designed software written in Python and Go
• Lead a team of developers to ship software that automates open source identity solutions, integrating established standards and protocols, like SAML, OpenID, OAuth, PKI, LDAP
• Build an integration layer for popular enterprise and cloud identity providers (e.g. Okta, Azure Active Directory, AWS Cognito, etc.)
• Build and manage a globally distributed team of engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development
• Effectively set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
• Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices
• Ensure that your team delivers great products that users love by maintaining a culture of quality and engineering excellence
• Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
• Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organisation
• Work from home with global travel up to 20% for internal and external events

Who You Are
• You are a software engineer/developer by background
• You have knowledge of software , standards, protocols and concepts in the identity space like OpenID, Oauth, SAML, Kerberos, LDAP and Active Directory
• You have experience integrating or deploying identity and access management solutions to enterprise customers
• You have experience in leading, managing, coaching and mentoring developers towards delivering timely, high quality software together with them
• You are familiar with Kubernetes and excited to optimise workload operations on it
• You value secure coding and standards, and enjoy working on teams that do the same
• You have a bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent
• You love embracing new technologies and pushing the boundaries of what is possible, with a view to building products that improve how people operate software and infrastructure everywhere
• You love developing and growing people and have a track record of doing it
• You have solid experience working in an agile development environment

This is an exceptional opportunity for an experienced software engineer passionate about delivering high quality, reliable and automated infrastructure based on open source software running on Kubernetes, the public cloud and bare-metal. We are facing the challenge of fault-tolerant mission critical distributed systems and intend to deliver the world's best automation solution for delivering data platforms. Experience using data platform tools is desirable, but not over hands-on experience installing, configuring and operating such technologies. Applicants should be passionate about the future of the software defined datacenter, automation, distributed systems, and open source. Canonical is a globally distributed team of engineers who share that passion. Engineers who thrive at Canonical are mindful of open source community dynamics, and equally aware of the needs of large, innovative organizations.

What you'll do
• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Write high quality, idiomatic Python code to create new features
• Debug issues and interact with upstream communities, in the open
• Work with helpful and talented engineers including experts in many fields
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
• Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events

Who you are
• You love technology and working with brilliant people
• You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• You are experienced with Linux systems administration, package management, and operations
• You have hands-on experience with at least one public cloud and experience with private cloud solutions like OpenStack
• You are experienced with Kubernetes and believe it can be used for serious persistent data services
• You are an accomplished Python programmer that enjoys challenging projects in mission-critical environments
• You have experience operating and managing data platform technologies like PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Opensearch, Kafka, Yugabyte

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