Sanlam Data & Digital Academy 2025
Sanlam
- Bellville, Cape Town
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Permanent employment from the onset.
- Market-related benefits and rewards.
- Access to business mentors, qualified life coaches and subject-matter experts to guide your career advancement.
- Hands-on experience in one of the largest and most diverse Financial Services organisations in Africa.
- Access to secondments in a variety of agile-focused delivery teams to solve problems and co-create innovative solutions for the business.
- Participation in real case studies that have been tailored for Sanlam, thus providing technical training and domain knowledge simultaneously.
- Exposure to leading-edge technologies and the opportunity to apply your skills in the process of designing and launching new capabilities or experimenting to deliver MVPs.
- Constant growth, facilitated through tech focus days, experimentation programmes and participation in dedicated innovation competitions.
- Collaboration with experienced Sanlam employees participating in the programme.
- Opportunity to build a career at Sanlam, and gain access to opportunities across a diverse set of capabilities, propositions, and geographies.
- formed an InsurTech partnership with Africa's largest telco, MTN
- formed an African operations partnership with one of the world's largest insurers, Allianz
- structured a deal with Absa to create the largest black-owned asset manager in South Africa, Sanlam Investment Holdings
- established a dedicated FinTech cluster, applying cutting-edge technology to build and launch digital market propositions
- You are passionate about all things related to data: finding patterns in data, using data to build insight, aid decision-making and process action, and to create real value.
- You want to establish strong foundations in data management and data engineering, in a fast-moving and complex enterprise data domain.
- You're interested in tackling complex data problems, and learning how to apply AI, ML, predictive analytics and regenerative AI to datasets to deliver unique insights, prompts and direction.
- You aspire to develop your analytical skills to grow your career in roles such as Data Analyst, Data Scientist, Data Engineer, or AI/ML engineer.
- You have a passion for engineering and solving complex problems.
- You aspire to grow in the domains of engineering and modern engineering with an interest in cloud-native architecture, Infrastructure as Code and application integration.
- You want to solve problems by applying the latest innovations in the digital world, modern engineering practices, as well as modern integration patterns, and AI techniques.
- You seek a career as a Software Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Test Engineer, Integration Specialist or Architect.
- Ongoing technical training, real-world enterprise-level experience, business acumen and competency based training in a professional environment.
- Guidance through coaching and mentorship from subject matter experts in the Sanlam Technology and Business Intelligence (BI) Teams to ensure that you are well-equipped to grow and become successful in your chosen career.
- The opportunity to work cross-functionally in order to learn across various disciplines and be equipped with a diverse skillset, gaining access to multiple parts of the data and tech capabilities, and working with multiple parts of the business.
- Rotate to different IT teams to get exposure to a variety of IT disciplines enabling you to find the best fit for your skills and interests.
- The opportunity to participate in innovation competitions and tech learning days, such as the SGT data day, and SGT VR day, as well as vendor-facilitated hackathons.
- Functional training and hands-on experience with the leading IT & BI tools and technology that will enable you to play a key role in Sanlam's strategy to modernise the IT agenda and drive the data driven decision making capability.
- an innovative mindset and problem-solving ability
- a passion for data and technology
- the ability to juggle deadlines and tasks from various stakeholders
- hold a high value of client centricity and collaboration
- be open to receive feedback for continuous personal growth
- Information Technology / Information Systems / Computer Science
- Data Science / Data Analytics / Business Intelligence
- Statistics / Mathematics / Finance / Actuarial
- Industrial / Electrical / Chemical / Civil / Mechanical Engineering
We do not expect you to come with a wealth of knowledge as our curriculum will cover everything you need to know. However, it does help if you have a basic understanding of the following:
- programming languages and frameworks such as Python, Java, .Net, and SQL
- data analysis, modelling and visualisation
- business and process analysis
- Care - contributes independently
- Collaboration - contributes independently
- Innovation - contributes independently
- Integrity - contributes independently