Discoverys core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.
About Vitality Group
Vitality Group, a subsidiary of Discovery Limited is responsible for the expansion of the Vitality Shared-Value Insurance business model beyond South Africa and the UK, serving to fully leverage the assets and intellectual property of Discovery beyond its primary markets. The business forms equity or contractual partnerships with leading global insurers to integrate Vitality and shared value with partners insurance and financial services products in the markets where they operate. Vitality Group also operates a business providing wellness solutions to employer groups in the United States. Vitality Health International, a business unit within Vitality Group coordinates and focuses on resource allocation to Discoverys emerging, global health insurance initiatives. Vitality Group is also responsible for Discoverys 25 percent equity investment in Ping An Health, the largest comprehensive medical insurer in China.
To date, Vitality Groups businesses jointly reach more than 27 million unique lives across 40 markets (Argentina, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, China, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ecuador, France, Germany, Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Macao, Malaysia, Mexico, Mozambique, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Thailand, the United States, Vietnam and Zambia) as well as our primary markets in South Africa and the United Kingdom.
Key Purpose
This Solutions Architect will help our transitioning into an agile, containerized, microservices based platform from our legacy of waterfall-based, monolithic systems.
Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to
- Oversees the solutioning of new and existing applications systems.
- Assesses functional and non-functional requirements of change backlogs and proposals to elicit architectural impacts.
- Advises development teams on system technical design as a subject matter expert, providing solutions that reinforce the enterprise architectural strategy.
- Weighs the overall priority ranking of each of the possible system qualities (cost, reusability, robustness, etc.) as to enforce a balance of concerns.
- Performs analytical tasks, data extracts, research, etc., as required, to inform decision processes.
- Participates in internal forums such as Architectural Review Board and lead work streams to improve methodology, internal processes, standards and guidelines.
- Conducts training and informal coaching with technical team.
- Assists Technical Managers during hiring and performance reviews by providing input on engineering competencies.
- Closely interacts with and guides many functions of Business Analysis and Systems Design.
- Collaborates in R&D to seek solutions to new and evolving customer requirements.
- Provides high-level architectural guidance to new and existing systems.
- Partners with Enterprise Architects to ensure execution of architectural strategy.
- Partners with Systems Architects to keep abreast of maturing technical tools and practices.
- Strong soft skills.
- Cloud computing experience (infrastructure, deployment, storage, platforms, and data experience preferred)
- Web-scale engineering and architecture experience (Microservices architecture experience preferred).
- Full stack development knowledge (Java, JavaScript, and Oracle RDBMS preferred)
- Demonstrated modelling capabilities (UML modelling experience preferred).
- Business process improvement (Lean experience preferred)
- Agile software development
- Business and technical writing skills
- Presentation and facilitation skills
- Consulting Abilities
- Demonstrated project management abilities.
Education:
- BSc in Computer Science or a related field
- Preferred: Architecturally certified (TOGAF/Prince Certified or Equivalent)
- 5 to 7 years experience and demonstrated career growth on software development in corporate environments, of which at least two years in team leadership capacity
- Data modelling experience
- Process modelling experience
- TOGAF experience
- Netflix OSS experience
- Docker experience
- AWS/Azure experience
- WSO2 experience
The Companys approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.
