About Discovery
Discovery's 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 Global
Vitality Global, 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 partner's insurance and financial services products in the markets where they operate. Vitality Global also operates a business providing wellness solutions to employer groups in the United States. Vitality Health International, a business unit within Vitality Global coordinates and focuses on resource allocation to Discovery's emerging, global health insurance initiatives. Vitality Global is also responsible for Discovery's 25 percent equity investment in Ping An Health, the largest comprehensive medical insurer in China.
To date, Vitality Global's 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
Understand and analyze business requirements and provide solution proposals based on a deep knowledge of current systems capabilities, as well as a broad knowledge of available industry-relevant solution components.
Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to
Relationship Management:
Builds relationships with key customer stakeholders in the Vitality global businesses in order to build trust that will help to ensure deliverables stay on track
Builds relationships with key systems stakeholders within the Vitality Systems teams to create a collaborative environment in which all stakeholders can constructively work towards and achieve common goals
Requirements Analysis:
Critically analyses stated customer requirements and acts as a consultant in providing considered feedback based on knowledge of business and systems environments in order to deliver exactly what the customer specified
Contributes to the Business Requirements Document
Solutioning / Designing:
Facilitate Fit\Gap analysis and requirements gathering
Reviews functional design artefacts
Creates solution design artefacts which include the proposed paradigm and technology, as well as providing priority ranking of the architectural system qualities (re-usability, performance etc.)
Breaking down high-level system components into lower-level functional components for smaller teams to develop
Engages with systems architects and development teams to ensure a smooth transition from the proposed solution into the SDLC and through implementation to final release
Translate logical designs into physical designs taking into account the target environment, performance requirements, existing systems and any potential safety-related issues
Making design decisions based on business requirements, which take into consideration functional and non-functional requirements of the system
Facilitate migration planning to move from source to target architecture seamlessly
Request Technical Debt Dispensation, if required
Testing and Post Release Support:
Continues to be involved post-release in ensuring that the solution satisfies customer needs, both functional and architectural
Investigate, analyse and document reported defects and correct identified defects
Governance and Continuous Improvement:
Participate in all review board meetings to assess and provide input to new proposed solutions
Ensure standards are enforced and are aligned with overall strategic architectural objectives
Involvement in developing guidelines and standards and in coaching through participation in internal forums to improve methodologies, internal processes and overall architectural rigor
Research and development – conduct structured search and evaluation processes of market offerings and technologies to stay abreast of technology and competition
Contribution to enterprise architecture competency
Personal Attributes and Skills
UML diagramming
Information Engineering
Business Process Design
Data Design
Application Design
System Integration Design
Services Design
Architecture Principles Design
Business Rule Design
Hands on coding experience at a senior developer level
Spring and Web-Service integration experience
Education and Experience
Education:
Science B. Degree
Architecturally certified (TOGAF/Prince certified or equivalent).
Project Management qualification (would be advantageous)
Experience:
5 to 7 years' experience on software development in corporate environments, of which at least two years in team leadership capacity
Data modelling experience
Process modelling experience
Client facing experience
Postgres DB exposure
UML modelling and model driven architecture will also be beneficial.
EMPLOYMENT EQUITY
The Company's 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.