Discovery Limited Mobile Architect Jobs in South Africa
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 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 Discovery’s emerging, global health insurance initiatives. Vitality Group is also responsible for Discovery’s 25 percent equity investment in Ping An Health, the largest comprehensive medical insurer in China.
To date, Vitality Group’s businesses jointly reach more than 20 million lives across 28 markets (Argentina, Austria, Australia, Canada, China, Ecuador, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Macao, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, the United Kingdom the United States, and Vietnam).
Key Purpose
The mobile architect’s role is to be the subject matter expert on mobile technologies, including Android and iOS, that can support the Vitality Groups technical teams.
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. Contributes to the overall architecture and standards of the group, acts as an SME and plays a software governance role.
The architect is also expected to contribute to software development.
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 FitGap 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
Design flexible, scalable, and high-performance mobile app architecture using Flutter and related technologies
Lead mobile engineers and guide architectural decisions, code reviews, and implementation of features
Evaluate new technologies and patterns and incorporate them into architecture designs as appropriate
Coding:
Implement the designed solutions in the required development language in accordance with the Vitality Group standards, processes, tools and frameworks.
Write clean, modular, maintainable code and enforce code quality and standards across mobile teams
Identify and resolve architectural and technical limitations, bugs, and other issues
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
Develop and implement best practices for mobile development using Flutter, including state management, offline synchronization, networking, device functionality integration, and more
Personal Attributes and Skills
Solution architecture
Excellent written and oral communication skills (English)
Is values driven
Ability to work in a self-driven, complex environment with multiple and changing priorities
Ability to focus on deadlines and deliverables
Ability to think abstractly
Ability and desire to quickly learn new technologies
Customer Service Oriented
Leadership & teamwork
Creativeness & Innovation
Stakeholder management
Clean code thinking
Is a problem solver
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
Web-Service integration experience
Education and Experience
Science B. Degree
Architecturally certified (TOGAF or equivalent).
10+ years’ experience in mobile application development
2+ years’ experience as a solution architect
Advantageous
Honours degree
Business experience and product knowledge
Experience in both iOS and Android development
Methodologies
Familiarity with Agile development methodologies
Knowledge of OO design principles and development patterns
How to Apply
For more information and job application details, see; Discovery Limited Mobile Architect Jobs in South Africa
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