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Solutions Architect

Bring your A-game! Be our new Solutions Architect!

Our client, a subsidiary of Discovery Limited, offers a wellness platform program to global insurance companies that provide innovative health to foster healthier and happier lives. Our client 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.

Our client, is responsible for the expansion of the Shared-Value Insurance business model, serving to fully leverage the assets and intellectual property beyond its primary markets. The business forms equity or contractual partnerships with leading global insurers to integrate a shared value with partners' insurance and financial services products in the markets where they operate. Our client also operates a business providing wellness solutions to employer groups in the United States. This business unit coordinates and focuses on resource allocation for our emerging, global health insurance initiatives. Our client is also responsible for a 25% equity investment in Ping An Health, the largest comprehensive medical insurer in China.

To date, Our client'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, 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.

We are looking for a Solutions Architect to help us transition into a more agile, microsystems-orientated platform from our legacy of waterfall-based, monolithic systems.

Essential Functions:

• Oversee the solutions of new and existing applications systems
• Assess functional and nonfunctional requirements of backlogs and proposals to determine architectural impacts
• Advise development teams on system technical design as a subject matter expert, providing solutions that reinforce the enterprise architectural strategy
• Weigh the overall priority ranking of each of the possible system qualities (cost, reusability, robustness, etc.) to enforce a balance of concerns
• Perform analytical tasks, data extracts, research, etc., as required, to inform decision processes
• Participate in internal forums such as the Architectural Review Board and lead work streams to improve methodology, internal processes, standards, and guidelines
• Conduct training and informal coaching with the technical team
• Assist technical managers during hiring and performance reviews by providing input on engineering competencies

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science or a related field
• Strong soft skills
• Demonstrated career growth in software development in corporate environments, including two years in a leadership capacity
• 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 modeling capabilities (UML modeling 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
• Netflix OSS experience
• Docker experience
• AWS experience
• WSO2 experience

Vitality is an equal-opportunity employer

Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
• Training & Development
• Wellness Resources

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