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 Cogence
Cogence is the first global discretionary fund manager in South Africa. It marries the expertise of Discovery, whose behaviour-change platform is the largest of its kind, and BlackRock, one of the world's leading asset managers. Cogence then combines this with the local investment management expertise of RisCura, who intimately understands the local market within a global context.
Using Aladdin Wealth™, BlackRock's industry-leading investment and risk technology platform, and Vitality insights and data, Cogence is the world's first discretionary fund manager that fully models retirement solutions, taking health experience into account.
Through an unmatched digital experience, Cogence helps financial advisers cut through investment complexity with efficiency, clarity and confidence. This results in smart, seamless solutions that help advisers grow their businesses.
Key Purpose
The Technical Lead / Solutions Architect is responsible for owning the technical integrity, architectural direction, and long‑term sustainability of a complex, data‑heavy financial software platform.
The primary purpose of the role is to ensure that the system is correctly designed, robust, scalable, and fit for long‑term product evolution, while actively reducing technical risk. This includes making and defending critical architectural decisions, guiding engineers through complex implementation challenges, and ensuring that financial data and calculations are accurate, auditable, and delivered in a way that supports both product and business needs.
Objectives of this role
We are seeking a highly experienced Technical Lead - Solutions Architect to take ownership of the design, implementation, and evolution of a complex financial software platform. This is a senior, hands-on role for someone who enjoys solving hard problems, shaping architecture, and mentoring engineers.
The person will play a critical role in shaping system architecture, making key technical decisions, mentoring engineers, and ensuring the platform is built with long-term sustainability, scalability, and correctness in mind.
Responsibilities
Preferred Competencies
Key Technical Skills
Domain & Background
Personal Attributes
Education and Experience
Minimum Required
Strongly Advantageous (but not mandatory)
Experience requirements
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.
Imagine a world where people live healthier, more enhanced and protected lives… A world in which each organisation is a powerful influencer and responsible corporate citizen, committed to being a force for social good. As a leading innovator in healthcare, wellness, insurance, investments, financial and life planning, Discovery works ceaselessly to make this vision a reality.
Fuelled by our passion for enhancing lives and our desire to innovate, Discovery consistently sets global standards, creating shared value through shared intellectual capital. A testament to this is our Vitality programme, which is both a platform to incentivise people to live healthier lives as well as a channel through which shared value is delivered.
We are a proudly South African-born, global company with health, life and short term insurance operations in South Africa and the United Kingdom, and a presence in Germany, France, the United States, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, China and Japan through our Global Vitality Network. We uphold our promise of shared value by being a positive disruptor that focusses on bringing about sustainable change in the lives of the people and communities we serve across the globe.
Our Vitality Shared-Value Insurance model has received international recognition, including being ranked 17th in Fortune’s index of 51 companies “changing the world” in August 2015, and named a leading health innovator at the World Economic Forum in January 2017.
Our values of leadership, honesty, innovation and fairness act as our compass, directing our business practices to take advantage of every opportunity while looking for ways to dazzle clients.
With an unwavering commitment to being the best shared value insurance organisation in the world, Discovery is a powerful force for social good.
