Job Openings at Discovery Limited

Job Description

• Identifying sales opportunities.Answering inbound calls timeously and making required outbound calls
• Co-ordination of own administration
• Identifying sales opportunities
• Maintaining accurate details and statistics of all queries

Key purpose

• This position is based in the Discovery Connect Sales call centre, and reports to the sales team leader. The successful individual will be required to conduct Discovery Health telesales.

Key Outputs
The successful individual will be required to perform on, but not limited to the following key outputs:

•  Achieve Health Sales target
• Communication to members telephonically via fax and email
• Attending to general administration
• Conduct Financial Needs Analysis
•  Achieve quality target
• Overcome objections
• Adhering to service level agreements

Personal attributes and skills
The successful individual will be required to demonstrate the following competencies:

• Target Driven
• Team Player
• Goal orientated
• Self motivated
• Ability to perform under pressure
• Adapt to change
• Persuasiveness
• Resilience/Tenacity
• Sound Time Management
• Self managed
• Attention to detail
• Ability to learn quickly and apply knowledge
• Speak fluently (accent neutral) English/Afrikaans

Qualification & Experience

•  Matric
•  At least 1year sales experience, preferably in an outbound telesales environment
• Minimum 1 year health product knowledge, Discovery Health Knowledge is an advantage
• PC literacy, email, word, excel
• Tertiary qualification an advantage
• NQF5 and RE5 qualification

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Key Purpose

• Work closely with a passionate development team to design, develop and maintain SAP CPI and SAP IBO solutions for a dynamic, multi-national company that sets the benchmark in its industry.
• Must be a team player and have the ability to work with both vertical and horizontal colleagues both in a formal and informal setting.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

The successful candidate will be responsible for, but not limited to, the following:

• Understanding the business requirements and through a structured process documenting, validating, and translating it into Product Requirement Specifications
• To coordinate the end-to-end integration of technical solutions across various technical teams to ensure the alignment of technical solutions across all technology disciplines.
• Working with multiple business areas and multiple teams that require deep integration of solutions
• Evaluate and measure the efficiencies of business processes and provide recommendations
• Proactively identify risk pertaining to the project.
• Provide Operational Excellence
• Manage development of an integration framework
• Work with Partners, assess operational quality, identify gaps, and manage closure of gaps
• Understand development requirements and be able work with both internal and external stakeholders to deliver these
• Ability to communicate to Business as well as Technical Teams and 3rd party stakeholders.

Technical Competencies:

Processes:

• ITIL (Incident, Change, Release, Problem Management),

Technical Skills:

• Familiarity with SAP Integration Suite, SAP Process Orchestration/Integration, Web Services, APIs, and other integration patterns
• Proficiency in various integration technologies and protocols such as REST, SOAP, XML, JSON, etc.
• Experience in configuration and extension of standard iFlows
• Handling various integration adapters (SFSF, ODATA, SFTP, IDOC, SOAP, HTTP, Process Direct, REST) to exchange messages between systems.
• Experience in handling security artifacts, encryption, and decryption mechanisms and SSH keys
• Various data transformation/manipulation techniques (Graphical Mapping, User Defined Functions, XSLT, Groovy Scripting, Java Mapping).
• Business process modelling experience.
• Worked on CTS and File transport system.
• Experience with Certificates, firewalls etc.
• Knowledge of SAP client / server proxy technology.

Education and Experience

Experience and Knowledge:

• Previous ESB implementation and development experience (4+ Years)
• SAP (PO/PI) Process Orchestration/Process Integration or SAP Cloud Integration Suite Experience (7+ Years)
• SAP (PO/PI) Process Orchestration/Process Integration or SAP Cloud Integration Suite certification

Educational Qualifications:

• Degree or Diploma in Information Technology or Computer Science
   

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Key Purpose

• The Cloud Security Architect is responsible for defining, governing, and guiding secure cloud architectures across the organisation, with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as the primary strategic platform, while maintaining strong security and architectural oversight across AWS, Azure, and hybrid on-premises environments.
• The role combines security architecture ownership, cloud security consulting, and engineering oversight. Acting as a trusted technical advisor, the Cloud Security Architect supports teams in securing existing cloud platforms, leads the secure onboarding of new cloud environments, and ensures security is embedded by design across all cloud initiatives.
• The primary accountability is security architecture, design architect, and enablement, rather than day-to-day platform operations. Hands-on engagement is expected where required to validate designs, assess risk, and guide secure implementation.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited

Cloud Security Architect

• Participate in development of information governance and privacy strategy in support of business objectives and arising risks with particular focus on information governance and privacy capabilities, operational and service excellence.  
• Define and own cloud security architecture standards.
• Design and review secure GCP, AWS and Azure landing zones, aligned to:
• Identity-driven security architectures with continuous access evaluation
• Granular, risk-based access controls and privilege management
• Enforcement of security controls through native cloud services, organisational policies, and approved reference architectures
• Act as design architect for GCP security architectures, ensuring consistency, scalability, and risk alignment.

Core Security Architecture & DevSecOps

• Define enterprise cloud security baselines aligned to ISO 27001, NIST CSF, and CIS Benchmarks.
• Guide Zero Trust architectures and security monitoring patterns.
• Provide architectural oversight for DevSecOps and secure software supply chains, including:
• Secure CI/CD patterns
• Automated security scanning and policy enforcement
• Container, workload, and artefact hardening
• Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) architecture and practices

Multi-Cloud & Hybrid Security

• Apply cloud-agnostic security principles across GCP (primary), AWS, and Azure.
• Consult and guide security architectures for:
• Existing cloud environments
• New cloud onboarding initiatives
• New services to be deployed and activated in any of the clouds
• Define secure connectivity patterns between cloud platforms and on-premises environments.
• Support consolidation and rationalisation of cloud accounts, subscriptions, projects, and tenants.

Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) Security & Governance

• Demonstrate strong IaC literacy, with the ability to read, understand, review, and assess IaC code (e.g. Terraform and cloud-native templates).
• Identify and remediate security risks, misconfigurations, and architectural gaps within IaC, ensuring alignment to security standards, secure baselines, least privilege, and Zero Trust principles.
• Support security and operations teams by reviewing and guiding IaC submissions from a security architecture perspective.

Identity, Platform & Data Security

• Define enterprise cloud identity architecture, including federation, workload identities, and privileged access models.
• Guide security architecture for Kubernetes, serverless platforms, and managed cloud services.
• Consult on standards for encryption, key management, secrets management, and data protection

Governance, Risk & Enablement

• Ensure cloud architectures are auditable, observable, and compliant with internal standards and external regulations.
• Participate in architecture risk reviews.
• Produce clear security architecture documentation.

Personal Attributes and Skills

• Strong security architecture mindset with practical cloud expertise
• Clear communicator with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Pragmatic, risk-based, and delivery-focused
• Comfortable operating in complex, enterprise environments
• Ability to rapidly learn, adapt, and apply new concepts in a changing technical environment
• Passion for researching new technologies and exploring innovative security solutions

Qualifications & Experience

Essential 

• 10+ years’ experience in IT and/or Information Security
• 5+ years’ experience in cloud security architecture or engineering
• 2 years Layer 7 enterprise firewall experience
• Proven experience designing and governing enterprises, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments
• Experience operating in a consultative or advisory role within complex organisations

Required Technical Skills

• Strong experience with GCP, AWS and Azure, including IAM, networking, firewalling, and native security controls
• Deep understanding of:
• Identity and access management
• Network and platform security
• Data protection and encryption
• Infrastructure-as-Code and security-as-code concepts
• Consult on secure AI architectures

Certifications (Beneficial)

• Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer (highly desirable)
• Google Professional Cloud Architect
• AWS Professional Cloud Security Engineer
• AWS Professional Cloud Architect
• Azure Professional Cloud Security Engineer
• Azure Professional Cloud Architect
• CISSP, CCSP or equivalent

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Key Purpose

• This role involves analysing business requirements and translating them into robust technical designs that align with Discovery Life’s architectural standards. It includes overseeing the correct implementation of these solutions by coaching and mentoring junior developers to maintain high-quality outputs. The position ensures that applications function as intended, reviews testing scenarios for adequate coverage of system and process impacts, and provides ongoing guidance to business teams. Additionally, the role contributes to identifying and eliminating root causes to improve overall system stability and efficiency.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to 

• Participate in Business Requirement or Architecture JAD sessions.
• Analyse the Business / Architecture Requirement and clarify any unknowns with the Business Analyst, User and System Architect.  Ensures that changes are updated in the Business / Architecture Requirement specification.
• Performs a thorough Impact Analysts and supplies accurate estimates for the necessary development effort.  Highlights any risks.
• Formulate a technical solution and review with the Systems Analysts, the development team and Development Manager.
• Produce a Technical Design document, using the standard Template and in accordance with the Discovery Life standards.
• If Database work is required, prepare a Logical view diagram and liaise with the Database Architect and / or DB Systems Analyst to supply the necessary components.
• Participate in technical analysis JAD Sessions with all Stakeholders.  Ensure that all Stakeholders are in agreement with the technical solution and that it aligns with the Business / Architecture requirement.
• Execute the manual code review process as per Life Tech Forum standards.
• Ensure that Unit and Systems Integration testing is conducted and defects are identified and fixed before handing over for Testing.
• Work with the Test Analyst to ensure that the Testing coverage is sufficient and accurate.

Education and Experience

Essential:

• Matric
• Formal software development qualification(s), such as Object-Oriented Analysis & Design.
• IT related degree or diploma (BSc/BTech or similar)
• At least 5 years’ experience in software development

Advantageous:

• At least 6 years’ experience in Java source code design and development 

Technical Skills and/or Knowledge

Essential:

• Java, OO, J2EE, XML, HTLM, UML, SDLC

Advantageous:

• Data modelling, Oracle PL/SQL

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Key Purpose

• To transport the Healthcare professional to and from appointments. To transport medical samples to designated locations.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Required to fulfil collection functions pertaining to laboratory samples and medical documents to maintain client portfolios
• Collect blood samples from drop-boxes and/or addresses for the purpose of medical underwriting
• Ensure all work is followed up on and is in line with documented Service level agreements
• Maintain discretion of client’s personal information to ensure confidentiality is not in breach.

Education and Experience

Essential:

• Matric
• 2-3 years working experience as a commercial driver
• Must have mental ability to handle receipts; read maps, road signs, maintain record of duty status, etc.

Advantageous:

• Advanced driving course
• Graduation from accredited commercial driving school

Technical Skills and Knowledge

Essential:

• Valid commercial Class A or B (Code 8 or 10) SA driver’s license.
• No traffic offences within the past 12 months.
• Microsoft Office proficiency
• working knowledge of vehicle safety and control systems
• Strong team player
• Pro-active and energetic
• Problem solving skills
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
• Attention to detail
• Ability to handle pressure
• Willingness to work overtime
• Strong admin skills.

Advantageous:

• Knowledge of the Insurance medicals

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Key Purpose

• To fulfil a pivotal role within a software development team that designs, develops and maintains the systems for Discovery’s dynamic Life Insurance business.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

Planning:

• Perform a high-level impact analysis, establish Scope and provide estimates based on technical requirements.
• Proactively liaise with all stakeholders.
• Create required planning tasks in SDLC tool and set due dates according to agreed milestones.

Analysis and Design:

• Actively participate in the collaborative technical design process.
• Research and find effective solutions to technical issues that arise.
• Update development timelines based on final requirements.
• Liaise with the relevant subject matter experts where clarification is required.

Development:

• Translate technical requirements into executable code without errors.
• Ensure optimally performing system code in line with technical specifications, following prescribed process, architecture standards and procedures.
• Ensure delivery within agreed timeframes.
• Conduct unit testing and fix any defects found within the agreed SLA.
• Escalate risks to the project early on.

Quality and Testing:

• Run code through the automated code review tool, review errors with the technical lead and fix before committing to the code base.
• Perform peer code reviews to ensure consistent application of standards, logic and effective use of libraries and reusable aspects of the software.
• Develop and maintain reusable Unit Tests.
• Assist the Test Analyst in ensuring that a comprehensive test pack is produced, which includes all the required scenarios. 
• Verify that the completed software meets the established standards and is fit for purpose.
• Review the risk / impact of defects found in testing, prioritize and ensure that the priority is accurate.

Risk and Release Management:

• Conform to the Build and Release cycles.
• Provide timeous support to the Quality Assurance Team when issues arise during testing.
• Handle all outstanding defects.

Production Support and Root Cause management:

• Ensure that the root cause of system errors are effectively analysed and prioritized for fixing.
• Proactively bring issues and problems to the attention of the team and propose solutions to solve them.
• Assist system users and the infrastructure teams with technical support issues.

Personal Attributes and Skills

Intermediate knowledge of:

• Applicable programming disciplines and languages.  Refer to technical competencies list.
• Data modelling and design of database structures
• Unit Testing
• Systems Integration testing
• SDLC methodologies

Behavioural Skills:

• Action orientated go-getter, hungry to learn and add real value.
• Self-motivated.
• Driven by a sense of responsibility and ownership.
• Structured and analytical problem solver: Obsessive about finding solutions to problems.
• Able to plan, organise and prioritize own work.
• Attention to detail.
• Able to multitask.
• Highly adaptive and flexible to a changing environment.
• Able to work independently, but also as an effective member of a Team: reliable, works actively with others towards common goal, communicates constructively, shares information, knowledge and experience, treats others in a respectful and supportive manner.

Education and Experience

Essential:

• Matric
• 4-6 years’ experience in software development

Advantageous:

• IT related Degree or Diploma (BSc/BTech or similar)
• Formal software development qualification(s), such as Object-Oriented Analysis & Design.

Key Technical Competencies

General:

• Version control (GIT)
• SQL

Java:

• Java programming language
• Java EE
• JBoss EAP (or similar Application Server)
• Data layer (JPA, Domain Object Model, XML/XSD, JAXB, ORM frameworks, RDBMS and PL/SQL beneficial)
• Business services (RMI)
• Integration services (REST / SOAP web services)
• Presentation layer technologies (JavaServer Faces, HTML 5, JavaScript, CSS3)
• Testing methodologies (Junit)
• SDLC tools (Jira, BitBucket)

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Key Purpose of the role

• The role involves policy and benefit reviews to identify client needs. The Financial Advisor will ensure that clients are always aware of product enhancements that may benefit their existing or new need. The Financial Advisor will always conduct financial needs analysis and or assess risk appetite before recommending changes to their existing product structure and or fund portfolios.

Job Category

• We are looking for a suitably experienced Financial Advisor to become part of our vibrant and dynamic sales team. This individual will consult with existing Discovery Life, Invest and Insure clients to offer them specialist advice on their current products, benefits and or fund selection. This role drives ongoing servicing of existing clients and as such is remunerated on a non-commissionable basis.

Key Responsibilities

Your tasks will typically involve:

• conducting in-depth reviews of clients' financial goals, from risk protection to wealth creation
• conducting a financial needs analysis and preparing proposals best suited to meet individual clients' requirements
• providing clients with information on new and existing products, benefits and services
• designing financial strategies
• assisting clients to make informed decisions
• reviewing and responding to clients changing needs and financial circumstances
• contacting clients with news of new financial products or changes to legislation that may affect their savings and investments
• Review client policies regularly to determine if adjustments are needed because of personal or financial changes

Personal Attributes and skills:

• Strong Customer focus
• Networking skills
• Proactive engagement
• Service orientated mind-set is critical
• Strong Planning and organisational skills

Qualifications and Experience:

Minimum

• Wealth management qualification with at least 120 credits
• RE5 qualification
• At a minimum 2 years’ experience as a Financial Advisor
   

Beneficial:

Understanding of Financial Planning
Knowledge of insurance (short-term, health, risk and investment industry)