Ninety One is South Africa’s largest investment manager and the only one with a global presence. The firm has 22 offices across 15 countries on five continents and manages R3.9 trillion of assets on behalf of clients (as at 31 March 2026). Established in Cape Town in 1991 as part of the Investec Group, Ninety One demerged and rebranded in 2020, becoming an independent firm dual-listed in London and Johannesburg. Always an active manager, Ninety One today offers strategies across equities, fixed income, multi-asset and private markets to institutions, advisors and individual investors around the world. About the Team Ninety One’s Digital Technology team is currently recruiting for a dynamic and multi-skilled individual who is passionate about technology to lead the ongoing engineering effort of Ninety One’s Investment Platform. This role requires a strong emphasis on AI-driven process innovation, engineering excellence, and empathetic leadership. The successful candidate needs to be a visionary and disciplined professional who continuously seeks to reinvent engineering practices using AI, while aligning with industry standards and business goals. In this Role You Will: Detailed Architecture Design, Oversight & Technical Governance Work with the Platform Solution Architect to provide hands‑on oversight of detailed architecture and design across engineering squads. Ensure alignment with strategic architectural direction while bridging the gap between high‑level architecture and day‑to‑day engineering decisions. Review and validate technical analysis outputs before development begins to ensure feasibility, alignment with standards, and accurate estimation. Work with product owners and external partners to align API capabilities with client needs and platform strategy. Provide technical leadership for external API integrations, ensuring secure, scalable, and well‑documented interfaces. Engineering Enablement, Automation, Productivity & Quality at Scale Effectively managing engineering impediments for engineers. Continuously evaluating and managing access controls to maintain security and relevance. Championing engineering best practices including CI/CD, automated testing, secure coding standards, and preventative quality tooling. Defining and enforcing coding standards, peer review protocols, and automated quality gates (e.g., static analysis, performance checks, pipeline enforcement). Ensuring quality gates cannot be bypassed under delivery pressure without structured governance. Promoting a culture of clean, maintainable, performant, and scalable code. Leading initiatives to improve development velocity through intelligent automation and tooling without compromising reliability. Identifying, sourcing, and embedding tools that improve engineering quality and prevent production issues before they occur. Ensuring engineering output improves in both speed and quality through automation, AI‑assisted tooling, and preventative engineering practices. Platform Security, Resilience & Availability Own the roadmap for addressing platform-wide technical debt, including vendor deprecations, mandated upgrades, and Cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Collaborate with InfoSec and infrastructure teams to ensure timely remediation of risks. Plan and prioritize engineering work that safeguards platform stability and compliance. Automation & AI‑Centred Engineering Identifying and implementing AI‑assisted tooling for code generation, automated reviews, test generation, performance validation, and static analysis. Embedding AI code review capabilities where appropriate. Introducing preventative automated tooling so quality issues are detected before reaching production. Ensuring responsible use of AI through governance, human oversight, and engineering alignment. Measuring the impact of automation and AI adoption on quality, output, defect rates, and production stability. Driving continuous improvement in engineering practices through intelligent automation. Strategic Collaboration & Partner Engagement Serve as the technical liaison between internal teams and external partners during engineering discussions. Collaborate with the Platform Architect and Delivery Manager to ensure cohesive planning and execution. Represent engineering in strategic forums and contribute to platform vision evolution You Should Consider Applying If You Have: BSc Degree Level, or similar, in mathematical, computing or engineering preferred Minimum of 5 years actively working with micro‑service architectures in a full‑stack capacity, including Azure technologies, programming languages such as C#, and databases languages such as T‑SQL. Advantageous to have prior knowledge of Asset Management industry, especially relating to investment systems and processes Experience working with micro‑service APIs, particularly in containerized implementations advantageous (e.g. Service Fabric). Strong experience with .Net Core preferable, including C#, ASP.NET Core etc. Strong experience with UI frameworks, e.g. Angular, React, Vue. Experience working in the Azure Cloud stack, including services like App Services, Function Apps, Redis, Service Fabric, API Manager, Azure SQL, CosmosDB, Databricks, Event Grid, Data Factory. Experience implementing automated test‑driven development approach and continuous testing. Experience working with a variety of database technology such as SQL, No SQL, file storage. Experience with source control and automation tools, particularly the Azure DevOps suite, would be advantageous. Some of the Attributes We Look for in a Person: Attention to detail and high level of accuracy. Strong problem‑solving ability, a logical thinker and numerate. Willing to share knowledge and coach other team members, as well as learn from them. Strong collaboration ethic, with ability to work in teams from cross‑functional disciplines. #J-18808-Ljbffr