Head of Platform & Architecture

Caava Group is a holding company at the forefront of transforming the African insurance landscape. It brings together multiple complementary businesses under one umbrella Caava Evolve, Caava AI, Agencify, and TurnQuest V4 by Caava modernizing legacy insurer operations, expanding digital distribution through agents, and harnessing AI-driven solutions to streamline underwriting, claims, and customer engagement.

Head of Platform & Architecture

Role Purpose

• Lead the Architecture & Evolve Platform portfolio: Architecture & API Standards, Evolve Studio, Shared Experience and Quality Assurance. Give product teams clear technical direction, reusable capabilities and objective quality evidence so they can deliver reliably.

• Work through the four squad leads. Evolve Engineering owns product domains, including COP and FCP. Platform Operations owns infrastructure, deployment, operational continuity and Cybersecurity, Trust & Governance; this role embeds their requirements in designs, shared code and testing.

Core Accountabilities

Set clear architecture and API standards

• Own target architecture, domain boundaries, API and data contracts, integration patterns, architecture decision records and developer documentation.

• Chair the Architecture Forum; resolve cross-team decisions by agreed dates, review significant designs before build and record approved exceptions.

• Define Legacy-to-Evolve transition designs with the delivery Heads; assess technology choices and maintain the architecture roadmap.

Deliver reusable Evolve Studio capabilities

• Own Evolve Studio’s product and pricing configuration, workflow and underwriting controls, multitenancy and multilingual capabilities.

• Agree requirements with product Heads; deliver tested, documented capabilities, support adoption and resolve Studio code defects. Product squads own their domain rules and customer outcomes.

Build a consistent shared experience

• Own shared frontend foundations, the design system and reusable components that support consistent journeys across products and channels.