Africa's largest independent investment manager with multi-region operations
Allan Gray is Africa's largest privately-owned investment manager, serving individuals, retirement funds, insurers, and institutions across segregated portfolios and unit trusts. The tech stack—React, Node.js, TypeScript, .NET, PostgreSQL on AWS—reflects a modernizing platform built for fintech at scale. Active adoption of CI/CD and ongoing projects around next-gen web applications and CRM automation suggest a shift toward operational efficiency, while pain points in pipeline reliability, test isolation, and data integration across the organization reveal the engineering challenges of managing client data at regulatory scale.
Notable leadership hires: IT Delivery Lead
Allan Gray manages investments for individuals, retirement funds, insurers, trusts, companies, and foundations across unit trusts, retirement products, segregated portfolios, and life-insurance pools. Headquartered in Cape Town with offices in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban, Windhoek (Namibia), and Gaborone (Botswana), the firm employs over 1,200 people and operates as an authorized financial services provider. The organization spans engineering, operations, security, and compliance functions, with current hiring concentrated in engineering roles and CI/CD implementation work.
React, Node.js, TypeScript, .NET, PostgreSQL, AWS (Glue, Fargate, Kubernetes), Docker, and Ansible. The company is actively adopting CI/CD automation.
Headquarters in Cape Town, South Africa, plus offices in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban, Windhoek (Namibia), and Gaborone (Botswana).
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