84 Microsoft 365 Architect jobs in South Africa

Closing Date

2025/10/23

Reference Number

MMH

Job Title

Enterprise Architect

Position Type

Permanent

Role Family

Information Technology

Cluster

International

Remote Opportunity

Some of the time

Location - Country

South Africa

Location - Province

Western Cape

Location - Town / City

Bellville

Introduction

Through our client-facing brands Metropolitan and Momentum, with Multiply (wellness and rewards programme), and our other specialist brands, including Guardrisk and Eris Property Group, the group enables business and people from all walks of life to achieve their financial goals and life aspirations.

We help people grow their savings, protect what matters to them and invest for the future. We help companies and organizations care for and reward their employees and members. Through our own network of advisers or via independent brokers and utilizing new platforms Momentum Metropolitan provides practical financial solutions for people, communities, and businesses. Visit us at

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Role Purpose

Provide guidance, road maps, principles, standards and best practices to ensure integrity and consistency across every employed or prospective implementation technology, to address current realities and future opportunities in line with the strategy of the enterprise.

Requirements

• Relevant Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, Information Technology qualification
• Relevant post graduate degree is desirable
• MBA is desirable
• 8-10 years of relevant experience or exposure of IT solution delivery (essential)
• At least 3 years' relevant experience or exposure as a Solutions Designer, Development Manager or Team Leader
• At least 5 years' relevant experience or exposure in software development
• Exposure to Agile Development environment, system development and implementation of large object orientated solutions (essential)
• Experience in the financial services industry with general knowledge of underlying IT architectures and technologies (essential)
• Relevant Architecture framework training/certification
• TOGAF training
• Full Software Development Life cycle, rolling out complicated processes
• Knowledge of underlying IT architectures and technologies
• Business architectures
• Applications architectures
• Integration architecture and patterns
• Data architectures
• Technical Architectures
• Knowledge of architectural frameworks such as TOGAF, ITIL and COBIT
• business process modelling and design
• Lean and Agile methodology tools
• Knowledge of DevOps philosophy and practices
• Exposure to documentation of solutions using notation and method most appropriate to consuming stakeholders

Duties & Responsibilities

INTERNAL PROCESS

• Contribute to the ICT strategy in terms of Business, Data/Information, Applications, Technology Infrastructure Integration and Security.
• Responsible for a rigorous description of the enterprise - across systems, programmes and business areas - including its business entities, their properties, and relationships between them and the external environment.
• Oversee and guide the integration of the Architecture Domains. Ensure the architecture of the enterprise is optimised, and all Architecture Domains (Business Architecture, Data Architecture, Application architecture, Technology Architecture) integrate (and inter-operate) in a cost effective manner, with minimum effort and maximum benefit to the organisation.
• Provide vision and insight to proactively assist in defining the direction for strategic IT projects.
• Keep up to date with and have a clear understanding of the capabilities and benefits of new/emerging technologies in order to apply same in a business context.
• Recommend and participate in the analysis, evaluation and development of enterprise long-term strategic and operating plans to ensure that Enterprise Architecture objectives are consistent with the organisation's long-term business objectives.
• Lead technical design sessions with the development teams, including the creation of class models, component models, and detailed design specifications to ensure architecture standards are followed.
• Define technical evaluation criteria for product and technology selection and determine technical approaches to ensure all architectural solutions result in a coherent system design leading to desired customer experiences.
• Share best practices, lessons and constantly update the technical system architecture requirements based on changing technologies, and knowledge related to recent, current and up-coming vendor products and solutions.
• Collaborate with all relevant parties to review the objectives and constraints of each solution and determine conformance with the industry practices.

CLIENT

• Provide authoritative, expertise and advice to clients and stakeholders.
• Build and maintain relationships with clients and internal and external stakeholders.
• Contribute to the process of negotiating objective and realistic service level agreements, monitor appropriateness and recommend adjustments.
• Define service practices which builds rewarding relationships, encourages innovation and allows others to provide exceptional client service.
• Deliver on service level agreements made with clients and internal and external stakeholders in order to ensure that client expectations are managed.
• Make recommendations to improve client service and fair treatment of clients within area of responsibility.
• Participate and contribute to a culture which builds rewarding relationships, facilitates feedback and provides exceptional client service.

PEOPLE

• Build relationships through providing specialist know-how and leadership to others, expressing positive expectations.
• Continuously develop own expertise in terms of industry and subject matter development and application thereof in an area of specialisation.
• Positively influence and manage change and offer specialist support where required.
• Contribute to continuous innovation through the development, sharing and implementation of new ideas and involvement of colleagues and staff.
• Participate and contribute to a culture of work centric thinking, productivity, service delivery and quality management.
• Take ownership for driving career development.

FINANCE

• Contribute to the development of area specific budgets to minimise expenditure, in alignment with operational plans.
• Identify solutions to enhance cost effectiveness and increase operational efficiency.
• Implement and provide input into governance processes, systems and legislation within area of specialisation.
• Escalate unresolved policy and governance compliance issues via appropriate channels for investigation and resolution purposes.
• Provide input into the risk identification processes development and communicate recommendations in the appropriate forum.

Competencies

• Communications skills
• Problem-solving skills
• Influence and persuading
• Analytical skills
• Planning and organising skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Critical thinking

Let's Write Africa's Story Together
Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this.

Job Description
IT Strategy and Planning

• Developing and aligning IT Strategies and Programmes to business objectives
• Defining Strategic Runway Themes
• Develop required architecture roadmaps containing target and transition landscapes
• Provide input into investment planning for the relevant landscape
• Aligning architecture roadmaps and runways to business planning and investments
• Define key architecture runway initiatives to be delivered for the intentional architecture
• Participate into business planning, costing and business case definition related to architecture initiatives

Architecture Capability and Design Management

• Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture views and viewpoints
• Maintain the artifacts in the set enterprise repository aligned to the rest of the architecture
• Manage the architecture processes based on the requirements for each architype
• Manage change impact of the architecture with stakeholders
• Build the architecture practice with embedded architects and engineers including the relevant methods, repository and tools
• Manage the architecture across business, application, information and data as well as technology
• Participate in the architecture practice development

Technology Research and Assessments

• Review trends with regards to the technology domain and technologies related to business capabilities
• Determine feasibility of these technologies in the organisational landscape
• Innovate with teams to determine more optimal approaches
• Conduct proof-of-concepts where options have been evaluated and considered feasible to explore
• Product and technology selection options, business case definition and sourcing evaluations

Risk, Governance and Compliance

• Identify and mitigate risks with stakeholders associated with a technology decision, design and implementation
• Ensure that architectures comply with the relevant policies, standards and regulations
• Conduct and participate in architecture reviews
• Integrate with other governance and compliance functions to ensure continuity in managing the investment and risk for the organisation
• Driving principles, practices, guardrails and standards within Centres of Enablement
• Maintain a decision register aligned to the enterprise governance on architecture decisions taken

Implementation Guidance and Collaboration

• Provide standards, guidance, guardrails, frameworks and tools to deliver effectively
• Collaborate with the delivery teams to share knowledge and to ensure the architecture objectives are achieved.
• Manage deviations with teams to reduce the risk to the organisation
• Drive or assist in the determine of the architecture options and selections
• Provide technical specialisation knowledge and experience into the solution design and build implementation
• Update architecture after programme increments (Pis)

Communication and Knowledge Sharing

• Communicate the up-to-date views for the architecture
• Communicate and collaborate the relevant standards, practices, guardrails and tools to stakeholders
• Ensure that IT teams are well informed or trained in the respective architecture requirements
• Communicate and collaborate with stakeholders' relevant views on planning, technology assessments, risk, compliance, governance and project assessments
• Drive or participate in the relevant Centres of Excellence (CoEs)
• Communicating technology vision and roadmap aligned to the business strategy
• Participate in the architecture collaboration forums

Line Management Responsibility

• Performance Management: Setting and managing performance standards, providing ongoing coaching and support, and addressing performance gaps for architects reporting into the Enterprise Architect.
• Talent Stewardship: Talent management, supporting the development of architects aligned to the practice development standards.
• Feedback and Development: Providing performance and development feedback to reporting architects. This includes conducting feedback meetings, sharing observations, and addressing both outstanding behavior and areas for improvement
• Recruitment and Selection: Recruitment process, setting standards, and ensuring that new hires align with the organization's goals and values. Onboarding and management of new architects joining the team.
• Compensation and Benefits: Annual remuneration review process, ensuring that employees' pay is aligned with market movements, inflation, and affordability. Feedback to architects regarding their total remuneration position and the link between performance and pay.

Minimum Qualifications/Experience (required For The Job)

• Matric
• Degree or diploma in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering OR relevant diploma / degree
• Experience: Requires a minimum of 5 years in a senior technology role with a proven track record in architecture/design and a minimum of 10-15 years relevant IT experience
• Preferable experience: 10 years architecture experience

Additional Qualifications/Experience (preferred, Not a Requirement)

• TOGAF
• ArchiMate
• Cloud Certifications (AWS, Azure)
• Financial Industry Experience

Competencies Required

• Critical thinking/problem solving
• Teamwork/collaboration
• Effective Communication Skills
• Leadership skills
• Knowledge and experience in architecture domains
• Knowledge and experience in architecture methods, frameworks and tools
• IT Strategy and Planning
• Architecture and Design (Business, Application, Information/Data, Technology)
• Agile Knowledge and Experience
• Cloud Knowledge and Experience

Defines and maintains architectural standards for the domain-specific development, deployment and management of application, information, communication and technology infrastructure to ensure affordable, cost effective and high-quality deployment and utilisation of same. The incumbent in this role is individually accountable for service delivery through own efforts for periods of up to 1 year.

Skills
Action Planning, Adaptive Thinking, Business Requirements Analysis, Current State Assessment, Data Compilation, Data Controls, Executing Plans, Gaps Analysis, IT Architecture, IT Implementation, Market Analysis, Policies & Procedures, Product Development, Readiness Assessments, User Experience (UX) Design

Competencies
Business Insight

Collaborates

Cultivates Innovation

Decision Quality

Ensures Accountability

Manages Complexity

Nimble Learning

Optimizes Work Processes

Education
NQF Level 7 - Degree, Advance Diploma or Postgraduate Certificate or equivalent

Closing Date
08 October 2025 , 23:59

The appointment will be made from the designated group in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question.
The Old Mutual Story

• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and mentor other architects or technical leads.
• Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture roadmap to align IT strategy with business objectives.
• Evaluate and recommend technologies and platforms to support the company's long-term strategy.
• Ensure that IT investments are aligned with the company's goals, providing scalability, reliability, and security.
• Design and maintain a high-level blueprint of the organization's IT landscape, including infrastructure, applications, data, and business processes.
• Establish architecture standards and best practices to ensure consistency, scalability, and maintainability.
• Lead the creation of governance frameworks and ensure compliance with architectural standards.
• Evaluate new technologies and guide the organization in adopting modern tools, platforms, and processes.
• Ensure smooth integration of new systems and platforms into the existing IT landscape.
• Lead decisions related to system upgrades, migrations, and consolidations.
• Work closely with senior leadership to understand business goals and recommend IT solutions.
• Collaborate with various business units and IT teams to understand their needs and propose appropriate technology strategies.
• Act as a bridge between business needs and technical implementation.
• Assess and mitigate technology risks, ensuring robust cybersecurity practices and regulatory compliance.
• Implement strategies for disaster recovery, business continuity, and data protection.
• Stay updated on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in enterprise architecture.
• Recommend innovations that could provide a competitive advantage or operational improvement.
• Lead IT change management efforts related to architectural changes, ensuring minimal disruption to operations.
• Provide guidance and oversight for large-scale IT transformation projects, ensuring they adhere to the enterprise architecture.
• Continuously monitor the performance and efficiency of the IT landscape.
• Implement processes for regular reviews of system performance, security, and compliance.
• Experienced in IT architecture, including designing and implementing enterprise-wide solutions.
• Enterprise architecture roadmap and frameworks.
• High-level architectural blueprints, diagrams, and documentation.
• Technology recommendations and business case justifications for IT investments.
• Governance policies and standards for architecture compliance.
• Strong knowledge of cybersecurity principles, identity and access management (IAM), and compliance regulations (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA).
• Strong communication skills to present complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• 5 years + experience

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Work Location: In person

• Minimum 10–15 years in technology and software engineering, with at least 5–7 years in senior leadership roles managing large, multi-disciplinary engineering teams.
• Proven experience in enterprise-scale engineering — including platform engineering, systems integration, middleware, and cloud-native architecture.
• Track record of leading enterprise modernization initiatives such as cloud transformation, API-first development, DevOps adoption, and automation at scale.
• Demonstrated success in governing engineering practices across multiple business units, ensuring compliance, security, and enterprise standards.
• Hands-on involvement in designing and delivering resilient, secure, and scalable platforms that support multiple business domains.
• Experience managing engineering budgets, vendor relationships, and enterprise technology portfolios.
• Strong background in regulatory compliance, risk management, and IT governance within complex, regulated industries (e.g., banking, fintech, telecom, or large enterprises).
• Proven ability to build and mentor senior managers and technical leaders, fostering high-performing engineering cultures.

• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and mentor other architects or technical leads.
• Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture roadmap to align IT strategy with

• Evaluate and recommend technologies and platforms to support the company's longterm strategy.
• Ensure that IT investments are aligned with the company’s goals, providing scalability,

• Ensure smooth integration of new systems and platforms into the existing IT landscape.
• Lead decisions related to system upgrades, migrations, and consolidations.
• Work closely with senior leadership to understand business goals and recommend IT

• Act as a bridge between business needs and the client
• Assess and mitigate technology risks, ensuring robust cybersecurity practices and

• Implement strategies for disaster recovery, business continuity, and data protection.
• Stay updated on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in enterprise

• Continuously monitor the performance and efficiency of the IT landscape.
• Implement processes for regular reviews of system performance, security, and

• Enterprise architecture roadmap and frameworks.
• High-level architectural blueprints, diagrams, and documentation.
• Technology recommendations and business case justifications for IT investments.
• Governance policies and standards for architecture compliance.
• Strong knowledge of cybersecurity principles, identity and access management (IAM),

Join Our Team as a Rockstar Enterprise Architect!

We are recruiting for an Enterprise Architect role, based full-time in Cape Town. The incumbent will be expected to assess and define gaps on the current strategy document with intention document and to define and lead architecture processes forward, ensuring alignment with the digital, security and business architecture of the organization. This is a short-term contract.

Key responsibilities:

• Assess current business strategy, ICT strategy and digital strategy to develop formulate and improve ICT strategies and digital strategies for the future.
• Develop diagnostic and actionable deliverables that can guide investment decisions in support of executing the organisation business strategy.
• Document practical advice and best practices to overcome the challenges to successfully deliver major disruptive technology and nontechnology trends e.g. AI adoption and information security threats, and the expected business implications of these.
• Analyse and document business and operating models, market trends and the technology industry to determine their potential impact on the organisation business strategy, direction and architecture.
• Analyse and document the business' future-state capabilities and future (and current) ICT environment to detect critical deficiencies, recommend and document solutions for improvement and driving the business forward.
• Present a gap analysis and/or ICT investment roadmap that reflects the status of the existing ICT estate, namely, its ability to contribute to future-state business capabilities around ecosystems and digital platforms.
• Identify and document all organizational requirements for the resources, structures and cultural changes necessary to support the enterprise architecture.
• Analyse the organisation's ICT environment to detect critical deficiencies, recommend and document solutions for improvement.
• EA landscape architecture design as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture.
• Work with business peers to develop and present business capability models and roadmaps to facilitate discussion and decision making with stakeholders across the enterprise.

Required Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree or a Postgraduate qualification in Business, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field.
• Must have an Enterprise Architecture related certification, i.e., TOGAF, ZCEA or an Open Group Certified Architect Certification.
• Must have a minimum of 12-years' experience in an ICT-related field, with at-least 10-years of experience in information, solution or technical architecture.
• Must have experience with application development, middleware, information analysis, database management or operations in a multitier environment.
• Must have a minimum of 7 years of business experience in strategic and operations planning and/or business analysis with abilities to formulate and run enterprise-wide engagements.
• Must demonstrate familiarity with information management practices, system development life cycle management, ICT services management, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks
• Must demonstrate understanding of business models, operating models, financial models, cost-benefit analysis, budgeting and risk management.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Possess broad knowledge of best digital practices.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and deadline driven.
• Necessary to have solid interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation.
• Evaluate and implement improvements on digital strategy.
• Understanding the latest digital tools and interactive trends.
• Improve and enhance the current state to maturity.
• Analyse internal stakeholders and external stakeholders.
• Create integrated and cost-effective digital strategies.
• Drive value for the organization.
• Firm grasp of emerging digital gap with opportunities & solutions.
• Create integrated and cost-effective digital strategies.
• Collaboratively develop the Digital Strategy and articulate it to all sections of the business and to stakeholders, businesses, and stakeholders.
• Drive cultural behaviour change and the adoption of technology within the organisation to support the digital journey.

For more information please contact:

Dimpho Bogopa

*Job Classification *
Enterprise Architect II

Closing date : 16 October 2025

Job Family
Information Technology

Career Stream
IT Architecture

Leadership Pipeline
Manage: Others

Job Purpose
To facilitate the development of future-state architecture and ensures its effective adoption. Provide and identify operational opportunities, overall direction, guidance and definition of the enterprise architecture that effectively support business strategies. Advocating and supporting the enterprise's IT strategy, identifying and analysing enterprise business drivers, analysing the current IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, recommends solutions for improvement and develop strategies for aligning IT to the business. Act as a trusted technology advisor to business in realising the business strategy for the relevant discipline. Responsible for the end-to-end view across both Capabilities and/or Solution Architecture disciplines, ensuring alignment across relevant domains. Works as an advocate and liaises with Information Services and Technology operational teams and the Enterprise Architects researching technology trends.

*Job Responsibilities *

• Facilitate priority setting, project selection and integration in the organisation by providing guiding principles and architecture
• Ensure alignment with emerging Technologies and possible recommendation of new technologies
• Deliver business tasks according to the level of expertise to meet financial objectives
• Address client needs through leading phases of projects or consult to projects and business leaders across a variety of Architecture disciplines
• Build professional relationships lead and influence in all disciplines of architecture
• Build and maintain relationships within the enterprise and within the larger field of speciality
• Lead the achievement of architecture solutions where an understanding of all disciplines is required
• Monitor and evaluates competitive offerings that could change the domain landscape, affects multiple domains (portfolio of solutions domains) or the broader organisation
• Identify the business impact of change and risks associated
• Integrate the change impact into business recommendations and strategic planning
• Adjust recommendations by considering the impact of new initiatives on market perception
• Enable enterprise wide solutions to integrate well with existing practices by developing mitigating actions and change strategies
• Consider not only the optimising of the system, but also the long term viability of the system
• Build models around future scenario planning
• Optimising the architectural strategy across various families or portfolios of application or products in the enterprise by taking an enterprise viewpoint
• Effect multiple domains or create new domains, or changes the landscape through developing of position papers
• Integrate the key principals and issues to build enterprise wide solutions
• Apply disciplines in a variety of projects in relevant solution domains and across multiple business areas
• Combine multiple perspectives from experience in various roles on multiple developments and architecting projects
• Considers enterprise wide relevant best practice within the larger financial industry and global economy
• Ensure alignment to newest trends by monitors emerging trends and evaluates their potential impact on the broader organisation (The next big things)
• Deliver on work tasks for which the impact of the work can only be determined 3-5 years later
• Move the system towards the desired future state through consideration of future scenarios, the macro environment and an understanding of present operational requirements to
• Identify underlying patterns in vague, ambiguous information
• Make judgements based on hypotheses, future scenario's or educated guesses
• Provide advise to the business across all disciplines
• Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values
• Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise
• Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities
• Contribute to the Nedbank Culture building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc.).
• Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy
• Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models and systems though agile thinking

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

• Professional Qualifications/Honour's Degree

Preferred Qualification
Honours or Masters Degree (or higher) in either Information Systems or Computer Science

Preferred Certifications
TOGAF Certification, Information Technology Architect Certification (ITAC) (Open Group)

Minimum Experience Level
15+ Years experience in Enterprise Architecture and

3 Years experience as a Enterprise Architect 1

*Technical / Professional Knowledge *

• Relevant regulatory knowledge
• Relevant software and systems knowledge
• Research methodology
• Decision-making process
• Business writing skills
• Cluster Specific Operational Knowledge
• System Development Life cycle(SDLC)
• Unified Modelling Language (UML)
• Rational design toolset application
• IT Architecture

Behavioural Competencies

• Building Partnerships
• Communication
• Decision Making
• Influencing
• Innovation
• Driving for Results

Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team