87 Technical Architecture 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),

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Job Description

Anticipated Contract End Date/Length:
Sep, 2026

Work set up:
Hybrid

Our client in the global professional services industry is looking for a Enterprise Solution Architect to join their team supporting the Harmony XaaS project for Harmony Gold. This role will focus on defining, executing, and managing enterprise architecture initiatives across applications, data, and infrastructure domains, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and organizational goals.

What you will do:

• Understand and maintain a comprehensive overview of Enterprise Architecture across the three domains: Applications, Data, and Infrastructure.
• Collaborate with the Enterprise Architect (EA) to identify key EA capability gaps within Harmony Gold.
• Partner with domain leads to develop and implement strategies to address identified gaps.
• Create and maintain a prioritised roadmap of EA initiatives, aligning delivery efforts and team capacity with strategic objectives.
• Execute on enterprise architecture initiatives, managing resource capacity and project timelines.
• Engage stakeholders, communicate updates effectively, and foster collaboration across multiple teams.
• Ensure that all project delivery meets enterprise standards and governance requirements.

Qualifications

• 7 to 10 years of experience in Enterprise Architecture or related roles.
• Proven experience in enterprise architecture frameworks and project delivery.
• Strong communication, stakeholder engagement, and collaboration skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and supervise cross-functional teams.
• Hybrid working experience with the flexibility to travel as required.

Additional Information

Candidates must be legally authorized to live and work in the country the position is based in, without requiring sponsorship.

We appreciate your interest in this opportunity. Please note only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

HelloKindred is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to creating a diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status.

Make an impact with NTT DATA

Join a company that is pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We are renowned for our technical excellence and leading innovations, and for making a difference to our clients and society. Our workplace embraces diversity and inclusion – it's a place where you can grow, belong and thrive.

Your day at NTT DATA

The Senior Team Lead, Software Engineering/Architecture is a developing management role, tasked with providing regular operational support to a team of developers, engineers and/or architects by planning, directing and coordinating team activities to ensure that customer and business expectations are met.

This role ensures that software engineering and architecture projects are delivered on time and within the agreed budget whilst meeting the required quality standards.

The Senior Team Lead, Software Engineering/Architecture contributes to the development of standards, policies and procedures related to the function.

Key responsibilities:

• Manages the activities of the software engineering/architecture team, setting goals to ensure timely project delivery.
• Provides input to the development, planning, directing, coordination and management of the processes related to software engineering/architecture initiatives and projects.
• Collaborates with internal and external partners to address issues and concerns, resolving them promptly.
• Provides input to ensuring that the relevant procedures and processes are in place and followed throughout the software engineering/architecture lifecycle.
• Works with own team to drive the architectural vision by providing input to translating product requirements into work items that the team can perform and ensures that the tasks are accomplished.
• Coordinates resources and streamlines processes to ensure deliverables are met within the expected timeline.
• Provides input into the design and execution of the software engineering/architecture lifecycle and assists with the associated activities as and when required.
• Provides input to detailed quality assurance and automated testing requirements, processes and guidelines.
• Recommends guidelines on which technologies to leverage to enable scalable system architecture designs.
• Collaborates regularly with product owners and works closely with end users to translate the requirements to the team.
• Monitors the execution of projects from conception to implementation, regularly reporting on project status.
• Responds to requests for proposals (RFP) with complete timelines, deliverables and budget.
• Provides input to the documentation of release packages and ensures the team has access to new releases.
• Remains up to date with current technologies and remains aware of upcoming and new technologies.
• Identifies best practices for software engineering and architecture documentation, assuring designs meet requirements and delivers high quality.

To thrive in this role, you need to have:

• Understanding of the regulatory, risk and compliance environment and requirements.
• Understanding of programming languages, complex programming applications and troubleshooting.
• Understanding of software development, engineering and architecture life cycle process and methodologies.
• Understanding of Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Understanding of all processes related to software including analysis, development, architecture, engineering, design, coding, system and user testing, problem resolution and planning.
• Understanding of build and release processes, environment management and source control management.
• Developing ability to build a cohesive team and to manage people effectively.
• Developing ability to balance and plan the short-term and long-term actions of the team.
• Ability to collaborate and engage with a variety of internal and external stakeholders.

Academic qualifications and certifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering or related field.
• Relevant certifications required.

Required experience:

• Some line manager experience in a technical lead capacity.
• Demonstrated experience building, managing and leading software development, engineering and/or architecture teams.
• Some line manager experience dealing with relevant stakeholders, building strong relationships and negotiating with decision makers and influencers.
• Demonstrated experience of delivering large software projects, utilising Agile or Waterfall methodologies.
• Demonstrated experience of IT in a complex business environment with the ability to translate technical concepts into business terms.
• Demonstrated experience of negotiation or management of third-party services.
• Demonstrated experience of developing and implementing relevant strategies in a multi supplier environment, managing third party services.
• Some previous experience with line management responsibilities and/or allocation of resources within a department or project environment.

Workplace type:

On-site Working

About NTT DATA

NTT DATA is a $30+ billion trusted global innovator of business and technology services. We serve 75% of the Fortune Global 100 and are committed to helping clients innovate, optimize and transform for long-term success. We invest over $3.6 billion each year in R&D to help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have diverse experts in more than 50 countries and a robust partner ecosystem of established and start-up companies. Our services include business and technology consulting, data and artificial intelligence, industry solutions, as well as the development, implementation and management of applications, infrastructure, and connectivity. We are also one of the leading providers of digital and AI infrastructure in the world. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group and headquartered in Tokyo.

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