Senior Solutions Architect - Digital

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Job Description

We are seeking a Senior Solution Architect to drive the design and delivery of scalable, future-fit technology solutions aligned to business objectives. This role plays a critical part in shaping solution architecture across key initiatives, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, patterns, and strategic direction. You will lead end-to-end solution design, balancing technical excellence with commercial and business feasibility, while managing architecture risk, compliance, and governance. Working within a collaborative ecosystem of enterprise architects, platform specialists, and external partners, you will ensure that solutions are resilient, scalable, and built for long-term value.

As a trusted advisor, you will contribute to strengthening architecture capability, promote best practices, and guide teams through design and build phases with clear guardrails, blueprints, and standards.

Area: Group technology & Transformation | Digital

Planning

• Lead solution requirements gathering and ensure alignment with business objectives and constraints.
• Define and refine architecture runways for intentional architecture with the enterprise architect
• Provide input into business cases and costing
• Participate and provide architectural runway requirements into Programme Increment (PI) Planning

Architecture Capability

• Develop and oversee segment architecture views and ensure alignment with enterprise architecture.
• Maintain and oversee the segment and solution artifacts in the set enterprise repository and knowledge portals 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
• Develop and participate in the build of the solution architecture practice with embedded architects and engineers including the relevant methods, repository and tools
• Manage the segment and solution architecture considering the business, application, information/data and technology viewpoints
• Establish, enforce and implement standards, guardrails, frameworks, and patterns

Solution Design

• Lead and review conceptual, logical, and detailed designs
• Evaluate and approve solution options and technology selections
• Select appropriate technology, tools and build for the solution
• Oversee and maintain the solution blueprints
• Drive incremental modernisation initiatives in the delivery area

Risk, Governance and Compliance

• Identify, assess, and mitigate risks at a solution architecture level
• Ensure and enforce compliance with policies, standards, and regulations
• Lead architecture reviews and integrate with governance functions
• Integrate with other governance and compliance functions to ensure continuity in managing the investment and risk for the organisation pertaining to the solution architectures
• Establish and provide standards, guidance, and tools to delivery teams.

Implementation Guidance and Collaboration

• Establish and provide solution architecture guidance and tools to delivery teams
• Lead and facilitate collaboration with delivery teams to achieve architecture objectives
• Manage and resolve deviations and ensure up-to-date solution design documentation
• Identify opportunities to optimise delivery of solutions
• Oversee and conduct post-implementation reviews
• Develop code patterns and implementations where required

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
• Ensure effective participation in the Agile Ceremonies

Technology and Platform Expectations

• Deep architectural experience with AWS in multi-account, regulated environments
• Strong understanding of AWS Well-Architected Framework
• AWS core services (VPC, IAM, EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB)
• Integration and messaging patterns (API Gateway, EventBridge, SNS, SQS)
• Observability and operational patterns (logging, monitoring, alerting)
• Security and compliance services (KMS, Secrets Manager, GuardDuty, Config)
• DevSecOps and CI/CD concepts at architectural level
• Infrastructure as Code concepts (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK)
• Cost-aware architecture design informed by FinOps principles

Qualifications, Experience & Skills:

• Matric
• Degree or diploma in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering OR relevant diploma / degree
• Experience: Requires a minimum of 5 years in a technical/solution design role and a minimum of 7 years relevant IT experience

ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE

• TOGAF
• ArchiMate
• Cloud Certifications (AWS, Azure)
• Financial Services experience in Insurance and/or Banking

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
• Solution Design Experience
• Agile Knowledge and Experience
• Cloud Knowledge and Experience

Skills

Adaptive Thinking, Application Development, Confidentiality, Database Administration, Database Queries, Data Classification, Data Compilation, Data Compression, Data Encoding, Data Modeling, Data Recovery, Executing Plans, Gateway Servers, IT Architecture, Test Case Management

Competencies

Education

NQF Level 9 – Masters

Closing Date

12 June 2026 , 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.

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