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Enterprise Digital Architect

Job in Cape Town, 7100, South Africa
Listing for: Old Mutual
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-02-25
Job specializations:
  • Design & Architecture
  • IT/Tech
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Description

The key focus for the enterprise digital architect is to perform enterprise architecture strategy and planning aligned to business objectives, build and participate in architecture capability building, perform enterprise and solution architecture and design management, investigate and adopt technology architecture trends, manage architecture risk and compliance, provide design and build governance and support and communicate and share knowledge around the architecture practices, guardrails, blueprints and standards.

The Enterprise Architect is expected to simplify complexity, challenge legacy thinking, and create clarity across business and technology domains while enabling effective delivery on the given cloud and technology platforms

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

  • Ensure architecture artefacts are lightweight, consumable, and decision-focused rather than shelfware.

  • Guide and mentor embedded architects and engineers to uplift architectural maturity

    • 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

  • Maintain an authoritative architecture decision register aligned to enterprise governance

    • 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

  • Operate effectively in an agile delivery environment, balancing intentional architecture with emergent design

    • Technology and Platform Expectations

  • The Enterprise Architect is expected to be fluent in modern cloud-native platforms and architectural patterns, including:

  • 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, Dynamo

    DB)

  • Integration and messaging patterns (API Gateway, Event Bridge, SNS, SQS)

  • Observability and operational patterns (logging,…

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