Senior AI Solutions Architect

Senior AI Solutions Architect

Company:
Allan & Gill Gray Philanthropies

Location:

Cape Town (Hybrid)

Employment Type:

Permanent

Allan & Gill Gray Philanthropies is a purpose-driven organisation dedicated to creating long-term, sustainable impact across Southern Africa. Guided by the vision of empowering responsible entrepreneurs and ethical leaders, the organisation invests in initiatives that strengthen education, entrepreneurship and employment creation, helping to address the root causes of poverty and inequality.

Technology is a key enabler of this mission. Through its Group IT Shared Services function, Allan & Gill Gray Philanthropies is investing in modern, secure and intelligent technology platforms that support collaboration, operational excellence and data-driven decision-making across its philanthropic entities. As part of its digital transformation journey, the organisation is embracing emerging technologies, including Artificial Intelligence, to enhance productivity, strengthen governance and unlock innovative ways of delivering greater impact.

Joining Allan & Gill Gray Philanthropies means becoming part of a collaborative, values-driven environment where integrity, curiosity, continuous learning and long-term thinking are highly valued. This is an opportunity to contribute to technology initiatives that not only advance the organisation's strategic objectives but also support meaningful social impact across the region.

Allan & Gill Gray Philanthropies is seeking a Senior AI Solutions Architect to join its Group IT Shared Services team. This is a strategic architecture role for an experienced technology leader who is passionate about designing enterprise-grade solutions and enabling responsible AI adoption across the organisation.

The successful candidate will bridge enterprise architecture, cloud technologies, business applications and artificial intelligence, ensuring that technology solutions are secure, scalable and aligned with long-term business objectives. Working closely with business stakeholders, engineering teams and the Group AI function, you will help shape the organisation's technology landscape while driving innovation through practical AI solutions.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex business challenges, influencing enterprise technology strategy and leading digital transformation initiatives.

• Design and maintain enterprise solution architectures aligned with business strategy and technology standards.
• Translate business requirements into scalable, secure and sustainable technology solutions.
• Partner with business stakeholders to identify opportunities where AI can improve operational efficiency and organisational impact.
• Collaborate with the Group AI team to design, implement and govern AI-enabled solutions.
• Lead solution architecture across enterprise applications, cloud platforms, integrations and infrastructure.
• Define architecture principles, standards and governance frameworks.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and provide recommendations for adoption.
• Ensure all solutions comply with security, risk and compliance requirements.
• Design modern integration patterns using APIs, messaging and microservices.
• Support enterprise application modernisation initiatives, including ERP platforms.
• Provide technical leadership throughout the solution delivery lifecycle.
• Produce architecture artefacts including solution designs, integration diagrams and technical roadmaps.
• Work closely with engineering teams to ensure successful implementation of architectural designs.
• Mentor technical teams and contribute to architecture capability development.

• 5–8 years' experience in Solution Architecture, Enterprise Architecture or a similar senior technology role.
• Proven experience designing enterprise-scale technology solutions.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, AWS or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience with enterprise application architecture and ERP environments, ideally Sage.
• Strong knowledge of systems integration, APIs and microservices architecture.
• Ex…