Engineering Lead; Architecture and Solution Design

Job Classification

• Job Requisition: #
• TA Specialist:
  Refilwe Falatsi
• Closing Date: 28 September 2026
• Location:
  
  135 Rivonia Campus, Sandown
• Cluster:
  Personal and Private Banking | Nedbank Insurance | Business IT Enablement
• Employment Equity:
  Preference will be given to applicants from Underrepresented Groups

To lead the design and evolution of scalable, secure, and sustainable technology solutions across the Nedbank Infrastructure. This role is Digital Mobile Application and APIs. Provide architectural leadership and technical direction to squads, ensuring solutions align to enterprise standards, business objectives, and long-term technology strategy. Act as the primary custodian of solution integrity from concept through implementation, continuously driving architectural excellence, platform sustainability, and engineering best practices.

• Design end-to-end technology solutions spanning applications, integrations, data, infrastructure and operational processes.
• Produce and maintain high-level and detailed solution architecture artefacts, including:
  System and Security integration diagrams, Data flow diagrams and LSO diagrams.
• Ensure proposed solutions align to enterprise architecture principles, security standards, governance requirements, and target-state architectures.
• Evaluate existing technology capabilities and identify opportunities for reuse, simplification, and standardisation.
• Drive future-state architecture decisions while balancing delivery timelines, risk, and organisational constraints.
• Continuously review and reduce technical debt through strategic design decisions.

• Provide technical leadership and guidance across multiple squads and delivery teams.
• Mentor developers and junior technical leads in design practices and architectural thinking.
• Review and approve high-level and detailed technical designs.
• Support teams with complex technical problem solving and production investigations.
• Foster a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.

• Present solution designs to architecture, risk, security, and governance forums.
• Drive alignment and obtain approvals from domain architects, platform owners, and technology specialists.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Development Managers, Scrum Teams, and Business stakeholders to ensure solutions meet business objectives.
• Influence technical direction and negotiate design trade-offs across multiple stakeholder groups.

• Decompose large initiatives into logical delivery components and implementation roadmaps.
• Assist with delivery sequencing, dependency management, and capacity planning.
• Ensure functional and non-functional requirements are clearly defined and measurable.
• Participate in PI Planning, Definition of Ready reviews and architectural readiness assessments.
• Support successful implementation through consultation during development, testing and production deployment.

• Produce and maintain architecture and design artefacts that accurately represent the current and target state of systems.
• Ensure architecture documentation remains current throughout the solution lifecycle and reflects implementation decisions.
• Create and maintain documentation required for governance, operational support and future enhancements.
• Establish and promote documentation standards, templates and best practices across engineering teams.
• Ensure architectural knowledge is captured and shared to reduce key-person dependencies.
• Review architecture artefacts produced by squads to ensure consistency, quality and alignment to enterprise standards.
• Ensure all solutions are sufficiently documented to support:
  Development, Testing, Deployment, Support, Operational readiness and Future enhancements.

• Continuously improve the architecture, platforms and services impacted by delivered solutions.
• Ensure solutions are:
  Scalable, Secure, Resilient, Maintainable, Observable and Cost effective.
• Drive adoption of engineering standards, design patterns, and reusable components.
• Maintain awareness of emerging technologies and assess their applicability to the organisation.

• Contribute to the technology strategy and target-state architecture roadmap.
• Identify opportunities to modernise platforms, simplify ecosystems and improve operational efficiency.
• Apply product-thinking…