Architect jobs in South Africa

Job Title: Enterprise Architect – Insurance Domain (General & Motor Insurance)

Certification: TOGAF or equivalent Enterprise Architecture certification required

Job Summary:

We are seeking an experienced and certified Enterprise Architect with deep domain expertise in General Insurance and Motor Insurance. The ideal candidate has a strong background in legacy transformation, cloud‑native architecture, API‑led modernization, and multi‑team and phase delivery governance – with the ability to connect business vision to architecture roadmaps and ensure consistent implementation across the organization.

• Define and govern modernization roadmap for transforming legacy platforms into modular, service‑oriented, cloud‑ready architectures.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, solution architects, and development teams to ensure solutions meet enterprise architecture guidelines.
• Provide architecture oversight and governance across the delivery lifecycle, ensuring compliance with business and technical standards.
• Lead architecture assessments, capability modeling, and gap analysis within the General and Motor Insurance domains.
• Design future‑state architectures that support core insurance processes such as policy administration, claims management, underwriting, and customer engagement.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and their potential impact on the insurance landscape.
• Drive standardization, reuse, and innovation across IT systems.
• Facilitate architecture reviews and approval processes.
• Produce architecture decisions, reference models, and modernization guidelines consumable by delivery squads.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• Hands‑on experience as an Enterprise Architect with direct involvement in General Insurance and Motor Insurance projects.
• Strong understanding of insurance core systems, digital channels, and industry regulations.
• Experience with architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman) and tools (e.g., ArchiMate, Sparx EA).
• Certified Enterprise Architect (e.g., TOGAF Certified or equivalent).
• Certified in AWS: Solution Architect (or equivalent).
• Proven ability to design and implement enterprise‑grade solutions in complex environments.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.

• Knowledge of insurance standards (e.g., BNM, ISM).
• Experience with coexistence architecture or multi‑phase modernization involving both legacy and modern platforms.
• Familiarity with modern architecture paradigms (e.g., microservices, API‑led integration, cloud‑native design).
• Experience with legacy system modernization in the insurance sector.