AI-Driven Enterprise & Solution Architect (EdTech)

Old School Ties; Wes-Kaap; Hybrid; ZAR 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Apex Education Group in the Western Cape is seeking a hands-on Enterprise Architect to design and guide a multi-system technology strategy for schools. You will blend enterprise and solution architecture, leveraging AI tools to deliver scalable, affordable platforms across SIS, LMS, ERP and analytics.

You will lead data, security and integration designs, ensure you own the code, data and documentation, and mentor the product and development teams to embed architectural thinking across the

Qualifications

• Around 10 years in technology, with at least 5 in solution or enterprise architecture, built on a hands‑on engineering background.
• Strong cloud architecture experience, ideally on AWS, including cost management.
• Solid data and integration skills: data modelling, APIs, identity and single sign‑on, and data migration.
• A track record of build‑versus‑buy decisions where you modelled total cost of ownership and lived with the outcome.
• AI fluency. You use AI tools every day, understand LLM patterns such as retrieval, agents, evaluation and guardrails, and have shipped at least one AI feature into real use.
• Working knowledge of POPIA and security fundamentals.
• The ability to explain technical choices to principals, executives and funders in plain language.

Responsibilities

• Own the target architecture across learning, school administration, finance, data, identity, integration and AI, and turn our IT strategy into a clear roadmap.
• Shape the architecture for whichever School Information System route is approved, off shelf or custom, and give business owners the technical input they need for future build, buy or partner decisions.
• Land our multi tenancy position early, before it’s too late to change.
• Produce designs teams can build from, including data models, integration patterns, security and non functional requirements, and prototype when that’s the fastest way to learn.
• Prove our LMS under load and design one trusted record of every learner, staff member and guardian across our SIS, LMS, ERP and national reporting (SA‑SAMS and LURITS).
• Review our Sage Intacct integrations, including feeds into the Apex Intelligence Platform, before they go live.
• Design a repeatable, governed path for AI from prototype to production within our fixed constraints (Zero Data Retention and South African hosting), starting with our AI marking tool pilot.
• Build privacy and security in by design, including consent, retention and de‑identification for children’s personal information under POPIA.
• Provide design assurance on vendor and partner work, making sure Apex always owns and can reach its code, data and documentation.
• Coach our Application Product Owner / Development Lead so architecture thinking lives in Apex.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Data modelling

APIs / integration

AI fluency

Cost management

Communication to executives

POPIA security fundamentals

Tools

AWS

Sage Intacct

AI tooling

Job description

Apex Education Group in the Western Cape is seeking a hands-on Enterprise Architect to design and guide a multi-system technology strategy for schools. You will blend enterprise and solution architecture, leveraging AI tools to deliver scalable, affordable platforms across SIS, LMS, ERP and analytics.

You will lead data, security and integration designs, ensure you own the code, data and documentation, and mentor the product and development teams to embed architectural thinking across the