Enterprise Architect

Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to establish and lead our Enterprise Architecture capability. You will ensure that our business strategy, technology landscape, data ecosystem, security practices, and AI ambitions work together to drive long-term impact.

Reporting to the CIO, you will translate strategic priorities into enterprise-wide architecture, guiding investments, reducing fragmentation, and ensuring scalable, secure solutions that

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (CS, IS, Eng, Tech, BIM, or equivalent).
• TOGAF Certification or equivalent Enterprise Architecture certification preferred.
• 8+ years of experience in EA, Solution/Business/Technology leadership roles.

Responsibilities

• Establish and mature Harambee's Enterprise Architecture capability with governance, standards, principles, and best practices.
• Develop enterprise roadmaps and future-state architectures aligned with strategy and priorities.
• Translate strategic objectives into business capabilities, operating models, and technology solutions.

Skills

Architecture governance

Enterprise architecture

Stakeholder management

Roadmaps

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Enterprise Architect

Gauteng | Hybrid

Reporting to: Chief Information Officer

At Harambee, we're building the systems, partnerships, and capabilities needed to solve youth unemployment at scale. As we continue our digital transformation journey, we're looking for an experienced Enterprise Architect to establish and lead our Enterprise Architecture capability, ensuring that our business strategy, technology landscape, data ecosystem, security practices, and AI ambitions work together to support long-term organisational impact.

About the Role

Reporting to the Chief Information Officer, you will be responsible for developing and embedding Harambee's Enterprise Architecture practice, providing strategic direction across business, data, applications, technology, security, and AI.

This role goes well beyond producing architecture diagrams or documenting systems. It requires translating Harambee’s strategic priorities into a coherent enterprise-wide architecture that connects business capability, operating model design, data, applications, integrations, infrastructure, security, and emerging AI opportunities. The Enterprise Architect will need to work across complex organisational, technical, and stakeholder landscapes to guide investment decisions, manage architectural trade-offs, reduce fragmentation and technical debt, and ensure that Harambee’s technology environment is scalable, secure, sustainable, and able to support long-term impact.

What You'll Be Doing

• Establish and mature Harambee's Enterprise Architecture capability, including architecture governance, standards, principles, frameworks, and best practices.
• Develop enterprise roadmaps and future-state architectures that align technology investments with organisational strategy and business priorities.
• Translate strategic objectives into business capabilities, operating models, technology solutions, and implementation plans that enable organisational growth and impact.
• Provide oversight and guidance on major technology initiatives, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, sustainable, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards.
• Maintain an enterprise-wide view of applications, platforms, integrations, and data assets while identifying opportunities to simplify, modernise, and optimise the technology landscape.
• Partner with business, technology, data, and operational leaders to identify capability gaps, reduce duplication, improve efficiency, and support better decision-making.
• Champion data architecture and governance principles that support analytics, reporting, AI, privacy, and regulatory compliance requirements.
• Embed security-by-design, privacy-by-design, and responsible AI practices into organisational architecture, technology planning, and solution design.
• Facilitate architecture governance forums, guiding decision-making and ensuring architecture risks, exceptions, dependencies, and technical debt are effectively managed.
• Build architecture awareness and capability across the organisation through coaching, engagement, facilitation, and collaboration with stakeholders at all levels.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Technology, Business Information Management, or a related field.
• TOGAF Certified Practitioner (or equivalent Enterprise Architecture certification).
• Minimum 8 years' experience in Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Business Architecture, or Technology Leadership roles.
• Proven experience developing enterprise roadmaps, capability maps, operating models, and target-state architectures.
• Experience leading architecture governance processes and driving alignment across business, technology, data, and security domains.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, facilitation, communication, and influencing skills.

Why Join Harambee

At Harambee, you'll find more than just an architecture role. You'll have the opportunity to influence how technology, data, AI, and business capabilities come together to create real opportunities for young people while helping shape the systems and foundations that enable our mission to succeed.

We are a purpose-driven organisation that combines innovation, collaboration, high performance to tackle one of South Africa's most pressing challenges. Here, you'll work alongside passionate and talented colleagues, be trusted to take ownership, continuously grow your expertise, and contribute to meaningful change at scale. We believe that diverse perspectives make us stronger and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued, supported, and able to do their best work.

Accessibility & Inclusion

Harambee is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and able to contribute. We strongly encourage applications from people living with disabilities and are committed to providing an accessible and supportive recruitment process.