Insurance Solutions Architect - Cloud-Native & API-Driven

Momentum; Centurion; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Momentum is seeking a Solution Architect to design end-to-end solutions for domains within the insurance modernisation programme. The role translates business requirements into cohesive designs across process, application, integration and data layers, aligned with enterprise standards and enabling delivery teams.

You will work within architectural guardrails, drive incremental evolution, and apply evidence‑based improvements such as modular decomposition, strangler patterns and anti-corruption

Qualifications

• 7–10 years in solution design or architecture roles.
• Experience delivering enterprise applications in financial services (insurance preferred).
• Strong understanding of API-based integration, process orchestration, data modelling, and cloud-native environments.
• Experience working in transformation programmes.
• Experience modernising legacy platforms in brownfield environments with incremental migration strategies and architectural decomposition approaches such as strangler patterns and anti-corruption layers.

Responsibilities

• Own solution architecture for assigned domain (e.g., claims, policy, digital engagement, integration).
• Produce high-level design artefacts covering process flows, application interactions, API contracts, data flows, integration patterns.
• Ensure traceability from business requirements to solution components.
• Partner with business stakeholders to shape solution options and translate operating model changes into system implications.
• Collaborate with peers to ensure alignment with API standards, event architecture and security patterns.

Skills

Solution architecture

Enterprise architecture

API-based integration

Data modelling

Cloud-native environments

Transformation programmes

Tools

Kubernetes

BPM platforms

API tooling

Job description

Momentum is seeking a Solution Architect to design end-to-end solutions for domains within the insurance modernisation programme. The role translates business requirements into cohesive designs across process, application, integration and data layers, aligned with enterprise standards and enabling delivery teams.

You will work within architectural guardrails, drive incremental evolution, and apply evidence‑based improvements such as modular decomposition, strangler patterns and anti-corruption