Senior Finance & Actuarial Solutions Architect

Centrax Group; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Part time

Job summary

Centrax Group seeks an experienced Senior Specialist IT Architect to own end‑to‑end design for finance and actuarial transformation projects. You will shape target-state architecture across ERP, actuarial engines, data platforms, integration and cloud, ensuring robustness, security and alignment with group standards.

The role requires 8+ years in IT architecture, with 4+ years in financial services. You will lead cross‑functional workshops, review vendor deliverables and mentor teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in IT solution or technical architecture, with 4+ years in insurance or financial services.
• Proven track record architecting and delivering finance ERP and reporting solutions at group/enterprise scale.
• Deep understanding of finance and actuarial business capabilities, accounting principles, reporting standards and compliance requirements.
• Hands-on experience with ERP platforms (Oracle Fusion, SAP S/4HANA, Workday) and point solutions (OneStream, Anaplan, MS Dynamics 365 F&O, Coupa, Blackline).
• Strong integration architecture skills across APIs, EDI, ESB, event streaming and file-based patterns.
• Solid data architecture background: Data Mesh, MDM, finance data lakes and warehouses, ETL/ELT (including Informatica), SQL.
• Cloud architecture experience on Azure, AWS or GCP, including hybrid and migration patterns.
• Exposure to AI, RPA and machine learning in finance contexts.
• Working knowledge of security, identity and access management, and data privacy by design.
• Experience facilitating and leading cross-functional design workshops and architecture forums.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.
• Proficiency in MS Office, Visio or equivalent modelling tools, Jira, and both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Define current-state, transition-state and target-state solution architectures for finance and actuarial systems.
• Translate business requirements and functional specifications into detailed solution designs, architecture decision records and technical blueprints.
• Evaluate build-versus-buy options, conduct technology assessments and present recommendations with supporting cost, risk and benefit analysis.
• Define and document non-functional requirements covering performance, scalability, availability, security and disaster recovery.
• Design integration between finance ERP, actuarial engines, sub-ledgers, policy administration and reporting platforms.
• Select and apply appropriate integration patterns (APIs, event-driven messaging, ESB, EDI, batch) and define interface contracts.
• Shape finance data architecture across data lakes, warehouses and lakehouse platforms, including master data management and data lineage.
• Ensure data quality, retention and privacy requirements are designed into every solution.
• Present designs to architecture review boards and secure design authority approval.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise architecture standards, reference architectures, security policy and regulatory obligations.
• Identify and mitigate architectural risk and technical debt, and maintain the architecture roadmap.
• Conduct design reviews and provide technical assurance over vendor and partner deliverables.
• Provide hands‑on architectural guidance to development, integration, data and testing teams throughout delivery.
• Support environment strategy, cutover planning, data migration design and post‑implementation stabilisation.
• Review and sign off technical deliverables against the approved design.
• Build strong working relationships across finance, actuarial, IT, security and external vendors.
• Contribute to vendor evaluations, RFP responses and statements of work from a technical perspective.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to executive and non‑technical audiences.

Skills

Solution architecture

Finance ERP

Data architecture

Cloud architecture

Integration patterns

Security & privacy

Stakeholder engagement

Jira

Agile & Waterfall

Education

Degree or Diploma in IT/CS/Engineering

TOGAF / AWS/Azure Solutions Architect

Tools

Visio

Informatica

MS Dynamics 365 F&O

OneStream

Anaplan

Oracle Fusion

SAP S/4HANA

Workday

Job description

Centrax Group seeks an experienced Senior Specialist IT Architect to own end‑to‑end design for finance and actuarial transformation projects. You will shape target-state architecture across ERP, actuarial engines, data platforms, integration and cloud, ensuring robustness, security and alignment with group standards.

The role requires 8+ years in IT architecture, with 4+ years in financial services. You will lead cross‑functional workshops, review vendor deliverables and mentor teams.