Senior Solutions Architect – AI, Cloud & Zoho Integrations

Centrax Group; Gauteng; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Centrax Digital in South Africa is seeking a seasoned Solutions Architect to own end-to-end architecture across Zoho One, custom development, AI, cloud, and security.

You will lead architectural decision-making, mentor consultants, and ensure data flows, residency, retention, and access controls are PoPIA-compliant. Hybrid work with travel to client sites, including occasional trips to the Texas office, and a market-competitive remuneration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, IS, SE, or related field.
• Minimum 5 years' experience in software delivery, with at least 3 years in a solution design or architecture role.
• Experience designing solutions across multiple platforms: SaaS, custom code, and integrations.
• Experience leading the technical conversation with senior client stakeholders.
• Zoho Architect or equivalent platform certification preferred. TOGAF Foundation, SAFe Architect, or a cloud architecture certification is an advantage.
• Working knowledge of at least one major cloud platform, of LLM application patterns and RAG, and of the CAIF-5 framework or a comparable AI delivery methodology.
• Consulting environment experience delivering to external clients. Financial services, public sector, healthcare, telecommunications, or large enterprise experience is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Produce solution architecture documents covering business, application, integration, and data architecture and the security baseline.
• Support pre-sales by sizing solution effort, identifying delivery risks, and reviewing solution proposals before they go to the client.
• Make architectural decisions and record them in an architectural decision register on each engagement.
• Review the work of consultants and developers against the architecture and course-correct deviations.
• Design POPIA-aware solutions by default, documenting data flows, residency, retention, and access controls.
• Design integrations between Zoho One and third-party systems including ERP, accounting, banking, payment, and identity platforms.
• Provide architectural input on AI solution design, working with the AI Practice on safe, evaluable AI builds.
• Maintain the Centrax reference architectures, integration patterns, and security baselines.
• Mentor senior consultants on architectural thinking and decision documentation.

Skills

Solution architecture

Pre-sales / architecture sizing

Stakeholder management

Cloud platforms

AI delivery patterns

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related field

Post-graduate IT/business qualification advantageous

Tools

Zoho Architect

TOGAF Foundation

SAFe Architect

Cloud architecture certification

Job description

Centrax Digital in South Africa is seeking a seasoned Solutions Architect to own end-to-end architecture across Zoho One, custom development, AI, cloud, and security.

You will lead architectural decision-making, mentor consultants, and ensure data flows, residency, retention, and access controls are PoPIA-compliant. Hybrid work with travel to client sites, including occasional trips to the Texas office, and a market-competitive remuneration.