Senior Solutions Architect: Enterprise API & Event Platform

Momentum; Centurion; On-site; ZAR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Momentum seeks a Lead Solution Architect to drive end-to-end architecture for its enterprise insurance modernisation programme, covering policy administration, claims, digital engagement, integration, data and platforms.

You will translate target principles into executable, scalable designs that enable a client-first, API-first, and event-driven ecosystem, partnering with EA, domain leaders, engineering teams and vendors.

Qualifications

• 12 years in enterprise solution architecture.
• Experience in large-scale insurance or financial services transformation.
• Proven track record in modernising legacy ecosystems.
• Deep experience with API-led and event-driven architectures, BPM/workflow platforms, and decision engines.
• Cloud-native and microservices architecture and enterprise integration patterns.
• Experience working in board-visible transformation programmes.

Responsibilities

• Define solution blueprints aligned to the enterprise target architecture.
• Ensure domain-aligned service boundaries across policy, claims, billing and product.
• Drive separation of orchestration, decisioning, domain services and experience layers.
• Prevent platform sprawl and architectural drift.
• Design API-first integration patterns across legacy and modern systems.
• Establish event-driven architecture patterns.
• Define orchestration standards across claims and operational processes.
• Externalise business rules via decision engines.
• Enable straight-through processing and intelligent human intervention.
• Define scalable deployment patterns with CI/CD and observability.
• Embed non-functional requirements from inception and ensure security standards.
• Provide architectural leadership across multiple vendors and squads.

Skills

API-led architectures

Event-driven architectures

BPM / workflow platforms

Decision engines / rules management

Cloud-native / microservices

Enterprise integration patterns

Architectural governance

Brownfield migration patterns

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Java

Job description

Momentum seeks a Lead Solution Architect to drive end-to-end architecture for its enterprise insurance modernisation programme, covering policy administration, claims, digital engagement, integration, data and platforms.

You will translate target principles into executable, scalable designs that enable a client-first, API-first, and event-driven ecosystem, partnering with EA, domain leaders, engineering teams and vendors.