Solution Architect

Centrax Group; Sandton; Hybrid; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Travel to client sites

21 days annual leave

Job summary

Centrax Digital is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to design integrated, defensible solutions across Zoho One, custom development, AI, cloud infrastructure, and security. You will own the technical integrity of engagements from pre-sales architecture through delivery and post-go-live review.

Responsibilities include producing architecture documents, sizing effort, recording decisions, reviewing work, designing POPIA-aware data flows, and mentoring consultants.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a relevant field.
• Five+ years in software delivery with at least three years in design or architecture roles.
• Experience across SaaS, custom development, and integrations.
• Experience leading technical conversations with senior client stakeholders.
• Zoho Architect or equivalent certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Produce solution architecture documents covering business, application, integration, data, and security.
• Support pre-sales by sizing solution effort and identifying delivery risks.
• Make architectural decisions and record them in an architectural decision register.
• Review the work of consultants and developers against architecture and correct deviations.
• Design POPIA-aware solutions including data flows, residency, retention, and access controls.
• Design integrations between Zoho One and third-party systems (ERP, accounting, banking, payment, identity).
• Provide architectural input on AI solution design with the AI Practice.
• Maintain reference architectures, integration patterns, and security baselines.
• Mentor senior consultants on architectural thinking and decision documentation.

Skills

Solution architecture

Architectural decision making

Stakeholder leadership

Cloud platform knowledge

AI delivery patterns

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Information Systems / Software Engineering

Post-graduate IT or Business qualification advantageous

Tools

Zoho Architect certification

TOGAF Foundation / SAFe Architect / Cloud certification

Job description

You design the end-to-end technical solution across an engagement and own the architectural decisions that hold it together.

ABOUT CENTRAX DIGITAL

Centrax Digital is an AI-first consulting and digital engineering firm operating from Bryanston, Sandton and Grand Prairie, Texas. We are a Level 1 B-BBEE, black woman-owned Advanced Zoho Partner. Our work spans AI and advisory, platforms, cloud and security, and digital engineering, delivered on our own published methodology. Because Innovation Matters.

THE ROLE

To design integrated, defensible solutions that span Zoho One, custom development, AI, cloud infrastructure, and security. You are accountable for the technical integrity of the engagement, from pre-sales architecture through to delivery and post-go-live review.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Produce solution architecture documents for every engagement, 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.

WHAT YOU NEED

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related field. A post-graduate qualification in IT or Business is an advantage.
• 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.

WHERE THE BOUNDARIES SIT

Delivery governance sits with the Project Manager and delivery leadership. Heavy custom build sits with the Zoho Developer and Software Developer.

HOW THIS ROLE EVOLVES

Centrax is concurrently advertising a Solutions and Pre-Sales Lead (JH01), a composite role that holds architecture authority and major pursuit pre-sales in one seat until dedicated appointments are made. Candidates for this position may also be considered for that one. Progression from this role runs through Senior Solution Architect to Principal Architect.

WORKING ARRANGEMENTS

Standard working hours of 08:00 to 17:00, Monday to Friday, with flexibility expected around critical project milestones. Hybrid working in line with company policy. Travel to client sites is expected, including occasional travel within South Africa and to the Texas office where engagements require it. Standard 21 days annual leave and BCEA leave entitlements apply.

REMUNERATION

Market related, commensurate with experience.

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY AND POPIA

Centrax Digital is an equal opportunity employer. Appointments are made in line with the Employment Equity Act and the company's employment equity plan, and preference may be given to suitably qualified candidates from designated groups. By applying, you consent to the processing of your personal information for recruitment purposes in accordance with POPIA.