Technical Integrator

multiSEARCH Recruitment; Pretoria; On-site; ZAR 500,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

multiSEARCH Recruitment is seeking a qualified Project Manager for a 9-12 month contract in Pretoria, South Africa. This role offers a hybrid working model and requires a minimum of a National Diploma in Engineering or related fields. Candidates must have 2-4 years of technical integration experience and certification in project management.

The successful candidate will manage integration processes, stakeholder communications, and ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards.

Qualifications

• Minimum NQF Level 6 in Engineering, Information Sciences, or Project Management.
• 2–4 years’ experience in technical integration or equivalent in a large enterprise.
• 3+ years in enterprise software delivery projects.
• Project management certification (PMP, PRINCE2, etc.).
• Intermediate proficiency in MS Project and MS Office.

Responsibilities

• Define integration scope, dependencies, and technical approach with stakeholders.
• Ensure solution design aligns with enterprise architecture standards.
• Track delivery risks and issues, resolve with stakeholder alignment.
• Coordinate testing and go-live activities with minimal disruption.
• Deliver complete handover documentation and achieve operational readiness.

Skills

Project administration fundamentals

Schedule and dependency impact analysis

SDLC delivery controls

Stakeholder communication

Problem-solving under pressure

Education

Relevant tertiary qualification (NQF Level 6)

Tools

MS Project

MS Office

Job description

9-12-month contract

A hybrid working model.

Minimum Requirements (Must-have)

• A relevant tertiary qualification at a minimum NQF Level 6 (National Diploma) in Engineering, Information Sciences, or Project Management.
• 2–4 years’ experience in technical integration (or equivalent experience in a large enterprise environment).
• 3+ years of exposure to enterprise software delivery projects (SDLC).
• Project management certification (e.g., PMP/PRINCE2/AgilePM or equivalent).
• Intermediate proficiency in MS Project (or similar) and MS Office.
• Solid understanding of software design principles and system integration concepts.

Skills & Knowledge

• Project administration fundamentals (scope, schedule, cost, quality, RAID, reporting).
• Ability to perform schedule and dependency impact analysis and scenario-based planning.
• Working knowledge of SDLC delivery controls (requirements to release).
• Strong facilitation, stakeholder communication, and escalation management.
• Problem‑solving under pressure; able to ask structured, diagnostic questions to resolve issues.

Key Responsibilities:

Key Outcomes (What success looks like)

• Integration scope, dependencies, and technical approach are defined, agreed, and signed off.
• Solution design and delivery are aligned with enterprise architecture standards and non‑functional requirements (security, scalability, performance).
• Delivery risks/issues are proactively identified, tracked, escalated, and resolved with stakeholder alignment.
• Testing, cutover, and go‑live activities are coordinated and executed with minimal disruption.
• Complete handover documentation is delivered, and operational readiness is achieved (support model, runbooks, knowledge transfer).

Key Responsibilities (Core accountabilities)

• Scope & requirements alignment: Ensure client needs are accurately captured, translated into technical scope, and formally signed off.
• Integration planning & coordination: Build and manage the integration workstream plan, milestones, dependencies, resources, and schedules.
• Stakeholder management: Work closely with Customer PM, Enterprise Architecture, technical leads, and vendors to drive decisions and maintain alignment.
• Technical oversight: Coordinate system/interface design alignment; ensure integration standards and design principles are applied.
• Vendor & Partner Management: Manage delivery inputs from vendors/development partners and confirm solutions fit the agreed integration approach.
• Quality assurance: Ensure test plans, environments, and evidence support readiness; coordinate defect triage and resolution.
• Risk, issue & change control: Perform impact assessments; manage deviations against plan; support formal change processes and governance reporting.
• Cutover & transition: Coordinate cutover planning, rollback approach, hypercare, and operational handover.
• Documentation: Ensure complete, accurate technical documentation (integration specs, configurations, runbooks) is produced and maintained.

Key Activities (Typical tasks)

• Contribute to an integration roadmap for the project and define sequencing to minimise disruption.
• Facilitate technical workshops and lead cross-team integration working sessions.
• Track progress against milestones and provide clear status updates (RAID, dependencies, decisions).
• Support troubleshooting of integration incidents during test and deployment phases.
• Ensure training/enablement needs are identified and arranged where required.

Stakeholders & Interfaces

• Customer Project Manager (internal and customer‑facing)
• Enterprise Architecture / Solution Architecture
• Development teams, Systems Engineers, QA/Test team
• Security, Infrastructure, Operations/Support
• Business Analysts and business stakeholders
• Vendors and development partners