Specialist Architect at Postbank (SOC) Ltd

Purpose of the Job:

• As an Architect, your role will involve designing, governing, and evolving the IT architecture landscape across the organisation. Your role will ensure alignment between business strategy and IT capabilities, guiding technology choices, systems integration, and long-term planning to support agility, scalability, and security.

Job Responsibilities:

• Define, maintain, and evolve the enterprise architecture framework, standards, and roadmaps
• Collaborate with business units and IT teams to translate business strategy into IT solutions.
• Lead the design and documentation of current state (as-is) and future state (to-be) architecture.
• Provide architectural oversight across all IT projects, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards.
• Identify and evaluate emerging technologies, tools, and frameworks to drive innovation.
• Oversee solution design reviews, impact assessments, and technology evaluations.
• Define integration strategies across systems, including cloud and on-prem environments.
• Support procurement and RFP processes with technical input and architectural guidance.
• Work closely with infrastructure, data, application, and security teams to ensure cohesion and compliance.
• Contribute to governance forums, architectural reviews, and change advisory boards.

Qualification:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field (NQF Level 7)
• TOGAF, SABSA, or other architecture framework certifications

Experience:

• Minimum 8 years of experience in IT
• Minimum 5 years of experience as an Solution or Specialist Architect
• Minimum 5 years of experience with AWS, AZURE and on Prem Implementation & Support.
• Minimum 3 years of experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Google & Azure)
• Minimum 3 years of experience in banking or financial services

Skills:

• Enterprise and solution architecture expertise.
• Systems design and integration.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms and modern technologies.
• IT governance, risk, and compliance knowledge.
• Architecture modelling and documentation.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Decision-making and critical thinking.
• Leadership and mentoring capabilities.

Attributes:

• Strategic and innovative thinker.
• High level of integrity and professionalism.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Self-motivated with a continuous learning mindset.
• Strong organisational and time management skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities.
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship-building skills.
• Committed to continuous improvement and delivering high-quality solutions.