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Paracon

Enterprise Architect

Paracon

  • R Undisclosed
  • Contract Intermediate position
  • Randjespark
  • Posted 01 Sep 2025 by Paracon
  • Expires in 32 days
  • Job 2621085 - Ref 631677232003978
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About the position

Key Responsibilities:

Architecture Strategy & Planning

  • Develop and evolve enterprise architecture blueprints and frameworks aligned to long-term business goals.

  • Define architectural principles, domain strategies, and reference models supporting scalable and interoperable ecosystems.

  • Translate corporate strategy, regulatory mandates, and digital transformation goals into architectural initiatives and designs.

  • Lead multi-year technology roadmaps in collaboration with domain architects and delivery teams.

  • Continuously evaluate emerging technologies to guide modernization and platform selection.

Governance & Oversight

  • Chair Architecture & Design Review Boards (ARBs) to ensure solution designs meet enterprise standards.

  • Define governance processes for architectural compliance, exceptions, and deviation tracking.

  • Conduct architecture assurance and gap assessments to identify risks, misalignments, and optimization opportunities.

  • Maintain architecture policies, standards, and documentation, supporting audit readiness and regulatory compliance.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement

  • Act as a strategic advisor to leadership on investment and technology prioritization.

  • Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and business analysts to co-create architecture solutions.

  • Align architecture decisions across multiple business units for reusability, resilience, and cost-effectiveness.

  • Lead workshops, forums, and vendor assessments to ensure shared understanding and informed decision-making.

Architecture Delivery

  • Lead design and evolution of enterprise-scale platforms including cloud-native systems, APIs, service orchestration, event-driven architectures, and data lakes.

  • Define architecture enablers and technical epics within agile planning cycles.

  • Monitor implementation of architectural designs, ensuring standards adherence and resolving complex design challenges.

  • Promote DevSecOps, CI/CD, and security automation practices across platforms.

Desired Skills:

  • TOGAF
  • Zachman
  • or FEAF
  • software architecture
  • design
  • and development

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Paracon

About the agency

Paracon facilitates the delivery of your business strategy through finding you the top ICT and technology talent. Our reputation, industry leadership and national reach enables us to empower our clients through attracting the ICT talent you need for your permanent and temporary employment workforce solutions. Paracon forms part of the Adcorp Group of Companies, an international parent company to a group of recruitment specialist brands who are engaged in the provision of comprehensive human capital; effective and efficient workforce management styles and skills development services. With ever-changing technology, choose us as your partner in the evolution of ICT talent. Trusted, experienced and dynamic in the way we do ICT talent management. Resourcing • Contracting recruitment: Utilising contractors allows you flexibility in your resourcing solutions. We manage all contract negotiation and administration through our professional and timeous processes. From short-term projects to long-term engagements, moving your business forward. • Permanent recruitment: Permanent placement of ICT professionals, includes full background checks and references. • Recruitment process: We will provide a tailored workforce managed solution, to search, source and identify talent to match the job specifications provided by our clients, Paracon is able to assess CVs via our various recruitment channels. Talent Development Talent Consulting PPM (Portfolio, Program and Project management services)

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