About the position
Psybergate is an IT company that builds bespoke software solutions and provides highly skilled resources to its clients.
We are looking for a Lead Solutions Architect (Contract) to join our financial services client based in Centurion.
What you will be doing:
- Drive the end-to-end solution architecture for a large-scale insurance modernisation programme.
- Define solution blueprints aligned to the enterprise target architecture.
- Ensure clear, domain-aligned service boundaries across policy, claims, billing, party, and product domains.
- Drive separation between orchestration layers, decisioning, domain services, and experience layers.
- Prevent architectural drift and platform sprawl across the ecosystem.
- Design API-first integration patterns across legacy and modern platforms.
- Establish and govern event-driven architecture patterns.
- Ensure solution coherence across multiple platforms and workstreams.
- Define orchestration standards across claims and operational processes.
- Ensure business rules are externalised via decision engines and not embedded in workflow logic.
- Enable straight-through processing while supporting intelligent human intervention.
- Define scalable, resilient, and secure cloud-native deployment patterns.
- Partner with platform engineering teams on CI/CD pipelines, observability, and DevOps maturity.
- Embed non-functional requirements (performance, availability, security) from inception.
- Ensure solutions meet agreed performance, availability, and security standards.
- Ensure operational and event data is captured to support analytics and reporting.
- Enable real-time streaming to enterprise data platforms.
- Support SLA monitoring, fraud detection, leakage analytics, and regulatory auditability.
- Provide architectural leadership across multiple vendors and delivery partners.
- Conduct solution design reviews and enforce architecture standards.
- Challenge vendor-led designs that compromise long-term maintainability.
- Reduce vendor lock-in risk.
- Support the operating model shift toward product-centric delivery.
- Guide cross-functional delivery squads in solution design.
- Ensure the architecture runway supports iterative and incremental delivery.
- Act as an escalation point for complex architectural trade-offs.
What we are looking for:
- 12+ years’ experience in enterprise solution architecture.
- Proven experience delivering large-scale insurance or financial services transformation programmes.
- Strong track record modernising legacy ecosystems in brownfield enterprise environments.
- Deep experience with:
- API-led and event-driven architectures
- BPM and workflow platforms
- Decision engines and rules management
- Cloud-native and microservices architectures
- Enterprise integration patterns
- Experience working on board-visible or executive-level transformation programmes.
- Demonstrated experience applying modernisation strategies such as:
- Modular decomposition
- Strangler patterns
- Anti-corruption layers
- Transitional architectures
- Incremental migration strategies
- Strong engineering credibility with the ability to balance pragmatism and architectural discipline.
- Excellent stakeholder and executive-level communication skills.
Please note that if you do not hear from us within 3 weeks, consider your application unsuccessful.
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Desired Skills:
- Enterprise Solution Architecture
- API & Event-Driven Architecture
- BPM & Decisioning Platforms
- Cloud-Native Architecture
