Lead Solutions Architect

Recruiter:

Psybergate (Pty) LTD

Job Ref:

PR000743/RN

Date posted:

Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Location:

Centurion, South Africa

Salary:

Monthly

SUMMARY:
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.

POSITION INFO:

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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