Technical Architect

SUMMARY:
Psybergate is an IT company that builds bespoke software solutions and provides highly skilled resources to its clients.
We are looking for a Technical Architect (Contract) to join our financial services client based in Centurion.

POSITION INFO:

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• Ensure correct separation of concerns between orchestration layers, domain logic, and rules engines.
• Validate vendor technical designs prior to build and implementation.

  What you will be doing:

  • Translate approved solution architectures into detailed technical design artefacts.
  • Define component-level designs including services, APIs, workflows, integrations, and data flows
• Define and enforce technical standards across platforms, including:
  
  • API standards and versioning
  • Naming conventions
  • Error handling patterns
  • Logging, monitoring, and observability standards
  • Security patterns
• Ensure consistency across delivery workstreams and prevent the introduction of systemic technical debt.
• Oversee workflow and orchestration model quality.
• Ensure business and domain rules are externalised and not embedded in process flows.
• Validate integration patterns (synchronous vs asynchronous).
• Ensure API contracts are clean, versioned, and reusable.
• Embed and govern non-functional requirements including:
  
  • Performance targets
  • Scalability thresholds
  • Resilience patterns (retry, circuit breakers, failover)
  • Security controls
  • Audit logging
  • SLA monitoring hooks
• Collaborate with platform and engineering teams on:
  
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Containerisation standards
  • Infrastructure-as-code alignment
  • Environment consistency
• Ensure environments reflect architectural intent and support repeatable, automated deployments.
• Identify technical risks early and proactively.
• Maintain a technical debt register and propose refactoring paths.
• Escalate architectural deviations and risks before they impact delivery.
• Provide hands-on technical guidance to engineering teams.
• Participate in sprint-level design discussions.
• Conduct design, code, and configuration reviews.
• Support production readiness and go-live assessments.

What we are looking for:

• 8–12 years’ experience in software engineering and technical architecture roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with:
  
  • API and microservices design
  • BPM and workflow platforms
  • Cloud-native deployment
  • Enterprise integration patterns
  • Event-driven architectures
• Experience working in complex enterprise environments (insurance experience preferred).
• Strong understanding of non-functional design principles.
• Proven experience modernising legacy platforms in brownfield enterprise environments, including:
  
  • Modular decomposition
  • Strangler patterns
  • Anti-corruption layers
  • Transitional architectures
  • Incremental migration strategies
• Deep technical credibility and the ability to work closely with engineers and delivery teams.