Lead Solutions Architect

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.

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Desired Skills: • Enterprise Solution Architecture • API & Event-Driven Architecture • BPM & Decisioning Platforms • Cloud-Native Architecture