Enterprise Architect Lead

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**Overview** Dis-Chem Pharmacies is seeking an Enterprise Architect Lead to report to the Head of Enterprise Architecture. This role is accountable for leading the Enterprise Architecture capability, ensuring consistent, high-quality enterprise-level architecture outcomes across the company. The position involves translating enterprise strategy, target-state direction, and architecture principles into actionable guidance, reference architectures, and roadmaps across application, data, integration, and infrastructure domains. As a senior practitioner and capability leader for Enterprise Architects, the Lead will ensure architectural coherence, simplification, reuse, and risk reduction across the portfolio. The role focuses on enabling faster, safer delivery through early architectural clarity and strong governance, rather than owning delivery execution. **What you will do** * Lead the Enterprise Architecture capability, including standards, methods, and quality of enterprise-level designs. * Translate business strategy and CIO direction into target-state architectures and transition roadmaps. * Drive simplification, reuse, and standardisation across platforms and vendors. * Ensure non-functional requirements such as security, resilience, scalability, and operability are embedded at the enterprise level. * Act as a senior authority within the Architecture Review Board (ARB). * Review and assure solution designs for alignment to enterprise standards and target state. * Identify architectural risks, cross-platform dependencies, and trade-offs early. * Recommend pragmatic decisions and transition paths to balance delivery speed, risk, and sustainability. * Engage early in initiative shaping, option analysis, and vendor selection. * Provide clear patterns, guardrails, and reference architectures to accelerate delivery. * Partner with the Solution Architecture Lead to ensure clean handover from enterprise intent to solution design. * Prevent late-stage rework by resolving architectural questions before scope and funding are locked. * Embed architecture early in initiative shaping, vendor selection, and option analysis, guiding architects in translating business outcomes into delivery-ready designs. * Support delivery teams without causing bottlenecks and partner with Platform and Squad Leads to resolve design ambiguities early. * Partner closely with Platform Heads, Solution Architects, InfoSec, and Delivery leadership. * Influence architectural outcomes through credibility, clarity, and structured reasoning. * Communicate complex architectural topics clearly to senior business and IT stakeholders. **Requirements (from the original advert)** * Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field * 8–10+ years’ experience in enterprise or senior solution architecture roles * Proven experience designing and governing enterprise-scale architectures * Experience operating within formal architecture governance e.g. ARB, design authority models **Who should apply** The ideal candidate is an experienced enterprise or senior solution architect with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. They should be a senior practitioner capable of leading an Enterprise Architecture capability and ensuring high-quality architectural outcomes. The candidate must be skilled in translating enterprise strategy into actionable guidance and roadmaps, driving simplification and standardisation, and embedding non-functional requirements at an enterprise level. They should have proven experience in designing and governing enterprise-scale architectures and operating within formal architecture governance models like an ARB. This role requires someone who is accountable for architecture coherence and standards, operates under the mandate of a Head of Enterprise Architecture, and provides recommendations and assurance without holding final decision authority over delivery execution or prioritisation. The candidate should possess strong enterprise-wide architectural capability, deep systems thinking, a governance-aware mindset balanced with delivery pragmatism, the ability to influence without owning delivery backlogs or teams, and clear executive-level communication skills. **Deadline** 23 October 2026 **Reference** Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/enterprise-architect-lead-dis-chem-pharmacies Source: myjobmag

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