Technical Enterprise Architect

In brief

**Overview** Reverside is an established IT services provider that focuses on delivering high-quality software development, IT resourcing, digital transformation, and systems support solutions. The company is seeking an Enterprise Architect / Technical Lead to provide architectural governance and hands-on technical leadership for the Coal Automation System (CAS). The role focuses on integrating operational technology (OT), applications, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and enterprise platforms into a secure, reliable, and supportable solution. The successful candidate will lead architecture reviews, coordinate technical teams, resolve cross-platform integration challenges, and ensure solutions meet performance, security, availability, and disaster recovery requirements. **What you will do** * Lead architecture and design reviews, defining standards, principles and acceptance criteria. * Oversee architecture decisions, technical risks, exceptions, technical debt and remediation actions. * Ensure solution designs and supplier deliverables align with approved architecture. * Coordinate design discussions with delivery partners, OEMs, vendors, security teams and operational stakeholders. * Assess architectural changes for security, performance, availability, data integrity, capacity and disaster recovery impacts. * Provide architectural oversight of integrations between OT devices, applications, Kafka, SAP and enterprise integration platforms. * Define production-readiness, monitoring, service continuity and operational support requirements. * Coordinate networking, DNS, routing, proxies, whitelisting, firewall rules, certificates and service accounts. * Investigate and resolve technical issues across applications, ThingWorx, Commander Platform, APIs, integration services, infrastructure and OT devices. * Coordinate technical changes across application, infrastructure, network, cybersecurity, integration and vendor teams. * Lead cross-platform incident triage using logs, traces, network testing and configuration analysis. * Coordinate the integration of alerts and incidents into OSSI and ServiceNow. * Support security monitoring integration with Azure Sentinel and Cortex XSIAM. * Coordinate vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, SAST and DAST, including remediation, retesting and release evidence. * Coordinate application and integration participation in disaster recovery failover and failback testing. * Oversee OT integration dependencies involving PLCs, Weight meters, Edge Devices, Gates and site networks. * Maintain accurate architecture documentation, configuration inventories, interface specifications, troubleshooting guides and operational runbooks. **Requirements (from the original advert)** * 8+ years of relevant experience in Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, infrastructure, cybersecurity, enterprise integration or technical solution delivery. * Senior experience leading large, multi-vendor and multi-technology programmes through design, implementation, commissioning and operational transition. * Proven experience in architecture governance, design reviews, exception management and technical decision-making. * Strong knowledge of enterprise integration, OT/IT convergence, cybersecurity, networking, infrastructure and disaster recovery. * Hands-on technical troubleshooting experience across networks, APIs, messaging platforms, proxies and security technologies. * Experience coordinating technical teams across application, infrastructure, network and operational technology environments. * Strong technical documentation, stakeholder management and communication skills. * TOGAF 9 or higher certification. * CCIE-level expertise or equivalent experience. * Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience. **Core Skills:** * Enterprise Architecture * Solution Architecture * Architecture Governance * OT/IT Integration * Enterprise Integration * Kafka * SAP * ThingWorx * Commander Platform * Cybersecurity * Networking * DNS * Proxies * APIs * IoT * PLCs * ServiceNow * OSSI * Azure Sentinel * Cortex XSIAM * Disaster Recovery * Vulnerability Management * TOGAF * CCIE **Who should apply** This role is for skilled professionals with senior experience in technical leadership and architectural governance. The ideal candidate will be able to lead large, complex, multi-vendor programs, resolve cross-platform integration challenges, and ensure solutions meet critical performance, security, availability, and disaster recovery requirements. They should possess strong technical documentation, stakeholder management, and communication skills. **Deadline** Not specified **Reference** Original posting: https://www.jobmail.co.za/jobs/it-computer/other-it-computer/johannesburg/technical-enterprise-architect-id-7597646 Source: jobmail

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• At least 8 years of experience.

• Azure
• SAP

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