Centurion: Technical Architect

About the Role

We are seeking a seasoned Technical Architect to lead our technical direction and ensure seamless integration of our solutions. As a Centurion, you will be responsible for translating approved solution architectures into detailed technical design artefacts, defining component-level designs, and validating vendor technical designs prior to build and implementation.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate approved solution architectures into detailed technical design artefacts
• Define component-level designs including services, APIs, workflows, integrations, and data flows
• Ensure correct separation of concerns between orchestration layers, domain logic, and rules engines
• Validate vendor technical designs prior to build and implementation
• Define and enforce technical standards across platforms, including API standards and versioning, naming conventions, error handling patterns, logging, monitoring, and observability standards, security patterns, and consistency across delivery workstreams
• 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, 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
• 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

Requirements

• 812 years of experience in software engineering and technical architecture roles
• Strong hands-on experience with API and microservices design
• Experience working with BPM and workflow platforms
• Cloud-native deployment expertise
• Enterprise integration patterns and event-driven architectures experience
• Proven experience modernising legacy platforms in brownfield enterprise environments, including modular decomposition, strangler patterns, anti-corruption layers, transitional architectures, and incremental migration strategies

Qualifications

• Formal education/certifications (Bachelor’s, LLB, Matric, etc.) not specified