Technical enterprise architect

Johannesburg, South Africa | Posted on 10/12/2026

Reverside is an established it services provider focusing ondelivering high-quality software development, it resourcing, digitaltransformation, and systems support solutions. We are always looking forskilled professionals to join our growing team and contribute to innovativetechnology projects across various industries.

We are seeking an Enterprise Architect / Technical Lead toprovide architectural governance and hands-on technical leadership for Eskom’sCoal Automation System (CAS). The role focuses on integrating operationaltechnology (OT), applications, infrastructure, cybersecurity and enterpriseplatforms into a secure, reliable and supportable solution. The successfulcandidate will lead architecture reviews, coordinate technical teams, resolvecross-platform integration challenges and ensure solutions meet performance,security, availability and disaster recovery requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead architecture and design reviews, definingstandards, principles and acceptance criteria.
• Oversee architecture decisions, technical risks,exceptions, technical debt and remediation actions.
• Ensure solution designs and supplierdeliverables align with approved architecture.
• Coordinate design discussions with Eskom,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 integrationsbetween OT devices, applications, Kafka, SAP and enterprise integrationplatforms.
• Define production-readiness, monitoring, servicecontinuity and operational support requirements.
• Coordinate networking, DNS, routing, proxies,whitelisting, firewall rules, certificates and service accounts.
• Investigate and resolve technical issues acrossapplications, ThingWorx, Commander Platform, APIs, integration services,infrastructure and OT devices.
• Coordinate technical changes acrossapplication, infrastructure, network, cybersecurity, Eskom integration andvendor teams.
• Lead cross-platform incident triage using logs,traces, network testing and configuration analysis.
• Coordinate the integration of alerts andincidents into OSSI and ServiceNow.
• Support security monitoring integration withAzure Sentinel and Cortex XSIAM.
• Coordinate vulnerability assessments,penetration testing, SAST and DAST, including remediation, retesting andrelease evidence.
• Coordinate application and integrationparticipation in disaster recovery failover and failback testing.
• Oversee OT integration dependencies involvingPLCs, Weight meters, Edge Devices, Gates and site networks.
• Maintain accurate architecture documentation,configuration inventories, interface specifications, troubleshooting guides andoperational runbooks.

Qualifications & Experience:

• 5–8+ years of relevant experience in EnterpriseArchitecture, Solution Architecture, infrastructure, cybersecurity, enterpriseintegration or technical solution delivery.
• Senior experience leading large, multi-vendorand multi-technology programmes through design, implementation, commissioningand 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 disasterrecovery.
• Hands-on technical troubleshooting experienceacross networks, APIs, messaging platforms, proxies and security technologies.
• Experience coordinating technical teams acrossapplication, infrastructure, network and operational technology environments.
• Strong technical documentation, stakeholdermanagement and communication skills.
• TOGAF 9 or higher certification.
• CCIE-level expertise or equivalent experience.
  
• Degree in Computer Science, ElectricalEngineering or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  

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