Principal Azure Integrations Architect

Overview

Job title : Principal Azure Integrations Architect

Job Location : Gauteng, Johannesburg Deadline : October 18, 2025

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The Principal Azure Integrations Architect is a highly skilled subject matter expert, responsible for providing expertise in defining the architecture for large systems. This role conducts system design activities to ensure that architectural solutions meet technical and functional requirements. The Principal Azure Integrations Architect performs architectural analysis, evaluation, and design of systems that support and seeks to solve complex business and technical problems.

Key responsibilities

• Provides technical expertise on system design activities and advises on the review of application, software, and system components across a variety of technology stacks.
• Ensures that architectural solutions meet technical and functional requirements.
• Works cross functionally to review existing system architecture and recommends improvements.
• Leads the investigation and scoping of change requests to determine the scale of work to be done and estimate the timeframe and input required.
• Determines system loads and volumes as input into infrastructure requirements.
• Ensures that proposed and existing systems architectures are aligned with the company’s goals and strategies.
• Enables the design and development of new systems and solutions.
• Ensures that new systems and solutions conform to current system architecture and / or align to strategic system architectural direction.
• Leads architectural analysis, evaluation, and design of systems that support and seek to solve complex business and technical problems.
• Enables and ensures that system architecture is delivered in the form of robust and scalable solutions to business problems and needs.
• Identifies, evaluates, and assesses risks in order to mitigate them and eliminates any factor that may interfere or hinder the delivery of the architectural solution and dependent functional requirements.
• Advises on specifications for solutions functional and technical requirements, and implementation phases required in order to deliver on and solve complex business problems.
• Implements architectural governance, standards, metrics for measuring, monitoring and improving architecture.
• Proactively identifies potential problems that could be remediated by more effective architectural solutions.
• Performs any other related task as required.

Knowledge, and Attributes

Academic qualifications and certifications

Key Skills

Strategic & Architectural Skills

Azure Platform Expertise

Security & Governance

DevOps & Automation

Technical Breadth

Certifications (Highly Recommended)

Soft Skills

Required experience

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