Technical enterprise architect

Reverside is an established it services provider focusing on delivering high-quality software development, it resourcing, digital transformation, and systems support solutions. We are always looking for skilled professionals to join our growing team and contribute to innovative technology projects across various industries.

We are seeking an Enterprise Architect / Technical Lead to provide architectural governance and hands-on technical leadership for Eskom’s 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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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 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 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, Eskom 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.

Qualifications & Experience

• 5–8+ 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