Solutions Architect, Johannesburg

The Solutions Architect will be accountable for end-to-end solution design and technical alignment across bigly squads and delivery partners, bringing clarity and direction to complex, multi-team initiatives and ensuring initiatives land safely in production. The role exists to reduce delivery risk, improve architectural consistency, and enable teams to move faster with confidence.

What we’re looking for

5–8+ years’ experience in software engineering, with experience in solution architecture or technical leadership

Strong experience building Node.js backend services and API-first architectures

Experience working with React Native–backed digital platforms

Solid delivery experience using cloud‑native patterns, preferably on AWS (Azure or GCP experience also accepted)

Proven ability to own and drive end-to-end solution design and architectural decisions across multiple teams

Comfortable working across multiple teams and external delivery partners

Strong grounding in modern engineering practices: distributed systems and non-functional requirements such as security, scalability, reliability, and observability

Able to clearly communicate and align technical decisions with engineering, product, and business stakeholders

Advantageous: Retail, fulfilment, or operational environments

Advantageous: SAP Commerce Cloud

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Advantageous: Cloud or architecture certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP, TOGAF, or similar)

What you will be doing

Own solution design for initiatives spanning multiple squads, systems, and vendors

Translate business requirements into scalable, maintainable, and secure architectures

Define and govern API contracts and integration patterns, including with enterprise platforms (e.g., SAP Commerce Cloud)

Produce and maintain clear architecture artefacts, including…

Provide technical assurance through design reviews, delivery checkpoints, and go‑live readiness

Identify and actively manage technical risks, dependencies, and trade‑offs

Ensure architectural decisions consider security, reliability, scalability, observability, and long‑term maintainability

Work closely with Product and Business stakeholders to balance customer outcomes, timelines, and technical trade‑offs

Contribute to production code when needed to unblock teams or de‑risk delivery

Provide reference implementations, templates, and reusable patterns

Participate in architecture-level code reviews

Support production readiness through strong practices in

Who you are We’re looking for a T-shaped engineer: someone with broad architectural capability and deep expertise in one or more technical areas. You are comfortable making pragmatic trade-offs, guiding teams through complexity, and rolling up your sleeves when delivery is at risk. You enjoy collaborating withproduct, business, and engineering stakeholders and can translate business intent into solid technical solutions.

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