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