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Senior Architect Wallet & Core Banking Architecture and Strategy
Job Location:
Job Location:
Johannesburg - South Africa
Monthly Salary:
Not provided by the employer
Monthly Salary:
Posted:
1 July 2026 (30+ days ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
28 September 2026
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
Our client in the Telco sector is looking for a Senior Architect: Wallet & Core Banking Architecture and Strategy on a contract duration of 6 months.
The key objective of this role is to lead the adaptation standardisation and governance of wallet platform across multiple markets. This includes ensuring that wallet capabilities are consistently implemented scalable secure and aligned with group architecture regulatory requirements and business strategy.
The role is responsible for defining wallet adaptation frameworks that enable rapid localisation while maintaining a unified core platform. It ensures governance across wallet implementations driving compliance interoperability and reuse of shared services across all operating companies (Opcos). This role acts as the central authority for wallet platform governance ensuring alignment between product technology and market-specific requirements while accelerating time-to-market for new wallet features and services
The key objective of this role is to lead the adaptation standardisation and governance of wallet platform across multiple markets. This includes ensuring that wallet capabilities are consistently implemented scalable secure and aligned with group architecture regulatory requirements and business strategy.
The role is responsible for defining wallet adaptation frameworks that enable rapid localisation while maintaining a unified core platform. It ensures governance across wallet implementations driving compliance interoperability and reuse of shared services across all operating companies (Opcos). This role acts as the central authority for wallet platform governance ensuring alignment between product technology and market-specific requirements while accelerating time-to-market for new wallet features and services
Education:
Certifications (preferred):
Competencies:
Functional Knowledge:
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Information Systems or related field.
- Relevant certification/accreditation/membership with professional body as required
Certifications (preferred):
- Banking system certifications (e.g. Temenos Finacle) PCI DSS knowledge.
- TOGAF or equivalent enterprise architecture certification SAFe Architect Azure /AWS/GCP Architect or Mobile App Architect certifications.
- Vendor certifications (e.g. Apigee Kong MuleSoft AWS API Gateway).
- 10 years in architecture roles with at least 5 years in digital wallets core banking or fintech platforms.
- Developing Wallet & Core Banking platform roadmaps reference architecture and aligning architecture to business capabilities
- Experience with TOGAF or similar EA frameworks
- Architecture governance capability maturity assessments and standardization efforts
- Strong experience in platform governance standardisation and operating model design
- Experience in mobile money / wallet ecosystems (P2P P2M remittances airtime bill payments)
- Experience leading cross-functional teams (product engineering architecture)
- Proven experience managing multi-market or multi-country platform implementations
Competencies:
Functional Knowledge:
- Deep understanding of mobile money and wallet platforms
- Payments ecosystem (switches processors banks schemes remittances)
- API-first and event-driven architecture principles
- Compliance with PSD2 GDPR PCI DSS Open Banking standards
- Business continuity planning
- Structuring of contracts and Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
- Understanding of Open API standards protocols and methods for modern payment and financial systems
- Understanding of the Agile software delivery processes (SCRUM Kanban preferable)
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
With 15 years of experience in the Telecommunications and Financial Services industry in Africa and the Middle East, we are experts at supporting our clients through their digital transformation journeys. We believe in blending traditional methods with cutting-edge strategies to drive ... View more
