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 Eskoms 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.

• 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

• 58 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