Technical Integrator
Pretoria - South Africa
Job Summary
Are you a strategic technical powerhouse who thrives on connecting complex systems aligning stakeholders and delivering flawless integrations that power enterprise transformation This is your moment to step into a high-impact role where your expertise in integration planning risk management and seamless delivery will directly shape mission-critical outcomes. Join a fast-paced environment where precision meets innovation and make technology work smarter faster and more reliably than ever before!
Key Outcomes (What success looks like)
- Integration scope dependencies and technical approach are defined agreed and signed off.
- Solution design and delivery are aligned with enterprise architecture standards and non-functional requirements (security scalability performance).
- Delivery risks/issues are proactively identified tracked escalated and resolved with stakeholder alignment.
- Testing cutover and go-live activities are coordinated and executed with minimal disruption.
- Complete handover documentation is delivered and operational readiness is achieved (support model runbooks knowledge transfer).
Key Responsibilities (Core accountabilities)
- Scope & requirements alignment: Ensure client needs are accurately captured translated into technical scope and formally signed off.
- Integration planning & coordination: Build and manage the integration workstream plan milestones dependencies resources and schedules.
- Stakeholder management: Work closely with Customer PM Enterprise Architecture technical leads and vendors to drive decisions and maintain alignment.
- Technical oversight: Coordinate system/interface design alignment; ensure integration standards and design principles are applied.
- Vendor & Partner Management: Manage delivery inputs from vendors/development partners and confirm solutions fit the agreed integration approach.
- Quality assurance: Ensure test plans environments and evidence support readiness; coordinate defect triage and resolution.
- Risk issue & change control: Perform impact assessments; manage deviations against plan; support formal change processes and governance reporting.
- Cutover & transition: Coordinate cutover planning rollback approach hypercare and operational handover.
- Documentation: Ensure complete accurate technical documentation (integration specs configurations runbooks) is produced and maintained.
Key Activities (Typical tasks)
- Contribute to an integration roadmap for the project and define sequencing to minimise disruption.
- Facilitate technical workshops and lead cross-team integration working sessions.
- Track progress against milestones and provide clear status updates (RAID dependencies decisions).
- Support troubleshooting of integration incidents during test and deployment phases.
- Ensure training/enablement needs are identified and arranged where required.
Stakeholders & Interfaces
- Customer Project Manager (internal and customer-facing)
- Enterprise Architecture / Solution Architecture
- Development teams Systems Engineers QA/Test team
- Security Infrastructure Operations/Support
- Business Analysts and business stakeholders
- Vendors and development partners
Minimum Requirements (Must-have)
- A relevant tertiary qualification at a minimum NQF Level 6 (National Diploma) in Engineering Information Sciences or Project Management.
- 24 years experience in technical integration (or equivalent experience in a large enterprise environment).
- 3 years of exposure to enterprise software delivery projects (SDLC).
- Project management certification (e.g. PMP/PRINCE2/AgilePM or equivalent).
- Intermediate proficiency in MS Project (or similar) and MS Office.
- Solid understanding of software design principles and system integration concepts.
Skills & Knowledge
- Project administration fundamentals (scope schedule cost quality RAID reporting).
- Ability to perform schedule and dependency impact analysis and scenario-based planning.
- Working knowledge of SDLC delivery controls (requirements to release).
- Strong facilitation stakeholder communication and escalation management.
- Problem-solving under pressure; able to ask structured diagnostic questions to resolve issues.
Preferred / Advantageous (Nice-to-have)
- Experience working in highly governed/regulated environments.
- Exposure to enterprise integration platforms/tools used in Interfront Environment: MS Project Octane Defect System Enterprise Service Bus Log and Jira
- Exposure to Agile delivery methods (Scrum/Kanban) in addition to formal governance.
If youre ready to lead integration excellence drive complex projects to success and leave a lasting impact in a dynamic enterprise setting this contract role is calling your name!
Required Skills:
Minimum Requirements (Must-have) A relevant tertiary qualification at a minimum NQF Level 6 (National Diploma) in Engineering Information Sciences or Project Management. 24 years experience in technical integration (or equivalent experience in a large enterprise environment). 3 years of exposure to enterprise software delivery projects (SDLC). Project management certification (e.g. PMP/PRINCE2/AgilePM or equivalent). Intermediate proficiency in MS Project (or similar) and MS Office. Solid understanding of software design principles and system integration concepts. Skills & Knowledge Project administration fundamentals (scope schedule cost quality RAID reporting). Ability to perform schedule and dependency impact analysis and scenario-based planning. Working knowledge of SDLC delivery controls (requirements to release). Strong facilitation stakeholder communication and escalation management. Problem-solving under pressure; able to ask structured diagnostic questions to resolve issues. Preferred / Advantageous (Nice-to-have) Experience working in highly governed/regulated environments. Exposure to enterprise integration platforms/tools used in Interfront Environment: MS Project Octane Defect System Enterprise Service Bus Log and Jira Exposure to Agile delivery methods (Scrum/Kanban) in addition to formal governance. If youre ready to lead integration excellence drive complex projects to success and leave a lasting impact in a dynamic enterprise setting this contract role is calling your name!