Enterprise Architect

Company Overview

Trianz is an applied AI solutions company that accelerates customer business transformation through AI powered "Transformation Services as a Software Model". With 25+ years of transforming enterprises, we've evolved to a product-led, platform-driven organization serving global enterprises across Financial Services, Insurance, Healthcare, Hi-Tech, Manufacturing, and other industries.

With global presence across 4 continents, our platform portfolio under the unified Concierto brand delivers end-to-end transformations including solutions for Migrate, Manage, Maximize, Modernize, Insights & Agentic AI, and SecOps - delivered through strategic partnerships with leading hyperscalers.

We're building the premier innovation-led organization in the digital transformation space through AI-first methodologies and data-driven excellence

• RevolutionAIzing Transformations.

Enterprise Architect (AWS Migration & Application Modernization)

Location: Johannesburg, South Africa . Hybrid – 3 days from office

Role Overview

We are looking for a seasoned Enterprise Architect with a proven track record in Cloud transformations, VMware-to-AWS migration, and application modernization initiatives. The ideal candidate will lead large-scale cloud transformation initiatives including portfolio discovery, defining enterprise architectures & standards (across infrastructure & application landscape), application modernization strategies, overseeing technical delivery across complex enterprise environments, that improve scalability, resilience, security, and operational efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and govern the target-state enterprise architecture for client’s cloud transformation, ensuring alignment with business, technology, security, and regulatory objectives.
• Lead architecture strategy and decision-making for VMware-to-AWS migration, hybrid cloud adoption, and application modernisation initiatives.
• Establish and enforce architecture standards, principles, governance processes, and design reviews across infrastructure, applications, data, security, and integration domains.
• Drive application modernisation strategies including rehosting, replatforming, refactoring, containerisation, and cloud-native adoption.
• Lead data architecture and data governance initiatives, ensuring data quality, lineage, security, compliance, and ownership across the enterprise.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, technology teams, security, operations, and delivery partners to ensure successful program outcomes.
• Provide architectural leadership to executive governance forums, steering committees, and transformation programs.
• Ensure solutions meet resilience, availability, performance, disaster recovery, operational readiness, and compliance requirements.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• 15+ years of Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, or Technology Transformation experience.
• Proven experience leading large-scale VMware-to-AWS migration programs.
• Strong enterprise architecture experience covering business, application, data, infrastructure, integration, and security domains.
• Deep knowledge of AWS cloud architecture, cloud operating models, and hybrid cloud environments.
• Experience with application modernisation and cloud-native transformation.
• Strong understanding of enterprise data architecture, data governance, data migration, and regulatory data management.
• Experience within highly regulated environments, preferably Financial Services, Banking, Capital Markets, or Exchanges.
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
• Experience establishing architecture governance, standards, roadmaps, and decision frameworks.

Preferred Skills* Experience within Stock Exchanges, Capital Markets, Trading, Clearing, Settlement, or Financial Market Infrastructure environments.

• Knowledge of AWS Landing Zones, Control Tower, EKS, containers, microservices, APIs, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with DevSecOps, platform engineering, and cloud operating model transformation.
• Knowledge of security architecture, cyber resilience, disaster recovery, and operational risk frameworks.
• Experience with enterprise data platforms, analytics, data cataloguing, metadata management, and master/reference data management.
• Familiarity with regulatory, governance, and compliance requirements applicable to financial institutions.

Certifications* TOGAF Certified Enterprise Architect (Required)

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (Required)
• AWS Security Specialty (Preferred)
• AWS Advanced Networking Specialty (Preferred)

Why choose Trianz?

• Personal Growth: Startup agility with enterprise impact. Experience rapid innovation cycles while working on Fortune 500 transformations.
• AI-First Future: Where humans and AI revolutionize business. Lead the charge in implementing AI-driven transformation at scale.
• Global Impact: Shape transformation across continents. Work with diverse teams and clients spanning Americas, Europe, Asia, and beyond.
• Executive Access: Direct impact on Fortune 500 strategies. Work alongside C-suite leaders and influence major business decisions.
• Ownership & Entrepreneurial Spirit: Your ideas, our platform, global impact. Zero bureaucracy culture with decision-making autonomy and rapid execution.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

Trianz is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, national or ethnic origin, gender, religion, disability, age, political affiliation or belief, disabled veteran, or veterans (except in those special circumstances permitted or mandated by law).