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Senior Data Architect
Job Grade: P6
Ref no: D130001
Job Type: 5 years fixed term contract
Job Purpose:
Provide enterprise-wide data architecture leadership, design authority and standards across CIPC operational systems, enterprise data warehouse, cloud lake house, APIs, data products, analytics and AI, ensuring interoperable, secure and reusable data capabilities
Minimum Requirements
Required Minimum Education / Training
Education / Experience
Candidates must meet one of the following pathways. Equivalent experience must be evidenced and assessed against the requirements of the role.
Formal Education Pathway (Preferred)
- Bachelor’s degree/Advanced Diploma in IT / Computer Science / Information Systems / Data Engineering / Statistics or a related field;
- 10–15 years’ progressive data architecture/engineering experience, including enterprise architecture leadership.
Specialised Certification and Experience Pathway (Alternative)
- Relevant National Diploma or equivalent technical qualification;
- 12–17 years’ progressive architecture, governance and cloud data-platform experience; at least two relevant advanced certifications, including one architecture/governance (e.g. TOGAF or CDMP) and one cloud/data platform (e.g. Azure Architect, Databricks, AWS or Google Cloud).
Relevant Certifications (examples; equivalent current certifications may be considered)
TOGAF; CDMP; Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect; Databricks Data Engineer; equivalent current vendor certifications.
Minimum Functional Requirements (Technical Skills & Knowledge)
Enterprise data modelling, hybrid/cloud architecture, data integration, governance, security, API/data-product design, architecture review and stakeholder leadership.
Indicative performance measures
- Architecture standards and designs approved
- Re-use and interoperability of shared data assets
- Reduction in avoidable architectural duplication and production-system coupling
- Quality and timeliness of design assurance
Duties and Responsibilities
Current-state responsibilities
- Assess and rationalise existing Oracle, SQL Server, Informix, EDW and integration architectures.
- Review project designs, integration dependencies and production-database exposure.
- Provide architecture guidance for ongoing Customer 360, APIVerse and lake house initiatives.
Future-state responsibilities
- Define enterprise information architecture, target-state roadmaps and reference architectures.
- Own canonical, conceptual and logical data modelling standards and master/reference data design principles.
- Design API-ready data serving patterns that protect transactional systems.
- Establish architecture standards for data products, metadata, lineage, security, privacy and AI-ready data.
- Lead architecture design assurance and technical review of vendor deliverables.
Key deliverables
- Enterprise data architecture blueprint and roadmap
- Approved reference architectures and design standards
- Data model and API-serving design reviews
- Architecture decision records and design assurance reports
Core competencies and technical skills
- Enterprise data architecture and modelling
- Hybrid on premises/cloud platforms; Azure Databricks, ADF and ADLS familiarity
- EDW, CDC/replication, API and integration patterns
- Data governance, security, metadata, MDM and AI architecture
Should you experience any difficulty in applying please contact the CIPC Recruitment Office at 087 743 7075 / 7074 / 087 260 1554.
Closing date: 19 November 2026
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