Domain Architect at Old Mutual

Job Description

Experience, knowledge & skills required

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, or related field.
• TOGAF or equivalent enterprise/domain architecture certification preferred.
• Minimum 7–10 years’ experience in IT and business analysis, with 3–5 years in an architecture role.
• Strong understanding of business architecture practices (capability mapping, process modelling, value streams).
• Demonstrated experience with application architecture, rationalisation, and integration patterns.
• Experience with enterprise and domain frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, ArchiMate, BPMN).
• Knowledge of cloud-based application models (SaaS, PaaS, APIs, microservices) is advantageous.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills, with ability to engage business and IT stakeholders.
• Experience with architecture tools (e.g., Sparx EA, LeanIX, or equivalent).
• The Domain Architect (Business & Application) is responsible for designing, governing, and maintaining the organisation’s business and application architectures. This role ensures that business strategies and IT delivery are aligned, business capabilities are clearly defined, and the application landscape is optimised, rationalised, and fit for purpose.
• The Domain Architect will work closely with business leaders, enterprise architects, and solution architects to translate strategic goals into actionable roadmaps and architectural artefacts. The role requires strong business acumen, architecture expertise, communication skills, and the ability to drive consensus across diverse stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Business Architecture Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain business capability models, operating models, and business value chains.
• Align IT investments and initiatives with business strategies and priorities.
• Assist with capability based planning for change initiatives.
• Facilitate workshops with business stakeholders to socialise business capability and business processes models.
• Provide impact analysis for business change initiatives.
• Application Architecture Responsibilities
• Maintain the application portfolio, including lifecycle management and rationalisation plans in alignment with Application Owners.
• Define Baseline, Target and Transition Architectures and Roadmaps
• Define application standards, design patterns, and integration approaches.
• Ensure interoperability, scalability, and security of the application landscape.
• Provide design guidance for solutions impacting the application domain.

Cross-Domain Responsibilities

• Collaborate with enterprise, data, security and technology architects to ensure cohesive end-to-end designs in conjunction with solution architects.
• Contribute to enterprise-wide baseline, target and transition architectures and roadmaps.
• Ensure architectural artefacts are modelled and maintained in the architecture repository.
• Participate in architecture and design governance boards and IT Centres of Excellence.

Innovation and Emerging Technologies

• Research and assess emerging business and application architecture trends.
• Recommend innovative approaches for process optimisation, digitisation, and system modernisation.
• Support the adoption of new architectural concepts and practices.

Quality and People Practices

• Share knowledge and mentor junior architects and analysts.
• Promote a culture of architecture-led transformation across business and IT teams.
• Support change management initiatives to embed architecture principles.

Skills

• Action Planning, Adaptive Thinking, Business Requirements Analysis, Current State Assessment, Data Compilation, Data Controls, Executing Plans, Gaps Analysis, IT Architecture, IT Implementation, Market Analysis, Policies & Procedures, Product Development, Readiness Assessments, User Experience (UX) Design

Competencies

• Business Insight
• Collaborates
• Cultivates Innovation
• Ensures Accountability
• Manages Complexity
• Nimble Learning
• Optimizes Work Processes
• Strategic Mindset

Education

• NQF Level 9 – Masters

Closing Date

• 13 November 2025