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Senior Manager – Platform, Architecture & Modernisation Advisory

Midrand, GP, za💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-22 → 2026-09-25

Core

Senior consulting role helping CIOs/CTOs navigate complex technology decisions across cloud, data, AI, and enterprise platforms to drive transformation programs.

Role type

Senior Manager, Platform, Architecture & Modernisation Advisory

Builds

Executable transformation programs, investable modernisation pathways, and advisory propositions for digital and AI-enabled enterprises.

Domain

Technology Consulting, Enterprise Architecture, Cloud, Data, AI/GenAI

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure

Required skills

Enterprise technology architecture, Cloud/Data/AI transformation, Technology strategy advisory, Commercial leadership (pipeline origination), Stakeholder management at C-level, Multidisciplinary team leadership, Transformation economics, Hyperscaler ecosystem knowledge

Preferred skills

Chief Architect/CTO-level advisory experience, Building architecture consulting propositions, Leading major modernisation programs, Designing enterprise AI platform architectures, Trusted CIO/CTO relationships, Multi-ecosystem expertise

Technologies

Cloud platforms, Data platforms, AI/GenAI platforms, Agentic AI, Enterprise AI gateways, Control planes, MLOps/LLMOps, API/Event-driven integration, SaaS ecosystems, Security/Identity, Observability

Responsibilities

Advise CIOs/CTOs on strategic technology choices, Perform independent architecture reviews, Define enterprise principles and target-state architectures, Develop modernisation and AI platform roadmaps, Translate architecture into business/cost/risk trade-offs, Structure and lead complex advisory engagements, Mobilise specialists across Cloud/AI/Data/Cyber, Mentor architecture advisory talent, Originate and convert transformation opportunities, Build signature offerings and reference architectures

Seniority

Senior Manager, hands-on IC with commercial and practice-building responsibilities

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