Location
george, george, South-Africa
Posted
May 30, 2026
Job Description
ENVIRONMENT:
Our client is migrating from Azure DevOps to GitHub Enterprise as part of a larger platform modernisation. They are not looking for someone to maintain the status quo. They are looking for a Platform Architect who can look at a VB.NET monolith that's been running for years and see the modern, event-driven, cloud-native platform it needs to become. If you've done this before and you're ready to do it again with full backing from leadership, they want to hear from you.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Define and own the target architecture for their entire platform, from database to UI
- Lead their strangler fig migration strategy, identifying which parts of the monolith to tackle first and how to do it safely
- Establish clean architecture patterns, domain boundaries, and coding standards that the team will follow for years
- Make the hard calls on build vs buy, which frameworks to adopt, and when to take on technical debt (and when to pa...