Platform Architect (George)

Datafin IT Recruitment

Full-time Other-General
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Location
george, garden route district municipality, South-Africa
Posted
June 09, 2026

Job Description


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POSITION INFO:
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 technic...