💼 Full-Time Position

Platform Architect (George)

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Datafin IT Recruitment
📍 george, george, South-Africa
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Location
george, South-Africa
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Posted
May 23, 2026
Type
Full-Time
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Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

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...