Job Ref #: Recruit235
Industry: Information Technology
Job Type: Contract
Positions Available: 1

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

Key Outcomes (What success looks like)

·Integration scope, dependencies, and technical approach are defined, agreed, and signed off.

·Solution design and delivery are aligned with enterprise architecture standards and non-functional requirements (security, scalability, performance).

·Delivery risks/issues are proactively identified, tracked, escalated, and resolved with stakeholder alignment.

·Testing, cutover, and go-live activities are coordinated and executed with minimal disruption.

·Complete handover documentation is delivered, and operational readiness is achieved (support model, runbooks, knowledge transfer).

 

Key Responsibilities (Core accountabilities)

·Scope & requirements alignment: Ensure client needs are accurately captured, translated into technical scope, and formally signed off.

·Integration planning & coordination: Build and manage the integration workstream plan, milestones, dependencies, resources, and schedules.

·Stakeholder management: Work closely with Customer PM, Enterprise Architecture, technical leads, and vendors to drive decisions and maintain alignment.

·Technical oversight: Coordinate system/interface design alignment; ensure integration standards and design principles are applied.

·Vendor & Partner Management: Manage delivery inputs from vendors/development partners and confirm solutions fit the agreed integration approach.

·Quality assurance: Ensure test plans, environments, and evidence support readiness; coordinate defect triage and resolution.

·Risk, issue & change control: Perform impact assessments; manage deviations against plan; support formal change processes and governance reporting.

·Cutover & transition: Coordinate cutover planning, rollback approach, hypercare, and operational handover.

·Documentation: Ensure complete, accurate technical documentation (integration specs, configurations, runbooks) is produced and maintained.

Key Activities (Typical tasks)

·Contribute to an integration roadmap for the project and define sequencing to minimise disruption.

·Facilitate technical workshops and lead cross-team integration working sessions.

·Track progress against milestones and provide clear status updates (RAID, dependencies, decisions).

·Support troubleshooting of integration incidents during test and deployment phases.

·Ensure training/enablement needs are identified and arranged where required.

 

Stakeholders & Interfaces

·Customer Project Manager (internal and customer-facing)

·Enterprise Architecture / Solution Architecture

·Development teams, Systems Engineers, QA/Test team

·Security, Infrastructure, Operations/Support

·Business Analysts and business stakeholders

·Vendors and development partners

Vacancy type: 12-month contract

A hybrid working model, but the successful candidate must be based in Gauteng.

The vacancy is open to people with disabilities.

Closing date: 29th of May 2026

Job Requirements

Qualifications and Experience:

Minimum Requirements (Must-have)

·A relevant tertiary qualification at a minimum NQF Level 6 (National Diploma) in Engineering, Information Sciences, or Project Management.

·2–4 years’ experience in technical integration (or equivalent experience in a large enterprise environment).

·3+ years of exposure to enterprise software delivery projects (SDLC).

·Project management certification (e.g., PMP/PRINCE2/AgilePM or equivalent).

·Intermediate proficiency in MS Project (or similar) and MS Office.

·Solid understanding of software design principles and system integration concepts.

Skills & Knowledge

·Project administration fundamentals (scope, schedule, cost, quality, RAID, reporting).

·Ability to perform schedule and dependency impact analysis and scenario-based planning.

·Working knowledge of SDLC delivery controls (requirements to release).

·Strong facilitation, stakeholder communication, and escalation management.

·Problem-solving under pressure; able to ask structured, diagnostic questions to resolve issues.

Preferred / Advantageous (Nice-to-have)

·Experience working in highly governed/regulated environments.

·Exposure to enterprise integration platforms/tools used in Interfront Environment: MS Project, Octane Defect System, Enterprise Service Bus Log and Jira

·Exposure to Agile delivery methods (Scrum/Kanban) in addition to formal governance.