Technical Architect Manager

Posted:
5/19/2026, 10:58:33 PM

Location(s):
Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa ⋅ Gauteng, South Africa

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Software Engineering

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Role summary  Leads the build phase of technology initiatives by aligning business, product, architecture and engineering stakeholders, ensuring technical specifications are delivery-ready, and driving the build team to execute against agreed scope, quality and timelines.

Must Have Technical Capabilities

  • Owns end‑to‑end mobile architecture across iOS, Android, and cross‑platform stacks, designing for long‑term evolution, modularity, and parallel team delivery.
  • Translates business and functional requirements into scalable mobile architectures, covering navigation, state management, modularisation, and complex multi‑journey flows.
  • Defines and enforces key non‑functional requirements including performance, security, resilience, offline capability, and observability.
  • Establishes core mobile architecture patterns and state management approaches (e.g., Clean / Layered, Unidirectional Data Flow) suited to large‑scale applications.
  • Designs robust mobile‑to‑backend integration patterns (REST/GraphQL, BFFs, API versioning) with a focus on performance, stability, and evolvability.
  • Embeds security‑by‑design, performance optimisation, and offline‑first strategies (caching, sync, recovery, conflict handling) across the mobile stack.
  • Ensures architectures are CI/CD‑ready, supporting automated testing, release pipelines, and app‑store constraints, with consistent cross‑cutting patterns (configuration, feature flags, error handling).

Skills and experience

  • Proven experience leading technical delivery for complex digital, software, platform or enterprise technology initiatives.
  • Strong understanding of the software delivery lifecycle, including requirements, design, build, testing and release.
  • Ability to engage credibly with architects and engineering teams while coordinating effectively with business and product stakeholders.
  • Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, planning and dependency management capability.
  • Experience overseeing technical specifications and converting high-level requirements into build-ready delivery inputs.
  • Comfortable operating in complex, cross-functional and fast-moving delivery environments.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com 

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Accenture

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Headquarter Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Employee Count: 10001+

Year Founded: 1989

IPO Status: Public

Last Funding Type: Grant

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