Mediclinic Southern Africa Corporate Office | Stellenbosch | South Africa
Closing date: 31/07/2026
Number of positions: 1
Recruiter name: Carmen Leonie Railoun
Reference number: 71529
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Permanent
Please note if you are an internal employee on a fixed term contract please apply using an external candidate profile and not your employee profile
To lead and govern the implementation, adoption, and optimisation of enterprise architecture and IT governance practices within the division, ensuring alignment with organisational strategy, standards, and regulatory requirements.
The role is accountable for translating architecture direction into practical, scalable, and compliant technology solutions, ensuring an efficient, secure, and fit-for-purpose ICT landscape.
The role acts as the key interface between divisional IT and enterprise architecture functions, ensuring alignment, managing controlled deviations, and providing feedback to inform architecture direction, while enabling business performance, operational efficiency, and digital innovation.
Divisional Architecture Strategy & Alignment: Define and drive a coherent divisional architecture strategy and roadmap aligned to enterprise direction and business objectives, ensuring standardisation, scalability, and appropriate risk management. Own and maintain architecture principles, reference architectures, standards, and target-state models to guide consistent and sustainable solution design.
IT Governance, Risk & Compliance Establish and embed robust IT governance practices to ensure compliance with regulatory, audit, and organisational requirements, while proactively identifying, managing, and mitigating technology-related risks. Govern and maintain current-, transition-, and target-state architecture artefacts to ensure consistency, traceability, and alignment with defined standards.
Architecture Governance & Design Authority Lead and enforce architecture governance through structured design authority processes, ensuring all solutions comply with defined standards, are fit-for-purpose, and support long-term integration, security, and performance requirements. Oversee architecture reviews and manage deviations, ensuring appropriate escalation and approval where required.
IT Portfolio Optimisation Drive the strategic management and value optimisation of the IT portfolio to ensure alignment with business capabilities, reduce redundancy, improve cost efficiency, and enable scalable, integrated, and fit-for-purpose technology solutions across the division.
IT Due Diligence & Strategic Enablement Lead IT input into strategic initiatives, including mergers, acquisitions, and expansions, ensuring informed decision-making through assessment of technology risks, integration feasibility, and alignment to architecture standards.
Stakeholder Integration & EA Interface Act as the primary interface between divisional stakeholders and enterprise architecture functions, ensuring alignment of priorities, effective communication, and incorporation of business needs into architecture decisions.
People Leadership & Capability Development Lead and develop high-performing teams, building critical technical and leadership capability. Drive performance, succession, and a culture of accountability and collaboration.
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All applicants will be considered, with the understanding that preference will be given in accordance with the Employment Equity Plan of Mediclinic Southern Africa, as well as internal applicants/employees that meet the minimum requirements.
Please note if you are an internal employee on a fixed term contract please apply using an external candidate profile and not your employee profile
Mediclinic Southern Africa is a private hospital group operating in South Africa and Namibia focused on providing acute care, specialist-orientated, multi-disciplinary hospital services and related service offerings. We place science at the heart of our care process by striving to provide evidence-based care of the highest standard. The group currently operates 53 private hospitals and five day clinics throughout South Africa and three hospitals in Namibia with more than 8 000 beds in total.
Mediclinic Southern Africa is a wholly owned subsidiary of the international private healthcare group Mediclinic International PLC, listed on the LSE (London Stock Exchange) with a secondary listing on the JSE (Johannesburg Stock Exchange) and the NSX (Namibian Stock Exchange).
Mediclinic International comprises 78 hospitals, five sub-acute hospitals, 13 day case clinics and 21 outpatient clinics. Hirslanden operates 18 hospitals, two day case clinics and three outpatient clinics in Switzerland with more than 1 900 inpatient beds; Mediclinic Southern Africa operates 53 hospitals, five sub-acute hospitals and nine day case clinics with more than 8 500 inpatient beds; and Mediclinic Middle East operates seven hospitals, two day case clinics and 18 outpatient clinics with more than 900 inpatient beds in the United Arab Emirates.
Mediclinic also holds a 29.9% interest in Spire Healthcare Group plc, a leading private healthcare group based in the United Kingdom and listed on the LSE.
