Role purpose:
The Solution Architect is responsible for designing and leading the implementation of a solutions and capability architecture for a particular business capability / user journey, according to the overall digital vision and target architecture. This role is responsible for the technical analysis and holistic solution design of future capabilities and features, including external dependencies, cross-domain APIs, and technical enablers / stories. This role is responsible for reviewing the target architecture vision and roadmap, evaluating and prioritizing roadmap items, and translating them into designs and non-functional requirements. This incumbent is responsible for providing support to engineering to ensure development of technical stories are aligned to defined architecture paradigms, principles, and patterns.
Your responsibilities will include:
Translate the overall digital vision and target architecture into corresponding solution designs and change requirements
Design end-to-end solutions and cross domain integration and APIs
Define non-functional, operational, and quality requirements for solutions
Define technical stories to enable business capabilities, fostering re-use of existing components, and accept technical features following demos
Collaborate to plan the release of technical stories
Provide guidance to delivery teams to ensure alignment
Facilitate solution compliance to security, privacy, and regulatory needs
Manage technical debt and technology obsolescence at solution level
Advocate adoption of new technologies into solutions
The ideal candidate for this role will have:
Must have technical / professional qualifications:
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Systems Analysis, or other related field
5 to 8 years of experience in at least three disciplines, such as solution or technical architecture, application development, middleware, information analysis, database management or operations in a multitier environment
Extensive exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments
Extensive experience in business capability modelling and technical and solution architecture development in a digital business context
Experience working with agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, TDD, and BDD
Professional experience and knowledge of digital and Telecommunications industries strongly preferred
Core competencies, knowledge and experience:
Solution architecture and design
Feasibility analysis
Business capability / customer journey architecture governance in agile software delivery
Technical enablers, integration APIs, and detailed technical and operational story design
Infrastructure design
Estimation techniques for scaled agile
Technology Innovation: scouting, screening and evaluation
Cost of ownership of technology, application portfolio management
Web-scale cloud-native architectures including IaaS, PaaSand SaaS
Design of web-scale architectures and systems of innovation and engagement
DevOps practices and automation tools
Artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data technologies and architectures
Management of technical debt
Excellent analytical, technical, and problem solving skills, with high-levels of creativity
Excellent written and verbal communications skills, with both technical and business audiences
Excellent relationship building, teamwork, and collaboration skills that enables the provision of effective support and guidance across multiple DevOps teams
Understanding of both the current Telecommunications and digital services market and emerging business and technology trends
Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies, with natural intellectual curiosity and integrity
Vendor and technology neutral driven primarily by long-term business outcomes rather than personal preferences
Sound business understanding and market awareness
Ability to understand long-term (big picture) and short-term perspectives of events and change and how they relate to achieving business outcomes
Strong time-management skills, with the ability to juggle multiple balls
Closing date for Applications: 31 July 2023
The base location for this role is, Midrand, Vodacom Campus.
The Companys approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.
Vodacom is committed to an organisational culture that recognises, appreciates and values diversity & inclusion.