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Role purpose
This role will play a crucial role in bridging business requirements with technology capabilities, ensuring the delivery of scalable, efficient, and effective solutions. This role requires a deep understanding of architecture principles, excellent communication skills, and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
Your Responsibilities Will Include
Solution Design and Architecture:
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business objectives, functional requirements, and technical constraints, and translate them into comprehensive solution designs.
- Create end-to-end architectural designs that encompass systems, applications, data, and integration points while considering scalability, security, performance, and maintainability.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business objectives, functional requirements, and technical constraints, and translate them into comprehensive solution designs.
- Create end-to-end architectural designs that encompass systems, applications, data, and integration points while considering scalability, security, performance, and maintainability.
- Work closely with business analysts, project managers, and other stakeholders to ensure alignment between solution architecture and project goals.
- Facilitate communication between technical and non-technical stakeholders to ensure a shared understanding of architectural decisions.
- Identify potential technical risks and develop strategies to mitigate them.
- Troubleshoot complex technical issues and provide effective solutions to ensure project success.
- Evaluate emerging technologies, tools, and industry trends to recommend innovative solutions that can enhance business processes and outcomes.
- Document architectural designs, decisions, and patterns, ensuring that the documentation remains up-to-date and accessible to the project team.
- Establish and promote architectural best practices and coding standards to ensure consistency across projects.
Technical / Professional Qualifications
- Bachelor's, Honours or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
- 5+ years of experience in software development, solution architecture, or related roles.Relevant certifications (e.g., TOGAF, AWS/Azure/GCP certifications) are a plus.
- Strong expertise in designing and implementing enterprise-level solutions, including hands-on experience with architecture patterns, integration strategies, and scalability considerations.
- Experience with a variety of technologies, such as databases, networking, security, and integration.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to address complex technical challenges.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, capable of collaborating effectively with diverse teams.
- Knowledge of emerging technologies/ industry trends along with the ability to leverage them in application development and support initiatives
- Capable of articulating the business value of IT investments/projects and collaborating with partners and cross-functional groups during implementation
- Ability to make recommendations as they pertain to improvements in support/development initiatives and facilitate implementation with partners, IT and cross-functional groups within the Business
- Enticing incentive programs, competitive benefit packages, and an exclusive 13th cheque
- Retirement funds, risk benefits, and medical aid benefits
- Cell phone and data benefits, advantages fibre connection discounts, and exclusive staff discounts offered in collaboration with partner companies
The base location for this role is, Vodacom Campus, Midrand.
The Company s 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.
